Roger Waters has unexpectedly released a live radio broadcast recorded at the Colisée De Québec, Canada, 7th November 1987 during the Radio K.A.O.S Tour on his YouTube and Spotify Channels.
A firm favorite amongst many bootleggers for many years, We are delighted to see that Roger is indeed promoting and showcasing more content from this period of his career and hope that material from his 2006 Dark Side Of The Moon Tour may also one day surface.
To Coincide with the release of Chris Hewitt’s : The Development Of Large Rock Sound Systems Volume 2 Book. Chris has very generously donated a copy for one of you lucky visitors at home.
For the past 2 weeks we ran a competition to give one of you lucky visitors the chance to own a copy of this fabulous book.
We asked all entries to answer the question: What is the name of the dog featured on the song titled “Mademoiselle Nobs” from Pink Floyd’s 1971 film Live At Pompeii?
The correct answer is “Nobs.”
To be fair to all that were correct, we entered all winning entries into a random name picker and are pleased to announce the winner is…
Congratulations Mik, Please check your email for details.
Durga McBroom has worked with Pink Floyd as a backing vocalist consistently on all of their shows since the 1987 “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” Tour up to the final concert of “The Division Bell” in 1994.
In 1989, She formed the band Blue Pearl and had several hit songs including “Naked in the Rain” and “Alive” which featured guest appearances by David Gilmour and Rick Wright.
In 2014 she came back together with Pink Floyd to record on their last album “The Endless River” which sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide.
Recently she has set up a facility to be able to record her own vocals at Durga Diva Studio at her home in Rome, Italy at extremely good quality which she has now opened up for session work worldwide.
You can follow her & contact her on her official Facebook page to discuss any further details / requirements
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 71 and features guest Kevin Rowland
To Coincide with the release of Chris Hewitt’s : The Development Of Large Rock Sound Systems Volume 2 Book. Chris has very generously donated a copy for one of you lucky visitors at home.
Chris Hewitt’s second volume of “The Development of Large Rock Sound Systems” is a lavishly illustrated, 500 photograph strong opus which charts the rise of big PA systems in rock music. It further incorporates the evolution of the 70’s band van companies that hired the equipment and some of the biggest equipment manufacturers.
And while it doesn’t make for a very snappy title and draws generously from the same sources and stories found in volume one, the selling point here is his focus on the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd in Pompeii – then and now.
The role of both Pink Floyd and fellow WEM stack users Led Zeppelin is contextualised alongside bands like The Who and ELP etc, who invested in themselves to adapt to the burgeoning transatlantic rock market.
Pink Floyd at Pompeii is seen through the eyes of Scottish/French film director Adrian Maben, who shares some significant memories and summarises the Pompeii event as “A visual scrapbook of music and trivial conversation. A record of the passing of time.”
In recreating the events 50 years later, Hewitt imbues the Pompeii show with extra significant that stretches generations. And the fact that this book will sell on the back of that speaks volumes about his grasp of a niche market.
There are also some significant recollections from the late Peter Watts, Floyd’s then road manager who was an audio innovator before falling victim to rock and roll excess.
But the book is really as much about the author Chris Hewitt himself, a man whose obsession is pin pointed as having starting in 1971 when he first saw the WEM gear shot on Floyd’s ‘Ummagumma’ album.
He subsequently worked at the 1972 Bickershaw Festival, and much later the celebrated Deeply Vale Festivals.
Mark Radcliff best summarises both the man and the project thus: “Chris has a reality. He wanted to build this system and he has done it and I admire him. Those WEM stack are totemic.”
Hewitt himself says: “I built up vintage WEM equipment to be able to recreate the whole Isle of Wight and Pompeii PA’s.”
In a surreal update, he organized the recreation of Pink Floyd in Pompeii in his own Cheshire field, inviting The Australian Pink Floyd to play 4 numbers from the Pompeii set, which actually took 6 hours so they could get the correct camera angles.
He gives a generous 12 pages to this event, but as Australian Pink Floyd’s Stephen McElroy says about the experience; “The particular combination of vintage equipment has a certain sound about it. It’s different to any other system I’ve ever played through or heard.”
To be in with a chance to win a copy of this fantastic book simply answer the following.
What is the name of the dog featured on the song titled Mademoiselle Nobs from Pink Floyd’s 1971 film Live At Pompeii ?
Guy Pratt has been in touch to tell us that he is going to be a special guest at an event setup to promote one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful fanzines, Jamming!
Recently released as a paperback book, Documenting the Musical Landscape as it evolved between 1977 and 1986.
Fully illustrated throughout, The Best of Jamming! includes numerous stand-out pieces from the zine’s impressive 36 issue–run, from early features on The Jam, The Smiths, Run-D.M.C, Cocteau Twins, and The Beat, to surprise exclusive interviews with Paul McCartney, U2 and Pete Townshend. Personal letters from Mark E. Smith, Paul Weller, and others appear alongside arts, sports, and political features, poetry, and a foreword by Billy Bragg.
As part of a celebration of this book, Guy Pratt has been invited along as a special guest to conduct an interview in an intimate setting with author Tony Fletcher.
The event takes place at the Rialto Theatre, Brighton, UK, onThursday, February 24, 2022, at 7.30pm.
As part of the master plan to redevelop certain areas of the core site, we took the ultimate decision in late 2021 to close our highly visited Orphans section and replace it with a portal designed to showcase the various items and collections that some of the “super-fans” have curated over the years.
Designed in collaboration with the Pink Floyd Collectors social media group, A Fleeting Glimpse has been working tirelessly to create the ‘Collectors Hub‘
A collaboration to showcase a glimpse of the various ticket stubs, posters, adverts, promotional displays, t-shirts, and other memorabilia that have been accumulated by fans since the band’s inception in 1964.
With extensive galleries covering almost 60 years, we have very painstakingly organized every piece of material into the relevant categories to make it accessible for you the visitors, to navigate through.
Simply click the image above or the collectors tab from the menu navigation bar.
Unlike our previously launched Tour Book exhibition, this is something that we are sure will have continuous additions due to the sheer amount of items that are available in the public domain.
Throughout the years many people have been involved in our various projects and for the small majority these people often get overlooked, There’s one person in particular that has been a complete asset to our work here at A Fleeting Glimpse and we are delighted to say that she has kindly accepted our invitation to launch the A Fleeting Glimpse – Collectors Hub.
” There are many types of Pink Floyd collector. Some buy every studio, live, compilation and solo album on CD, and then stop there, content with their small but perfectly formed, hi-fidelity shrine. Others take it a step further, and amass a drawer of t-shirts, ranging from Primark crop-tops to authentic 1970s original concert t-shirts they’ve frantically bid on at 3am on eBay.
Then there are the Floyd collectors who devour shelves of books and stacks of magazines, scouring each page for minuscule details that might give them some insight into their elusive heroes. Others wallpaper their house with concert posters old and new. Some arrange ticket stubs of the dozens of gigs they’ve attended in an aesthetically pleasing way. Many fall down the rabbit hole of vinyl, and find themselves staring at a battered Mexican pressing of Dark Side of the Moon in an overpriced record store and thinking to themselves, “Yes, I need another copy of an album I already own 84 copies of, in eight different formats.” That’s part of the sheer joy of being a Pink Floyd collector. It can go as far as you want it to go, in whatever direction you want to take it. It may culminate in a pair of Wish You Were Here socks, or in the Pink Floyd branded VW Golf. It might even end with David Gilmour’s Black Strat hanging on your bedroom wall.
A Fleeting Glimpse is proud to present their ongoing collaboration with Pink Floyd Collectors group. Feast your eyes on a cornucopia of Pink Floyd goodies that will showcase the far reaches of uber-nerd collecting!
Delve deep in to the peculiar and beautiful artifacts that have been amassed for your viewing pleasure! And wonder to yourself, “Whose idea was it to release a promotional Dark Side of the Moon cherry flavored lollipop and where can I buy one? ”– Natalie Lyons (Long Serving AFG Associate)