Just a reminder that the Syd Barrett film Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd is now playing across US cinemas!
The theatrical window has now been extended to October and November and new dates are regularly announced. As always, keep checking the website to see if its playing in your area and do go and see the film! It is a brilliant and beautiful love letter to Syd. Fans will adore it!

Cult icon, enigma, recluse… the life of Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd, is full of unanswered questions. Until now. Piecing together his comet-like rise to pop stardom, his creative and destructive impulses, breakdown, exit from the band and subsequent life alone, this feature length documentary is set against the social context of the explosive sixties. Directed by Storm Thorgerson (Hipgnosis) and award-winning director Roddy Bogawa, it features new interviews with Syd’s friends, lovers, family and band mates Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason.

Syd Barrett, founding member of world famous rock group Pink Floyd and its initial songwriter and leader, led a life full of unanswered questions. Was he a drug casualty of the sixties? Did he walk away from the pressures of the commercial music world? Did he suffer from an undiagnosed mental illness?

Pink Floyd were caught in the epicentre of the ‘underground’ explosion of the 60s as the psychedelic house band of the UFO club in London, with Syd Barrett its enigmatic figurehead, inspiring such musicians as David Bowie and Marc Bolan. Though he named the group, wrote the first two hit songs and was the lead vocalist and guitarist, Barrett was pushed out of the band by its members who were convinced he was having an LSD induced psychotic breakdown.

After leaving Pink Floyd, Barrett struggled to record two solo records but eventually dropped out of the music industry completely, living as a recluse for thirty years – while Pink Floyd went on to worldwide fame as one of the biggest selling bands of all time. Many Pink Floyd works examined themes of genius and madness.

The film includes iconic screen footage for Shine On You Crazy Diamond, rarely seen excerpts of Syd backstage, never-before seen photographs and a soundtrack full of Floyd’s music, Have You Got It Yet? will thrill fans and newcomers to Syd’s legend alike.

We spoke to former Pink Floyd backing vocalist Machan Taylor about her time with the band in 1987-1988, her current project with Gov’t Mule and she even drops an exclusive announcement with us! We can’t wait to share it with you. Stay tuned!

Photos used with permission by Machan Taylor
Graphics by our own Christopher Hyzy

Due to demand, a second The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux live performance has been added for October 9th at The London Palladium. Tickets on sale starting today 7/28 at 10am BST here BUY TICKETS NOW

“We’re going to do it live at the London Palladium, in October,” confirms Waters. “We look forward to that… hopefully performing it live on other occasions in the future.”

Joining Waters on stage will be many of the musicians who worked with him on the new recording, including Gus Seyffert (bass), Joey Waronker (drums), Jonathan Wilson (guitars), Johnny Shepherd (organ), Via Mardot (theremin), Azniv Korkejian (vocals), Gabe Noel (strings), Jon Carin (keyboards) and Robert Walter (piano).

Exciting news for our favorite drummer Nick Mason! He is to be made an honorary citizen of Pompeii tomorrow 24th July, 2023. The same day his Saucerful Of Secrets are to take the stage at the Teatro Grande! 52 years after he played Pompeii with Pink Floyd and filmed their highly acclaimed concert film ‘Live at Pompeii.’ Our most heartfelt congratulations go out to Nick!

An an Italian news resource goes on to say (Article has been translated to English):

The legendary Pink Floyd drummer, the only member of the band to have played on all their studio albums, returns to the excavations of Pompeii in concert on July 24 in the Teatro Grande, 52 years after the historic live behind closed doors, filmed and immortalized by the cameras of Adrian Maben, with his ‘Saucerful Of Secrets’, produced by D’Alessandro e Galli. 

Unanimously approved the honorary citizenship of Pompeii as well as to Nick Mason, the ceremony presided over by the mayor Carmine Lo Sapio, will be held at the Municipality in the council hall on the same day of the concert.
 
Accompanying Nick Mason on stage will be a superband he founded in 2018: Guy Pratt on bass (with Pink Floyd since 1987), Gary Kemp vocals and guitar (founding member of Spandau Ballet), Lee Harris (Blockheads) on solo guitar and Dom Beken (The Orb) on keyboards. The show will focus on the first albums of Pink Floyd’s career pre ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’. A return to the dawn that will stage the superband, to the years when Syd Barrett “crazy diamond” was the author of the lyrics and the soul of what would later become one of the largest and most influential groups in history. Mason stated that they are not a tribute band, but that they want to ‘capture the spirit of the time and transmit it to the public’ through tracks extracted from records such as ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ (1967), ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’ (1968), ‘Ummagumma’ (1969) and ‘Meddle’ (1971).

August 7th sees the UK/Ireland release of ‘Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)’ in a special Bluray/DVD collectors edition.

Celebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary SQUARING THE CIRCLE (the story of Hipgnosis) tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time. They formed Hipgnosis in Cambridge during the ferment of the sixties and became rock royalty during the boom time of the seventies. They conjured into existence sights that no one had previously thought possible, produced visuals which popularized music that had previously been considered fringe, and were at the white-hot centre of the maddest, funniest and most creative era in the history of popular music.

During this period, record companies didn’t dictate to acts like Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney what their LP covers should look like – Storm and Po did. They made money; they lost money. They did great things; they did silly things. They fell out bitterly; they made up. They never played a note, but they changed music. The film features brand new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Graham Gouldman of 10cc, Noel Gallagher, and many more. Order now through Amazon UK & Dogwoof

Special Features include
-Limited edition booklet
-Commentary with Anton Corbijn and Aubrey Powell
-Theatrical Trailer
-DVD & Blu-ray disc combo
-English subtitles