Posted March 3, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #934. It’ll be a special program devoted to Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour on his 68th birthday:
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Posted November 26, 2013 by Floydian Slip
The management firm for Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour says no new recording project is underway. Yet.
The word comes from One Fifteen owner Paul Loasby. “Despite what Graham Nash tweeted there is nothing concrete as yet,” he tells “Floydian Slip.”
Loasby was responding to reports Nash had mentioned during an appearance on vintage.tv’s “Needle Time” that he and David Crosby were headed to Gilmour’s studio to lay down some vocals for “his new record.”
Posted November 22, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour is said to be working on a new recording project.
The news was seemingly leaked by Graham Nash (Crosby Stills Nash, The Hollies) on an appearance on vintage.tv’s “Needle Time” program last week.
Nash mentioned to host Neil McCormick that he and David Crosby were “taking the train to Brighton to go and sing with David Gilmour on his new record.”
Nash and Crosby provided some backing vocals on Gilmour’s previous studio album, “On an Island” (2006).
“Floydian Slip” turned to long-time Floyd sound engineer Andy Jackson who would certainly be working on such a project, if it was underway, for comment. He would neither confirm nor deny the project, but added, “Things are afoot, and more than you might expect.”
Gilmour’s former bandmate, Roger Waters, recently off his three-year world tour of “The Wall,” told Rolling Stone recently he’s completed a 55-minute demo of a new solo album.
Posted August 8, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Two of David Gilmour‘s children have been cast in roles on the television program “Downton Abbey.”
The Pink Floyd guitarist’s son, Gabriel, 16, and daughter, Romany, 11, are working as extras on the period drama.
Gilmour was pictured at the set during a shoot in Oxfordshire, England, this week, looking as if he were channeling Ernest Hemingway.
These episodes being shot for the fourth season will air in the U.K. later this year. The fourth season will air in the U.S. in early ’14.
Posted November 7, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Later this month, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour will become the first artist to release an entire album as a smartphone app.
To be released for iOS Nov. 19, the app will include Gilmour’s entire 2002 DVD “David Gilmour in Concert” for $8.99. An Android release will come later.
The concert was recorded at Robert Wyatt‘s “Meltdown” festival at London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2001, and a return visit the following year.
The concert songs are: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5); Terrapin; Fat Old Sun; Coming Back to Life; High Hopes; Je Crois Entendre Encore; Smile; Wish You Were Here; Comfortably Numb (featuring Wyatt); Dimming of the Day; Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-8); A Great Day for Freedom; Hushabye Mountain; Breakthrough (featuring Richard Wright); and Comfortably Numb (featuring Bob Geldof).
Extras include: Spare Digits (closeups of Gilmour’s guitar parts); Home Movie (shot at rehearsals); High Hopes Choral; I Put A Spell On You (with Jools Holland and Mica Paris); Don’t; and Sonnet 18.
Songs from 2001 were shot in HD, with the rest of the material shot in standard definition.
Posted May 23, 2012 by Floydian Slip
A guest appearance Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour made in 1975 will be issued as part of a new compilation.
“When Your Life Is Your Own,” a recording Gilmour made with David Courtney, was first made available on CD when Courney’s 1975 “First Day” album was reissued as “First Day: The Complete Story” in spring 2010.
The new Courtney compilation, “The Show Must Go On,” will be made available June 11 in the U.K.; July 10 in the U.S.
Courtney’s first successes came as a songwriter for Leo Sayer and Adam Faith. As a producer, he’s done work with Roger Daltrey, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.
Posted April 29, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Contact Music reports Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour threw a 50th birthday party for his wife, writer Polly Samson, on Friday.
The event took place for family and friends at the 20th Century Theatre in Notting Hill in London. It also marked the couple’s 20th anniversary together. Samson’s birthday is actually today, April 29.
Gilmour played “Where We Start” from his 2006 “On an Island” album, a song Samson inspired.
Posted March 21, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Posted March 16, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #823. It’ll be a special program devoted to Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, who turned 66 on March 6:
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Posted January 28, 2012 by Floydian Slip
This past Wednesday, Polly Samson, wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, helped rescue a man drowning near the couple’s East Sussex home.
Reports vary, but Samson is said to have aided the man who was flailing in the sea and, who, after rescue, refused help by trying to return to the water.
The man, who was in his 40s, was eventually taken by police to Royal Sussex County Hospital for mental evaluation.
Gilmour and the couple’s 21-year-old son, Charlie, reportedly assisted in the rescue.
Samson is a writer and photographer.
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