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David Gilmour to receive O2 Silver Clef Award

Posted February 13, 2025 by Floydian Slip

Music industry charity Nordoff and Robbins will award David Gilmour the 2025 O2 Silver Clef Award. The award is the organization’s highest honor and celebrates outstanding contributions to music.

“It’s such an honour to receive the O2 Silver Clef Award. Music speaks its own language and it’s inspiring to see Nordoff and Robbins using it to make a real difference to people’s lives,” Gilmour said. “What they do reminds us of music’s ability to reach across boundaries and bring people together.”

Other 2025 honorees include Rick Astley (Outstanding Achievement in Music Award), IDLES (Best Live Act) and Soul II Soul (Innovation in Music Award).

The winners will be honored at an evening gala July 2 in London. Inquiries about reserving a table of 10 at the event can be made online.

Nordoff and Robbins operates the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre in London and music therapy outreach projects. Its programs assist individuals with psychological, physical, or developmental disabilities using music therapy.

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Floyd-related Record Store Day releases

Posted February 9, 2025 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd fan have three releases to look forward to on Record Store Day, Saturday, April 12.

Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets will offer a 12-inch of the Floyd track “Echoes,” originally from the band’s “Meddle” album. Recorded Aug. 1, 2024, at the Centennial Hall in Frankfurt, Germany, it was mixed by Steven Wilson, half-speed mastered at Abbey Road, and plays inside-out for higher sound quality. The B-side includes etched artwork. Quantities are limited to 4,000.

David Gilmour will release a 12″ of The Montgolfier Brothers‘ “Between Two Points,” featuring his daugher, Romany Gilmour, on vocals. The disc includes the album version of the song from Gilmour’s “Luck and Strange” (2024); an exclusive live version recorded during his appearance at London’s Royal Albert Hall; and two versions of a new Balearic-flavored remix by Rob Gentry, who played keyboards on the album and the tour. Pressed on clear vinyl, quantities are limited to 4,000.

Roger Waters will issue a limited edition neon pink vinyl LP of his live performance of “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux” (2023) recorded during two shows at the London Palladium in October 2023. It will feature a printed inner sleeve and 3mm spined LP sleeve. Quantities limited to 2,000.

According to the Record Store Day website, the event “was conceived in 2007 as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1,400 independently-owned record stores in the U.S. and thousands of similar stores internationally. The first Record Store Day took place on April 19, 2008.”

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Syd Barrett’s floorboards up for bid

Posted July 2, 2024 by Floydian Slip

Syd Barrett's flat

Omega Auctions are selling today the purple and orange floorboards featured on the cover of Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett‘s 1970 album The Madcap Laughs.

Estimated to go for £10,000 ($12,662), as of this writing the current bid is £5,000 ($6,331) with three bids registered.

The Madcap Laughs (Syd Barrett) (1970) Designer Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis and photographer Mick Rock shot Barrett crouched on the floor of his London flat for the cover of his The Madcap Laughs album. Prior to the shoot, Barrett painted the floorboards alternating colors of purple and orange.

Today’s seller purchased the flat and removed the boards during renovations. There are approximately 70 planks. Most are approximately 2.7 meters long — just less than 9 feet.

The auction’s webpage offers a number of photos of the flat.

Addendum: The auction ended today with a hammer price of £28,500 ($36,101).

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Roger Waters to release “Dark Side of the Moon Redux” picture disc

Posted April 19, 2024 by Floydian Slip

Cooking Vinyl will release a special picture disc version of Roger Waters‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux” (2023) for Record Store Day.

The limited edition 1LP picture disc will be individually numbered in a die-cut sleeve. Only 3,000 copies will be pressed.

Record Store Day is tomorrow, Saturday, April 20. Independently-owned brick-and-mortar record stores around the world participate. Many recording artists will offer limited-edition products for sale tomorrow only.

“Redux” is a complete reimagining of Pink Floyd‘s seminal 1973 album. Read more: “Re-do of “Dark Side of the Moon” coming from Roger Waters.”

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Roger Waters to perform new “Dark Side” in London

Posted July 26, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters will premiere his new take on Pink Floyd‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973) at a concert Oct. 8 at London’s Palladium.

The show will come two days after his album, “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux,” will be released.

Joining Waters for the show will be Gus Seyffert, bass; Joey Waronker, drums; and Jonathan Wilson, guitar. All participated in the recording of the album, along with Seyffert’s partner, Bedouine, who provided vocals.

Also scheduled to appear at the Palladium gig are Johnny Shepherd, organ; Via Mardot, theremin; Gabe Noel, strings; Jon Carin, keyboard; Robert Walter, piano; and Azniv Korkejian, vocals.

Tickets are available at livenation.co.uk.

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Australian solar eclipse paired with “Dark Side” listening event

Posted April 20, 2023 by Floydian Slip

The Astronome Domine 8

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.

Ningaloo Marine Park (Nyinggulu) in Exmouth, Western Australia

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 Astronome Domine 8

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.

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Roger Waters to broadcast live to theaters May 25

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.

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Empire State Building to celebrate “Dark Side of the Moon”

Posted March 24, 2023 by Floydian Slip

New York City’s Empire State Building will shine on tonight by sporting “The Dark Side of the Moon” prism artwork in its mast to mark the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s seminal LP.

The display begins at sunset and will be seen throughout the city, as well as online from the Empire State Building Live Cam.

Italy celebrated the album with a light show yesterday: 500 square meters of Milan’s Piazza del Duomo was illuminated with the “Dark Side” prism.

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Pink Floyd exhibit coming to Montreal

Posted October 29, 2022 by Floydian Slip

“The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains” will open in Montreal, Quebec, on Friday, Nov. 4, for an 8-week run at Arsenal Contemporary Art.

The exhibit, created by members of the band working with album sleeve designer Aubrey “Po” Powell, features more than 350 artifacts collected over the band’s career — including handwritten lyrics, musical instruments, letters, stage props, original artworks and more.

The show is designed by Stufish, longtime stage designers for the band, which was founded by the late Mark Fisher.

“Their Mortal Remains” premiered in London in 2017 after a three-year delay from its originally scheduled debut in Milan in 2014; and has travelled to Rome, Dortmund, Madrid, and most recently, to Los Angeles. This will mark the exhibit’s first showing in Canada.

Montreal plays a unique and somewhat notorious role in the history of Pink Floyd. The band first played Montreal in November 1971, at a sold-out show at the Centre Sportif de l’Université de Montréal. They returned to the city several times, performing at the Montreal Forum, the Autostade, and Olympic Stadium.

At was at the Stadium, on July 6, 1977, the final show of Floyd’s “In the Flesh” tour, when Roger Waters, frustrated with an inattentive audience, spat at a fan from the stage. The experience served as an epiphany, as he realized a divide had grown between the band and its audience. That revelation helped inform his creation of “The Wall.”

Base rates for tickets to the exhibit run from $28 to $45 CA, are good for specific times of entry, and can be purchased online.

Curators estimate a walk through the exhibit will take 60-90 minutes. But you and I both know we’ll be there all day.

Learn more at the exhibit’s website.

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Live Facebook video chat with Floydian Slip host, April 13

Posted April 12, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Join “Floydian Slip” host Craig Bailey for another Facebook Live video event:

Wednesday, April 13, 4 pm EDT

It’s been more than a year since our last chat, so we ought to have some things things talk about. The first new Floyd single in nearly 30 years comes to mind. We’ll also cover this week’s “Storm Effect” special episode, and whatever else might come to mind.

Hope to see you there. Join us at:

https://www.facebook.com/events/668024547615974/

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