With less than a week to go, a reminder of our competition to win a copy of the forthcoming book "Pink Floyd The Wall: In The Studio, On Stage and On Screen", to be published by Reynolds & Hearn on Tuesday May 4th. The books have arrived at Brain Damage HQ and are sitting ready to be mailed out to the lucky winners - so don't delay sending us your entry if you want to be in with a chance of grabbing a copy! We're also working on our review of the book, which will follow shortly.

The music of Pink Floyd is to be performed by a full classical orchestra at the Klara Festival, which will be held in September, in Brussels, Belgium.

Things are gearing up nicely for Malta's entry into the EU (European Union) on Friday night, despite warnings that the weather is not looking particularly good for the area. The evening's highlight is the finale, which features the premiere of selections from Roger Water's forthcoming opera, Ca Ira, accompanying the light monument at Fort St Angelo, in the Grand Harbour, created by Gert Hof. In all, fifteen minutes of music have been selected and Roger is reported to be pleased to have his music used for the event. He had already approached Hof to stage the entire opera.

Further to previous news on these pages about Nick Mason's book on the history of Pink Floyd, we received an email from Nick himself, yesterday, updating us on progress with the book.

In the email, he talks about the release of the book in September, and also sets out the focus of the book. "This book is intended to be a fairly personal take on our history, rather than a definitive date by date exercise." He has been involving the other members of the band, families, and characters directly involved as co-workers on the various tours and recordings.