With the release this week of Pink Floyd's stunning album, The Endless River, the world's media has been comprehensively covering the release, particularly in the form of interviews. The coverage has helped with public awareness of the album, which is set to enter the UK album charts at number one this weekend, with a similar story elsewhere in multiple countries. Indeed, already on the Polskieradio.pl chart in Poland (spending its third consecutive week at the top of the chart) is the track Louder Than Words, and we're expecting charts around the world to be lit up pink by the weekend!

As we already know, Amazon's all-time records for album pre-orders were smashed by TER, and other retailers have seen a similar healthy response. HMV Canada's album chart, based on sales, has TER enter comfortably at number one.

In terms of interviews, there have been masses of these, and many of these are running over the same old ground (to use an appropriate lyric). However, here's a wrap-up of some of the more interesting ones out there - in print and to listen to...

Last night, November 10th, to coincide with the UK and US release of Pink Floyd's The Endless River was launched at Porchester Hall in London's Bayswater. With typical Floydian panache, the hall was decked out in a Morrocan style, with throw cushions, sticks of incense, and impressive table lights.

The main thrust of the event was a playback - at a suitably loud volume - of the album in its entirety. To accompany this, Peter Wynne Willson, who was the man behind the Floyd's early, psychedelic light shows, was again on hand to give those of us lucky enough to be there, some absorbing "eye candy", customised to work perfectly with each piece of music.

On display at the front - and the first of our pictures [click thumbnail, right] - was a wonderful sculpture by the good people of StormStudios - commissioned by Pink Floyd for the album package, the weighty metal design is an endless infinity loop forming the Division Bell Heads.

Yesterday afternoon, as we were heading to last night's launch event in London for Pink Floyd's new album, The Endless River, which we'll bring you more about later today including exclusive pictures of the event, the promo video for Louder Than Words, the song which concludes the album, was unveiled.

The video, directed by longtime graphical collaborator with the Floyd, Aubrey "Po" Powell, is set at the site of one of the world's worst environmental disasters - the Aral Sea. This used to be the fourth largest lake in the world, until the water was diverted for irrigation purposes. Po: "When we talked with David Gilmour, we decided that the video had to draw attention to these issues, but not only from a negative perspective. We wanted to show that maybe we can help bring back the sea. When bad things happen in our lives, one can find something good in them too. It is not necessary to see everything in a bad light. The message of the video is primarily positive. Like all Pink Floyd songs, this composition is also filled with deep meaning and philosophy."

Just prior to us posting our review of Pink Floyd's new album, The Endless River, we've got some news of a couple of interviews being broadcast tomorrow (Sunday) and Monday on the radio, which hopefully fans worldwide will be able to listen in to.

First, tomorrow night at 8pm UK time, David Gilmour is being interviewed on the Absolute Classic Rock radio station. Absolute Classic Rock is a radio station part of the Absolute Radio network, broadcasting to London via DAB, Virgin Media, Sky and worldwide on the internet.

The interview is an episode of the hour-long Non-stop Classic Rock, hosted by the station's Martyn Lee. Our thanks to Heather Fenton for tipping us off about this interview.

New York's Classic Rock station Q104.3 is hosting an interview special with both Nick Mason and David Gilmour. It's scheduled for Monday at 9pm EST, and is hosted by Jim Kerr. The station streams its output live worldwide. Our New York based correspondent Elliot Tayman tipped us off about this - thanks Elliot!