Last night, the situation regarding the proposed performance of an excerpt of Ca Ira as part of the Maltese celebrations, changed a little. Our friend Phil received an update via email, telling him that whilst Roger Waters should be attending the event, the excerpt of Ca Ira will NOT be a live one; a recording will be played to accompany a visual spectacular in the midnight sky by Gert Hof, who famously transformed Red Square in Moscow into a sea of lights and lasers (September 2003), and Ross Ashton, who wrapped Buckingham Palace in projections for the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations, and also did Roger's backdrop visuals on the 1999 and 2000 In The Flesh tours. We have contacted Mark Fenwick, Roger's manager, and hope to have clarification/confirmation on this soon.

With thanks to our friends Chris Diemoz, and Nicola at Hey You, we have some background info on the release, directly from a key, unnamed person involved in the remaster release:

We've today learnt details of Roger's next live outing of his forthcoming opera, Ca Ira.

He is scheduled to play 15 minutes of the piece during Malta's EU entry celebrations on the evening of Friday, April 30th. Roger was asked to write a song for the event late last year but after some negotiation, he has now agreed to the airing of part of his opera there instead. There have also been wranglings within Malta itself as to who was awarded the contract for the event - and indeed, it appears that one of the unlucky companies may be launching legal action to protest against losing out.

We now have full details of the forthcoming Syd Barrett CD, "The Radio 1 Sessions", and its cover is pictured to the right. The eight track album features firstly a re-issue of the Top Gear session from February 1970 featuring David Gilmour on bass and Humble Pie's drummer Jerry Shirley (tracks as detailed below).