You may recall back in early August a new book titled Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd from author Mike Cormack was due to be published at the end of the month, promising to be the … Continue reading →
Matt Gilmour, son of David, has released his new album titled Business As Usual, and features eight fresh new tracks from the singer song-writer guitarist, you can view the tracklisting below and listen to the entire album on YouTube and Spotify.
Tracklisting:
1. Business As Usual
2. For Eva
3. Can’t Stop
4. Don’t Look Up
5. Spinning Plates
6. Once In A While
7. How Vain
8. We Are More
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We wanted to showcase this remarkable animation created by a dedicated visitor of our website, known as Equinox. This animation, accompanied by the track “Time,” chronicles the history of Pink Floyd’s albums, spanning from Piper at the Gates of Dawn to The Endless River and recent. The video is rich with Pink Floyd-related artifacts and hidden references. Can you spot them all? Watch below.
A 360 version is also available, allowing you to be fully immersed. We highly recommend you checking it out if you have access to Meta Quest. You can view this version by clicking this highlighted link.
Yet another remarkable piece from Artist on the Border has been shared on the Syd Barrett Official YouTube channel, this one in the form of a collage style animated lyric video. “Baby Lemonade,” served as the opening number for Syd’s second solo album, “Barrett.” Recorded in early 1970 with the support of David Gilmour, Rick Wright, and Jerry Shirley, the song features a chord sequence that Gilmour captured spontaneously while Syd was warming up on the guitar. Additionally, “Baby Lemonade” was performed during Syd’s guest appearance on John Peel’s Top Gear in February 1970.
According to the video creator, the animation for “Baby Lemonade” is a collage triplet. One part Syd Barrett mural. One part obscure Syd-references contest (How many can you spot?) and then there’s “Fart Enjoy”. You can watch here to find them all:
This past weekend, David Gilmour and his new band held two rehearsal performances at the Brighton Centre, just as David did before his Rattle That Lock tour in 2015. The first show took place on Friday evening, the 20th, followed by a matinee on Saturday, the 21st, each attended by 1,500 fortunate fans who got an exclusive preview of David’s upcoming concerts in Rome, London, Los Angeles, and New York. While we won’t reveal any details, those interested can find reviews and photos from these performances available by clicking this highlighted link. The band are now set to travel to Rome for six shows, with opening night this coming Friday, September 27th. As always, we welcome and appreciate any contributions from these upcoming concerts!
You can view below, a very special Thank You video posted yesterday to David’s social media channels, to those who came to the rehearsal shows:
Shaking things up in the rock scene, Body Count, the heavy metal band led by rapper Ice-T, has released a new single today, an interesting rendition of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb,” featuring the one and only David Gilmour guest soloing on guitar! Although this collaboration may seem unexpected, it provides a unique take on the classic song. David is quoted saying: “The initial contact from Ice-T was for permission to use the song, but I thought I might offer to play on it as well. I like the new lyrics, they’re talking about the world we’re living in now, which is quite scary.” You can listen to the song here:
We are always delighted to get emails from fans all over the world, especially fans who send us their Pink Floyd inspired artwork! We wanted to share this painting that was sent to us by Jonathan York, who said he painted this in 1980! Jonathan also contributed a really nice set of photographs of the band performing The Wall at Earl’s Court, which you can view at this link: Pink Floyd – The Wall at Earls Court 15 June 1981 Many thanks again, Jonathan!
Anthony Moore, a frequent collaborator with the Floyd, known for his work on A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell, as well as Rick Wright’s Broken China, is set to release a new album next month. Home of the Demo from Drag City Records is out on October 25th and features the single “Earthbound Misfit” — an early version of Pink Floyd’s 1987 hit “Learning to Fly”, which Moore co-wrote.
Home of the Demo unpacks ten tracks from what we might otherwise call a lost era: subtitled “from the dawn of bedsit recording, on the cusp of the analogue-to-digital shift” and sounding nearer to DIY than we’d hear from any of your fancy modern kit! Using “a few hundred quid’s worth of gear balanced precariously on bookshelves and tabletops in bedrooms and basements”, as Anthony puts it, he produced a spread of well-appointed, ambitiously clever songs between 1978–1984 for himself and others — such as his friend David Gilmour, who used a couple pieces from Home of the Demo for Pink Floyd’s 1987 comeback album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Forty-some years on, we find these songs marvellously mellowed by time and latter-day mastering: from the heavenly stretches of “Me and Neil Diamond”, featuring one of those hot young Bunnymen on vocals, to an irresistible version of “Judy, Judy” with soaring lead guitars from the ominously monikered “Page The Oracle”. Hmm hmm!
Let’s talk about that “Earthbound Misfit”, though — because really, folks, it’s as if Anthony knew he was demoing a song that was gonna scale charts around the world! The unique journey of this track is a head-turner, flying from Anthony’s basement into Gilmour’s houseboat-turned-studio to later become a Pink Floyd favourite. Before that though, there was this “Earthbound Misfit”: the drum machine dry and austere, the keyboards sucking you into the vastness of space, the guitars stretching backwards through time. The lyrics feature a suitable Floyd-ishness; but even on its own, the chorus couplet “Can’t keep my eyes from the circling sky/Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I” feels carved from eternal rock.
Perhaps the songs on Home of the Demo aren’t so much “secret” as they were too “extra” for the basic cut of the proceedings at the time; nevertheless, Drag City’s happy to be responsible for hawking this particular stroke of extras. The inconvenient truth of Anthony Moore lets loose on October 25th, 2024! Pre-order your copy by clicking these links: LP | MP3 | FLAC
Just announced: David Gilmour will perform two special rehearsal concerts at the Brighton Centre on Fri, Sept 20 (evening) and Sat, Sept 21 (matinee). First access to tickets – costing £30 each – will go to fans who order Luck and Strange by 8am, Monday, September 16th from https://store-uk.davidgilmour.com/ (including those who’ve purchased the album from there already). Ticket links and codes will be sent out at midday Monday, September 16th and the first access to tickets will start at 3pm. Each show will be limited to just 1500 people. The shows will offer an exclusive preview of David’s forthcoming live performances in Rome, London, Los Angeles, and New York.