At last, a new destination has been revealed! South America welcomes The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains to Buenos Aires for the first time. Beginning September 10, for its limited run at the renowned Frers Pavilion in La Rural, visitors can experience the highly praised retrospective showcasing Pink Floyd’s music and their profound influence on art and culture. Secure your tickets in advance at www.pinkfloydexhibition.com.ar through La Rural Ticket.

Exclusive pre-sale access is granted to Galicia clients starting on Wednesday, July 10, offering a 20% discount and the option of up to 6 interest-free installments when using a Galicia Visa credit card. General ticket sales open on Friday, July 12, with the same benefit of up to 6 interest-free installments available for Galicia Visa cardholders.

A recent animated video was uploaded to Syd Barrett’s YouTube channel for the song “Love You” from his first solo album, The Madcap Laughs. This track captures the playful and whimsical style that Syd Barrett was known for during his time with Pink Floyd. You can view the video below and read some insight from the artist behind these amazing animations.

ICE-CREAM S’CUSE ME (I’ve seen you looking good the other evening) “Love you” was released on Syd Barrett’s debut solo album “The Madcap Laughs”. “Love you” is one of a handful songs on the album that echo the up-beat childish tone that had made Syd famous with Pink Floyd. Beyond that observation not much is known. Parts of Soft Machine helped flesh out the track.

In 1993 EMI released a rather peculliar, but welcome, treat for Syd fans. “Crazy diamond” offered Syds three albums, Madcap, Barrett and Opel, rereleased, remixed and with new outtakes – previously only partially available in lower quality. All of this presented in a CD longbox with colourful and playful landscapes representing the music. The art was designed by illustrator and animator Alan Rogers. Rogers’ work includes several animations for UK TV children’s programming such as Bod, The Flumps, Pigeon Street and Rub-a-Dub-Dub. Together with fellow animator Peter Lang, he founded the Cut-Out Animation Company; specialising in making mostly children’s animations using the cut-out technique. Rogers was approached by Phil Smee, who had been attached to the “Crazy Diamond” project as a project designer. Through this collaboration Rogers created the strikingly different artwork for the box set.

ARTIST ON THE BORDER: “I was lucky to catch up with Alan at an early point in pre-production. The Syd Barrett project has to make some sort of sense, and to me drawing connecting lines between persons, places and other things Barrett is a good start. “Crazy diamond” was apparently suitable for this type of animation as well as a welcome challenge. Luckily I was able to contact Alan and ask his permission to which he replied: “I’m seeing Phil (Smee) for lunch next week. I’ll bring it up”. Next time we emailed they approved my request to make an animation out of their work. A daunting task considering that he is a professional cut-out animator with years of work to his name.

Without me knowing it, I was about to reverse engineer Alans work, because little did I know that the “Crazy diamond” covers were made with cut-out technique. Each element in the image painted separately in watercolours and then cut up and reassembled. This is what I did in reverse. I spoke to Alan about that when showing him the animation. Alan insists that he still has the individual elements in his personal archive, but they are probably filed incorrectly, as he was unable to locate them. In a strange twist of events, I now have the digital cut-outs to his work. Alan is still working in illustration and has approved this official Syd Barrett animation.

Andy Jackson, the renowned engineer for Pink Floyd, is the featured guest on the Fingal’s Cave Podcast. In this episode, Andy delves into his illustrious career, discussing his involvement with Pink Floyd starting in 1981 for The Wall film, his work with Roger Waters on The Final Cut, and his contributions to A Momentary Lapse Of Reason with Pink Floyd in 1987. Additionally, Andy shares insights about his recent solo album AI AJ and much more. The podcast episode is now available on YouTube.

“Today’s guest is a Pink Floyd legend, composer, musician and audio engineer: Andy Jackson.

Andy has worked with Pink Floyd, Roger Waters and David Gilmour since 1981. His latest release, AI AJ, has attracting much praise for breaking new musical ground and its topical content.

Andy’s musical career needs no introduction. We are delighted to say that he gives a full and open account of the past four decades to our hosts Nils Zehnpfennig and Phil Salathé.”

Following up from this morning’s news story – Between Two Points by David Gilmour with Romany Gilmour, is the stunning new single from David Gilmour’s forthcoming album, ‘Luck and Strange’, which is to be released on 6th September on Sony Music. The single is available to stream now https://davidgilmour.lnk.to/BetweenTwoPoints and the music video can be viewed below via David’s YouTube channel.

‘Luck and Strange’ was recorded over five months in Brighton and London and is Gilmour’s first album of new material in nine years. The record was produced by David and Charlie Andrew, best known for his work with alt-J and Marika Hackman. The album features nine tracks, including a beautiful reworking of The Montgolfier Brothers’ 1999 song, ‘Between Two Points’ which features 22-year-old Romany Gilmour on vocals and harp.

The video for ‘Between Two Points’ was shot on location in London and Manchester, with David on guitars and featuring Romany Gilmour on vocals and harp. Gavin Elder who directed the clip said: “Romany performs this song with an extraordinary level of fragility, vulnerability and understated control. There’s a subtle, yet deep emotional rapport between David and Romany, captured with hand held cameras, enhancing the tension within the video.”

The latest single from David Gilmour’s upcoming solo album Luck and Strange, titled Between Two Points, is now available on all digital platforms. This cover of The Montgolfier Brothers’ late 90s song showcases beautiful lead vocals by David’s daughter Romany and concludes with some truly moving guitar work.

David says, “I’ve had that song on my playlist since it was released. More recently I mentioned it to one or two people: I assumed that it had been a hit, but no one knew it. I asked Romany to give it a go”.

During the live streams that Gilmour and family, as the Von Trappeds, performed to a global audience during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, Romany had sung and played the harp, and David found that their voices mixed in a way that only a family member could. Around that time, David and Romany collaborated on the song ‘Yes, I Have Ghosts’, which appears on the CD & Blu-Ray versions of ‘Luck and Strange’. “I realized that Romany has exactly the right sort of vulnerability and youth for the song. In fact, she was halfway through an essay with a train to catch when we asked her: “OK, I’ll sing it once, put the mic on” and that, says David, is 90 percent of the finished vocal.

Mark Tranmer of The Montgolfier Brothers is greatly enamoured with this new version. “David and Romany’s version of our song is a great arrangement and production. Like all the best covers, it diverges from the original but keeps the spirit. Romany’s vocal phrasing of Roger Quigley’s words and the harp playing are both truly beautiful. David Gilmour’s distinctive guitar adds a whole new dimension. I still find it incredible that David and Polly chose to cover our song from all the songs out there.”

Following the release of the track, fans can also watch the explainer video on David’s social media channels.