Monthly Archive: May 2012
Links – Get Aussie Floyd Tickets | NPF Photos of Aussie Floyd from 2012 Tour | Get latest Pink Floyd News by following NPF on Facebook, Twitter and get our Newsletter too! Australian Pink Floyd Tour 2013 The tribute band The Australian Pink Floyd has today announced the dates of their 2013 tour of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. The tour is called “Eclipsed By The Moon” and tickets go on sale on Friday 25th May 2012. The full schedule can be seen below and you can get tickets from Ticketmaster. There will be 19 UK dates on the tour which includes the rather special night at London’s O2 arena where Roger Waters recently performed with David Gilmour and Nick Mason. The tour itself will feature a brand new format and set-list for these shows. In addition to the Dark Side of the Moon, The Australian Pink Floyd...
Links – Discuss Pink Floyd Radio Station | Sirius XM Radio | View Pink Floyd Reunion Pictures | Follow us on Facebook Pink Floyd are to have their own official radio station in the USA on the Sirius XM satellite radio network. It is due to launch on 25th May 2012 and is available in the USA and Puerto Rico. Roger Waters announced the news in an interview with Jim Ladd, the DJ who featured in Roger’s 1987 solo album Radio KAOS. The interview was broadcast last night in the USA. Not only will the Pink Floyd radio station broadcast the entire back catalogue of the band including solo albums, but it will also feature interviews, rarities and broadcast concert recordings too! A bootlegger’s dream come true if the material turns out to be previously unavailable! Roger Waters said, “I can’t think of a better home for the Pink Floyd...
Links – News David Gilmour Joins Roger Waters On Stage at London O2 | Watch Video | View 41 photos from Pink Floyd reunion/Wall Live DVD. A 6 minute video has appeared on Roger Waters Facebook page of the Pink Floyd reunion performance on 12th May 2011 at London’s O2 Arena. This happened on Roger Waters’ tour of The Wall. It is a professionally shot video and shows the rehearsals for the performance and backstage during the performance. Given that the shows were recorded professionally at the O2 London (and in Greece), the emergence of this 6 minute professionally shot video could well mean that The Wall Live DVD that we have all been waiting for could finally be just around the corner. Or is it just a 6 minute professionally shot video? You decide! Roger Waters manager told NPF that the video is not a preview of The Wall...
Links – Read about Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here DVD and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and get our Newsletter for good measure too! BBC 4 TV are to air the full 60 minute version of the forthcoming blu-ray/DVD release of Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here. The documentary about the legendary album was first broadcast in the USA in March 2012 on VH1. Eagle Rock Home Entertainment are to release Pink Floyd: The Story Of Wish You Were Here on Blu-ray and DVD for Floyd fans to enjoy in the UK on 25th June 2012 and in the USA on 26th June 2012. The BBC will broadcast the full documentary from 9pm on Friday 25th May 2012. It will then be repeated on Satuday 26th May at 1am and Sunday 27th May at 11:40pm. Get your Sky+ ready NOW! Amazon.com had indicated that the full...
Links – Vote for your choices | Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and get our Newsletter for gems of goodness! Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon British Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed that his favourite album is Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. The 45 year old Conservative PM told his 166,000 Twitter followers that the Pink Floyd classic album was his favourite as part of a celebration of Great British Music. The Prime Ministers announcement was, of course, met with the usual bitterly negative reaction from the press citing him choosing an album as popular as Dark Side of the Moon was a cynical ploy to appear to be “in touch” with the British Electorate. The majority of households in the UK have a copy of Dark Side of the Moon making his favourtie album one of the favourites of the nation! Some have praised his...
Links – Listen to interview (requires free registration to site) | Previous News – Revealing Barrett Interview By Tim Willis, Pink Floyd guitarist and singer David Gilmour has caught with old friend Tim Willis for an audio interview on the high50 website where Tim is editor-in-chief. Tim Willis wrote the biography of Syd Barrett a few years ago called Madcap: The Half-Life of Syd Barrett. An excellent book and highly recommended if you have not read it so far. Tim contacted his friend Gilmour to ask about talking about the recording of The Dark Side of the Moon album. Listen to interview (requires free registration to site) and read Tim Willis’ words about how the interview came about and what David & Polly have been up to!. David Gilmour Interview Transcript DG: The most important thing to me was the space we had on the cover to have beautiful artwork...
