The lovey Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of the band Lucius who provided backing vocals with Roger Waters on his recent Us And Them Tour and additional Desert Trip and former Newport Folk Festival Performance, are currently hosting a residency one hour radio show on 88.5fm Southern California.

As part of the celebrations for their upcoming new album Second Nature, Lucius are certainly celebrating in style and there seems to be a lot of buzz and hype surrounding their upcoming release.

With a regular Artist in Residency slot, they have been inviting all kinds of special guests. This Saturday, March 12th, 6pm – 7pm (PST)  or 2am – 3am GMT they’re inviting Pink Floyd co-founder, Roger Waters!!!

Southern California residents can tune in on the radio, and worldwide listeners can tune in on the official 885fm website, or additionally on the free 88.5 FM App, which you can find on your local app store.

Further details and listening information can be found at – https://www.885fm.org/

The original mono mix of Pink Floyd’s second studio album, 1968’s A Saucerful of Secrets, will be reissued on vinyl next month.

It features classics like ‘Set the Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’, ‘Remember a Day’ and ‘Jugband Blues’, and is of course the only album to feature all five members: Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett and David Gilmour.

The mono mix was remastered in 2019, by James Guthrie, Joel Plante, and Bernie Grundman using the 1968 analog tapes. At that time the mono vinyl reissue was a limited edition for Record Store Day 2019 (limited to 6500 copies).

This new full, retail version is pressed on 180g vinyl and is released on 29 April 2022 and can be pre-ordered by Clicking Here

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

This weeks upcoming episode is Number 75 and features guest Justin Hayward

Available from 13th March 2022 on Itunes, Spotify and all other Listening Platforms. Click Here to be taken to Apple Musics Listening Page

On Friday 4th March 2022, Roger Waters took to the National Politics website Brave New Europe about the ongoing situation between Russia and Ukraine. Normally, we don’t post political articles that are non-related to the music, as many fans have been talking amongst themselves and on our forum about Rogers’ anti-war beliefs and the surprise that he remained silent until now. We decided to post the article in question.

“ I figured something out after tossing and turning all night. We on the left often make the mistake of still looking upon Russia as a somewhat socialist enterprise. Of course, it isn’t. The Soviet Union ended in 1991. Russia is an unadulterated neoliberal capitalist gangster’s paradise, modeled during the time of its horrific restructuring under Boris Yeltsin (1991-1999) on the United States of America. It should come as no surprise that its autocratic, and possibly unhinged leader, Vladimir Putin, has no more respect for the UN Charter and international law than recent presidents of the United States or prime ministers of England have had. (For example, remember George W. Bush and Tony Blair during the Iraq invasion.) I, on the other hand, do care about international law and the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and can unequivocally state that if I had been eligible to vote in the General Assembly on March 2, I would have voted with the 141 ambassadors who supported the resolution condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and demanding that it withdraw its armed forces.

Would that the General Assembly had a mandate to govern, sadly it doesn’t, which means it’s even more beholden on all us freedom-loving, law-abiding anti-war activists to stand shoulder to shoulder with all our brothers and sisters all over the world, irrespective of race, religion, or nationality, in pursuit of elusive peace. That of course means standing with the Russian people and the Ukrainian people, the Palestinian people, the Syrian people, the Lebanese people, the Kurds, African Americans, Mexicans, Ecuadorian rainforest dwellers, South African miners, Armenians, Greeks, the Inuit, the Mapuche and my neighbors the Shinnecock, to name but a few.

It has been monstrous to hear white Western news reporters (such as Charlie D’Agata of CBS News) bewailing the plight of Ukrainian refugees on the grounds that “they look like us” when addressing what they must assume are white Western audiences and that the conflict in Ukraine is exceptional because “this isn’t Afghanistan or Iraq.” That is outrageous. The implication is that it’s somehow more acceptable to make war on people whose skin is brown or black and drive them from their homes than people who “look like us.” It’s not. All refugees, all people who struggle are our brothers and sisters.

In these difficult days, we should resist the temptation to pour good guy/bad guy gasoline on the fire; demand a ceasefire in the name of humanity; support our brothers and sisters fighting for peace internationally, in Moscow and Santiago and Paris and Sao Paulo and New York, because we are everywhere; and stop pouring weapons of war into Eastern Europe, further destabilizing the region just to satisfy the insatiable appetite of the international armaments industry.

Maybe we should raise our voices to encourage the idea of a neutral Ukraine, as has been repeatedly suggested by wise individuals of good faith for many years. First things first, of course, Ukrainians should demand a ceasefire; but after that, maybe Ukrainians would welcome such an arrangement. Maybe someone should ask them. One thing’s for sure: It can’t be left up to the gangsters. Left to their own devices, the gangsters will kill us all.“ – Roger Waters 4th March 2022