Posted April 25, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1411:
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Posted April 24, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Your chance to play the part of the surrogate band is on again: Enter Floydian Slip’s 11th Annual “Surrogate Bands: Pink Floyd Cover Contest!”
Submit your own recording of a Floyd song for a chance to win some great prizes and have your recording broadcast on the “Floydian Slip” radio show.
The winner gets $200 in Floyd merchandise from The Official Web Store of Pink Floyd and their recording played the week of June 26 on show #1420 — a special all-covers episode of “Floydian Slip” titled “Surrogate Bands.”
Complete rules and regulations online. Entries must be received by end of day (Eastern time) Friday, June 23.
Posted April 24, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Posted April 22, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Sony Music will release Roger Waters “The Lockdown Sessions” on vinyl and CD on June 2.
Recorded and filmed during Covid lockdown between 2020-21, Waters first released each track independently on social media as it was recorded. The entire collection, including a new version of “Comfortably Numb” recorded during his “This Is Not a Drill” tour, was made available on streaming services Dec. 9, 2022.
The collection includes five tracks from Waters’s time with Pink Floyd and his solo career: “Mother” and “Vera” from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”; “Two Suns in the Sunset” and “The Gunner’s Dream” from Floyd’s “The Final Cut”; “The Bravery of Being Out of Range” from his solo album “Amused To Death”; and the new recording of “Comfortably Numb.”
All were were produced by Waters and Gus Seyffert. Appearing on the recordings are Waters – Vocals, Guitar and Piano; Seyffert – Bass, Cellos and Vocals; Joey Waronker – Drums and Percussion; Dave Kilminster – Guitar and Rhythm Guitar; Jonathan Wilson – Guitar and Vocals; Jon Carin – Keyboards and Vocals, Lucius (Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig) – Vocals; Bo Koster – Hammond (on all tracks except “Mother”) and Ian Ritchie – Saxophone (“Two Suns In The Sunset”).
Posted April 20, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Today Pink Floyd celebrated the 50th anniversary of “The Dark Side of the Moon” with a listening event timed to a rare total solar eclipse at the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Marine Park (Nyinggulu) in Exmouth, Western Australia.
Eight competition winners gathered at a secluded beach in the region to hear “Dark Side” start to finish – with Roger Waters‘s closing lines “But the sun is eclipsed by the moon…” timed to align with the moment of total eclipse at 11.29 a.m. WST.
The eight fans — dubbed the ‘Astronome Domine 8’ – arrived on Mcleods Beach this morning to witness a giant black pyramid framed by the horizon, constructed with creative oversight from Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, Floyd’s long-time creative consultant and Hipgnosis co-founder. Following a Welcome to Country by elder Hazel Walgar, the event began as the shadow of the moon grazed the tip of Western Australia — the best land-based place in the world to view the eclipse.
The event was livestreamed across the world on Floyd’s YouTube channel.
The eight winners were brought together from all walks of life and represent multiple generations of Floyd fans. “This is something I’ll never forget” said 27-year-old Nathan, who took the trip in tribute to his father, a Floyd mega fan who died in 2021. “It was like Dad was there with me.”
“I’m speechless,” said Monya, who made the journey with her husband, Joseph, after they were brought together by their love of the band. “I’ve listened to this album thousands of times — but never like this.”
The 300-kilometer-long Ningaloo Marine Park is 1,200 kilometers north of Perth (Boorloo) along Western Australia’s Coral Coast Highway. The Ningaloo region is renowned as where the outback meets the reef — home to Australia’s largest fringing reef adjoining the rusty gorges of Cape Range National Park.
A short form documentary film directed by Powell charting the journey of the Astronome Domine 8 is expected at a later date.
Posted April 18, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Trafalgar Releasing and Sony Music Entertainment will broadcast live the Roger Waters performance of his “This Is Not a Drill” tour from O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic on May 25.
The worldwide event will be distributed to more than 1,500 theaters across more than 50 countries. Tickets go on sale at 3 p.m. BST (10 a.m. ET; 7 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, April 25 at www.ThisIsNotADrillFilm.com.
Billed as his first ever “farewell tour,” the event is directed by Sean Evans. The live film will include 20 Pink Floyd and Waters classics, including: “Us & Them,” “Comfortably Numb,” “Wish You Were Here,” and “Is This the Life We Really Want?” Waters will also debut his new song, “The Bar.”
Waters will be joined on stage by Jonathan Wilson, Dave Kilminster, Jon Carin, Gus Seyffert, Robert Walter, Joey Waronker, Shanay Johnson, Amanda Belair and Seamus Blake.
Complete cinema listings and times will be announced when tickets go on sale April 25.
Posted April 18, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1410:
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Posted April 17, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Visual companion displaying all sleeves from albums featured on this week’s program
Posted April 11, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1409: It’s “Storm Effect,” our special tribute to Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, who died 10 years ago, April 18, 2013.
You’ll hear music from a variety of artists — all with album sleeves by Storm and his team at Hipgnosis.
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Visit this episode’s visual companion featuring all the albums heard on Show #1409.
Posted April 10, 2023 by Floydian Slip
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