Roger Waters

Roger Waters radio special excerpts

Posted July 17, 2015 by Floydian Slip

We’ve posted podcast excerpts from the new syndicated radio special “Roger Waters Amused to Death.”

The one-hour program comes one week ahead of the July 24 reissue of Waters’ 1992 album, now described by a sticker affixed to its front as “Roger Waters’ portrait of a distracted society.”

The special will air beginning today on selected radio stations and contains selections from the album’s 14 tracks as well as extensive interview material with Waters.

Floydian Slip’s Craig Bailey is the host.

We’ve also posted a transcript of the program.

Listen to the excerpts

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Film trailer: Roger Waters The Wall

Posted July 9, 2015 by Floydian Slip

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Roger Waters radio special preview

Posted July 6, 2015 by Floydian Slip

“Roger Waters: Amused to Death,” a one-hour syndicated radio special, will begin airing on select stations Friday, July 17.

The program, hosted by Floydian Slip’s Craig Bailey, features audio from Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters as well as all 14 tracks from the album.

Sony/Legacy Recordings is reissuing the ’92 album July 24.

The new version features a 5.1 Surround Sound remix on high-definition Blu-ray media, as well as a newly remastered stereo mix by longtime Waters/Floyd collaborator James Guthrie.

Stations interested in carrying the program can sign up now. The show’s also available as a four-part web series for website owners to post online.

“Roger Waters: Amused to Death” is produced by Paul Chuffo of Joyride Media.

Here’s a 6:00 preview of the show:

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“Roger Waters The Wall” coming to Palace 9, South Burlington, Vt.

Posted July 2, 2015 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” is partnering with Palace 9 Cinemas in South Burlington, Vt., to bring you “Roger Waters The Wall” this fall.

The film of Waters’ recent world tour is playing one night only: 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29.

“Floydian Slip” host Craig Bailey will be in attendance.

Floyd fans in Vermont have one place to catch the show: Palace 9 Cinemas at 10 Lafayette Road, South Burlington.

The film is an immersive concert experience of the classic Pink Floyd album; a road movie of Waters’ reckoning with the past; and an anti-war event, highlighting the human cost of conflict.

Included in the showing: “The Simple Facts” with Waters and Floyd drummer Nick Mason – reunited, unscripted, and answering questions submitted from fans around the world.

Buy tickets now

Buy your tickets online now for the Palace 9 showing.

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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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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)

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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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Roger Waters falls; knocked unconscious

Posted October 29, 2014 by Floydian Slip

The NY Post reports Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters attended the Oct. 23 Long Island Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony with a black eye and stitches.

Though he joked he got into a fight with a bottle of tequila the night before — “and the bottle won” — apparently he actually fell in his bathroom, hit his head, and was knocked unconscious.

The paper says Waters was at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia emergency room until 5 a.m. the day of the event.

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