Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters will be honoured with one of the lead prizes, the O2 Silver Clef Award, at the ceremony, held in association with music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins.

The Silver Clef Award is awarded for outstanding contribution to music, and has previously been won by the likes of Iron Maiden, Jimmy Page, Annie Lennox and Oasis.

The O2 Silver Clef Awards are held to recognise and celebrate the talent of the winning artists who touch the lives of people through their music, and the event helps to raise vital funds ensuring that Nordoff Robbins is able to continue to deliver its brand of music therapy to support vulnerable people across the UK.

The ceremony will take place on July 6 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, and will be hosted by broadcaster Edith Bowman.

On Friday 22nd June 2018, On BBC Radio 1 Chris Evans chats to actor Rupert Everett about playing Oscar Wilde in his new film The Happy Prince.

Pink Floyd‘s drummer and founder Nick Mason tells Chris about reissuing his three solo albums in a new box set: Unattended Luggage and his autumn UK tour. Trudie Styler gives us the behind the scenes scoop on directing her new movie Freak Show. Plus Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers perform live in the studio.

You can listen back to the show online by clicking here

The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains” comes to Dortmund

One of the most successful bands in music history takes a look behind the scenes of its more than 50-year history. “The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains” provides both rare and extraordinary insights.

From September 15, 2018, the multimedia interactive exhibition will be on display in Dortmund’s U, a highly visible landmark of the city and long established as a center for art and creativity. Tickets are available in advance at Eventim.de and from June 18th at all Eventim ticket agencies.

After visiting London and Rome, Dortmund is the first and only stop in Germany until February 10, 2019 – an exhibition that previously caused a sensation in the English and Italian capital.

The unique interactive exhibition in the Dortmunder U, which not only appeals to fans of Pink Floyd, looks back on more than five decades of rock history. Capturing the visitor so intensely in sound, text and image as if he or she were standing in the middle of the stage.

Featuring previously unpublished concert recordings, original instruments, unknown notes and many personal memorabilia from members of the British cult band make “The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains” an absolute must for music lovers.

 

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The Dortmund U

Address : Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund, Germany

Tel : +49 231 5024723

The Dortmunder U is a cultural center with international appeal and the most impressive building in Dortmund. It was built in 1926/27 as the first high-rise building and beer factory of the Union Brewery.

Crowned with a light pyramid, the ferry and warehouse was one of the most modern buildings at that time.

Since 2010 the Dortmunder U with its unique installation is a center for art, culture and creativity. The U is one of the youngest and most innovative houses in Germany, about 70 per cent of the guests are under 50 years.

Last year the Dortmund U was awarded the “European Cultural Brand of the Year”.

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The exhibition opens on September 15th, and runs until February 10th 2019.

Tickets are now available Via Eventim; you can purchase them online by Clicking Here.

Hot off the shelves todays is this months new issue of the UK’s Prog Magazine – Issue Number 88 this months issue has a strong focus around Pink Floyd’s 1983 album The Final Cut which was the last Pink Floyd record to feature Roger Waters.

The Cover piece advertises the main article which is about the making of The Final Cut and how the album shaped the future for both Floyd and Roger Waters ever since. The feature is very detailed and gives a brand new fresh look at the project, and also includes archive interview material with Roger, David Gilmour, keyboard player Andy Bown, engineer Andy Jackson, and photographer Willie Christie, in which hes discusses developing the idea for the very short The Final Cut Film .

Futher on from the main article there is also an exclusive feature with Roger in which he discusses his current Us & Them Tour, Plans for filming the shows, and other things he is working on.

Further in the magazine is a page and a half looking at Nick Mason’s new Saucerful Of Secrets project, including an in depth full page review of the recent Dingwalls concert, which marked the band’s first ever live performance.

According to former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters when asked if he was working on anything Pink Floyd related, Water’s replied: “Yeah. I’ve just been working with Po. There’s a re-issue of Animals. A 5.1 mix of Animals so I’ve been working… Well I haven’t been working, he’s been working. He came up with some new photographs of Battersea Power Station as it is now to use as a CD cover for the new 5.1 mix. It’s beautiful.”

Pink Floyd released Immersion box sets of two of their biggest albums in 2011- Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here and The Wall, which followed in 2012. And a 20th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set of The Division Bell was released in 2014. But Animals has never been accorded such an honour.

As yet, there is no official word from the band’s record label, who have recently been reissuing the band’s catalogue on new 180g vinyl – most recently Relics and Pulse. And it is not known if the proposed release would form part of a bigger set – CD does not support 5.1 so it would have to be released on Blu-ray. However judging by Waters’ comments, watch this space…

Prog Magazine is available in most UK magazine outlets and alternatively can be bought internationally online courtesy of myfavouritemagazines.co.uk by clicking this link.