Monthly Archive: February 2014
Tickets for The Pink Floyd Exhibition – Their Mortal Remains will be available from Thursday 27th February 2014 from the Official Pink Floyd Exhibition website here. The 4 week long exhibition residency will be held at Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini 4, Milan in Italy. The event will launch on Friday 19th September 2014 and run for 4 weeks until Sunday 19th October 2014 with tickets costing a very reasonable €15 euros. Aubrey “Po” Powell, from Hipgnosis who created many of Pink Floyd’s iconic album covers, is the curator of the event and creative director. There is also involvement from stage set designers Stufish who designed many of Pink Floyd’s stage sets. Pink Floyd Exhibition occupies some 2500 square metres and contains over 300 objects especially flown in from all over the world, some of which are the personal property of the band. The exhibition is a celebration of nearly 5...
A Doctorate of Humane Letters Honoris Causa Degree was awarded on the 18th of February 2014 to Roger Waters by The American University of Rome. Waters, who was the co-founder, lyricist, and conceptual leader of world famous progressive rock band Pink Floyd, and champion of veteran causes and human rights, was awarded for his contribution to music and for his social activism around the globe. Accompanied by his wife Laurie Durning and by war veteran and close friend Harry Shindler, Waters was honored his degree before an intimate group of AUR students, veterans, faculty, and staff at the Istituto Italiano Studi Germanici in Rome following attendance of the Anzio commemoration ceremonies for the 70th anniversary of the Allied landings where his father, Eric Fletcher Waters of the 8th Royal Fusiliers, died as he fought to repel a German counter-attack in a battle that changed the course of the Second World War. Mr....
I had the pleasure of attending the launch event for Hipgnosis- Masters of Album Cover Art at St Pauls Gallery in Birmingham on 22nd Feb 2014. In addition to the treasure trove of beautifully presented historic album cover art, there was an entertaining talk from Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey “Po” Powell and Graham Gouldman from the band 10cc. There are lots of photos from the launch at the end of this article. Pink Floyd band members past and present have a long history of friendship and working together with Hipgnosis (Aubrey “Po” Powell and Storm Thorgerson). Hipgnosis produced album covers including Saucerful of Secrets, Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and More (quantitatively and literally!). See a full list. Hipgnosis was a name inspired by Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett after he scrawled the acronym on the door frame of the house he was sharing with Storm Thorgerson...
ROGER WATERS, TWO DAYS TO REMEMBER. (by The Lunatics) A dip in the memory full of excitement was experienced by Roger Waters at Anzio between 17 and 18 February, on the occasion of the initiatives organized for the 70 years since the Allied Landings, who took the title “If you want peace prepare the Peace.” On Monday afternoon, away from prying eyes, the former Pink Floyd bassist went to the ditch of Moletta, the place where his father Eric Fletcher was victim of the Germans that famous morning of 18 February 1944. Waters has inaugurated a monument of circular shape, in whose center he placed a young olive tree. Along with him stood the mayor of Aprilia and some Italian and foreign military authorities, notably his two “angels”, the veteran Harry Shindler and publisher Emidio Giovannozzi, who, through their research, have shed light on the last hours of life of his...
Pink Floyd’s Youtube page has posted a very interesting video regarding something called The Pink Floyd Exhibition – Their Mortal Remains. The video does not give much away at this stage and, typical of Pink Floyd unveilings, has a element of mystery about it! It seems to be about looking at Pink Floyd’s history through different lenses including their music, show, history, words, people, design and film from the snippets included in the video below. But what form will these lenses take? What could it all mean? Something similar to the Pink Floyd 2003 Interstellar Exhibition in Paris? Perhaps it will be held in Milan, Italy as per this newspaper article from last year. In addition to the Video you can watch below, there has been a Pink Floyd Exhibition – Their Mortal Remains website being set up. It only includes the video so far, but keep your eyes peeled...
Roger Waters has unveiled a memorial in Italy to his late father and other soldiers who were killed in an historic battle during World War Two. The memorial takes the form of a newly-erected white marble obelisk in the town of Aprilia south of Rome. At 11:30am on 18th February 1944, Royal Fusiller Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters was killed by the Germans in a ditch near the Italian town of Aprilla. Eric was fighting with comrades in Z Company which is part of the 8th Battalion force of the British Army. Roger Waters, who would go on to so-found Pink Floyd, was just a baby at the time and never got to see his father. Roger would make references to his late father in albums such as The Wall and The Final Cut. “It is 70 years to the day since my father died here and I have finally come to the...
