A new interview has appeared online featuring Pink Floyd : Live At Pompeii director Adrian Maben.

The interview has appeared on Italian news website Republican and has confirmed a expanded and re-released edition of the 1971 feature film…

You can read the original Italian interview by clicking here
To read the English translation by clicking here

Pink Floyd At Pompeii, book is an incredible journey undertaken by the authors with Adrian Maben, director of “Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii“.
The film, shot in 1971, has fascinated generations for over forty years and is still extraordinarily lively in the imagination of rock fans; more so because it came at a crucial time over the course of the two years when Pink Floyd, an underground band, became international rock stars – the years of Meddle and The Dark Side of the Moon.

The book digs deeply into the folds of that era and examines the vast ocean of facts and anecdotes, behind the scenes events, memorable stories and precious documents kept by the director. Mr. Maben often tells in first person, providing the narrative with authenticity and historical documentation. His active collaboration has made this book sort of a personal memorial; along with his personal memories, the director has made available the entire archive he kept for over forty years, with mostly unrealeased material.

The book consists of thirteen chapters divided into different subsections.
To further enhance the vast iconography, the book presents collectors’ rarities belonging to The Lunatics, the group of mega collectors among which are the authors themselves.

This is the third book of the group and follows the two successful books, “Pink Floyd. Storie e Segreti” (2012) and “Il Fiume Infinito. Tutte le Canzoni dei Pink Floyd” (2014), both published by Giunti Editore.

You can find purchase the book from the italian amazon store by clicking here

(Thanks go out to forum member cRaB for making us aware of the article)

Roger Waters 2017 North American Dates Announced

Roger Waters announces a new tour entitled Us & Them.

The Us + Them tour will launch in the U.S. on May 26 in Kansas City and wrap up on Oct. 28 in Vancouver. In between, he’ll play more than 40 dates in the States and Canada, including shows in Denver, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston and Toronto. You can see the full list of tour dates below.

A press release has been released and promises the tour “will showcase highlights from Waters’ groundbreaking body of work.” Presumably, the 1973 song that gives the tour its name — “Us and Them,” from Pink Floyd‘s landmark The Dark Side of the Moon album — will be one of them.

“We are going to take a new show on the road, the content is very secret,” Waters says. “It’ll be a mixture of stuff from my long career, stuff from my years with Pink Floyd, some new things. Probably 75 percent of it will be old material and 25 percent will be new, but it will be all connected by a general theme. It will be a cool show, I promise you. It’ll be spectacular like all my shows have been.”

The press release also notes that Waters’ stage show feature a state-of-the-art audio-visual production and quad sound, and hints that the upcoming concerts will include even more spectacular sights and sounds.

This will be Waters’ first tour since The Wall Live, which ran from 2010-13. That world tour reached more than four million fans and, according to the press release, “remains the highest grossing tour by any solo artist in history.”

Tickets for Roger Waters – Us + Them go on sale on Oct. 21; VIP packages and  tickets start on sale now (except for the Canadian dates). In addition to the shows listed below, concerts in San Antonio and Winnipeg will be added later.

We will be opening our Dedicated 2017 Tour Rooms very Shortly.

Meanwhile there is a lot of buzz and discussion going on in our forums feel free to pop in join in the excitement.

Confusion Over V&A Exhibit Resolved

Earlier this month we reported that there was to be an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) called ‘You Say You Want a Revolution: Records and Rebels 1966-70’. (See Original Report) This exhibition opens Sept 10 and will include some Pink Floyd Exhibits, as well as other major artists from that period. Tickets For Event

We also stated that Some of the ground work for the V&A show has already been done. In 2014, a Pink Floyd retrospective organised by one of Italy’s biggest music promoters was abandoned following a reported dispute over fees and intellectual property rights. A worldwide tour of hundreds of exhibits, including designs and recordings, had been planned. A giant inflatable pig, featured on the cover of Animals, and the stage sculpture of The Wall are among artefacts that are now likely to come to the V&A instead.

Well it seems somebody was quick off the mark with the original press release, because it has now been revealed that ‘Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remains’ (Yes, the Exhibition that was originally planned for Milan) will be a MAJOR Stand Alone Exhibition at the V&A from 13 May to 1 October 2017.

The exhibition will be an unprecedented, innovative and multi-sensory journey through Pink Floyd’s extraordinary worlds, chronicling the music, design and staging of the band, from their debut in the 60s through to the present day. The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains is the first international retrospective of one of the world’s most pioneering and influential bands who are recognised as one of the top selling artists of all time. Aubrey Powell curates alongside Paula Stanton for Pink Floyd and, for the V&A, a team lead by Senior Curator Victoria Broackes. The curators have worked in close consultation with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason on the content of the exhibition, which will feature over 350 artefacts spanning the band’s five decades, alongside material from the V&’s outstanding collections of art, design, architecture and performance. TICKETS

Roger Waters 2016 Tour Dates

Wed 28 September Foro Sol Mexico
Thur 29 September Foro Sol Mexico
Sun 09 Oct 2016 Indio, CA Coachella
Sun 16 Oct 2016 Indio, CA Coachella
Sat 22 Oct 2016 Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View, California
Sun 23 Oct 2016 Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View, California

IMPORTANT UPDATE: We have been requested by Roger’s Management to remove several dates that we had listed, which we have done in good faith. As soon as any dates become official we will re-list them.
(Originally posted 6 May. Updated 25 May and 22 Aug)