Nick Mason will be hosting a global screening of exclusive audio and visual footage from Pink Floyd: The Early Years 1965-1972' box set, which is being released on November 11th. The event will take place at YouTube Space London; the live stream will start on Pink Floyd's YouTube channel at 6.30pm GMT on Wednesday November 9th (or at the foot of this story!).
The live event will include an exclusive unboxing of the package, screening of exclusive remastered footage and a chat with Nick. A very limited number of tickets are available for the event; for the chance to win one of these tickets, go to smarturl.it/PF_YT_comp.
Fans from around the world are encouraged to submit questions online at the official Pink Floyd Facebook page. A selection of these will be put to Nick on the night. The organisers have pointed out that these questions should only be related to The Early Years box set.
The stream itself will be live here at the appropriate time on November 9th:
Should any additional dates be added (and it has already been stated that San Antonio and Winnipeg shows will be slotted in to the schedule), we will let you know as quickly as we can.
Just announced, Roger Waters will be returning to North America in 2017 with a pioneering new tour, US + Them. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 21st, and all the dates, as well as the tour announcement video, can be shown below.
"We are going to take a new show on the road, the content is very secret," said Roger Waters. "It'll be a mixture of stuff from my long career, stuff from my years with Pink Floyd, some new things. Probably 75% of it will be old material and 25% will be new, but it will be all connected by a general theme. It will be a cool show, I promise you. It'll be spectacular like all my shows have been.”
The announcement notes that "Roger Waters' legendary live performances are renowned as immersive sensory experiences featuring high class, state-of-the-art audio visual production and breathtaking quad sound. This new tour promises to be no exception; following months of meticulous planning and visionary craft, US + Them will inspire crowds with its powerful delivery and take the audience on an unforgettable musical journey."
VIP package sales and Citi presale tickets will begin on Monday, October 17th. Citi is the official credit card of the Roger Waters – Us + Them 2017 tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets for US dates only beginning on Monday, October 17th at 10am local time through Citi's Private Pass Program (for details visit citiprivatepass.com). Other presales may be taking place too. For the regular sale of tickets, which starts Friday, October 21st (Saturday, October 22nd for Montreal), visit either Ticketmaster.com for the US shows, or Ticketmaster.ca for the Canadian shows. Selected dates are available from AXS.com. Using our links also helps toward the ongoing running costs of this site, and is appreciated! Details of each concert venue and show are on the normal show pages which are now in place - go to the Roger Waters 2017 Tour zone and select the show you are interested in.
Finally, here are the dates as announced so far...
Next week in Glasgow, as a part of the start of the tour of a new Syd Barrett play around various venues in Scotland, a 70th birthday tribute, with Alan Bissett, Ian Barrett, John Cavanagh and Nicola Meighan takes place. With the play, called One Thinks of it All as a Dream, opening on Monday, an evening event in Òran Mór's beautiful upstairs auditorium will celebrate the life of Roger 'Syd' Barrett and dispel some of the myths about him — with the help of special guests, archive footage, and rarely seen artwork from throughout Barrett's life.
Guests are Alan Bissett, writer of One Thinks of it All as a Dream and dedicated Pink Floyd fan; Ian Barrett, Syd's nephew; John cavanagh, broadcaster and writer of the book Piper at the Gates of Dawn; and host, Nicola Meighan, broadcaster and writer for Q, MOJO, Time Out, The Quietus and The Herald.
The special event, taking place on October 20th (and not the 13th as we originally thought) runs from 7.30–9.30pm, and tickets are priced at £10. They are available by calling 08444 771 000. Òran Mòr is situated at the top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX.
Headlining the tenth Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival programme is the premiere of the play itself, One Thinks of it All as a Dream, by leading Scottish writer Alan Bissett, a lifelong Pink Floyd fan. SMHAFF note that the play is their "first-ever commission, One Thinks of it All as a Dream tells the story of Syd Barrett, the leader of Pink Floyd during their first psychedelic incarnation in the 1960s. Barrett was ejected from the band after a mental breakdown, attributed variously to schizophrenia, LSD, the pressures of fame and artistic temperament; he shunned the spotlight for the rest of his life".
It will premiere at Òran Mòr on Monday, October 17th running until Saturday, October 22nd, before touring to the Traverse in Edinburgh (October 25th - 29th) and the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen (November 1st - 5th). Syd Barrett's family and the remaining members of Pink Floyd have given the play, and its soundtrack of the band's music, their blessing.
Alan Bissett said: "Syd Barrett is unique in rock n roll history, and certainly haunted Pink Floyd's music after he left. There's no figure quite like him - which is itself attractive to a dramatist - but I also wanted to explore his multi-faceted character. He was by turns charismatic, selfish, principled and vulnerable. The legend of 'Mad Syd' has been enshrined in rock lore, but I wanted to get past the acid-casualty cliches to try and find the man beneath, in all his complexity. I took the decision to go backwards and forwards in time, through all the periods of Barrett's life, to try and gain some understanding of the entwined roots of creativity and mental illness, as well as the various impulses which might have driven him to reject the modern world."
For all of you who are building their Pink Floyd vinyl collections with the very special, limited 180g remastered re-pressings of the band's studio albums, some good news for you!
On 18th November 2016, Pink Floyd Records will continue the reintroduction of the Pink Floyd catalogue on vinyl with 'Animals' remastered from the original analogue master tapes and reissued on vinyl for the first time in over 20 years. Before then, 'Wish You Were Here' and 'The Dark Side of the Moon' are also back in stock on vinyl from this Friday, 14th October, and 4th November respectively.
That should just leave The Final Cut and A Momentary Lapse of Reason to be released again on vinyl, unless a decision is made to release some of the other titles too - things such as Delicate Sound of Thunder, Relics, and suchlike.
As before, these new heavyweight vinyl editions should prove extremely popular and will undoubtably sell quickly, so we recommend that those of you who are interested, place your orders as soon as you can. The dedicated ordering links are below - using these will give a small but vital contribution to the running costs of Brain Damage, without costing you a penny/cent extra, and we really appreciate it!
NOTE: Some of the stores above are yet to list the releases but the links are there for when they do. If your chosen store doesn't have it yet, please keep trying, or consider an alternate store - Amazon ship vinyl worldwide.
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Just announced, Roger Waters will be returning to North America in 2017 with a pioneering new tour, US + Them. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 21st, and all the dates, as well as the tour announcement video, can be shown below.
