Posted June 18, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Register to win a copy of the new book “Pink Floyd Album by Album” by Martin Popoff.
Composed of interviews in question-and-answer format with more than a dozen musicians, writers, editors and more, the book devotes a chapter to each of Pink Floyd’s 15 albums.
Popoff’s interview subjects include Steve Hackett (Genesis, GTR); Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper); Steve Rothery (Marillion); and “Floydian Slip” host Craig Bailey.
Prizes courtesy of Voyageur Press.
Posted June 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Warner Music will release a limited edition box set of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason‘s previously-released solo work on Aug. 31.
Titled “Unattended Luggage,” it’ll include three discs:
The box set will be available in CD and LP formats. Each individual album in the box will also be made available as a digital download and through streaming platforms.
This will be the first time in more than 20 years the titles will be available in CD and LP format.
“White of the Eye,” a film soundtrack Mason recorded with Rick Fenn, who also collaborated on “Profiles,” has never been available on CD.
“These recordings hold a very special place for me in my musical life,” Mason says. “‘Fictitious Sports’ developed initially from working with Mike Mantler, Carla Bley, and Robert Wyatt on a couple of their projects, and benefited enormously from a whole crew of great musicians that I was introduced to by them at Grog Kill Studios in Woodstock.
“‘Profiles’ and ‘White of the Eye’ were an extension of working with Rick Fenn on some advertising and short documentary film soundtracks, which then developed into something more,” he adds.
“Listening back after 30 odd years, I’m delighted they are getting the reissue treatment. I’m rather hoping that sales will be sufficient to damage the market in the original rare vinyl versions!”
Mason is a founding member of Pink Floyd and the only member to appear on every Floyd album and at every Floyd show.
The release of “Unattended Luggage” is timed to coincide with Mason’s tour with Saucerful of Secrets, a band he assembled to perform early Floyd music.
The 5-person group debuted at four small shows in London May 20-24, and will launch a tour of Scandinavia and Europe starting Sept. 2.
Michael Hann (Financial Times) wrote of the May 20 performance, “This was the most extraordinary and joyous show — a reminder of what a peculiar and brilliant band Pink Floyd were.”
Tickets are on sale now at www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com.
(Photo of Nick Mason by Jill Furmanovsky)
Posted May 22, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd is the cover story in MOJO issue #296, hitting U.K. newsstands today.
The British periodical has created two covers for its latest issue: One featuring the early Syd Barrett-era Floyd, and a second with a later line-up.
The issue includes a 20-page feature detailing the 50 greatest Floyd tracks, and a new interview with drummer Nick Mason talking about his latest project bringing early Floyd back to the stage with “Saucerful of Secrets.”
Posted May 8, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Associated Independent Recording (AIR) Studios in London is up for sale.
Founded by Beatles producer Sir George Martin in 1969, Pink Floyd recorded portions of its “Meddle” album (1971) there. David Gilmour also recorded at the facility during his work with Unicorn, Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, John Martyn, Pete Townshend and others.
AIR co-owner Paul Woolf told Billboard, “We’re a pair of old farts, basically. We’ve worked very hard over a number of years to get business in really solid shape, but there’s always a future path and it’s time to go.
“There’s someone out there who’s younger and who has got the tenacity that we had when we were 40,” he added.
The property, housed at London’s Lyndhurst Hall since 1991, contains approximately $6 million worth of equipment.
Posted April 20, 2018 by Floydian Slip
We’ve made available for sale a handful of “Floydian Slip” promotional items at https://www.floydianslip.com/shop/.
If you’ve been looking for another brick for your wall — or some other show-branded stuff — it’s here.
We’ll throw in a handful of “Floydian Slip” stickers with each order … free of charge.
Posted April 17, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters says a 5.1 Surround Sound edition of Pink Floyd‘s “Animals” (1977) is on its way.
According to Super Deluxe Edition, the Floyd co-founder mentioned the release during an interview on Dutch radio station NPO Radio 2:
“I’ve just been working with Po (Aubrey Powell),” he said. “There’s a reissue of ‘Animals,’ I think, a 5.1 remix of ‘Animals,’ and so he came up with some new photographs of Battersea Power Station, as it is now, to use as a CD cover for the new 5.1 mix. It’s beautiful.”
Any 5.1 remix wouldn’t be pressed to compact disc, since the format doesn’t support the technology. So Waters most likely was referring to an upcoming Blu-ray or DVD.
Posted March 27, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd Records will re-release its 1971 compilation album “Relics” on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl on May 18.
The album was remastered was James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman, the same team responsible for the spate of other recent Floyd re-issues.
“Relics” includes singles; B-sides; and tracks from the band’s first three albums: “The Piper at the Gates Of Dawn” (1967), “A Saucerful of Secrets” (1968) and the soundtrack to the film “More” (1969).
At the time of its original release, it boasted a previously-unreleased number written by Roger Waters, “Biding My Time,” recorded in July 1969.
“Relics” was the first album to include the Floyd singles “Arnold Layne” and “See Emily Play”; and the original studio recording of “Careful with That Axe, Eugene,” originally the B-side of “Point Me at the Sky.”
The sleeve features the original black and white drawing by Floyd drummer Nick Mason, with the subtitle “A Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios.”
All tracks are the original stereo versions, except for “Arnold Layne” and “See Emily Play,” which are the original mono mixes.
The label has been busy re-releasing the Floyd catalog on vinyl. A re-issue of “Pulse” was announced earlier this week (“Pulse to be reissued on vinyl“).
Posted March 24, 2018 by Floydian Slip
“Pulse,” the 1995 double-disc document of Pink Floyd‘s mid-’90s “Division Bell” tour will be re-released on heavyweight vinyl this spring.
Pink Floyd Records will release the album May 18 as four 180-gram LPs, each with its own outer sleeve, plus a 52-page hardcover book, all contained in a thick card slipcase.
One bonus on this new set is the inclusion of “One of These Days,” recorded Oct. 21, 1994, at Earl’s Court. It was included on the original LP and cassette versions of “Pulse,” but left off the CD pressing. It was also included on the ’95 CD single for “High Hopes.”
The re-issue was remastered from original tapes by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. Hipgnosis’s Aubrey Powell and Peter Curzon handled design duties. The two worked on the original sleeve with late Hipgnosis co-founder Storm Thorgerson.
Over the past few years, Floyd has released its entire studio collection as stereo remasters on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl. All have been mastered from original analogue studio tapes with original album artwork.
Most recently, this past November, they released “A Collection of Great Dance Songs” (1981) and “Delicate Sound of Thunder” (1988).
Posted March 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to our winners of copies of “Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon” by Bill Kopp:
Prizes provided by publisher Rowman and Littlefield.
Posted March 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd will release a new heavy weight vinyl remaster of its first album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (1967), on Record Store Day, April 21.
James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman remastered the album in mono working from the original ’67 mono mix.
Hipgnosis’s Aubrey Powell and Peter Curzon designed the cover for the new version, which features Syd Barrett‘s silhouetted graphic of the band that adorned the back of the original LP.
A poster of the Colin Prime photo that was the basis for Barrett’s graphic is included with the disc.
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