On Wednesday, 6th September at 2pm Eastern Time (6pm GMT for those in the UK).

David Gilmour will be a guest on NPR Music’s World Cafe discussing his performaces at The Amphitheatre of Pompeii in July 2016 as part of his Rattle That Lock Tour and the upcoming cinematic release of David Gilmour : Live At Pompeii

You can listen live online over at www.XPN.org

The V&A’s blockbuster Pink Floyd show is one of the museum’s most popular exhibitions ever, with around 10,000 visitors a week passing through the doors.

The show, Their Mortal Remains, has attracted 300,000 people already and its run
has now been extended by a fortnight to October 15th

It is likely to be even more popular than the 2013 David Bowie show, which was seen by 312,000 visitors in London before it embarked on a world tour.

Their Mortal Remains is also likely to go abroad.

It follows the career of the band, whose hit albums include The Wall and The Dark Side of the Moon, from playing dingy London clubs to selling out stadiums around the world.

Pink Floyd have sold more than 250 million records since their 1967 debut, despite line-up changes which saw original frontman Syd Barrett, who died in 2006, fall victim to drug addiction and keyboard player Rick Wright and songwriter Roger Waters walk out at different times, before drummer and guitarist Nick Mason and David  Gilmour called it a day.

Its surviving members have all given the show their blessing and went through their personal archives to  provide exhibits including guitars, costumes and handwritten lyrics.

One of the band’s psychedelic lightshows is recreated on-site and the museum has installed a version of The Wall’s stage set complete with a giant inflatable schoolteacher.

The V&A’s Victoria Broackes, who helped curate the show, said it had been “a massive collaboration” with the band. She added: “That combination of authentic staging, amazing sound, rock ’n’ roll spectacle and the V&A has really shone through in the success of the exhibition, and the popularity with not just fans but with a diverse audience of all ages.”

A 2015 retrospective of the work of fashion designer Alexander McQueen is the V&A’s most popular show yet, selling 480,000 tickets and forcing bosses to open through the night.

Tickets are available online by clicking here

David Gilmour ‘Live At Pompeii’ Released 29 September 2017
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Patients at Addenbrooke’s could soon be feeling comfortably numb in a special Pink Floyd-themed garden.

Two designers are trying to raise money to create a peaceful area where people recuperating from treatment can relax.

It will be called Syd’s Garden, in honour of Floyd founder member Syd Barrett, who was not only a keen gardener himself, but was also a patient at the Cambridge hospital before he died in 2006.

The garden is the brainchild of Stephen Pyle, who played in Cambridge band Those Without with Syd, and who now a scenic sculptor , and Paul Herrington, a garden designer from Fulbourn .

The proposed garden will include a picnic lawn, and also a sculpture of the Pink Floyd star.

The two men started a charity called Art Garden Health three years ago to design, install and maintain gardens for NHS hospitals at no charge, and Addenbrooke’s offered them a plot of land a year ago.

Stephen said: “We’re currently co-fundraising with Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) to create Syd’s Garden and it’s due to open in the summer of 2018.

“The garden will be first permanent publicly accessible commemoration of Cambridge’s celebrated son, Roger (Syd) Barrett. As well as a founder member of Pink Floyd, he was an artist, a keen gardener, and also an Addenbrooke’s Hospital patient before his sad passing in July 2006.

“The garden will feature an elevated sculpture of Roger freewheeling on his bicycle, set in a picnic lawn. Guitar in one hand, artist’s brushes in the other, the sculpture captures the heady pre-Pink Floyd moments of the early 1960s.

“The site is adjacent to the main multi-storey car park, and is seen by Addenbrooke’s staff as a bitter-sweet threshold between home and hospital – bitter because of worries about a loved one’s health, sweet because of the healing and health education that happens within the hospital.”

If anyone wants to support the scheme with a donation, it can be done via the charity’s website.