Monthly Archive: June 2011
Links – Auction Details/Bid | Crisis Website | Get Latest News from NPF Facebook or Twitter An American Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason is up for grabs in aid of homeless charity Crisis. It features hand painted artwork of the “Time Sequence” by artist Ian Emes. Full details of the item and how to bid are on the Charity Buzz website. The auction is open until Thursday 14th July so you only have a couple of weeks to act if you would like to own this truly unique guitar! You can find out all about the work Crisis do for homeless people and you can also make a donation today to help others who are less fortunate. Your Opinion? Its good to talk so we would like to hear your “feedback” on the guitar, what you think of it and the work of...
Links – Discuss on Forum | Follow NPF on Twitter and Facebook for latest news, instantly! Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb has come number 5 on the list of people’s favourite Desert Island Discs songs. Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending proved the most popular single track. More than 25,000 people submitted nearly a quarter of a million tracks to the BBC Radio 4 website. The long-running programme typically invites famous guests to choose the music which means the most to them. Elgar’s Enigma Variations was the second most popular entry, followed by Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 in D minor Choral – which has proved the top choice among guests on the show since it began in 1942. Non-classical favourites included Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. Top 8 Tracks Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending Elgar – Enigma Variations Beethoven – Symphony No 9 in D minor Choral...
Links – Australian Pink Floyd Tickets | Official Australian Pink Floyd Website | The Australian Pink Floyd Show is set to return with a series of 29 headline shows across the UK in February and March 2012. Tickets went on sale today [10 June 2011] and can be bought here. Described in 2011 by The Times as “Setting the gold standard”, The Australian Pink Floyd Show is a live touring sensation which has now sold over three million tickets worldwide, and the band have created an incredible show for the “Exposed In The Light” 2012 dates. Following the sold out dates earlier this year, and taking its title from the lyrics of the Floyd classic “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, the band are not yet revealing the format of the 2012 “Exposed In The Light” tour but the scale and ambition of this band is well documented! As News...
Links – Radio 4 Homepage | Make sure you are signed up to the NPF Facebook Page, Twitter and NPF Newsletter to be informed of latest Pink Floyd news! BBC Radio 4 are to broadcast a 30 minute radio programme on Thursday 9th June between 11.30am -12:00noon called The Twilight World of Syd Barrett. In the programme, Pink Floyd members explore the tragic mental breakdown of former front man Syd Barrett and is presented by John Harris (author of the excellent Dark Side of the Moon book). This programme hears how his fellow band members and family coped with Barrett’s breakdown. Band members reveal the concerns they had when he began to go catatonic on-stage, playing music that had little to do with their material, or not playing at all. By spring 1968 Barrett was out of the group but he re-emerged in 1970 with a pair of albums, which failed...
