Monthly Archive: January 2012
David Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson saved a drowning man down in Brighton where she lives (minus her bike shed) after pulling him out of the sea. The man apparently did not want to be saved and insisted on dying by trying to get back into the freezing winter sea. Polly was in a conversation with a friend on Twitter and said to them, “could have done with your manly chest just now as pulled drowning man from sea who didn’t want to be saved.” Polly Samson added that she had found the man’s “prone body washing to and fro through the shingle” but that after he was rescued and revived, he leapt back into the sea. The incident was reported in The Daily Telegraph newspaper. The paper also went on to dredge up Polly’s son’s incident where Charlie Gilmour was thrown in prison for crimes against shop windows and other...
EMI have been kind to me tonight and let me listen to discs 3-6 from The Wall Immersion Boxset. The demos sound 1,000,000 times better than The Wall Under Construction bootleg that has been doing the rounds for many years. If you were holding out from getting the boxset because you already have that bootleg, then you really need to upgrade! ;-) Listening to disc 5… Run Like Hell and Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 sound much better in demo form in terms of their arrangement compared to the finished arrangement on the final master album. You may disagree or agree. You will have to wait and see after you get the Immersion Boxset! As I write, I have just started on the band demos from disc 5 (the first of the two demos discs)… just been listening to the Roger Waters home and studio demos. The band...
Links – Unit 24 Website | Facebook Event | Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and get our Newsletter for all the latest Pink Floyd News Unit 24 Gallery are to host an exhibition of Ian Emes work at an exhibition at Unit 24 in London. It runs between 1 March – 28 March 2012. Ian was responsible for Pink Floyd’s animated video to the song Time from Dark Side of the Moon and also did a video called French Windows set to One Of These Days also by Pink Floyd. You can watch both of these videos below. Both of these videos as well as an immersive exhibition of his other work will be on display. The presentation promises to be a kind of post-psychedelic ‘happening’, an immersive installation of projected images through which the viewer can travel! Sounds good to me! View Pink Floyd Videos View video for Time by...
I am rather looking forward to listening to Pink Floyd The Wall demos in The Wall Immersion boxset to be released next month on 27th Feb in UK and 28th in other countries around the Americas and Eurasia. I wrote a little article looking at the contents of the immersion edition of The Wall called… A Fleeting Glimpse of… Pink Floyd’s The Wall Demos Feel free to have a read of the article to see what is where and on which disc. Its as much for my benefit as anything else to help my poor old mind get to terms with how the powers that be organised the material on the album discs 5 and 6.
Pre-Order The Wall Immersion Boxset from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com Click to enlarge Pink Floyd The Wall Immersion Boxset Old Pink almost caught a fleeting glimpse of something quite terrible in the song Comfortably Numb from The Wall album. But Pink Floyd fans can now definitely catch a fleeting glimpse of something much better from the Immersion Boxset of The Wall album! Two of the seven discs are dedicated to The Wall being under construction and listeners can witness the album evolving from Roger Waters’ original demos (Nick Mason once described them as “the most appalling demos”), through to the band studio production demos and finally to the final studio recordings of the album. Are you ready for a fleeting glimpse of the construction of The Wall? The first 4 discs of The Wall Immersion boxset are two for the remastered album and another two for the live Pink Floyd concert recording of the original Wall. This was...
Links – Listen to full interview on YouTube | Discuss Interview on Forum Roger Waters and Wife Laurie Durning as of 14th Jan 2012 Roger Waters confirmed this morning on the Howard Stern Radio show that he got married to his girlfriend of ten years Laurie Durning. He was married in a low key ceremony on Saturday 14th January 2012. A big congratulations to them both from NPF! In the interview Roger Waters discussed a range of sensitive topics rather candidly with notorious radio host Howard Stern. He is very forthright to say the least. You can listen to the interview below. Roger discussed a range of issues ranging from the story of his father and the events leading up to his death and the time afterwards. He also discussed The Wall being in the 5th draft for a Broadway production. On that, Roger said “[it] remains to be seen...
