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Video: David Gilmour on Jimmy Kimmel

Posted March 29, 2016 by Floydian Slip

David Gilmour appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last night:

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David Gilmour to return to Pompeii

Posted March 18, 2016 by Floydian Slip

This summer David Gilmour will return to play the Pompeii amphitheater, 45 years after Pink Floyd performed there while shooting Adrian Maben‘s “Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii.”

Gilmour will perform July 7 and 8 as part of his “Rattle That Lock” tour.

“I want to thank the Ministry of Culture for giving me the opportunity to once again play this beautiful and historic venue,” Gilmour says. “Performing there in 1971 was very special and I’m looking forward to returning and hopefully creating some more memorable moments made even more special by playing to an audience.”

Floyd was the first to play the ancient city of Pompeii, filming over four days in October 1971. No other artist has performed there since. The film showed the band performing without an audience, though the group’s set-list mimicked those of its other live shows at the time.

This time around, there’ll be more than just a film crew watching.

Tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. CET March 22 at www.davidgilmour.com for €300 plus a 15 percent booking fee.

Buyers are limited to two tickets per show.

Pompeii’s amphitheater, built around 80 BC, is the oldest surviving Roman amphitheater. It was buried along with the rest of the city by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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Roger Waters collaborating on opera based on “The Wall”

Posted March 6, 2016 by Floydian Slip

Opéra de Montréal will premiere an opera based on Pink Floyd‘s “The Wall” next year. The album’s auteur and Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is collaborating on the project.

Baritone Étienne Dupuis will star as Pink. Music for the production was written by Julien Bilodeau, and Waters is handling the libretto. Alain Trudel will conduct the Orchestre Métropolitain.

Waters initially declined to participate, but changed his mind after hearing the score. “I sat there not expecting to be moved, and I was moved,” he says. “Very moved. So I approach this project with great enthusiasm.”

Waters is no stranger to opera. He spent a great deal of the 1990s writing “Ça Ira” with Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gil.

The opera’s premiering in Montreal is apropos: Waters got the idea for “The Wall” after growing frustrated with a rowdy audience and spitting on a fan during a Floyd show at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in 1977.

“Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera” will open March 11, 2017.

The company has already released its version of “Another Brick in the Wall Part II”:

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Play about Syd Barrett to premiere in Scotland

Posted January 29, 2016 by Floydian Slip

“One Thinks of it All as a Dream,” a new play focused on Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett, will premiere at the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (SMHAFF) in Glasgow in October.

SMHAFF commissioned the piece from Scottish novelist and playwright Alan Bissett (pictured).

“I … wanted to explore his multi-faceted character. He was by turns charismatic, selfish, principled and vulnerable. The legend of ‘Mad Syd’ has been enshrined in rock lore, but I wanted to get past the acid-casualty cliches to try and find the man beneath, in all his complexity,” says Bissett on the SMHAFF website.

“I took the decision to go backwards and forwards in time, through all the periods of Barrett’s life, to try and gain some understanding of the entwined roots of creativity and mental illness, as well as the various impulses which might have driven him to reject the modern world,” he adds.

The work’s title comes from a Barrett quote included in a 1971 Melody Maker interview.

“There are several characters in the show, but most of them are peripheral ‘journalists’ or ‘fans’,” Bissett tells Floydian Slip. “The three main characters, I suppose you could say, are Syd, Roger Waters and R.D. Laing, the psychiatrist. None of the rest of the Floyd are characters in the show.

“The show is not officially sanctioned in any way, and we haven’t had any contact with Syd’s family,” he adds. “I wouldn’t have written this play while Syd was still alive, but he is a historical figure now, to an extent.”

“One Thinks of it All as a Dream” will premiere at Glasgow’s Oran Mor in October and then move to the Traverse in Edinburgh and the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen.

This year is the 70^th anniversary of Barrett’s birth, and 10th anniversary of his death.

Learn more at the SMHAFF website

Addendum: This story was revised Jan. 31 to include additional exclusive quotes from Alan Bissett.

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Roger Waters The Wall: Your thoughts?

Posted September 30, 2015 by Floydian Slip

It’s the morning after last night’s one-time screening of “Roger Waters The Wall” in select theaters.

Waters’ concert film of his recent world tour incorporates behind-the-scenes footage and additional scenes of Waters trekking across the European countryside in a style that straddles narrative and documentary styles.

What did you think? Leave your comments here …

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Photos: “Roger Waters The Wall” NYC premiere

Posted September 29, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Yesterday “Floydian Slip” sent Bruce Hartley to the New York City premiere of “Roger Waters The Wall” at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City.

Bruce is an old college friend who worked for Mercury Records in the ’90s. He worked publicity on Roger’s “The Wall Live in Berlin.”

Bruce filed these photos from yesterday’s premiere:

The marquee outside the Ziegfeld Theater

Outside the Ziegfeld Theater

Lobby inside the Ziegfeld Theater

Inside the Ziegfeld Theater as people begin to take their seats

Roger Waters introduces the film with co-director Sean Evans

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Winners: Roger Waters The Wall

Posted September 28, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to winners of tickets to see “Roger Waters The Wall” tomorrow night at 8 at select theaters.

Winners of tickets courtesy of Fathom Events:

Scott Koppel, Baltimore MD
Elmer Sulkowski, Ansonia CT
Richard Conklin, Grand Rapids MI
Isabel Teixeira, Ludlow MA
Ray Sutliff, Lexington Park MD

Winners of tickets courtesy of Merrill Palace 9 in South Burlington, VT:

April Broscius, Shelburne VT
Geoff Mcloughlin, South Burlington VT
Deb Hartshorn, Shelburne VT
Barry Gerard, Jericho VT
Jennifer Sprague, East Middlebury VT
Erica Richard, Shelburne VT
Jason Terry, Shelburne VT
Jim Nye, Burlington VT
Matthew Granai, Colchester VT
Richard Single, Burlington VT

Thanks to our sponsors for supplying the tickets, and to everyone who entered to win.

See you at the show tomorrow night!

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Contest: Tickets for Roger Waters The Wall

Posted September 21, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Register to win a pair of tickets to see the feature film “Roger Waters The Wall” in the theater of your choosing Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 8 p.m.

It’ll be the movie event of the year for Pink Floyd fans!

Tickets provided by Fathom Events. (Tickets for Merrill Palace 9 in South Burlington, Vt., kindly provided by Merrill Palace 9.)

Enter to win now

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Win tickets to “Roger Waters The Wall” premiere

Posted September 16, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters is giving you a chance to join him for the premiere of “Roger Waters The Wall.”

Enter to win a pair of tickets to the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City for the Sept. 28 premiere.

Enter to win now

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Winners (Round 2): Roger Waters The Wall in NYC

Posted September 14, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to these tri-state crazy diamonds, who’ll be attending a private screening of the film “Roger Waters The Wall” in Manhattan today: