Eagle Rock Entertainment are proud to announce the simultaneous release on 25 June 2012 of Pink Floyd “The Story Of Wish You Were Here” on DVD and Blu-ray [Cat. No. EREDV932 and ERBRD5152 respectively]. This is the authorised story of the album made with the full involvement and approval of the members of Pink Floyd.
“Wish You Were Here”, released in September 1975, was the follow up album to the globally successful “The Dark Side Of The Moon” and is cited by many fans, as well as band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour, as their favourite Pink Floyd album. On release it went straight to Number One in both the UK and the US and topped the charts in many other countries around the world. This programme tells the story of the making of this landmark release through new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason and archive interviews with the late Richard Wright. Also featured are sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, guest vocalist Roy Harper, front cover “burning man” Ronnie Rondell and others involved in the creation of the album. In addition, original recording engineer Brian Humphries revisits the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios to illustrate aspects of the songs’ construction.
The band members discuss the album’s themes of absence, the greed of the music business and former band member Syd Barrett, who is famously celebrated in “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, which both opens and closes the album. The programme also covers the unexpected visit Barrett paid to Abbey Road during the recording, the difficulties of the early recording sessions and how the decision to split “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” into two sections was the catalyst for the album’s successful completion.
The DVD and Blu-ray releases contain additional bonus material not featured in the TV broadcast version, including further interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason plus Roger Waters and David Gilmour performing excerpts from the “Wish You Were Here” album.
“The Story Of Wish You Were Here” is a fascinating document and fitting tribute to Pink Floyd’s outstanding achievement in the creation of this masterpiece.
We have just heard about the passing of Jim Marshall. Jim’s ascent into the history books as ‘the Father of Loud’ and the man responsible for ‘the Sound of Rock’ is a true rags-to-riches tale. Cruelly robbed of his youth by tubercular bones, Jim rose to become one of the four forefathers responsible for creating the tools that allowed rock guitar as we know and love it today to be born.
From 1960, Marshall owned a moderately successful music store in Hanwell selling drums and then branching out into guitars. His many guitar playing customers (including Ritchie Blackmore, Jim Sullivan and Pete Townshend) spoke of the need for a particular kind of amplifier and Marshall saw the opportunity. He recruited an 18-year-old electronics apprentice, Dudley Craven, who was previously working for EMI and, with his help, began producing prototype amplifiers, resulting in the foundation of Marshall Amplification, in 1962. The beginning of a true legend.
Rest in Peace, Jim.
A lot of people from the scene remember the famous Black Easter festivals, which were held at the Vooruit in Ghent in the 90ies. Well, this year, the REWIND Easter festival has grown to become a full-fledged 2-days festivals with international headliners. Two days of dark pleasure, with the most amazing line-up ever !
TIMING (to be confirmed), check website frequently …
FRIDAY 06.04.2012
Doors: 16h
16h30 – ERATO
17h30 – SCHMUTZ
18h35 – DEPARTMENT S
19h45 – CASSANDRA COMPLEX
21h00 – THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA
22h25 – CHAMELEONS VOX
23h50 – CLAN OF XYMOX
01h15 – PROJECT PITCHFORK
+ after-party till 05h with DJ BERND (Shadowplay)
+ DJ CHESKO (Der Klinke) in between
SATURDAY 07.04.2012
Doors: 16h
16h30 – THE JUGGERNAUTS
17h25 – RADICAL G
18h30 – SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK
19h40 – ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL
21h05 – CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE
22h20 – THE NEON JUDGEMENT
23h45 – COVENANT
01h20 – D.A.F.
+ after-party till 05h with DJ PATRICK CODENYS (FRONT 242)
+ DJ's H8red & Pikaert (Duister Gefluister) in between
Francis John (Frank) Tovey, also known by his stage name as Fad Gadget, was born on 8th September 1956 and died on 3rd April 2002. Tovey suffered from heart problems since his childhood, and died of a heart attack at the age of 45. A British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist, he was a proponent of both New Wave and early Industrial music. Let's all play a Fad Gadget song really loud today!
The fabulous Maschinenfest just released the first names and it's going to be another legendary festival! A few Belgian bands will also be playing there, old school industrialists of Militia, the breakcore reggae nutcases of Hysteresis and not to forget, rhythmic industrial act Sonar! Add to this the provocative noise of CON-DOM, Ant-zen legend Winterkälte and drum 'n noise artist Enduser, you will need some powerful vitamins to get through the weekend! Underneath is the (so far) complete list.
