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Another fine piece of work, this time a black and white A2 portrait.

Thanks for sharing it with us, Sam. I think plenty of readers will relate to your prefatory notes.

But before you get to that, allow me to quickly point out that our delightful bloggers’ gallery has some new additions, so do take a look, let us know if anything catches your eye or if you have something to add, and thank you once more to everyone who has contributed to it already.

Oh, and the chatroom opens at 12pm today, if you can spare the time to pop in.

Have a good weekend, everyone; especially Lorraine and Dieter, who celebrate birthdays, and Erin and Marcus, who are celebrating the birth of their baby boy.

Over to you, Sam…

As I type this, I’m technically 18… albeit mentally I’m 40-something and going through a midlife crisis… but for a Floyd fan, I’m fairly young.

The rest is really history, but it’s safe to say, without this band, I’d have never picked up a guitar, continued with other instruments, started expanding my music collection into any and everything (and finding a love for Led Zeppelin along the way) and I believe I would have stopped drawing too, as music is really the inspiration to most of my artwork.

If you’ve been wondering, Lance’s clay sculpture is now complete – and here’s the finished article. A video of its development can be viewed here.

Thanks again for sharing it, Lance.

The chatroom will be open tomorrow from 3pm (UK), so have some of the Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll lined up and we’ll chat about… something completely unrelated, I’m sure.

Keep those songs coming, please.

On this day in 1969, David’s pick of his Desert Island Discs – ‘Dancing in the Street’ by Martha and the Vandellas – was a UK Top Five hit behind Diana Ross, the Supremes and the Temptations (‘I’m Gonna Make You Love Me’), Peter Sarstedt’s ‘Where Do You Go To (My Lovely?)’, ‘Blackberry Way’ by The Move and Cardiff’s very own Amen Corner, with ‘(If Paradise is) Half As Nice’. Would you nominate any of those as a song that shaped music?

If ever a recording studio influenced music more than most, it’s Abbey Road. We’ll talk about this legendary London landmark next week, by which time there may have been a decision made as to its new owners. Fingers crossed.

Until then, here’s something to consider: Should the National Trust try to save it?

Lastly, in continuing with references and bold directions to old posts that you might like to re-visit: Oasis won the BRIT’s Album of 30 Years award, by the way.

…but same old blog. Happy New Year, all.

As I recall doing at about this time last year, I would like to get an apology in nice and early relating to the absence of exciting news of forthcoming albums and concerts. There isn’t going to be any for the time being, I’m afraid.

I’m also sorry that silly rumours still spring up like mould on cheese you should have eaten by now and falsely raise your hopes. I guess some people just need the attention.

So, the random stuff you sometimes like, sometimes hate, will continue in lieu of the kind of thing I know you hope to see (me, too). As ever, I hope you can dip in and out as your mood allows, and I thank you for it.

Pictured is the latest from Lance’s excellent sculpture. How good is that?

And how nice that BBC Radio 2 will re-broadcast the Mermaid Theatre concert during the final week of this month, possibly the first week of the next. Precise details when they’re available, but I trust you’ll all tune in to reminisce about On an Island‘s first real public airing, which many of you were able to attend, of course.

Another example of your many talents, this impressive oil-on-canvas work is entitled ‘My Spiritual Education (King’s College, Cambridge)’.

Thanks for sharing it with us, Julie. I’ll leave you to introduce it, but will first add that there have been a few more additions made to the gallery, so do take a look and feel free to share any thoughts.

This is how I saw King’s College from Queen’s Road on my visit to Cambridge back in the summer of 2002. I was hunting feverishly for this college, which seemed to be hidden amongst the tree-lined Queen’s Road, and on passing a gap in the trees, my jaw dropped at such beauty. I tried to capture that vision from my mind’s eye when I started painting it at home.

Cambridge is also known as the “seat of learning” and with King’s College Chapel being a “chapel”, one can state that it is spiritual.

My sincere thanks again to everyone who has made a contribution to this special part of David’s site; I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have.

- FEd

The Photo of the Month posts stopped in February this year after 10 photographs, one painting and a clever mock-up of a famous beer label. With fewer photos and more artistic creations, the series title made less sense, but I’ve received so many excellent examples of work inspired by David and his music, as you can see by today’s chosen piece, I’ve had to bring it back.

I’ll let Lance explain his work-in-progress:

I wanted to sculpt David as he is pretty much the guitar Messiah as far as I’m concerned – ‘and I should know I’ve followed a few’!

From an aesthetic point of view the individual facial features are quite unusual, but together they obviously make a pretty good looking bloke (even bald), the aim of this early portrait is to capture as much of that sparkle as possible. It should be close to life-sized, given that the distance between David’s pupils are roughly equal to the distance between fret 1 and fret 3 on a Stratocaster? I know – sad on so many levels!

Please note that, remarkably, Lance is not a professional sculptor. He welcomes any feedback and promises to keep us updated as to how the piece develops.

You can see his finished sculptures here.

My continued apologies to anyone who has sent me their very own work of art and is still waiting to see it featured here. There’ll be more this week and next.

If you haven’t seen what’s in the gallery… You really are a talented bunch.

Thanks again, Lance.

Again, clearly not a photo, but worthy of special mention: Nate’s New Castellorizon.

Many of you will have seen this before (and the bottle top appears from time to time as an avatar).

It is, of course, a play on Newcastle Brown Ale.

Thanks, Nate.

There’s more artwork in the gallery. If you have something to add, be it a photo or something arty, please get it online and let me know where I can find it.

The chatroom will open today at 13:00 (UK). If you visited for the first time recently, thank you for your participation; it’s been nice chatting with you.

I’m also pleased to see new names appearing here. As random as The Blog is these days, your contribution is always very welcome and much appreciated, so please continue to dip in and out as and when the mood takes you.

Although it’s quite clearly not a photo, how about that for a painting?

It’s another from Liam’s dad (who also gave us this depiction of St Mark’s Square, Venice, you may recall).

Thanks for sharing it with us, Liam.

That’s the week over, but I’ll be back on Monday, hoping to find out  some of the things you liked and disliked most about 2008.

Until then, enjoy the weekend and thanks again for all the thoughts and views shared. Keep them coming.

It’s the wrong side of the weekend, regrettably, but The Blog is back at long last. I hope you like the new look and features.

Thank you for sticking with me while these changes were made. They should all be self-explanatory; however, if you have any problems or questions, please don’t hesitate to let me know of them.

You’ll notice that we now have our own calendar for chats and birthdays, so do let me know yours.

There’s also a gallery made up of your contributions, be they photos or arty creations. Thanks again for all that you have submitted. I look forward to the next batch.

The previous posts are now open, should anyone wish to pass comment on Guitar World’s Fifteenth Annual Readers’ Poll or my Hot 100 nominations. Did you give them a listen? I’d love to know if you voted and who you voted for.

If you want to stay here instead, maybe you could let us all know what you’ve been up to this past month to help me test things out. That said, I’ve been keeping up with many of you thanks to Twitter, which is always entertaining.

The chatroom will be open tomorrow – from 16:00 (UK) – so please drop by if you have the time. If you haven’t visited before, now’s the perfect opportunity to register. Everything you need to know about the chatroom is laid out in my (hopefully) easy-to-follow guide. Just click the link at the top of the page.

And finally, apologetically, for those who had been following The Blog’s feed, I hope you won’t mind subscribing to the new one, as the old one is no more.

This is just fantastic…

Courtesy of Liam’s dad, do click for a better look.

Thanks for giving us a peek, Liam. Love it.

See how Polly captured this scene, here.

If you have something for us to see, just get it online and include its URL with your next comment.

Did you see ‘The Story of the Guitar’ last night? If not, and you’re in the UK, you can catch it on BBC iPlayer until Sunday. No David on this one, but an interesting look at how the acoustic guitar developed, nonetheless.

Don’t miss next week’s, as it will be about the electric guitar.

That’s BBC1, Sunday 12 October, 22:20 (UK).

Please note that it starts an hour later in Northern Ireland.

How about this one, then?

You can, of course, click it for a closer look.

Fine work, Ikkar. Thank you very much for sharing your obvious talent with us.

If you have ever sketched, painted, photographed, fashioned or sculpted anything relevant to us here, do let me know. We’d all love to see what you’ve created. Just take a photo of your creation, get it online and send me the URL – using the space below for comments.

To see other examples of the artwork and photographs submitted and featured so far, click ‘Fans’ under CATEGORIES on the right.

That’s all for another week. We’ll be remembering the Venice concerts on Monday. The chatroom will also be open, from 13:00 (UK).

Have a great weekend, all.

It’s Kate’s birthday today, providing me with a perfect excuse to show off this great painting of Ernest’s, and also find out how many of you are fans.

You all know the connection: David passed Kate’s demo recordings EMI’s way and would go on to produce tracks on her debut album, ‘The Kick Inside’. More recently, Kate would be a very welcome surprise guest at David’s final Meltdown show, in 2002.

If you have a favourite Kate Bush song, album, fact or moment, we want to know about it.

Thanks for sharing your talent with us, Ernest.

If you have something similar, we’d love to see it. Just get it online and send me the URL.

The chatroom is open, and will be until 12:00 (UK), should you care to pop in. Newcomers are most welcome. Please read this first, which should tell you all you need to know.

I’ve been really impressed with the quality of some of the things you’ve recently submitted, be they photographs, paintings, sketches or drawings. (That’s if a sketch differs from a drawing. Does it?)

This one’s by Jessica. Please click it for a closer look.

Thanks for sharing it with us, Jessica.

If you have anything that you think would look good here, please send it in. Just get it online and let me know where it is by including the URL with your comment.

It has to be of some relevance, of course.

I’ll be adding my favourite works of fan art regularly, along with your equally charming photographs.

Have a good weekend, everyone. See you on Monday; either here, or in the chatroom, which will be open between 14:00 and 16:00 (UK).

In calling for your photographs last week (Fan photos, 7 March), it was a real pleasure to also get to see some of your artwork.

Here’s what Liz sent in. You can click David’s portrait to see a slightly larger version.

If you’re a budding artist with anything of obvious relevance to The Blog, and if you can get your work online, perhaps using one of the many free image hosting websites, please let me know where I can find it. It would be lovely to see what you’ve done.

Simply include its URL with your comment and I’ll randomly select and display my favourites over the coming weeks.

No links to entire galleries, please.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Liz. You have quite a talent!

Readers of The Blog – and I hope you’re leaving a dramatic pause before you speak its name, now that it’s capitalised, by the way – know all-too-well just how positively nutty some of you are when it comes to all things Floydian.

So, as a tribute to your nuttiness, I thought it would raise a titter or two, maybe even three or four, to share regular examples of your most cherished ‘On An Island’ experiences.

It could be a photo of your good self getting ready for one of the concerts or cinema events, resplendent in your favourite DG T-shirt, proudly clutching some sort of prized paraphernalia while your friends stand around making oh-so amusing hand gestures behind you. Alas, we all get dragged into a corny group shot every once in a while, whether we like it or not.

Did you get a tattoo in memory of the album? Were you lucky enough to meet any of the band members? If so, were you able to coax them into showing off their pearly whites?

What of the fan get-togethers? There have been a few of those.

Have you photographed your pet in the DG beanie hat (own up) or treated your car to an Island-inspired make-over? Blue is a great colour, you know…

Come to think of it, have you tried posing behind the ‘About Face’ LP, Sleeveface-style? If so, I do expect to see evidence, but that has to be worthy of a post of its own. If not, give it a go and be ready for the call; there are a lot of rainy days coming up, apparently.

I’ll feature my favourite whenever the urge overwhelms me.

You need to get it online using an image hosting site (Google “free image hosting” for about 11,496,273 suggestions) and point me towards it, so be sure to provide its URL with your comment.

That’s the URL for the photo, by the way, not an entire gallery of shots. Help me out here.

No e-mails, no attachments, and no more than one per person, please. There’ll be other chances to submit more.

No links will be published, by the way. You’ll just have to wait to see if your shot randomly appears as a featured photo over the coming weeks.

There will be a new post on Monday, but no comments will be published until Tuesday, so don’t you go worrying about sackings or resignations, missing manhole covers or spontaneous vacations.

Oh, and don’t bother sending any examples of your concert photography. Some fans annoyed the band with their flashing cameras quite enough during the tour, so please spare us. We’ve also had that discussion before, so let’s leave it in the archives where it belongs; you’ve got them, we know you’ve got them, but we really don’t want to see them.

Above all, please be sure to get the permission of whoever is in the photo with you before sharing it, just in case they don’t wish to see their gurning features on David’s blog.

Have a good weekend, all, and thank you very much for the birthday greetings. (If you want to leave a belated message for David, please leave it here.)