Tagged: 2020

Duggie Fields Syd Barrett House Interview

Artist Duggie Fields in a rare filmed interview in the flat he shared with his friend Syd Barrett

I often wonder what our favourite musicians are like when they are just hanging out at home when not on the stage doing their thing! I guess many of the “legendary stories” are invented by the media and fans alike to elevate these people and make them into stars! According to Duggie Fields, in this unseen extended interview below, Syd was a bit more normal than some of his other friends and wasn’t so much a victim of his drug usage (he didn’t do that much apparently) as he was a victim of having his creative flow disrupted by the sudden onset of fame, and people trying to limit his creative output. Duggie passed away in March 2021 and the interview below was done by producer John Edginton back in 2001 in the house where Syd lived with Duggie. The same house where Syd painted the floorboards in the room...

Polly Samson and David Gilmour A Theatre for Dreamers Book with Signed CD

Polly Samson Book Now With Signed Bonus CD [Gilmour & Samson]

Author and lyricist Polly Samson released her latest book A Theater for Dreamers last year and there is now a bonus edition that comes with a signed CD featuring 4 new tracks. The CD is limited in number available obviously and is signed by David Gilmour and Polly Samson (so it says on my order confirmation email). Get yours whist stocks last [Paperback PLUS version]. The songs include the lovely Yes I Have Ghosts which also features Polly and David’s daughter Romany Gilmour, who also featured in Downton Abbey back in the day. About The Book Erica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It’s the summer of 1960 when she lands on the sun-baked Greek island of Hydra where she is swept up in a circle of bohemian poets, painters, musicians, writers and artists, living tangled lives. Life on their island paradise is heady, dream-like, a string of seemingly endless...

Richard Wright Sailing on his boat, Evrika around 2001-2007

New Richard Wright Official Website

The late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright has a new official website set up, presumably by his family. The site has sections covering an “about” the site/project, interviews with and about Rick, music inspired by and most loved by Richard, a very comprehensive breakdown of his equipment through the years and various projects including gear by album, a live section featuring live videos including the beautiful Breakthrough Rick solo song from David GIlmour’s RAH DVD, photography from Rick’s trip across the Atlantic in his boat, and a scrapbook of various images from over the years. Rick’s family say on the Official Richard Wright website… Welcome to the Richard Wright website, a space which aims to offer a unique insight into his musical life. This site doesn’t profess to be a comprehensive or encyclopaedic source of Richard Wright facts and figures or trivia. It is rather somewhere to explore and...

Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder Bluray DVD header

Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder Epic Concert Released, Order Now

Delicate Sound of Thunder has been restored, re-edited and remixed and the result looks and sounds absolutely stunning. It will be released on Friday 20th November 2020 and is available to order at the links below. Treat yourself to a copy now (makes a great Pink Floyd Christmas present) and enjoy. Amazon UK or Amazon USA and worldwide It is released in multiple formats including Blu-ray and DVD, with audio-only versions on 2-CD or 3-LP, plus a Deluxe 4-disc version including 2-CDs plus Blu-ray and DVD, each of which contain five bonus tracks. The redone concert film was released in the Pink Floyd Later Years massive boxset, chronicling the band after Roger Waters’ departure in great detail. Stunning boxset, but perhaps out of reach for many fans given its price. Therefore this release of the Delicate Sound of Thunder concert recording will be most welcomed by fans as the standalone...

Jon Carin Live Photo

Jon Carin Releases Another New Track, A Cover of John Lennon’s Gimme Some Truth

Long time Pink Floyd family member Jon Carin has gone and released another epic track this time in tribute to John Lennon. It is called Gimme Some Truth and you can listen to it below, do let us know what you think by leaving a comment. Listen on Spotify. Jon recently released a couple of other songs too called Fear of Everything and Like a Drug. Those are his original songs. I am personally really looking forward to listening to the rest of the album – I don’t know if Jon is still in the process of recording them and releasing them when done, or just teasing us with the drip feeding! Either way, need to hear more, sounds fantastic. Also, you may like to listen to Chester Kamen’s new song Take This. Chester, similar to Jon, is a long time member of the wider Pink Floyd family having been...

David Gilmour Yes I Have Ghosts Vinyl RSD

David Gilmour Yes I Have Ghosts in Limited Vinyl Release

David and Romany Gilmour’s Yes I Have Ghosts single is to be released in a limited 5K batch of Vinyl as part of the next drop of Record Store Day releases. It is to be available as part of the “Black Friday” crazy which Amazon started about ten years ago in its pre-Christmas sales boost to help it compete with the high street. It is a RSD exclusive, limited to 5,000 copies, it is released by Legacy and is a 7″ single. “Yes, I Have Ghosts” is the first new song from David Gilmour in five years and features his daughter Romany on harp and vocals. The inspiration for the track was Polly Samson’s novel A Theatre for Dreamers, a Sunday Times bestseller about an idyllic poet/musician/artist community in 1960s Greece.  Check out the RSD website for further info or talk about it on the forum.