Thursday Night Live is a set of evening events being held at the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens, as part of the Cultural Olympiad, an offshoot of the 2012 London Olympics. The evenings encompass live chat, comedy and music every Thursday at 7pm.

BBC London's Robert Elms will be hosting and interviewing the biggest and best-loved names from the worlds of art and entertainment to help celebrate London life in a truly awe-inspiring venue. It's a chance to get 'up close and personal' with entertainers who normally perform in much bigger arenas.

Next Thursday, August 9th, Elms will be host to Ricky Grover, Phil Cornwell, and Guy Pratt. Guy told us that he would be interviewed about his life in music, which of course includes his work with Pink Floyd and David Gilmour, he would be sharing some stories, and maybe some music too. Tickets are now on sale - cheapest are uncovered general admission, at £10, and can be bought through Eventim.

The 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony featured a couple of direct Pink Floyd references - specifically, the pig over Battersea Power Station, the clock tower of Big Ben having spinning hands with the Floyd's Time accompanying it, and at the firework finale, Eclipse being played to stunning effect. Other Floyd references included things like the hospital beds, akin to those on the cover of Momentary Lapse.

Elsewhere, during the female gymnastics on Tuesday, a Romanian athlete used Shine On part 1 to do her routine to. The music was performed by another artist and was tailored and edited to the routine. It was described by the commentator as 'A mood piece'!

Singer Ed Sheeran has now gone against normal protocol and revealed a small part of the normally secret plans for the Closing Ceremony (Sunday, August 12th, from 7:30pm BST). He has told Australian radio station Nova that he will be one of the performers, with an interesting backing. "I'm playing the closing ceremony - which I think is kinda cool right? A lot of people think that I'm doing a song with The Who but I'm not - I'm doing a song with Pink Floyd. I'm doing 'Wish You Were Here'."

Sheeran then confirmed that in actual fact, it would be Nick Mason, and not Pink Floyd, that would form part of his backing band! Neither Roger nor David will be participating. Other artists reportedly taking part include The Who, Take That, and George Michael.

Last night, the highly anticipated London 2012 Opening Ceremony, kicking off the 30th modern Olympic Games, took place, and the truly incredible event included not just one Pink Floyd inclusion, but two...

The event began with an imagined trip down the River Thames, prior to the events within the Olympic Stadium, and came to a close with spectacular fireworks. Creative Director Danny Boyle's extravanganza opened on a 'Green and Pleasant Land', and sped through industrial and internet revolutions, whilst also giving sharp focus to the music and film that Great Britain has given the world.

The trip down the Thames included a helicopter flying past various key landmarks. As you'll see from the picture here, as it reached Battersea Power Station, one of its famous visitors was in a familiar position between the chimneys. As it flew on, the helicopter passed the clock tower of Big Ben, Time (from The Dark Side Of The Moon) rang out, fittingly.

After the first part of the ceremony proper, and after the 204 teams had streamed in, with their flags, the final segment of the show took place. This included the lighting of the cauldron with the Olympic flame (and this was a cauldron like never seen before) and events were concluded with a huge firework display. With the London skies lit up at 12:37am, the sound of Pink Floyd's Eclipse rang out loud and clear in the stadium, which seemed to fit the event and the Olympic ideals perfectly. As the notes faded, Paul McCartney took the metaphorical baton from the Floyd, performing The End and Hey Jude live to finish the night with a singalong.

With the end of his 2012 Wall Tour looming at the time, Roger Waters spoke to the US magazine Billboard, and the interview, along with a very striking cover image drawn by Gerald Scarfe, is now published in this week's issue, hitting stores in the US tomorrow.

Excerpts from the interview can be seen here, and finds Roger talking expansively about The Wall. "In the intervening 33 years [since I wrote the piece], I've realized that because of the theatrical construction of the "wall" -- which was an idea that I had back in '77 because of my disaffection with big audiences and stadiums and all that -- the power of the metaphor lends the story a much more universal vision and appeal. So I've come to realize it's not about me -- it's about anybody that has suffered the loss of a loved one in some kind of conflict, whether it be war or something else. It's about the problems we all face with errant authority, or all the difficulties we all have in relationships with one another, whether they're sexual relationships or political/international relationships.

"That excited me about revisiting the piece, and in this most recent incarnation of it making a version that would work in stadiums and ballparks and football stadiums, which is ironic, because my starting point was my disaffection with that situation. But I've come to realize that not only does it work in big spaces, its appeal is such that people in big spaces feel intimately connected with the message."

"The irony is not lost on me. But I feel I've transcended the problems of the wall between me and the audience, so the piece is rock'n'roll theater at the highest level, and it expresses the existence of all the other walls that I've talked about: the walls of media, the walls of government, the walls of religion, the walls of all kinds of extremism, and all those walls that exist between human beings. It very powerfully tells the message."

The magazine with the full interview should be on US newsstands and stores from tomorrow, and in the UK and Europe can be bought from selected outlets as an import in due course, or ordered direct from Newsstand.co.uk who sell individual copies of magazines.