Posted December 11, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters will appear on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” tonight.
Waters isn’t scheduled to perform, but will likely discuss his appearance scheduled for tomorrow night’s 12.12.12 concert to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Fallon devoted a week to the band in September 2011 to mark the “Why Pink Floyd” reissue launch.
The program airs in NBC-TV at 12:35 a.m. ET.
Posted November 21, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters will take the stage next week playing a different kind of role than usual. The Pink Floyd co-founder will join the cast of Culture Project‘s revival of “The Exonerated,” a play about wrongfully convicted survivors of death row.
Written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, the show’s original production ran for more than 600 performances beginning in October 2002. Featuring a rotating cast of celebrities reading accounts by former death row inmates, the show focuses on the true stories of six people sentenced to death and later freed after being proven innocent.
Waters will share the stage with Kathleen Chalfant, William Marshall and Chris Sarandon.
Founded by Allan Buchman in 1996, Culture Project’s dedicated to addressing human rights issues by shining an artistic spotlight on injustice.
The show plays at 45 Bleecker St. in New York’s East Village Nov. 27 through Dec. 2. (866) 811-4111.
Posted November 15, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Classic Rock magazine honored Pink Floyd with its “Reissue of the Year” award for the band’s Immersion boxsets released in 2011 and ’12.
Inductees of the British magazine’s “Roll of Honour” were announced Tuesday at a ceremony at the Roundhouse in London hosted by Duff McKagan (Guns ‘N Roses, Velvet Revolver).
Drummer Nick Mason was on-hand to accept.
“The Story of Wish You Were Here,” a documentary about the band’s 1975 album released on DVD and Blu-ray in June, received the Film/DVD award. The disc was released by Eagle Rock Entertainment.
Well-deserved, both.
Posted November 10, 2012 by Floydian Slip
The concert appearance Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters made this past week is available online.
Waters was joined by a band of wounded veterans Nov. 8 at the Stand Up for Heroes event in New York City.
Video of the 2½-hour event is available at reMIND.org, the site of The Bob Woodruff Foundation, devoted to helping wounded veterans and their caregivers.
Waters’ appearance, including a rambling ad-libbed vamp while stagehands set the stage, is at about 1:10:20 into the program.
One of the easiest ways to give to the cause is to text BWF to 50555. Your text will donate $10 to helping wounded veterans and their caregivers. You can also donate at the website.
Posted November 10, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters has announced 20 concert dates for 2013.
The co-founder of Pink Floyd will ramp up his tour of “The Wall” again in Werchter, Belgium, on July 2. The tour will run through Sept. 18, wrapping up in Dublin, Ireland.
Ticket pre-sales begin Nov. 12 for registered members of rogerwaters.com.
The ’13 tour will visit a number of countries not included in the previous legs of the tour, including Croatia, Turkey, Romania and Serbia.
Waters has redesigned and scaled up the show to accommodate the larger, open air stadiums scheduled for ’13.
“I’m extremely glad to be playing ‘The Wall’ in Europe again,” Waters says. “It’s going to be a lot of fun for all of us. I’ve reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums. It’s really good. Even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the arena shows.”
Waters’ press conference detailing his ’13 tour will be streamed live on the web Nov. 15 at 12:30 GMT at rogerwaters.com and his Facebook page. He’s taking questions from fans in advance of the event. You can submit your question at his Facebook page.
July
Saturday 20 — Werchter Festival Site
Tuesday 23 — Split Poljud Stadium
Friday 26 — Padova Euganeo Stadium
Sunday 28 — Rome Olympic Stadium
August
Wednesday 7 — Prague Synot Tip Stadium (Slavia)
Friday 9 — Frankfurt Commerzbank Arena
Sunday 11 — Copenhagen Parken Stadium
Wednesday 14 — Oslo Telenor Arena
Thursday 15 — Oslo Telenor Arena
Saturday 17 — Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium
Tuesday 20 — Warsaw Narodowy Stadium
Friday 23 — Vienna Donauinsel
Sunday 25 — Budapest Puskas Ferenc Stadium
Wednesday 28 — Bucharest Piata Consitutiei
Friday 30 — Sofia Vasil Levski Stadium
September
Sunday 1 — Belgrade Usce Park
Wednesday 4 — Berlin Olympic Stadium
Friday 6 — Dusseldorf Esprit Arena
Sunday 8 — Amsterdam Arena
Wednesday 18 — Dublin Aviva Stadium
Posted November 3, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters will perform at the 6th annual Stand Up for Heroes event, Thursday, Nov. 8, at New York’s Beacon Theatre.
The event, presented by the New York Comedy Festival and The Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF), supports injured service members and their caregivers.
Waters will perform with a band comprised entirely of military veterans. Other acts scheduled to perform include Mike Birbiglia, Ricky Gervais, Patton Oswalt, Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen and Robin Williams.
The event is sold out, but musical performances will be streamed live at YouTube and made available at the BWF’s reMIND website.
The five previous events have raised more than $10 million to support wounded veterans and their families.
Posted May 23, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters has added a new final date to his tour of “The Wall,” which will be more than twice as big as any other show on the tour.
When the former Pink Floyd front-man performs at Quebec City’s Fields of Abraham on July 21, the wall will be more than 800 feet wide, more than twice the size of any other show on his revival tour of the show.
It’ll be the largest outdoor staging of his magnum opus since he performed it at the site of the former Berlin wall in 1990 on the same day: July 21.
Initial sales are reserved for those who’ve purchased admittance to the Festival d’été de Québec.
Festival fans can register online today at InfoFestival.com from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. for a drawing to purchase wristbands for the concert.
Posted January 28, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Roddy Bogawa‘s documentary about Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson will have its East Coast premiere next month at New York Museum of the Modern Art (MoMA).
The feature-length film, “Taken by Storm,” will be featured as part of MoMA’s two-week-long “International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media,” beginning Feb. 16.
“Taken by Storm” debuted in March 2011 at the South by Southwest (SxSW) festival.
“Hoping that this screening will give the film a big push along to its distribution life — more screenings, perhaps theatrical release, DVDs and streaming,” Bogawa says.
Posted January 7, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Studio Two of EMI‘s Abbey Road Studios will host a public event in March giving people a first-hand glimpse into the space that bands including Pink Floyd have used to make some of the world’s most lasting music.
As part of the studios’ 80th anniversary, authors Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan will give an audio-visual presentation titled “80 Years of Recording at Abbey Road Studios.”
The event will cover recordings made in the studio by Floyd, Sir Edward Elgar, The Shadows, Peter Sellers, Helen Shapiro, The Beatles, The Hollies, The Zombies and Kate Bush, as well as film scores such as “Star Wars” and “Harry Potter and Lord of the Ring.”
Kehew and Ryan are the authors of “Recording The Beatles.”
Two events scheduled for March 10 are sold out. Two more have been added for 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on March 11. Tickets are £75. Buy them online.
Posted January 4, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour refutes a story published by The London Evening Standard yesterday that said surviving members of the band “could” reunite at this year’s Olympics festivities to be held in London.
In what must increasingly seem like a non-paying part-time job, Gilmour released a statement “that there is no truth in recent media speculation about Pink Floyd reuniting to perform for the 2012 London Olympics.”
The Standard had quoted a band “insider” as saying, “It’s long been made clear it would take something very special to get Pink Floyd back together again and it doesn’t get any bigger than the Olympics,” adding, “it’s hoped everything can be confirmed in the coming weeks.”
The most recent reunion of Gilmour, Roger Waters and Nick Mason happened at the end of Waters’s May 12, 2011, performance of “The Wall” when the three joined on stage in London to perform “Outside the Wall” (pictured).
Gilmour had performed on “Comfortably Numb” earlier in that evening’s performance. (See “Video: Gilmour joins Waters at the 02.”)
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