Posted March 14, 2025 by Floydian Slip
Enter to win a pair of tickets to see Pink Floyd’s seminal 1972 concert film “Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII” in theaters beginning April 24 — digitally re-mastered in 4K from the original 35mm footage with enhanced audio.
Winners will receive codes redeemable at fandango.com for two (2) tickets at the theater and showing of their choice. Codes are valid for any theater that uses Fandango.
Learn more about “Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII” and search for participating theaters at pinkfloyd.film.
Posted February 27, 2025 by Floydian Slip
A restored version of the 1972 film “Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii” will hit theaters in April. It’ll be followed in May with a soundtrack release in multiple formats.
Renamed “Pink Floyd at Pompeii — MCMLXXII,” the film has been digitally re-mastered from the original 35mm footage, with enhanced audio newly mixed by Steven Wilson. Directed by Adrian Maben, it documents the band’s live performance over four days in October 1971 at an empty amphitheatre in the ancient dead city of Pompeii, Italy.
Presented by RM Productions and released by Sony Music Vision and Trafalgar Releasing, the film will show at select cinemas and IMAX theaters worldwide beginning April 24. Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. ET Wednesday, March 5 at www.pinkfloyd.film.
The film’s been restored by hand, frame-by-frame, from the original 35mm negative, which was recently discovered in the band’s archives.
Led by Lana Topham, Pink Floyd’s Director of Restoration, the team’s mission was to preserve the integrity and beauty of the original picture. They scanned the negatives in 4K using advanced techniques to ensure the finest detail. They enhanced the film’s color, and reviewed and repaired every frame to maintain a natural, vivid appearance with minimal grain adjustments.
“Since 1994, I have searched for the elusive film rushes of ‘Pink Floyd at Pompeii,’ so the recent discovery of the 1972 original 35mm cut negative was a very special moment,” Topham says. “The newly restored version presents the first full 90-minute cut, combining the 60-minute source edit of the performance with the additional Abbey Road Studios documentary segments filmed shortly after.”
The new cut also features enhanced sound with a new theatrical and home entertainment mix by Wilson in 5.1 and Dolby Atmos.
“Ever since my dad brainwashed me as a kid by playing ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ on repeat, Pink Floyd has been my favourite band,” Wilson says. “I first saw Pompeii from a grainy print at a local cinema. It made an incredible impression on me with its untethered and exploratory rock music made by four musicians that seemed to epitomise the notion of intellectual cool.
“It was an honour to remix the soundtrack to accompany Lana Topham’s incredible restoration of the film,” he adds, “which looks like it could’ve been filmed yesterday.”
The accompanying soundtrack release “Pink Floyd at Pompeii — MCMLXXII,” will see the performance presented as a full-length live record for the first time. Wilson’s 2025 remix will be available on CD, LP, Blu-ray, DVD, digital audio and Dolby Atmos on May 2.
Side A
Side B
Side C
Side D
Here’s an advance release clip of “Echoes”:
Posted December 29, 2024 by Floydian Slip
The company behind the recent Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” are said to be working on a film about Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett.
Peter Jaysen, owner of Veritas Entertainment and a producer on the Dylan film, revealed on the podcast “The Town With Matthew Belloni” the company is now working on a film focused on Barrett.
Wash Westmoreland (pictured) is attached to the project, according to Jaysen. Westmoreland is a British writer/director known for “Still Alice” (2014), which won a number of awards, including the Best Actress Oscar for Julianne Moore.
Jaysen didn’t give a timeline for the film’s release.
He also mentioned he was planning a film about the Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas.
Posted July 15, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to our winners of copies of the new documentary dropping this Friday: “Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd.”
Prizes courtesy of Mercury Studios.
Posted October 9, 2023 by Floydian Slip
This Friday, Pink Floyd will release a 30-minute film documenting the recent Australian eclipse. Entitled “Eclipse,” the YouTube-exclusive release follows a number of Floyd fans who flew to Western Australia in April to listen to the band’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” while experiencing a total solar eclipse.
The documentary will be available on the band’s YouTube channel as part of “Floyd Fridays” at 12 p.m. EDT on Oct. 13.
On Thursday April 20, the shadow of the moon grazed the tip of Western Australia, as it travelled over the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Marine Park in Exmouth. Overseen by the group’s long time creative consultant and Hipgnosis co-founder, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, Floyd gave eight Australian fans — dubbed The Astronome Domine Eight — the exclusive opportunity to visit the special scenic location within the region to hear “Dark Side” in its entirety.
The album’s final song, “Eclipse,” was timed to align with the exact moment of total eclipse.
The documentary, created by Powell, director Benny Trickett and producer Fiz Oliver, follows the Astronome Domine Eight who listened on headphones alongside a purpose-built pyramid on a deserted beach. It traces their journey from applying for the trip through their denouement after the eclipse.
Posted May 10, 2023 by Floydian Slip
Mercury Studios will release “Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd” in U.K. theaters May 15. It will open in the U.S. and Canada in late-June.
The feature length documentary is directed by Roddy Bogawa and the late Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson. The two collaborated on Bogawa’s “Taken By Storm” (2011) about Thorgerson and the Hipgnosis design team.
Narrated by actor Jason Isaacs, the film also features surviving band members Nick Mason, Roger Waters and David Gilmour; original band managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King; as well as The Who’s Pete Townshend and Blur’s Graham Coxon.
Producer Orian Williams says, “The music of Pink Floyd bears witness to Syd Barrett’s exceptional talent and inner turmoil. Their unconventional approach and ground-breaking sound expanded the horizons of music. Friends, family, bandmates and admirers shed light on all aspects of Syd’s enigmatic life in our film.”
The film takes it title from a lost Floyd track: Legend has it Barrett tried to teach his bandmates a new song he’d written, while intentionally changing the tune each time he played it for them, asking “Have you got it yet?”
Here’s the trailer:
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 August 26, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Deadline reports director Anton Corbijn has completed “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis),” a feature-length documentary about the venerable album sleeve design shop.
Founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell in the ’60s, the collaborative produced many sleeves for Pink Floyd and its members, as well as many other bands.
“Growing up in the late ’60s and ’70s, I was obsessed with music and everything connected to it – especially the album covers,” Corbijn tells Deadline. “The record sleeves were a huge part of my education and I really enjoyed making this film as it allowed me to revisit the things I loved from that time. I clearly recall the moment I first saw the sleeve for ‘Atom Heart Mother’ by Pink Floyd, and the Peter Gabriel sleeves.”
The film includes new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason.
It’s produced by Raindog Films’ Ged Doherty, Trish D. Chetty and Colin Firth.
No release date has yet been announced.
Posted December 16, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Sony Music will re-issue the 1994 Pink Floyd “Pulse” concert film on Blu-Ray and DVD on Feb. 18.
“P.U.L.S.E. Restored & Re-Edited” appears to be the same version of the David Mallet-directed film re-cut by Hipgnosis‘s Aubrey Powell that was included in 2019’s “The Later Years: 1987–2019” boxset.
This stand-alone reissue includes a pulsating light built into the package, similar to the original ’95 “Pulse” CD. (Better yet, the light is now operated by two replaceable AA batteries.)
“Essentially, it’s a device which we thought was entertaining,” drummer Nick Mason says of the light. “It’s an idea of Storm Thorgerson’s, which related to ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ and the pulse, and it’s a live album so the box is ‘alive.’
“After that, in terms of seriously deep meanings, one might be struggling a bit,” he adds.
The concert was recorded Oct. 20, 1994, at Earl’s Court in London, and includes a complete performances of the band’s “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
The two-disc set includes a variety of music videos, tour screen films, documentaries and additional material.
Posted November 23, 2020 by Floydian Slip
Register to win the new reissue of Pink Floyd’s “Delicate Sound of Thunder.”
Originally released in 1988, “Delicate Sound” captures the band out touring “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” over five nights at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York.
The 3-LP 180-gram vinyl set includes nine (9) songs not included on the 1988 release of the album. The 2-CD package includes eight (8) tracks more than the original release.
We have 3-LP, 2-CD, DVD and Blu-ray copies to give away, all courtesy of Sony Music.
Register to win now. Deadline: End of Sunday, Nov. 29.
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