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It's 2025! This year sees the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here, which is an incredible thought; where does the time go?!

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Last year, David Gilmour's superb new album, Luck and Strange, was released in a variety of formats, and a selection of coloured vinyls. A limited number of concert dates thrilled crowds in Brighton and London, England, Rome, Italy, and Los Angeles and New York, USA. Rome shows were filmed for release at some point...watch this space!

The Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets 2024 Set The Controls tour revealed a band in even better form than the 2022/23 shows which managed to exceed everyone's hopes and expectations! Our sincerest hopes are that they continue, but in the meantime, there's the RSD release, and the earlier live recording from London's Roundhouse on Blu-ray, DVD/2CD, and 2LP which is really excellent.

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Roger Waters takes part in Eric Clapton's charity cricket match Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
Monday, 09 June 2008

roger waters playing cricket As Sunday afternoons go, it couldn't have been much nicer. One of the hottest and sunniest days of the year thus far greeted the professional, and enthusiastic amateur, cricketers who turned out at Surrey's Cranleigh School for Eric Clapton’s XI versus The Bunburys Charity Cricket Match.

BD visitors will know (from our recent news story) that one of those taking part (and pictured to the right, and more pictures below) was none other than Roger Waters, just two days after his tour finale in St Petersburg, Russia, and just hours before taking part in the Cries From The Heart concert in London...

Roger, who was part of Eric Clapton's team as they faced The Bunbury's XI, seemed to have a very enjoyable time fielding in the first innings, standing alongside Bill Wyman and Eric much of the time. Eric's team were fielding for the first innings, but sadly for all those who were looking forward to seeing Roger in full batting gear, he had to leave as the interval drew to a close so that he got to London in time for his part in the concert.

However, he proved to be a safe pair of hands in the outfield, ably scooping up balls hit his way from batsmen which included Mike Rutherford from Genesis and Phil Tufnell.

With a silent auction to go with the other activities, a lot of money was raised for the charitable causes of the afternoon - the Longacre Jubilee Appeal, CHASE Children’s Hospice Guildford, Crossroads Centre (the rehabilitation centre in Antigua founded by Eric) and The English Schools Cricket Association.

The first of the pictures below shows Bill Wyman, Roger and Eric Clapton in conversation, and the second, Roger returning the ball to the wicket. The third is a special shot of all the participants lined up before the match, and appears on the site courtesy of our chum Rachel Doyle (more great pictures here).

Bill Wyman, Roger Waters and Eric Clapton Roger Waters throwing the cricket ball back
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