Merchandise

“Floydian” flashdrives for sale

Posted October 27, 2009 by Floydian Slip

We’ve started selling “Floydian Slip” USB flashdrives at our Web site.

Each drive is 128 MB, USB 2 (USB 1-compatible), and about 3″ x 0.75″. They’re black, gray and silver, and sport our logo and Web address.

When you purchase a drive — for $12.99 each — you’re supporting our campaign to expand the “Floydian Slip” radio show to additional markets.

Each drive we sell just about covers our costs of putting a promotional package pitching our show into the hands of another radio station program director. (In fact, these are the same drives we’re using to deliver demos of our show to potential affiliate stations.)

Place your order now.

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Nick Mason lends voice to charity single

Posted October 19, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason will be heard on a new track to be released Nov. 1 to benefit a children’s charity.

Nick will drum — and sing! — on a cover of The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love.” The track will appear on “Bandaged Together,” a double-album to benefit the BBC’s Children in Need charity.

The track, which also features Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, and Bill Wyman, was recorded last month at EMI’s Abbey Road studio.

Nick’s track will be available as a download beginning Nov. 1. “Bandaged Together” will go on sale Nov. 9. You’ll be able to place your order online.

This will be the second “Bandaged Together” album. The first raised £250,000 for the charity.

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Flaming Lips to cover “Dark Side”

Posted October 16, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Oklahoma psych-rockers Flaming Lips’ next album will be a track-for-track “interpretation” of Pink Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece “The Dark Side of the Moon.”

The L.A. Times reports Lips frontman Wayne Coyne (pictured) made the announcement during a Q&A session with the audience before Thursday night’s show at the Ricardo Montalban Theater in Hollywood.

The Times says the recording, which is a collaboration with Stardeath and the White Dwarfs, a band that features Coyne’s nephew, Dennis, is already finished.

Henry Rollins and Peaches make guest appearances.

The Lips’ “Dark Side” will likely be an iTunes-only release, at least initially.

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Brits to lick and stick Division Bell in 2010

Posted October 15, 2009 by Floydian Slip

New Music Express (NME) reports the Royal Mail will introduce a line of album-inspired postage stamps in 2010, including one devoted to Pink Floyd’s “The Division Bell” (1994).

Citing postage stamp collecting site Norvic Philatelics, NME says the series of 10 will be issued Jan. 7, and will also include album artwork from:

The Clash (London Calling)
New Order (Power, Corruption & Lies)
The Rolling Stones (Let It Bleed)
Led Zeppelin (IV)
Mike Oldfield (Tubular Bells)
Primal Scream (Screamadelica)
David Bowie (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars)
Coldplay (A Rush of Blood to the Head)
Blur (Parklife)

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Unreleased David Gilmour material part of new compilation

Posted October 5, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Recordings featuring Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour are part of a new 2-CD compilation.

“Join Together” by producer Tom Newman and musician Peter Gibson, includes previously unreleased material recorded by Newman at his Argonaut Studios in London, between 1977-1982.

Mike Oldfield and occasional Floyd guitarist Snowy White also appear on some tracks.

Newman is most famous for producing Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells.” Gibson is part of Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts.

The new disc is available online from Well Alright.

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The Orb recording with David Gilmour

Posted October 2, 2009 by Floydian Slip

The List reports electronica duo The Orb is recording with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.

“I’ve just started work on an album with David Gilmore (sic) from Pink Floyd, which I think every Orb and Pink Floyd fan will want to hear,” Orb founder Alex Paterson told the Scottish magazine.

The band’s first album, “Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld” (1991), featured the Battersea Power station on its cover, reminiscent of Floyd’s “Animals” (1977).

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Enter to win: “Syd Barrett Legend”

Posted September 28, 2009 by Floydian Slip

We’re giving away four copies of the new book “Syd Barrett Legend” by Bob Cairns.

The 176-page paperback traces the Floyd frontman’s life from his early days in Cambridge to psychedelic sensation to mysterious recluse.

The book also includes Barrett’s full body of lyrics, published for the first time in any single work.

Retail value: £11.69 ($18.65). Prizes courtesy of U.K. publisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Ltd.

Enter to win now. Entry deadline is 6 p.m. EDT, Monday, Oct. 5.

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Jazz cover of “Vera” coming

Posted September 26, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters’ “Vera” will be covered by Curtis Stigers on his upcoming album “Lost in Dreams.”

The song, which appeared on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” in 1979, will be included in a medley with “We’ll Meet Again,” the wartime ballad that’s the trademark song of British vocalist Vera Lynn, the subject of Waters’ song.

Stigers says he got the idea for combining the songs in 1995 while in England during the 50th anniversary of V-E Day.

“I thought, ‘God, wouldn’t it be cool to put these two songs together,'” he says. “I filed the idea away, and then I brought it up with Scrapper (co-producer John “Scrapper” Sneider) when we were talking about songs for this record. His eyes lit up and he said, ‘That’s perfect. What a great idea.'”

“Lost in Dreams” will be released Sept. 29 by the Concord Jazz label.

Purchase “Medley: Vera/We’ll Meet Again” as an MP3 download. Or purchase the entire “Lost in Dreams” album online now.

All purchases help support “Floydian Slip.”

(Photo: Andy Lawless)

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Syd Barrett book published

Posted September 26, 2009 by Floydian Slip

U.K. publisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Ltd. has published “Syd Barrett Legend” by Bob Cairns.

The 176-page paperback traces the Floyd frontman’s life from his early days in Cambridge to psychedelic sensation to mysterious recluse.

The book also includes Barrett’s full body of lyrics, published for the first time in any single work.

Cairns, who has spent his career working in the construction field, has been a Floyd fan for 40 years.

The title is available for Â£11.69 through Amazon.co.uk.

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Pink Floyd FAQ published

Posted August 26, 2009 by Floydian Slip

Backbeat Books has published “Pink Floyd FAQ: Everything Left to Know … and More!” by Stuart Shea.

The 344-page paperback is organized into brief chapters that cover various aspects of Pink Floyd history:

How did the U.S. discover Floyd?
What guests played on Floyd records?
What were the band’s most memorable gigs?
What are their greatest moments on record, as a group and individually?
What are the notable missteps — and how did the band recover?
Are the seemingly confessional songs true?
What records influenced them, and which performers follow in their wake?
What was it like to be at a Floyd show in 1967, in ’73, in ’80?

Shea is co-author of “Fab Four FAQ,” associate editor of “The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia,” and author of “Wrigley Field: An Unauthorized Biography.” He lives in Chicago.

Buy “Pink Floyd FAQ: Everything Left to Know … and More!” through Amazon now. Your purchase helps support Floydian Slip.

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