Monthly Archive: October 2021
Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour joins a host of other artists to feature on Jools Holland’s new album “Pianola. Piano and Friends“. The new album, featuring the likes of Tom Jones, Rick Wakeman, Dr John and Jamie Cullum to name a few, will be released on Friday 19th November 2021, a week before Black Friday shopping bonanza. Grab a copy from Amazon, or listen to Do The Boogie featuring Mousse T on streaming services. The title of the track that David Gilmour’s appears on is Blues for the End of Time. The press release says Jools co-wrote one song with Mousse-T, Do The Boogie, which implies that Jools wrote the songs and the artists have lent their skills during lock down to the album. ‘I’m humbled to have made this record with the greatest instrumental and vocal artists of our day. And so grateful to my lifelong friend the piano for...
The equipment used by Pink Floyd during their Live at Pompeii film recording has been recreated in a field in Northern England as part of the promotional work for a forthcoming book. The book details the large PA speaker system setups at concerts using WEM speakers and the book, of course, features Pink Floyd. They used WEM. There are 500 copies of the book being released so, if you want one, get involved. The band played One of These Days which you can watch below. You can also enjoy an interview too looking at the equipment. Pink Floyd of course were well known for their use of lots of equipment over the years. This could range from the ‘azimuth coordinator’ that Rick used to throw sound around every corner of a room, the ‘Binson Ecorec’ which was an early mechanical reverb machine, not to mention stage production technology. Roger Waters...
David Gilmour has shared the demo for Yet Another Movie for you to listen to ahead of the Momentary Lapse of Reason remix release later this month. I thought, this week, that we would put up the original demo, written by Pat Leonard and myself, for what was to become ‘Yet Another Movie’ on the ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ album. Pat Leonard and I met up at Astoria in September 1986 a couple of days after I had played on a Bryan Ferry track that he was producing. We had a glass or two of wine and jammed for hours. For some reason that I can no longer remember I had chosen the fretless bass as my instrument of the day. It turned into a beautiful song. David Gilmour Remix of AMLOR Later This Month… It is interesting to hear how songs develop from their initial demos to the...
The remix of Pink Floyd’s Animals album has been suffering from a serious delay in being released since 2018 due to the arguments over the liner notes. However, it would seem there is an end in sight in terms of the official release date of this much anticipated record. At the Los Angeles incarnation of the Mortal Remains immersive exhibition, there is a little display with a plaque with details of the release date on. Now, given the literally years of delays, don’t get your hopes up but… it is looking like June 2022! Mortal Remains Exhibition Images, thanks to Mikael Vinyl. If you can’t wait until then to have something new from Pink Floyd, then don’t forget the new remix of A Momentary Lapse of Reason is available this month. It will be interesting to see if this and the Animals releases get to number one in the charts....
