With the Northern Hemisphere ski season just beginning in a number of countries, a new, officially licensed set of skis - which have gone on sale today - will bring the Dark Side to all that white stuff on the slopes! Thanks Joe - we think you've done another superb job! It's a great tradition and we know many of our visitors love to see them. Pink Floyd have an official competition running to win a copy of the rather excellent Oh By The Way boxset, a 2010 Storm Thorgerson/Pink Floyd calendar and PULSE on DVD.

Waters left the band in 1985, Barrett died in 2006 and Wright in 2008, but Gilmour and Mason released a studio album as Pink Floyd as recently as 2014. Six self-adhesive stamps reproduce iconic record sleeve designs, in the same freeform style as the 2010 Classic Album Covers set (which included a different Pink Floyd album). A Pink Floyd Live miniature sheet of four further designs is based on photographs from stage performances, taken over four different decades. Warren Dosanjh, a school friend of Syd Barrett, and the manager of the early Barrett band Those Without, is selling some of his framed and glazed posters and other ephemera through the Cambridge based auction house Cheffins. Cheffins Auctions were the people who sold Barrett's possessions after his death, on behalf of his family, so it is no real surprise they are being used again.Roger, the band, and crew now travel to Rio de Janeiro for the next show on the tour schedule... If you are going to any of these concerts, please get in touch! Most of the items are from exhibitions to do with Syd, held after his death. The first is a City Wakes poster (from the Syd celebration in Cambridge) signed by Storm Thorgerson and Rosemary Breen (Syd's sister), together with assorted ephemera relating to the exhibition, a facsimile poster of the BBC Cambridgeshire and Anglia Ruskin University invitation to the unveiling of a Blue Plaque in memory of Syd; a Royal Mail Syd Barrett first day cover, numbered 658 of 3000; a copy of Melody Maker from August 1967 featuring Syd on the cover and other Syd related ephemera. The Blu-ray disc contains the restored footage of Atom Heart Mother, showing the band on stage performing the song, and travelling around Japan, together with some additional bonus footage of Pink Floyd's crew, setting up the show, dealing with issues, etc., which hasn't been seen before.

To celebrate the launch of the stamps, watch ‘High Hopes’ live from Pink Floyd’s PULSE DVD. Pink Floyd Official Competition He has just published an extensive and exclusive interview with Rosemary Breen, Syd Barrett's sister - the person who knew Syd/Roger the best. It's a fascinating glimpse into Barrett, and you can watch it in full here: The cover for this 2014 album, ostensibly a tribute to the late Richard Wright, is based on 18-year-old graphic designer Ahmed Emad Eldin’s enigmatic work, recreated by photographer Simon Fowler. If there are any other pumpkin artists out there who have created Floyd designs, we'd love to see them.Happy Halloween to you all! Regulars to Brain Damage over the years will know that our friend Joe Ringus is a hugely talented pumpkin artist, and each year crafts a Pink Floyd themed pumpkin for Halloween (which is celebrated by many, principally this evening, but in a number of places it covers a number of days).