Monthly Archive: July 2012
Links – Watch video of Pink Floyd in Olympics on NPF Youtube Channel. | Check out some nice pictures of the pig over battersea in 2011! The Olympic opening ceremony featured a nice video clip early on in the event and our favourite Pink Floyd were represented both visually and in the medium of sound! Watch video of Pink Floyd in Olympics on NPF Youtube Channel! Pink Floyd’s iconic Pig over Battersea Power Station, which was used on the front of the Animals album and featured in their live shows and legacy ever since, was there tethered to the old power station whilst a helicopter flew by as shown in the image to the right! Immediately after in the sound montage, the opening chimes from Time, from Dark Side of the Moon, was played as the flight took us to Westminster and the houses of parliament. Later on in the...
Pink Floyd have always been a faceless band where the music is more important than the people who played the music and wrote the songs. However, Roger Waters was the main songwriter of the band and pretty much took over the creative side of the band in terms of writing songs after Syd Barrett’s departure after Pink Floyd’s debut album Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Who is Roger Waters? Well, he was the bass player, one of the main singers and the principal songwriter and wrote albums such as Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall give or take a couple of songs here and there. David Gilmour is the other main protagonist of course being the lead guitarist and every classic rock/prog band needs one of those! David is a fine example of course and, since Roger Waters left the band in the mid 1980s due to...
Links – Watch The Wall Movie for free online | Get 47 B&W photos from exhibition catalogue from Mind Head Publishing | More about Exhibition Over 40 black and white images will be exhibited to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Pink Floyd’s The Wall Film in London. The images, taken by photographer David Appleby, will be on display at Blackall Studios in Shoreditch, London between 13th – 20th July 2012. Additionally, there is a “catalogue” of the images released by Mind Head Publishing which shows 47 of the images that avid Pink Floyd fans would be pleased to see! This limited edition album size book captures behind the scenes moments, along with iconic shots from the production, but from a unique perspective. Most of these images have never been seen before as this is the first time many of them have been developed from the original negatives. David Appleby began...
Links – Read full NY Times Interview | Get our free Newsletter and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for all the latest Pink Floyd News! Roger Waters will start work on his next studio album of original music after his 2012 leg of The Wall Live tour completes on 21st July at a spectacular outdoor concert at Les Plaines D’Abraham in Quebec, Canada. Roger is also working on the financials for putting an outdoor stadium tour of The Wall together for Europe in the summer of 2013 in Europe. Roger Waters New Album 2013? In an interview in the New York Times today, when asked has he been writing any new songs, Roger Waters responded, “I have. I have written so much, and it’s been 20 years since I made a record. I came up with a song a few weeks ago on the road and then I started...
The Bath and Knebworth Commemorative Set Adversiting Feature After quickly selling out of the initial limited edition of the Bath and Knebworth Pink Floyd commemorative set, the promoters of the original events have produced a new Bath and Knebworth Pink Floyd commemorative set. The Pink Floyd Commemorative set is limited to just 200 and features many items that were not included with the first set. You can now get yourself a set on RockMusicMemorabilia.com priced at £49.99 plus postage. None of the items in this set are available anywhere else in the world and it contains the following goodies: Programmes, tickets and flyers from the 1970 Bath festival and the 1975 Knebworth festival; Four flyers dating back to 1967 and 1968 containing, amongst others, the forthcoming appearances of The Pink Floyd at The Pavilion, Bath (1968) and the Malvern Winter Gardens (1967); 2 x T shirts from both the Bath...
