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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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“Floydian Slip” songlist #1043

Posted April 11, 2016 by Floydian Slip

“Storm Effect: Remembering Storm Thorgerson”

[ See album artwork ]

Pieces of Eight
Pieces of Eight (Styx) (1978)
Arriving UFO
Tormato (Yes) (1978)
Big Log
The Principle of Moments (Robert Plant) (1983)
Nellie Takes Her Bow
The Electric Light Orchestra (aka No Answer) (ELO) (1971)
In the Cage
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis) (1974)
Sheep
Animals (1977)

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Video: David Gilmour on CBS This Morning

Posted March 29, 2016 by Floydian Slip

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Video: David Gilmour on Jimmy Kimmel

Posted March 29, 2016 by Floydian Slip

David Gilmour appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last night:

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David Gilmour to return to Pompeii

Posted March 18, 2016 by Floydian Slip

This summer David Gilmour will return to play the Pompeii amphitheater, 45 years after Pink Floyd performed there while shooting Adrian Maben‘s “Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii.”

Gilmour will perform July 7 and 8 as part of his “Rattle That Lock” tour.

“I want to thank the Ministry of Culture for giving me the opportunity to once again play this beautiful and historic venue,” Gilmour says. “Performing there in 1971 was very special and I’m looking forward to returning and hopefully creating some more memorable moments made even more special by playing to an audience.”

Floyd was the first to play the ancient city of Pompeii, filming over four days in October 1971. No other artist has performed there since. The film showed the band performing without an audience, though the group’s set-list mimicked those of its other live shows at the time.

This time around, there’ll be more than just a film crew watching.

Tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. CET March 22 at www.davidgilmour.com for €300 plus a 15 percent booking fee.

Buyers are limited to two tickets per show.

Pompeii’s amphitheater, built around 80 BC, is the oldest surviving Roman amphitheater. It was buried along with the rest of the city by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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Happy 70th Birthday, David Gilmour

Posted March 6, 2016 by Floydian Slip

Happy 70th Birthday, David Gilmour

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Roger Waters collaborating on opera based on “The Wall”

Posted March 6, 2016 by Floydian Slip

Opéra de Montréal will premiere an opera based on Pink Floyd‘s “The Wall” next year. The album’s auteur and Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is collaborating on the project.

Baritone Étienne Dupuis will star as Pink. Music for the production was written by Julien Bilodeau, and Waters is handling the libretto. Alain Trudel will conduct the Orchestre Métropolitain.

Waters initially declined to participate, but changed his mind after hearing the score. “I sat there not expecting to be moved, and I was moved,” he says. “Very moved. So I approach this project with great enthusiasm.”

Waters is no stranger to opera. He spent a great deal of the 1990s writing “Ça Ira” with Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gil.

The opera’s premiering in Montreal is apropos: Waters got the idea for “The Wall” after growing frustrated with a rowdy audience and spitting on a fan during a Floyd show at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in 1977.

“Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera” will open March 11, 2017.

The company has already released its version of “Another Brick in the Wall Part II”:

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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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Play about Syd Barrett to premiere in Scotland

Posted January 29, 2016 by Floydian Slip

“One Thinks of it All as a Dream,” a new play focused on Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett, will premiere at the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (SMHAFF) in Glasgow in October.

SMHAFF commissioned the piece from Scottish novelist and playwright Alan Bissett (pictured).

“I … wanted to explore his multi-faceted character. He was by turns charismatic, selfish, principled and vulnerable. The legend of ‘Mad Syd’ has been enshrined in rock lore, but I wanted to get past the acid-casualty cliches to try and find the man beneath, in all his complexity,” says Bissett on the SMHAFF website.

“I took the decision to go backwards and forwards in time, through all the periods of Barrett’s life, to try and gain some understanding of the entwined roots of creativity and mental illness, as well as the various impulses which might have driven him to reject the modern world,” he adds.

The work’s title comes from a Barrett quote included in a 1971 Melody Maker interview.

“There are several characters in the show, but most of them are peripheral ‘journalists’ or ‘fans’,” Bissett tells Floydian Slip. “The three main characters, I suppose you could say, are Syd, Roger Waters and R.D. Laing, the psychiatrist. None of the rest of the Floyd are characters in the show.

“The show is not officially sanctioned in any way, and we haven’t had any contact with Syd’s family,” he adds. “I wouldn’t have written this play while Syd was still alive, but he is a historical figure now, to an extent.”

“One Thinks of it All as a Dream” will premiere at Glasgow’s Oran Mor in October and then move to the Traverse in Edinburgh and the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen.

This year is the 70^th anniversary of Barrett’s birth, and 10th anniversary of his death.

Learn more at the SMHAFF website

Addendum: This story was revised Jan. 31 to include additional exclusive quotes from Alan Bissett.

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