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Now Available: Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother Special Edition

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Back in October it was announced that Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother will be released as a special 2-disc package in a 7-inch gatefold sleeve, containing the Atom Heart Mother album on CD and a Blu-ray disc featuring footage of Atom Heart Mother (Suite) performed at Hakone Aphrodite Festival, Japan in August 1971 – originally released as part of The Early Years box set. The film has been upgraded from a recently discovered original tape of the time. It also includes a behind the scenes mini documentary. This special limited edition is now available and can be purchased using these links:  USA | UK

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (Special Edition) [Unboxing Video]

Nick & Annette Mason Middlewick House Open Garden 2024

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For many years Nick and Annette Mason have opened up the gardens of their home, Middlewick House, for Wiltshire Air Ambulance and Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust.

Both Wiltshire Air Ambulance and the Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust are charities close to Nick and Annette’s hearts; the pair are Ambassadors for Wiltshire Air Ambulance and Annette is Vice Patron for the Bobby Van Trust.

This year the event will take place the 8th & 9th of June, 2024. You can get your tickets now at https://middlewickhouseopengarden.com Wander around the beautiful gardens and menagerie of animals, as well as seeing a selection of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason’s classic and high performance cars.

The family-friendly weekend includes plenty of stalls to browse, with lots of items for sale, including jewellery, plants, candles and art.

Check out some of Nick’s classic car collection from this past years event which had a remarkable 8,000+ attendees and raised £88,000!

Nick Mason’s rare classic and supercar collection at Middlewick House open gardens day

Rockonteurs Nominated in Pod Bible Listener Polls 2023

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The Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt have been nominated in the Pod Bible Listener Polls for 2023! For those who aren’t familiar it is an end of year podcast awards voted by listeners all over the world. Each nominee across eight main categories has appeared in Pod Bible Magazine, on the Pod Bible Podcast, in the Pod Bible Newsletter or has been featured on the Pod Bible website.
The final Oh My Pod category is an open category for listeners to vote for their favorite independent or homemade podcast of the year.

Vote for The Rockonteurs in the Music category 

There is no limit for how many podcasts you can vote for in each category and if you don’t want to vote in a category, leave it blank!

Voting will take place throughout December with all polls closing at midnight on December 31st. The results will be announced in the first week of January.

VOTE HERE

New Rolling Stone Interview with Harry Waters

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Harry Waters, best known for playing keyboards for his dad (Roger Waters) has sat down with Rolling Stone in a brand new interview. Harry talks about being let go from his dad’s band in 2016, sitting in for Brit Floyd and speaks about his musical upbringing. It’s a really good read we highly recommend you check it out! CLICK HERE

 

Happy Birthday Clare Torry!

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We at AFG would like to wish a very happy birthday to legendary singer Clare Torry, best known for her iconic vocals on The Great Gig In The Sky. Happy Birthday Clare, we hope you enjoy your day!

Now Available: Pro-Ject Audio Systems DSOTM Turntable

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Pro-Ject Audio Systems who specializes in Hi-Fi electronics and turntables unveiled their new The Dark Side Of The Moon style turntable a few months back, and they are now shipping. They are handmade in Europe and are gorgeous works of art, if you consider yourself a hi-fi audio aficionado then we highly recommend you snag one! Read on for the details and ordering info..

From Pro-Ject Audio.. 

IT‘S NOT ALL DARK

For us, it was very clear: We need to create a turntable out of this artwork, which reproduces the dynamic and colours of the original album.

The result is an extraordinary turntable, which has never been there before. We were able to keep the core aspects of the artwork design and combined it with high quality materials. The plinth is made of MDF which offers the perfect base. The stainless steel axle of the heavy aluminium sub platter sits in a bronze bushing. The flat silicon belt builds the connection to the AC motor, which ensures stable speeds.

What you need to know

  • Prism plinth design made of 28mm MDF
  • 8,6” acrylic tonearm with spring antiskating
  • Dimable LED rainbow backlight
  • Speed switch follows the special design
  • Precision belt drive with electronic speed control
  • Semi-symmetrical phono cable included
  • Gold plated RCA connectors
  • 10 mm heavy glass platter
  • Precision aluminium sub platter

Unique acrylic tonearm design

The low resonance tonearm is a complete new design and definitely one of the highlights of this turntable. Its combination of black aluminium parts and acrylic results in an absolute eye-catcher. The supplied Pick it PRO Special Edition is tuned to fit the whole concept and delivers the rich sound you would expect for a Dark Side Of The Moon turntable.

Paired with the LED backlit rainbow, the turntable looks even more impressive while listening to your favourite records in the dark.

 

DESIGNED & HANDMADE IN EUROPE

The new “The Dark Side Of The Moon” turntable is carefully designed and
handmade in Europe. Due to the design & superior materials our turntables are built for eternity.

With high-quality components, but also well-thought-out design, we want to be a pioneer in the industry.

Click here to order yours and view all the specs: https://www.project-audio.com/en/product/the-dark-side-of-the-moon/

Pro-Ject The Dark Side Of The Moon: Limited Special Edition Turntable 2023

NEW: Pink Floyd – Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 8mm Footage From 1970

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Pink Floyd’s Facebook page made mention of recently unearthed footage from Dutch photographer Frans Verpoorten of Pink Floyd performing Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun live at the Kralingense Bos Music Festival in Rotterdam, June 1970. Although not the full song (due to 8mm limitations) it is really great footage showing all four members of the band. Do check it out! Click to watch

FloydPodcast – The Man And The Journey

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The Doc is back this month with a new podcast! Featuring Pink Floyd’s conceptual piece “The Man And The Journey” taken from The Early Years boxset (1969 Dramatiz/ation set).

Here’s the latest and this time, a revisit… a spotlight on Pink Floyd’s first conceptual piece, The Man And The Journey. It was a pivotal time for Pink Floyd and you can clearly hear the direction they’re starting to go down, so I figured I’d dust this recording off a little.

Someone released this one into the wild back in the late 90’s, but it wasn’t officially released until 2016. From the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 17. September 1969. 

New Pink Floyd 8mm Films – LA 1975 & Montreal 1977

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Our friends over at The Pink Floyd Research Group have dropped two new films in the last week and a half. The first being a lent scanned copy of Pink Floyd live at the LA Sports Arena on April 27th, 1975 and the second being newly obtained footage just this year of Pink Floyd’s famous Montreal show in QC on July 6th, 1977 (the famous spitting incident) do check them out as they are worthy of repeat viewings!  If you have any archival material you’d like to have color timed and synced up do send them an email as its a labor of love for them and they share these films for free to fans all over the world.

Contact them at pinkfloydresearch@gmail.com

Pink Floyd - Live in Los Angeles, CA (April 27th, 1975) Super 8mm film - SOURCE 2

Major thanks to John Waters!!!

The Pink Floyd Research Group are proud to unveil a BRAND NEW Super 8mm film of Pink Floyd performing in Los Angeles, April 27th, 1975. If this date sounds familiar to you, it’s because we already have a film from this date; making this another source 2 for Pink Floyd!

This film is one of many duplicate concert film prints that were distributed through Creem & Hit Parader magazines back in the 1970s. You would see an advertisement, and you could order a copy. Unfortunately the whereabouts of the original master reels are lost.

This particular duplicate reel is owned by film archivist John Waters, who was gracious enough to lend me a scanned copy. I asked if I could share it online for everybody, and he said go for it! Endless thanks to him! – TPFRG 

Pink Floyd - Live in Montréal, QC (July 6th, 1977) - Super 8mm film - SOURCE 2

Filmed by Daniel Graham Here is the infamous second film source of Montréal 1977 that appeared online a few months ago, synced up to a multi-recording matrix done by Davide Capolongo, as well as a colour correction. This is the legendary concert where Waters was so fed up with the rowdy American crowds that he ended up spitting in the face of a fan who was climbing up the front of the stage.

Waters claims in interviews that this moment was during a “quiet bit”. Chris Cockram — a roadie for the 1977 tour, working around the stage — claims that the spit did indeed happen during ‘Money’, and that the famous Wray Ellis account — who was not even near the stage after Animals — is simply untrue. The shot of Waters whistling at 4:13 clearly shows him facing upward. Judging by his upward stance and very pig-based dialog (a la, 1980-81), it is more than safe to assume — if not confirm — that the spit did NOT happen during Pigs, and that he was simply yelling at the inflatable. The clip of Waters at 14:08 during ‘Money’ shows him yelling angrily at somebody in the crowd, and giving them the middle finger. At 14:16, during the “quiet bit” to ‘Money’, Waters is seen lunging forward, in a spitting motion. This is very likely to be the historical moment captured on film. This will teach you; don’t believe everything you see on the internet, unless there is footage of it. – TPFRG