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“Roger Waters: Amused to Death” radio special coming

Posted June 23, 2015 by Floydian Slip

“Roger Waters: Amused to Death,” a one-hour syndicated radio special, is coming in July.

The program will feature an extensive interview with Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters as well as nine tracks from the album.

Craig Bailey of “Floydian Slip” will host the show.

The program will likely begin airing a week ahead of the reissue of “Amused to Death,” which will be July 24.

“Roger Waters: Amused to Death” will be made freely available to stations wishing to air it. A list of participating stations hasn’t been finalized.

The program is produced by Paul Chuffo of Joyride Media of New York. Past programs from the company include shows devoted to Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley and The Birds.

Joyride Media shows are heard on more than 300 stations nationwide.

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Reprise: Show #1,000 guest appearances

Posted June 22, 2015 by Floydian Slip

We’d asked you to pay attention and name some of the guests you heard making appearances on “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 a couple weeks ago for a chance to win.

The contest is over!

So here are those guest segments again, for anyone who might have missed them:

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Winners: Pink Floyd T-shirts

Posted June 22, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to winners of Pink Floyd T-shirts from the Official Web store of Pink Floyd: shop.pinkfloyd.com:

Josh McNamara, Carthage, MO
Chuck LaBorde, Allegany, NY
Jessica Hauptmann, Aurora, CO

We’d asked you to name at least three of the five guests you heard on “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000. They were:

Andy Jackson, Pink Floyd producer/engineer
Harry Waters, musician
Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, Pink Floyd sleeve designer
James Guthrie, Pink Floyd producer
Peter Jenner, Pink Floyd manager/producer

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Ticket sales open for “Roger Waters The Wall” film

Posted June 19, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Tickets went on sale today for “Roger Waters The Wall,” a concert film of his recent world tour of Pink Floyd’s seminal 1979 album.

The film will show at 8 p.m. local time in select theaters across the United States on Tuesday, Sept. 29.

Search for the showing in your area and purchase tickets online

Read more about the film: “Roger Waters The Wall” film showing this fall (April 18, 2015)

Posted in Events, Films, Merchandise, Personnel, Roger Waters | 2 comments

Report: New David Gilmour album title

Posted June 7, 2015 by Floydian Slip

The upcoming album from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour apparently will be called “Rattle That Lock.”

Martin Kilbride reported the title in an article for the Brain Damage website.

Gilmour revealed the title when pressed for it at the 2015 Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas in Ireland where he spoke yesterday with his wife and lyric-writing partner Polly Samson.

Gilmour also previewed a couple minutes of a song from the upcoming album.

The album will be released in September.

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Pink Floyd honored at former Regent Street Polytechnic

Posted May 29, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Yesterday, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and Nick Mason helped unveil a plaque honoring the band at the site of the former Regent Street Polytechnic in London.

Waters, Mason and Rick Wright studied architecture at the institution, now the University of Westminster, from 1962-65, when they formed the band with Syd Barrett.

Juliette Gale, first wife of Wright and also a former student of the school, also attended the event.

The plaque is the second to be installed as part of the Regent Street Heritage Plaque Program. The first was placed in 2012 on Heddon Street, the location of the cover art for David Bowie‘s 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.”

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“Roger Waters The Wall” film showing this fall

Posted April 18, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Picturehouse Entertainment and Fathom Events have acquired international and U.S. rights, respectively, to the feature-length film “Roger Waters The Wall.”

Written and directed by Roger Waters and Sean Evans, the film will show worldwide at 7:30 p.m. local time Tuesday, Sept. 29.

It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. A concert film of Waters’ tour of the classic Pink Floyd album “The Wall,” it’s also a road movie of Waters’ reckoning with the past and an anti-war film.

“We were a big family on the road, 189 of us, give or take the odd Snoozy Walrus. We were happy by and large and I am really happy to welcome everyone at Fathom and Picturehouse aboard, I know, I know, mixing metaphors,” Waters says in a somewhat rambling statement.

“Where was I? Oh yeah, with your help, this coming 29th September will be the perfect way to remember, not just our loved ones, but the other guys loved ones, fallen, living, and as yet unborn,” he adds.

More information and tickets will be available this summer at www.rogerwatersthewall.com.

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Roger Waters’ Amused to Death remastered

Posted April 15, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings will issue a remastered edition of Roger Waters‘ 1992 album “Amused to Death” on July 24.

The reissue will feature a new 5.1 Surround Sound remix of the album on high-definition Blu-ray audio and a new remastered stereo mix by longtime Pink Floyd collaborator James Guthrie.

The cover and gatefold art has been updated by Sean Evans, creative director of Waters’ 2010-2013 “The Wall Live” tour and film.

“I’m remembering the record from [over] 20 years ago, that most of what I had to say then sadly still pertains today and is maybe even more relevant to our predicament as people in 2015 even than it was in 1992,” says Waters.

Guthrie premiered his Surround Sound mix at the Pink Floyd academic conference held at Princeton in April 2014.

The reissue will be available in six formats: CD; CD/Blu-ray; SACD; hi-res digital download; double-LP 200 gram vinyl, pressed at Quality Record Pressings; and a limited edition, vinyl, numbered double-LP picture disc.

The album’s available for pre-order at rogerwaters.com, which has a number of music/merchandise bundles available.

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Floydian Slip’s Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios #9: A note from Ron Geesin

Posted March 25, 2015 by Floydian Slip

As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.

A few years ago we had the opportunity to interview Ron Geesin. The occasion was the 40th anniversary of the soundtrack he did with Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters: “Music from ‘The Body.'” (Ron also played a pivotal role in Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother” [1970].)

As a follow-up, in March 2011, Ron mailed us some of his CDs. Included in the box was this cryptic note.

You can hear and read a transcript of our interview with Ron online

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Winner: Name David Gilmour’s new album

Posted March 16, 2015 by Floydian Slip

David Gilmour‘s new album will be released in September, but, so far, the album’s title hasn’t been announced.

A couple weeks ago we invited you to offer suggestions. We’ve picked our favorite from all entries:

“The Spacial Plane,” submitted by Jeff Pinkstaff of Midland, Texas.

Shine on, Jeff. We’ll be digging into the saucerful of prizes to see what it has for you.

Posted in Contests, David Gilmour, Merchandise, Personnel, Recordings | 6 comments

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