Monthly Archive: May 2012
Links – Read Before They Were Floyd about all the bands Pink Floyd members were in before Pink Floyd | Listen to Jokers Wild EP online A former bandmate of David Gilmour, Clive Welham, has died after being ill for some time. Clive was in the band Jokers Wild with David Gilmour amongst many others in the Cambridge area. He passed away peacefully on 9th May 2012. In the Spring of 1962, when the electric guitar was taking over, Clive was the drummer in the band Geoff Mott & The Mottoes along with fellow bandsmen Syd Barrett, Geoff Mott and Tony Sainty. Syd went off to set up the Pink Floyd with Roger Waters and Clive with David Gilmour to form Jokers Wild. Shortly afterwards, Clive and David Gilmour went on to form The Ramblers along with a raft of other band personnel. This band actually started playing gigs around Cambridge...
Pink Floyd The Story Of Wish You Were Here on Blu-ray or DVD! NPF have a copy of Pink Floyd The Story of Wish You Were Here on either blu-ray or DVD to give away in our May/June 2012 competition!. You choose which edition if you win. The competition is open until 12pm GMT on 24th June 2012 and will be drawn shortly afterwards. The winner will be contacted by email and announced in the competition area of the site! Enter Competition! 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. The 85 minute documentary will be released in the UK on 25th June 2012 and in the USA on 26th June 2012. It was broadcast in March 2012 on VH1 in the USA and will be available for all to enjoy on DVD....
Links – eBay Listing | Princes Foundation for Children & Arts | HRH Prince of Wales | Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has produced a work of art to help fund raise for the The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts charity. People are welcome to bid for it on eBay and, as I type, the asking price is £430 (USD$700). The charity is run by Prince Charles HRH Prince of Wales and champions the power of the arts to transform the lives of disadvantaged children throughout the UK. This won’t be the first time someone from the Pink Floyd camp has been associated with Prince Charles after Charlie Gilmour, David Gilmour’s adopted son, was involved in an incident with Prince Charles during the London Riots! Other contributors from the 50 in total include Ronnie Wood, Adele, Michael Morpurgo, Jamie Oliver, Sir Michael Caine, Felicity Kendal, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson,...
NPF now has a new version of the website which is designed for smartphones with small screens! Viewing NPF on a smartphone in your hand was painful in the past because the site pages would not fit on the screen! But you can now celebrate with me the new NPF Smartphone version of the site! 2012 is the year when desktop computers will really decline and people will start reading emails and viewing websites on their smartphones to such a degree that a NPF Smartphone version of the site is required! In the USA, 50% of email is read on smartphones and around 35% in Europe. When you click a news link from our newsletter in future on your phone, you will get the mobile site! How Do I See The Smartphone Site? If you visit NPF on your smartphone, you will automatically be served up the new version of...
