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Newsletter mostlypink.net February 04 2007.
You Tube & free cd's; Arnold Layne & Blackfield.
Review of Heart Full of Sky, Mostly Autumns new album.


 

Hello dear friends,
Do you reckonignize those 3 friends at the right? Yes indeed; David Bowie, Richard Wright & David Gilmour during a rehearsal for the Royal Albert Hall. David Bowie was a special guest at the Royal albert Hall, when David Gilmour performed there last year. and he sung "Arnold Layne". And believe me the crowded went mad!

EMI allowed me to hold a competition, you can win 4 cd singles or 4 finyl singles (yes the old singles, we used to play in our youth) of "Arnold Layne" sung by David Bowie and by Richard Wright! Both versions are recorded live.

So please go to the competition page and fill in the answers. And by the way... I think I'm happy with every answer if it is a nice message ;-) We here in the lovely South of the Netherlands are friendly and helpful.

The official release date of the single in the Netherlands is 04th of February!
It would be cool if this original first hit single in the UK of the The Pink Floyd would end in the Top 10 again!

David Bowie Comments:
David Bowie described Barrett as a "major inspiration", saying: "I can't tell you how sad I feel. "The few times I saw him perform in London at UFO and the Marquee clubs during the '60s will forever be etched in my mind. "He was so charismatic and such a startlingly original songwriter. Also, along with Anthony Newley, he was the first guy I'd heard to sing pop or rock with a British accent. "His impact on my thinking was enormous. A major regret is that I never got to know him. A diamond indeed."

David Bowie did cover "See Emily Play", another Syd Barrett composition, on the album "Pin Ups" (1973).

There was a competition: "who makes the best cover of Arnold Layne.
The results of the Arnold Layne Competition will be unveiled on Wednesday 7th February. The prize is a day's recording in Abbey Road Studios, and famed Pink Floyd and ex-Hipgnosis designer Storm Thorgerson has also agreed to design a new logo for the winning entrant.





Arnold Layne; rare footage.
Arnold Layne the official clip.
Please visit the Arnold Layne MySpacePage.
Buy at www.bol.com and get them in the Charts!
But first visit this page.

There is another band that will try to get in the charts: Magenta .
Magenta will celebrate their move to a new label Tigermoth records, with the release of a single “Speechless” as both a download and CD single on March19th. The song is a slice of exuberant, infectious prog rock with a great hook and a strong contemporary feel.
Says Magenta keyboard player Rob Reed, who co-wrote the song with singer Christina Booth.
The band have shot a video to go with the single and a short clip is online at a special mini-site that the label have set up for the single at www.magentasingle.com Both CD and download versions also include a superb new full-band arrangement of Anger showcased at the bands live shows towards the end of last year. Additional information is available at the band’s website www.magenta-web.com , and you can hear a clip at the band’s Myspace site at www.myspace.com/magentauk.

The tracks for download will be:

Speechless 7”
Speechless 12”
Anger – 2007 mix

 

Talking about charts a bit more. Swedish DJ Eric Prydz , known for his 2004 sensual music video, “Call On Me”, has recently released a remix of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” with a music video promoting environmental activism.
I like the remix version of Eric Prydz vs Floyd - "Proper Education", because it was great song anyway, because of the goal behind it (stop the global warning, stop spilling energy) and because of the fast hip black and white clip.

See Global Cool for more info.

Eric Prydz brings me to another cover from one of my favourite bands "Comfortably Numb" by Mostly Autumn .
It's an old clip, I'ven't seen them playing this song for the last few years. But I was really impressed when I saw this band doing this masterpiece for the first time in my life 7 years ago.

Mostly Autumn will be doing a launch party at the Astoria / London the 10th of February.

A long review of their new album, Heart Full of Sky, you can find here.


Speaking about launch parties:
The Reasoning will have their party at the Point in Cardif, the 24th of February.
Don't miss that.. a great promising band.
Meet you there ;-)

Blind Ego had their launch party in the lovely South of the Germany.
Blind Ego is a solo project of Kalle Wallner, the guitarist of RPWL. And they're my favourite German band. Kalle's album is an excelent mix of rock and prog and he has some great names on board, please check him out.

My Belgium friends of Prog-Nose did a nice review, find it here.

Other short news:
Brian Eno will work together with Coldplay on their new album.

Roger Waters.
Roger has started a new world tour. Read a review from Sidney at Brain Damage. He has also a new song called Hello I love you.... mmm not his best work.

David Gilmour DVD.
The live DVD from David Gilmour's 2006 tour, shot over three nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, will be released later this year.
david The 2-disc set, apparently called "Remember That Night" (a lyric from the title track of David's On An Island album), is said to include over 100 minutes of additional material on disc two, including a documentary.

Pink Floyd - Echoes (the book).
From gigs in tiny church halls in the mid-sixties to multi-million selling albums and spectacular stadium shows all around the world, the Pink Floyd story is a rock legend. This remarkable book is a celebration of Pink Floyd’s entire career (March 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of their first recording, ‘Arnold Layne’) and it contains a biographical account of the band’s collective and individual careers from their pre-Floyd origins in 1962 right through to the present day. Buy at: Freak Emporium.

LORELEY - NIGHT OF THE PROG FESTIVAL II:
Following the news of week 1 the second Night Of The Prog Festival at the legendary Lorely stage in St Goarshausen Germany has been finalised with the addition of Pendragon and the reunited Asia:

Jethro Tull
Saturday, 21st July 2007
Jebo
Sylvan
IQ
Asia
Echoes

Sunday, 22nd July 2007
The Watch
The Merlin Bird
Pendragon
Fish
Jethro Tull
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Contact www.wiventertainment.de for further details.

 

I.E.M. - The Lost Porcupine Tree Album - Vinyl re-issue.
Long regarded as a lost Porcupine Tree recording by those that have heard it the Incredible Expanding Mind Fuck album from 1996 finally gets a vinyl reissue with a whole album of bonus tracks (including the rare Escalator To Christmas 12")
This deluxe vinyl edition has been released by Dutch label Tone Float. Limited to 500 copies and housed in a beautiful thick card, spot varnished gatefold sleeve the double LP is pressed on 180 gram white and black vinyl and features the original I.E.M album from 1996 together with the now rare Escalator to Christmas 12" as well as bonus material.

Blackfield.
Blackfield, a side project of Steve Wilson and Aviv Geffen will launch their new album the 10th of February.
You can win their new cd at my place.
And it is a truly magnificient album, smooth prog rock, atmospherish and here and there a bit psychedelic. With very dreamy voices of the Steve & Aviv. A 5 star album.

And of course they're on My Tube too. Please have a look at heir video called "Blackfield"... marvelous.

 

So this is were www.mostlypink.net is all about.

Enjoy it.

Thanks for still being with me.

Please take care,
Nick from the lovely South of the Netherlands
at

www.mostlypink.net.

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