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.
Posted September 24, 2020 by Floydian Slip
Sony Music will re-release Pink Floyd‘s “Delicate Sound of Thunder” on Nov. 20.
The Grammy award-nominated film and live album, a document of the band’s “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” tour of 1987-89, will be re-issued on Blu-ray, DVD, 3LPs, 2CDs and deluxe editions with remixed 5.1 Surround Sound.
In addition to the live album and full concert film included with The Later Years boxset last November, all editions of ’20 re-issue will include a 40-page photo booklet, tour poster and postcards. The 3-LP 180-gram vinyl set includes nine songs not included on the 1988 release of the album. And the 2-CD includes eight tracks more than the original release.
Filmed at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum in August 1988 and directed by Wayne Isham, the re-issued film is sourced from more than 100 cans of original 35mm negatives, restored and transferred to 4K. The film has been re-edited by Benny Trickett from the restored and upgraded footage under creative direction of Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis.
The sound has been remixed from the original multitrack tapes by longtime Floyd engineer Andy Jackson with David Gilmour, assisted by Damon Iddins.
Sony will handle re-release of “Delicate Sound of Thunder” outside Europe, while Warner Music will manage the European release.
Cinema release still on-hold
On Aug. 20, Trafalgar Releasing announced the film would play theaters one night only, Oct. 15. The next day, the band’s Facebook page revealed that event had been postponed.
James Merchant, Trafalgar Head of Film and Music, confirmed for “Floydian Slip” today there are no updates on a rescheduled release date for that cinema event.
Posted August 20, 2020 by Floydian Slip
Trafalgar Releasing will present Pink Floyd‘s “Delicate Sound of Thunder” concert film in select theaters one night only, Oct. 15.
The film, directed by Wayne Isham, was first released on VHS in June 1989. DVD and Blu-ray versions came 30 years later in 2019.
This will be the first time the Grammy-nominated movie — for “Best Long Form Music Video” — will be shown in theaters.
“Delicate Sound of Thunder” is a document of the band’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour shot in August 1988 at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. Additional footage was recorded two months earlier at the Place d’Armes of the Château de Versailles, France.
Trafalgar gave a similar treatment to Nick Mason‘s “Live at the Roundhouse” this spring, and Roger Waters‘s “Us + Them” in autumn 2019.
Tickets go on sale Aug. 27 at delicatesoundofthunder.com.
Addendum (Aug. 24, 2020): The Pink Floyd Facebook page states “The cinema release of Delicate Sound of Thunder will be postponed. More details to follow.”
Posted June 17, 2020 by Floydian Slip
“Roger Waters Us + Them,” a document of the Pink Floyd co-founder’s 2017-18 tour, will be released on Blu-ray, DVD, CD and vinyl by Sony Music Entertainment on Oct 2.
Already available for digital purchase and rental on 4K, HD and SD Digital from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the film and soundtrack’s physical release date was announced yesterday.
Us + Them, directed by Waters and Sean Evans, was filmed on tour in Amsterdam, and on location in the UK. Viewers on digital, Blu-Ray and DVD have access to new post-feature content including two additional concert songs not included in the original feature (“Comfortably Numb” and “Smell the Roses”) as well as “A Fleeting Glimpse,” a documentary-style short film featuring behind-the-scenes moments from the tour.
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