Wish You Were Here? Pink Floyd reform for Live 8

is this true ?

seriously ?

wow

how the hell can they decide that so late on

Awesome!

Perhaps Waters and Gilmour have finally made up. Or perhaps they'll be separated on stage by a forty feet tall screen so they can't see each other at any point.

wut?

And Frankie Poullain on bass.

"The news is somewhat surprising given that Waters and Gilmour still hold onto one of rock's most notorious and long-standing feuds."

Err. The interviews I've read with both of them suggest they don't have much to argue about these days. Gilmour asked Waters to join them on the Pulse tour as they were doing the whole of Dark Side of the Moon, and I believe Waters only refused because he didn't feel it would be right, not because he hated Gilmour.

Bottom line: They've sold the most albums and (in all likelihood) their fanbase now have oodles of spare cash to give away when out at concerts like these to salve their upper-middle-class guilt complexes?

Political machinations and motivations are all very well/ill - and quite right to be speculated upon... but these gigs are happening, for better or worse. There will be many a dullard that decries the news that this lot are reforming but, check yourself... (another ellipsis) ... if a band you like - insert name - were getting it on again after an extended hiatus, would you not be a wee bit chuffed? Never mind the 'pious' sentiments or otherwise, say this group, the whoever, were doing it again up the road from you, you wouldn't want to attend? I guess that's why the Pixies, Dinosaur, LA's, etc., have experienced such poor ticket sales since their regrouping. Laters x

PS Eternal question: band or group name - third person, singular or plural?

and heres the set list wish list
bike
arnold laynesee emily play
madame nobbs
whats uh the deal
several species gathered and grooving with a pict

the pixies have experienced poor ticket sales since their regrouping?

thats news to me

It's the best news you have heard all week? It is only monday morning!

i'm sure that'd be news to the pixies aswell. poor ticket sales my arse!

some people do talk some crap.

I wonder if Eavis is kicking himself that Basement Jaxx are booked instead of a PF warmup slot :-/

Wouldn't that mean 'Pink Floyd is shite' though?
After all these years of saying 'Pink Floyd are shite', I'm not sure if I can change...

does anyone know appearence order yet for the London show? Also, if it's a 16-hour event, when does it start and finish? I'd have thought they'd give PF at least 30 mins before the obligatory all-artists-onstage-holding-arms-aloft-singalong finale of ...

Greenday there as well: nyihurgh (sideshowbob noise after standing on a rake)
Saw this on the telly the other night. made me laugh.
'whenever you see people like geldof and elton john and bono on the tv telling you that all this village needs is 2000 quid to make a school etc, dont you just think, well bloody give them the money then!'

Pink Floyd Rock. probably not as much anymore, but still. Wish they wouldnt endorse such hypocritical crap like Live Aid.... *ahem, says the guy playing a local make poverty history gig*
i do kinda agree with the sentiments of Daman Albarn and Zac De La Rocha on the greater scheme of events tho.

Well anyone who'd actually listened to both bands would realise they're actually quite different.

Obviously if the Floyd were going to do a Syd-era set then it wouldn't be 'yawn'.

what has Zack said then?
is it online anywhere?

My mate looks like Roger Waters!

omg i love pink floyd although i never saw this happening i think me and my freinds might go pink floyd is so pimp wish you were here has very sentimental value for me and so does many of their other songs so i say
ROCK ON AND ON\m/