Merchandise

Pink Floyd catalog to be reissued on vinyl

Posted May 6, 2016 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd will begin reissuing its catalog on vinyl this spring.

The first of the series of remastered LPs will arrive June 3 on the group’s new Pink Floyd Records label, a division of Columbia: “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (1967), “A Saucerful of Secrets” (1968), “More” (1969) and “Ummagumma” (1969).

The albums will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and feature packaging that imitates the original releases.

Floyd plans to release more LPs from its catalog throughout the year. It’ll be the first time in more than 20 years the complete Floyd catalog will be available on vinyl.

The first batch have been mastered by long-time Floyd collaborators James Guthrie and Joel Plante; and Bernie Grundman, who’s mastered Michael Jackson‘s “Thriller,” Prince‘s “Purple Rain,” Dr. Dre‘s “The Chronic” and others.

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Letter of the month

Posted May 1, 2016 by Floydian Slip

No, you stay awesome, Tiffany.

By the way, you can get your free “Floydian Slip” stickers here.

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Syd Barrett on cover of Mojo

Posted April 25, 2016 by Floydian Slip

Syd Barrett is on the cover of the new Mojo magazine, hitting U.K. newsstands tomorrow.

The magazine devotes 19 pages to the late Pink Floyd co-founder and the band’s early years.

Included are two high-quality Floyd poster reproductions on heavy, coated stock; and a 14-track CD of “modern psychedelia” housed in a sleeve that harkens back to Floyd’s “Arnold Layne” single.

We’ll be giving away some copies on an upcoming “Floydian Slip.”

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Amused to Death wins Grammy award

Posted February 16, 2016 by Floydian Slip

The 2015 remix of Roger Waters’ “Amused to Death” won “Best Surround Sound Album” at last night’s Grammy Awards.

James Guthrie and Joel Plante took the honor for their work remixing the ’92 album.

Waters’ feature length movie of “Roger Waters The Wall” was nominated for “Best Music Film,” but lost to “Amy,” a film by Asif Kapadia about Amy Winehouse.

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“Rattle That Lock” wins album art award

Posted January 9, 2016 by Floydian Slip

David Gilmour‘s “Rattle That Lock” was honored for best album artwork of 2016 by Art Vinyl.

The avian-themed design, art directed by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Corporation, was selected by popular vote from 50 entrants.

Drenge‘s “Undertow” came in second, and “Currents” by Tame Impala was third.

The 2016 winners will be shown at exhibitions in Ayrshire, Bologna, Budapest and Munich, and at two locations in London.

Art Vinyl sells framing systems to display album covers as wall art, and curates album art exhibitions.

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Storm Thorgerson documentary now streaming

Posted December 13, 2015 by Floydian Slip

“Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis,” a feature-length documentary about the legendary Pink Floyd sleeve designer, is now streaming online.

Director Roddy Bogawa has made the entire film available for viewing online, along with bonus material, for $10. Viewers can also stream two bonus material featurettes for $5.99 a piece.

Watch the film here

Bogawa’s new project is “Barrett: Have You Got It Yet?,” documenting the life of Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett. It’s tentatively schedule for a mid-2016 release. Read more about that film.

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Roger Waters gets Grammy nominations

Posted December 8, 2015 by Floydian Slip

“Roger Waters The Wall” and “Amused to Death” received Grammy nominations yesterday.

The film “Roger Waters The Wall” was nominated for Best Music Film. It was directed by Waters and Sean Evans.

Other nominees in the category are:

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown/James Brown
Sonic Highways/Foo Fighters
What Happened, Miss Simone?/Nina Simone
Amy/Amy Winehouse

Waters’ “Amused to Death” was nominated for Best Surround Sound Album. The ’92 work was remixed in Surround Sound by James Guthrie and Joel Plante.

Other nominees in that category are:

Amdahl: Astrognosia & Aesop/Ingar Heine Bergby & Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Magnificat/Øyvind Gimse, Anita Brevik, Nidarosdomens Jentekor & Trondheimsolistene
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7/Paavo Järvi & Russian National Orchestra
Spes/Tove Ramlo-Ystad & Cantus

The Grammy’s will be broadcast Feb. 16 8 ET on CBS-TV.

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Early Pink Floyd recordings released

Posted November 30, 2015 by Floydian Slip

A handful of very early Pink Floyd recordings had their first official release Friday as “Pink Floyd 1965: Their First Recordings.” The limited edition vinyl set was sold during Record Store Day in the United Kingdom.

At least two of the recordings had been floating around as bootlegs since the ’60s — “Lucy Leave” and “I’m a King Bee” — but most fans were familiar with the others by title only.

The double-7-inch vinyl set contains a total of four Syd Barrett numbers, one by Roger Waters and a cover of a Slim Harpo song:

Lucy Leave
02:53 (Barrett)
Double O Bo
03:25 (Barrett)
Remember Me
02:45 (Barrett)
Walk With Me Sydney
03:11 (Waters)
Butterfly
02:59 (Barrett)
I’m a King Bee
03:07 (Harpo)

The lineup on the recordings consists of Roger Waters, bass and vocals; Nick Mason, drums; Rado Klose, guitar; Richard Wright, keyboards; and Syd Barrett, guitar and vocals.

The Waters composition, “Walk With Me Sydney,” features vocals by Juliette Gale, wife of keyboardist Rick Wright.

Though the limited edition of approximately 1,000 sets was distributed in the U.K. only, the band’s Facebook page says the band hopes to make the tracks available “in some physical form towards the end of next year (2016).”

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Contest: Roger Waters The Wall soundtrack

Posted November 16, 2015 by Floydian Slip

These double-CDs are courtesy of Legacy Recordings.

Deadline to enter: End of day Sunday, Nov. 22.

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Roger Waters: New album coming in 2016

Posted November 14, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has told Digital Spy he’ll release a new studio album in 2016 and follow it with a tour.

He’s said he’s working on a “radio play” about a boy and his grandfather in Northern Ireland.

“I’m in the middle of making it now,” he says. “It addresses this basic question: Why are we killing the children?

“There’s two characters in it: a grandfather and a grandchild and they together try to find answers to this question, by wandering around.”

Some of the songs were written by Waters as many as 15 years ago.

As for the tour, Waters says he’s looking to perform a “full arena tour,” partly to generate revenue lost to piracy. “Particularly now that you can’t own a record — people just steal it the minute it’s out. They steal it and that’s the end of it,” he says.

“The only way to make a few quid would be to go out on the road and get bums on seat, because they can’t steal that!”

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