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You Know It Makes Cents – Crisis Auction Raises
£4,147
Many thanks are due to all who bid for last week's
signed David Gilmour proofs in aid of Crisis. The
auction (via eBay) generated the sum of £4,174.17
assuming, as Crisis says, that everybody pays. Andrew
Page, Crisis Director of Fundraising, said, "I
am delighted to announce that Crisis have raised over
£4,000 thanks to the recent auction of signed
merchandise donated by David Gilmour. Crisis would
especially like to thank DavidGilmour.com and their
members for supporting our fundraising efforts. This
money will make a huge difference, funding our work
to help homeless people transform their lives and
realise their potential".
As the colder season continues, don't forget
the difference that Crisis can make to the lives of
ordinary people; should you wish to contribute at
any time, their Web site is here.
Holiday TV: PBS RTN in US.
Here's an update of the PBS 60-minute TV broadcasts
of Remember That Night.
As before, remember that the stations may also be
offering a special 4-track audio CD of David Live
From Abbey Road as a 'pledge' item if you support
the station's fundraising efforts. The tracks included
are: 1. The Blue; 2. On An Island; 3.
Take A Breath; 4. Smile. The CD comes
in a handy card wallet designed by Steve Knee.
The CDs have been distributed to stations by Sony
BMG US, and any offer will of course be subject to
stocks being available.
Click here
for broadcast details (all are subject to change,
so please ensure you check your local TV listings).
Your Town On The Map – PBS RTN in US
Some may link the following US towns with the obvious:
for example, Modesto, CA – location for American
Graffiti; Macon, GA – home of Otis Redding;
Chattanooga, TN – popular train destination.
No longer, however, because the PBS 60-minute TV broadcasts
of Remember That Night are nigh. We only have
a partial list of US broadcasts over the Thanksgiving
weekend as below, but we hope to be able to update
them shortly.
In the meantime, please remember that the stations
may also be offering a special 4-track audio CD of
David Live From Abbey Road as a 'pledge' item
if you support the station's fundraising efforts.
The tracks included are: 1. The Blue; 2. On
An Island; 3. Take A Breath; 4. Smile.
The CD comes in a handy card wallet designed by Steve
Knee. The CDs have been distributed to stations by
Sony BMG US, and any offer will of course be subject
to stocks being available.
Saturday 24th November
HOUSTON, TX – KUHT, 11.30PM (tentative; not confirmed).
Tuesday 27th November (10.00PM)
ATLANTA, GA – WGTV.
JACKSONVILLE, FL/BRUNSWICK, GA – WXGA.
CHATTANOOGA, TN – WCLP.
SAVANNAH, GA – WVAN.
AUGUSTA, GA – WCES.
MACON, GA – WDCO.
COLUMBUS, GA – WJSP.
ALBANY, GA – WABW, WACS.
Thursday 29th November
SACRAMENTO, STOCKTON, MODESTO, CA – KVIE, 8.00PM.
Friday 30th November
SACRAMENTO, STOCKTON, MODESTO, CA – KVIE, 2.00AM.
Friday 30th November
SACRAMENTO, STOCKTON, MODESTO, CA – KVIE7, 7.30PM.
Saturday 1st December
SACRAMENTO, STOCKTON, MODESTO, CA – KVIE7, 2.00AM.
Saturday 1st December
SACRAMENTO, STOCKTON, MODESTO, CA – KVIE7, 6.30PM.
Meanwhile, for those of you in the USA with High Def
TV who can also receive the RAVE HD channel, the 90-minute
extended TV version of Remember That Night
is running via RAVE on Thursday 22nd November. If
you'd like to see a clip, enjoy Wish You Were Here
on US Rolling Stone magazine's Web site here.
Any Colour You Like – But Make It Black
Phil Taylor's book The Black Strat is now available
to buy, but only from its dedicated Web site.
Written to accompany the proposed Fender David Gilmour
Signature Stratocaster (see below) by David's longtime
guitar tech, it features the story of the iconic black
guitar, bought off the shelf at Manny's music store,
New York, in 1970. The book format is large-scale
paperback in a high-gloss cover, and its 121 pages
feature a photo or photos on almost all of them. In
effect a musical history from the time when guitars
were an expensive luxury and even a chart rock star
only had one main guitar and a spare, the book takes
us right up the present and the Signature model Black
Strat, which is still in development.
The price is £19.95 plus post & packing,
and is currently only available via its Web site –
not through Amazon mail order, although they do have
it listed. It is possible that some selected UK retailers
may stock it in the future, but there is no news of
that at present. We will update any and all local
retail deals when confirmed.
Click here
for another exclusive preview or visit the Web site
here.
17 Degrees of Proof – Crisis eBay Auction
David Gilmour has long been a supporter of Crisis,
the UK charity for the homeless, most recently via
the sale of signed Pink Floyd inflatable eyeballs.
David has now very generously donated signed proofs
of DVD-related artwork, to be auctioned via eBay on
Monday 19th November.
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A total of 17 lots
will go live on eBay at 5.00PM UK time next
Monday, ready to receive offers. Each auction
will be timed to finish slightly after the last
to ensure fans who miss out on one item have
a chance to bid on others. In the meantime,
you can view the auction items by clicking on
the Crisis logo (left). |
eBay can be a minefield for those unsure of an item's
provenance, but in this case the genuine items are
being sold directly by the charity through their eBay
identity, crisisuk, so look for that. Most
of the items are works in progress by sleeve designer
Steve Knee of Blade Design; prints include some alternative
designs for the Remember That Night cover and
some poster art.
Andrew Page, Director of Fundraising at Crisis said,
"We are very grateful to David for the huge support
he gives to Crisis. The money raised from the sale
of these items will support our work fighting homelessness
and our projects which empower people to transform
their lives".
Please feel free to donate to Crisis at any time.
Their Web site is here.
RTN On Blu-ray: A Site for Your Eyes.
Blu-ray supporters Sony BMG US have created a 'mini-site'
to go with the launch of Remember That Night
on the hi-def Blu-ray format (see News,
26th October).
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Click on the Blu-ray
logo (left) to visit the site, RememberThatNight.com,
which provides much technical information about
the format and the production of the title itself.
For the rest of us, it's another disc format
to understand, and it does require a new player. |
The upside is the quality of picture resolution, which
can be more than four times that of standard definition
DVD.
Blu-ray has most penetration so far in the US, supported
by film releases, though in the rest of the world
discs can be hard to find.
US release day (via Sony BMG) will be Tuesday
20th November, while in Europe (via EMI)
it will be Monday 26th, only in: Austria; Belgium;
Croatia; Denmark; Germany; Hungary; Iceland; Latvia;
the Netherlands; Poland; Russia; Slovenia; Sweden;
the UK; and the Ukraine. European countries not listed
have no current release plans. UK fans should check
HMV and Amazon for disc availability (and see our
previous handy guide to disc players).
Outside Europe, Remember That Night on Blu-ray
will 'probably' be released in Canada, Korea, South
Africa, and Japan, say Sony. Release dates will certainly
be later than the US, because the discs have not yet
been manufactured, although Japan and possibly some
other markets will import a minimal amount from the
US. Sony BMG Japan are 'likely' to plan a Japanese-manufactured
release in early 2008. Be sure that we will furnish
more concrete updates as they become available, plus
additional details elsewhere on DavidGilmour.com.
Free For U – To Your Phone
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Here's a US offer
that you might want to take up – a free
full-length David Gilmour live track to
play on your phone, with an option to purchase
a ring tone edit or ringback as
well. If you're the kind of person who would
like a boost to your journey from 'possibly
the four greatest notes in recorded history',
you might appreciate Shine On You Crazy Diamond
as your mobile phone ringtone, or possibly Wish
You Were Here, or Comfortably Numb. |
A ringback is a tune that plays on your phone to callers
while they wait for you to answer.
Here's how it works: in the week of 12th November,
Verizon networks (in the US only, so far) will
be announcing an offer of three free full-length
tracks from Remember That Night to download
to your phone only – Shine On You Crazy Diamond,
followed by Wish You Were Here, and then Comfortably
Numb featuring Richard Wright. Songs will be available,
in turn, for three weeks each; audio versions will
be downloadable, while video tracks will be available
only as streams, although they can be enjoyed repeatedly.
The relevant ringtone or ringback edit will be offered
initially at the same time as each song becomes available,
but all ringtones/ringbacks will then stay available.
In other words, Shine On... edit is available
to buy from Week 1, and stays available to buy indefinitely;
Wish You Were Here edit is available indefinitely
from Week 4, and Comfortably Numb indefinitely
from Week 7.
Should you wish to take up the option, the ringtone
edit will cost $2.99, and the ringback $1.99,
(or $4.49 for both), to have them delivered to your
phone in both audio and video form. (N.B. Phones with
'video ringer' option are in the minority in the US.)
Each full-length song is free for its discrete three-week
period, and after the total nine-week period (three
songs x three weeks per song), the audio-only version
of each will be available for purchase for $1.99 per
song. As above, the offer is only for the US at the
moment, though it may eventually extend across Europe
with other phone companies.
Click on the track to see the image you will also
receive at the start of your
video clip: Shine
On You Crazy Diamond; Wish
You Were Here; and Comfortably
Numb.
Please note that a ringtone will stay on your phone
for as long as you wish, but a ringback expires
after 12 months, being generated from a separate
facility.
Naturally, we'll keep you informed as this story develops
– especially with regard to the actual release
date – so watch this space... |
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