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It’s the Grammys on Sunday. As you know, David has been nominated for Best Instrumental Rock Performance (for the GdaÅ„sk version of ‘Castellorizon’).

There will be a live stream of the non-televised portion of the night’s events from LA – the pre-telecast – over at GRAMMY.com, launching at 16:00 (Eastern).

That’s 13:00 (Pacific), 21:00 (UK).

This will be available on demand throughout February, if you’ve better things to do than watch hours of build-up and only really want to see how David fares.

You can watch the ceremony itself live on CBS in the States. Check your TV listings for details.

In the UK, ITV2 will be showing over two hours of highlights on Monday night, from 21:00 (UK).

Needless to say, you’ll have heard if it’s worth tuning in before then.

Have a good weekend, everyone, and Happy Birthday to Tom for tomorrow.

You won’t want to miss this, I’m sure.

David will perform Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Albatross’ next week: on Jools Holland’s Radio 2 show, Monday 10 November.

He’ll also be chatting about ‘Live in GdaÅ„sk’.

Everyone can listen live online, so set space in your schedule between the hours of 22:30 and 23:30 (UK).

You can listen later, on demand, for one week (courtesy of the BBC iPlayer), but possibly only if you’re in the UK, so do try and catch it live, if you can.

The chatroom has just opened, so feel free to call in. It will be open until 12:00 (UK).

The guitar mentioned a few months back – a Mexican Strat, painted by Gerald Scarfe and signed by all members of Pink Floyd – is being auctioned online from Wednesday 15 October. That’s next week.

If you’re interested in bidding, you will need to register first.

The winning bidder will also acquire the first edition of a limited box set containing eight prints from ‘The Wall’, each of which has been signed by Gerald, as well as a signed book.

A portion of the sale will go to a charity close to David’s heart, Crisis.

Don’t forget ‘Remember a Day: Richard Wright in His Own Words’ tomorrow night, BBC Radio 2 at 19:00 (UK). You can all listen live online, or for a full week later at your convenience, courtesy of the BBC’s Listen Again feature.

Have a good weekend, everyone.

Just as the month is drawing to a close, here’s one for September: our very own Paul Sexton with Guy Pratt.

Thanks for sharing it with us, Paul.

If you missed David talking to Guy on Planet Rock over the weekend, by the way, you can still tune in until the week is through. Simply click LISTEN NOW, followed by Last 7 Days: Guy Pratt and you’ll see details of the GdaÅ„sk special directly underneath.

If you didn’t miss it, have already said all that you wish to say about it, and have nothing much left to say about anything of relevance, the chatroom is open tomorrow – yes, that’s Tuesday – between 15:00 and 17:00 (UK).

A quick round-up of reminders.

First, the Planet Rock/Guy Pratt interview you were expecting tonight is now on Sunday at 17:00 (UK). Listen online. If you’re in the UK, you can also listen through your TV or DAB digital radio.

Before that, you might be interested in a radio special – which includes an interview – from Belgium, which starts on Sunday morning at 09:00 (CET), on Classic 21.

There’s more from Later… with Jools Holland tonight, as part of a BBC night dedicated to David. That starts at 21:10 (UK) on BBC4 with an hour from the GdaÅ„sk concert, plus the ‘GdaÅ„sk Diary’ DVD extra, followed by another documentary: ‘The Pink Floyd Story…’ (originally broadcast in 1994).

Turn over to BBC2 or BBC HD immediately after that, as David will be performing ‘The Blue’ and ‘Remember a Day’ for Jools, from 23:35 (UK).

The BBC4 programmes are repeated in the early hours of Saturday morning – from 01:30 (UK).

If you can’t wait for your next fix, here is something from New Zealand’s 3 News, something from today’s Sun newspaper, and, if you haven’t heard it yet, last weekend’s US radio special in full.

The Blog’s now closed for the weekend, but will be back on Monday.

Something you may already know about.

David will be performing ‘Astronomy Domine’, ‘Fat Old Sun’ and ‘This Heaven’ for Jools Holland’s ‘Later…’ programme, due for broadcast in the UK on Friday 26 September. He will also perform one song – live and also for ‘Later…’ – on Tuesday 23 September.

If you miss these performances, or just want to see them again and again, you should be able to watch both programmes for a whole week with BBC iPlayer the following week. This service is only available to fans in the UK.

However, sometimes the ‘Later…’ page at MySpace includes video, so keep an eye on that.

If either ‘Later…’ is coming up in your TV listings, do let us know when and where.

BBC4 will also have an hour from the GdaÅ„sk concert on Friday 26 September, plus half an hour from the documentary (one of the DVD extras, nothing that you won’t see if your ‘Live in GdaÅ„sk’ has the concert DVD, don’t worry).

This will also be available in HD.

Advance warning… for a change.

‘Where We Start’ is coming later today. Expect it here at about 15:00 (UK).

When you’ve seen it, do come back and let us know what you thought of it.

You’re not tiring of video footage from GdaÅ„sk, are you? Hope not.

In addition to the two YouTube channels, be sure to keep an eye on Best Buy and Borders, as they should have ‘High Hopes’ and ‘Take a Breath’ videos
appearing any time now (Borders today, Best Buy tomorrow).

You might also have caught ‘A Great Day For Freedom’
at AOL and Yahoo.

More videos will be popping up all over the place next week, so stay tuned for updates.

The chatroom is open and will remain so until 14:00 (UK), should you wish to drop by. First-timers are most welcome, but please notice the rules – written in red – on your way in.

Today we have the first of what will hopefully be many exclusives, as we count down to the release of David’s forthcoming live album (22 September in Europe, 23 September in North America).

Click here to watch ‘A Great Day For Freedom’ from GdaÅ„sk, where Leszek Możdżer (pictured) was one of several special Polish guests.

Of course, we’d love to hear what you think, so don’t hold back.

The chatroom will be open later, so call in between the hours of 14:00 and 16:00 (UK) if you want to talk about this, or anything else that isn’t dull. Just about everything is fair game, but do take note of the rules on your way in, please.

Thanks for your votes – and views – on your preferred choice of box set. The results were interesting, with 63% favouring the ‘deluxe’ over the vinyl – and 28% saying they’d get both.

I’d like to elaborate on this ‘web pass’ today.

You get a web pass with the three and four-disc sets. This comes in the form of a DVD (the same DVD with the GdaÅ„sk concert footage and documentary). Slap this DVD into your computer’s DVD drive while connected to the internet and, voilà: you’ll be able to download 12 live tracks from Vienne, Venice, Munich, Milan… The same live tracks that you get on CD with the ‘deluxe’ set.

So, it’s up to you to decide if you really need them on a CD, or if downloading them would be a better option. If downloading them suits you, and you don’t need the tour memorabilia, you might prefer to buy the (cheaper) three or four-disc set, as opposed to the five-disc equivalent.

However, you can only download one track per month (each month for 12 months, obviously).

Full instructions will appear on screen when the DVD is loaded. These will be in English only.

In the case of the vinyl, what you get is more ‘download card’ than web pass (there’s no DVD for starters). This will give you the option of ripping all the music that’s on vinyl to your hard drive. You can’t download the 12 live tracks, but ‘On The Turning Away’ (from Venice) is on the fifth LP.

The download will be to the first hard drive used (although, once you’ve entered the unique number for your download card, thus rendering it obsolete for use on another machine, you can rip the tracks to that hard drive as and when you require them).

I’d like to hear your thoughts on downloading music. Do you? Would you?

And believe me, I know that you’d like to be able to download ‘Wot’s… Uh The Deal’, so there’s really no need to tell me again.

Thought you might like to know about AOL’s video exclusives. They have ‘The Blue’, ‘Coming Back To Life’, ‘Fat Old Sun’, ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ and ‘Take A Breath’ available here for your viewing pleasure.

Also, be sure to check out their video archive for more goodies.

Two other points of interest:

First, David will be on Steve Wright’s BBC Radio 2 show on Monday between 2PM and 5PM (UK time).

If you’re in the UK, you can tune in at 88-91 FM, listen via DAB digital radio, digital satellite (Sky, channel 0102), digital cable (Virgin, channel 860 or 902, depending on whether you are an ex-NTL or ex-Telewest customer) and even Freeview (channel 702).

Everyone can listen online.

If you can’t listen live, then there is always the handy ‘Listen Again’ feature, which allows you to play the programme back as many times as you like for a period of seven days following the original broadcast.

David will also being doing an interview on ITV’s London Tonight on Monday, which starts at 6PM (UK).

Of course, I’ll remind you of these programmes on Monday.

There’s also some news about the varying European release dates for David’s ‘Remember That Night’ DVD on the Latest News page. Dates are also noted on the calendar for ease of reference.

If you weren’t able to see the BBC’s acclaimed television series, ‘The Seven Ages Of Rock’, last month, then you’ll be pleased to know that BBC 6 Music has put together a re-hash of the series for radio.

This features highlights from the series, as well as extra interviews which were not broadcast.

Everyone can listen online, live, wherever you may be. You can also listen ‘on demand’ for a whole week after the original broadcast.

There’s a free half-hour download of the best bits available to all, too.

Delve into the world of artistic and conceptual art rock, as they say, with David (and Peter Gabriel) tonight, in part two, from 9.30PM (UK).

Parts three and four follow later in the week, with punk and indie respectively.

Part one was entitled ‘Birth Of Rock’ and is still available from the website. You want the light blue ‘Listen Again’ area on the right.

There’s no chat today, but there is one tomorrow from 3PM (UK).

Lastly, if anyone’s wondering, the image above is indeed another high-resolution shot captured from David’s new DVD, ‘Remember That Night’, which is released worldwide in September.

Click it for a closer look and marvel at the quality, if you wish.

You can hear a repeat of the World Cafe broadcast today.

It can be heard on more than 180 radio stations across the US.

Either find your local station by visiting the website and selecting Broadcast Schedule on the right, or listen online to XPN from Monday to Friday at 2pm EST.

Easiest of all, it’s also available on the National Public Radio (NPR) website. Just type David Gilmour into the search field.

If you missed it the last time it was aired, don’t miss out again. As well as answering David Dye’s questions, there are live versions of ‘On An Island’, ‘Take A Breath’ and ‘Comfortably Numb’, plus bonus performances of ‘Smile’ and ‘High Hopes’.

So, if you’ve got 36 minutes to spare today, now you know how you can fill them.

Thank you all for the messages left yesterday for Steve Di Stanislao. He was blown away by them.

There’s not much to report, as everyone is being extremely secretive at the moment, but you can hear a repeat broadcast of David’s Front Row interview with John Wilson today if you missed it when it originally went out.

You want BBC Radio 4 at 1:30PM UK time. Just click Listen Live for that.

So from Front Row to Front Cover…

Today’s rainy day blog suggestion comes from Piergiorgio, with a little extra from Nickster.

Since there’s been a lot of talk about the DVD (that’s David’s forthcoming DVD, not the Pink Floyd one that we don’t really want to discuss too much)…

If you could choose an image/title to put on the DVD cover, what would you choose and why?

And how about adding a ‘P.U.L.S.E’-type flashing light or similar gimmick? If so, what would work?

Please note that we’re a long way away from having the cover finished, so we won’t be showing it off just yet. Any requests for details about/examples of the artwork will be dismissed with a huff, so please don’t ask.

There’s been a great response to the weekend’s poll. Thanks to all who contributed. We’re delighted that so many songs have been suggested.

We trust you’ve all got your free three-day pass so that you can listen to XM Satellite Radio online later today, if you’re not already a subscriber?

If not, what are you waiting for? It’s finally the first day of the broadcast, so get yourself over to the XM Satellite Radio website and sign up so that you can hear the session that David and Phil Manzanera recorded whilst they were in New York.

As well as chat, they performed acoustic renditions of ‘Smile’ and ‘Where We Start’.

It barely takes a minute to sign up, you only need to give a name, e-mail address and password (no credit card details are taken), and you can listen to the session at the following times – so be sure to get your timing right when signing up for the three-day pass:

Monday 5 June at 6pm ET (on Deep Tracks/XM 40)
Wednesday 7 June at 9am ET (on Fine Tuning/XM 76)
Friday 9 June at 2pm ET (on Deep Tracks/XM 40)
Saturday 10 June at 3pm ET (on The Loft/XM 50)
Sunday 11 June at 3am ET (on XM Café/XM 45)

Hope you enjoy it!

Due to popular demand, as of Monday night, you will be able to see improved footage of the Mermaid Theatre gig on the BBC website.

It’s the same as footage shown recently in cinemas across the US, minus the promotional material. It will also include ‘High Hopes’, which wasn’t included on the original BBC webcast.

It’s improved in the sense that this will be the full nine-camera edit rather than the five-camera edit used previously. The sound has also been remixed.

We’ll remind you of the webcast on Monday.

For now, please see the Latest News page for a new release date for the ‘On An Island’ LP, plus details of the ‘Smile’ single, download and limited edition 7" vinyl.

If you haven’t requested that the assorted Radio 2 presenters play ‘Smile’ on their shows, then what are you waiting for? We can’t have it on the C List, can we? It’s much better than that.

Please also note that tickets for the Venice concerts are now finally on sale. Please see the Live Dates page for all the details.

As you know, David and Phil Manzanera recorded a session for XM Satellite Radio while they were in New York.

We can now announce that it will be broadcast on Monday 5 June.

A low-key acoustic performance with some chat, it’s not unlike the session recorded for Jonathan Ross and BBC Radio 2 back in early March.

Before a small audience, they answered questions and performed acoustic renditions of two songs – ‘Smile’ and ‘Where We Start’.

You can get a free three-day trial and listen online if you’re not already a subscriber. We’ll remind you a little closer to the time of the broadcast.

Thank you to Mariana for letting us know that there’s a nice interview, which is worthy of a listen, over on the World Cafe website.

As well as talk, there are live versions of ‘On An Island’, ‘Take A Breath’ and ‘Comfortably Numb’, plus bonus performances of ‘Smile’ and ‘High Hopes’.

Last week we told you about Q107‘s ’40 Most Influential Classic Rock Guitarists of All Time’ poll.

Courtesy of Rudders, here’s the first round of results:

31. Joe Walsh (The James Gang/The Eagles)
32. Peter Frampton
33. Steve Hackett (Genesis)
34. Alvin Lee (Ten Years After)
35. Jeff Healey
36. Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead)
37. Rik Emmett (Triumph)
38. Ace Frehley (Kiss)
39. Lindsay Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac)
40. Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top)

If you haven’t voted yet, then sadly you’re too late. But don’t miss the countdown. Ten more will be shown next week. Of course, we don’t want to see David listed next week (anything less than Top Ten would be an insult, I say), but we’re also keeping an eye out for the great Syd Barrett.