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Roger Waters breaks solo tour record

Posted October 5, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters’ three-year world tour of “The Wall” has broken Billboard’s Boxscore record for a solo act.

The tour took in $459 million over the course of 219 performances, breaking the previous record of $407 million set by Madonna on her 2008-09 Sweet and Sticky Tour.

Waters now holds third place for highest-grossing tour of all time, solo or group act. U2 is at number one with $736 million for its 360° tour in 2009-2011. The Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang tour grossed $558 million from 2005-2007.

Waters launched “The Wall” revival in September 2010 playing six legs in North and South America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand over three years.

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“The Body” coming to DVD

Posted September 13, 2013 by Floydian Slip

The 1970 Roy Battersby documentary “The Body,” best known to Pink Floyd fans for its soundtrack including work by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, will be issued on DVD next month.

Network Distributing Ltd. will release the film on DVD in its entirety for the first time. The disc will include the original theatrical trailer, a gallery of still images, and promotional material.

Waters composed and recorded the soundtrack along with Ron Geesin. The track “Give Birth to a Smile” included the rest of Pink Floyd, who appeared without credit.

The DVD will be issued as a Region 2 disc, playable in Europe, the Middle East and several other countries, but not the United States.

Network describes “The Body” as “a deeply intimate feature-length film exploring the physical experience of being human.”

Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave and Frank Finlay, with commentary by poet/playwright Adrian Mitchell, the film follows the human life-cycle from conception to death.

Battersby has worked as a director mostly in television since 1969.

The DVD will be priced at £6.98.

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Roger Waters to play Stand Up for Heroes

Posted September 11, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters will perform at the 7th Annual Stand Up for Heroes event in New York City on Nov. 6.

The event, to raise funds for wounded service members, will include Jerry Seinfeld, Bruce Springsteen and Jon Stewart.

Waters performed at the 2012 event (pictured).

The event’s organized by The Bob Woodruff Foundation and held in conjunction with the New York Comedy Festival.

Since its inception, Stand Up for Heroes has raised $16 million to help wounded veterans.

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Roger Waters wins Pollstar awards

Posted February 10, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters received two Pollstar Awards this week: Major Tour of the Year and Most Creative Stage Production.

The 24th annual award winners were nominated by music industry leaders and voted on by concert professionals.

The awards were presented at the Los Angeles’ Club Nokia this past Thursday.

Pollstar is a music industry trade publication covering the worldwide concert industry. It’s supplied information to professional concert promoters, booking agents, artist managers and facility executives for more than 25 years.

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“Amused to Death” to be reissued as SACD, LP

Posted January 18, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Acoustic Sounds Inc. will reissue Roger Waters’s 1992 album “Amused to Death” on LP and Super Audio CD (SACD) this fall.

James Guthrie, who mixed the original album, will use the original analog tapes to master the album for SACD. Doug Sax, who mastered the original, will join him in prepping the LP.

“Amused To Death” was originally mixed using QSound, a virtual surround sound, to enhance the spatial feel of the album’s music and sound effects. The reissue will preserve QSound’s three-dimensional experience.

The LP will be pressed onto a 200-gram vinyl double disc. The SACD will be a stereo hybrid, meaning it can be played on a standard CD player, albeit without the added benefits of the SACD technology.

Acoustic Sounds has set an Oct. 15 release date, but emphasizes the date is tentative.

The LP will be priced at $49.98. The SACD at $30.

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Roger Waters at 12.12.12 on iTunes

Posted December 18, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Three tracks from Roger Waters‘ performance at last week’s 12.12.12 concert are available for sale online.

“Us and Them”; “Comfortably Numb,” a duet with Eddie Vedder; and an extended version of “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2” called “Another Brick in the Atlantic Wall” are part of the album released today.

The album contains 24 selections from the event held at Madison Square Garden last Wednesday.

The album’s available for purchase in it entirety only. No single tracks are being sold. A CD will be released next month.

The Robin Hood Relief Fund will receive 100% of net proceeds of digital retailers. The fund is providing money, materials and know-how to local organizations serving those in the regions hardest hit by the storm.

Buy the album now.

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Waters on Fallon show tonight

Posted December 11, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters will appear on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” tonight.

Waters isn’t scheduled to perform, but will likely discuss his appearance scheduled for tomorrow night’s 12.12.12 concert to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Fallon devoted a week to the band in September 2011 to mark the “Why Pink Floyd” reissue launch.

The program airs in NBC-TV at 12:35 a.m. ET.

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Roger Waters to appear in theatrical production

Posted November 21, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters will take the stage next week playing a different kind of role than usual. The Pink Floyd co-founder will join the cast of Culture Project‘s revival of “The Exonerated,” a play about wrongfully convicted survivors of death row.

Written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, the show’s original production ran for more than 600 performances beginning in October 2002. Featuring a rotating cast of celebrities reading accounts by former death row inmates, the show focuses on the true stories of six people sentenced to death and later freed after being proven innocent.

Waters will share the stage with Kathleen Chalfant, William Marshall and Chris Sarandon.

Founded by Allan Buchman in 1996, Culture Project’s dedicated to addressing human rights issues by shining an artistic spotlight on injustice.

The show plays at 45 Bleecker St. in New York’s East Village Nov. 27 through Dec. 2. (866) 811-4111.

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Roger Waters charity appearance streaming online

Posted November 10, 2012 by Floydian Slip

The concert appearance Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters made this past week is available online.

Waters was joined by a band of wounded veterans Nov. 8 at the Stand Up for Heroes event in New York City.

Video of the 2½-hour event is available at reMIND.org, the site of The Bob Woodruff Foundation, devoted to helping wounded veterans and their caregivers.

Waters’ appearance, including a rambling ad-libbed vamp while stagehands set the stage, is at about 1:10:20 into the program.

One of the easiest ways to give to the cause is to text BWF to 50555. Your text will donate $10 to helping wounded veterans and their caregivers. You can also donate at the website.

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Roger Waters announces 2013 European concert dates

Posted November 10, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has announced 20 concert dates for 2013.

The co-founder of Pink Floyd will ramp up his tour of “The Wall” again in Werchter, Belgium, on July 2. The tour will run through Sept. 18, wrapping up in Dublin, Ireland.

Ticket pre-sales begin Nov. 12 for registered members of rogerwaters.com.

The ’13 tour will visit a number of countries not included in the previous legs of the tour, including Croatia, Turkey, Romania and Serbia.

Waters has redesigned and scaled up the show to accommodate the larger, open air stadiums scheduled for ’13.

“I’m extremely glad to be playing ‘The Wall’ in Europe again,” Waters says. “It’s going to be a lot of fun for all of us. I’ve reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums. It’s really good. Even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the arena shows.”

Press conference

Waters’ press conference detailing his ’13 tour will be streamed live on the web Nov. 15 at 12:30 GMT at rogerwaters.com and his Facebook page. He’s taking questions from fans in advance of the event. You can submit your question at his Facebook page.

Concert dates

July
Saturday 20 — Werchter Festival Site
Tuesday 23 — Split Poljud Stadium
Friday 26 — Padova Euganeo Stadium
Sunday 28 — Rome Olympic Stadium

August
Wednesday 7 — Prague Synot Tip Stadium (Slavia)
Friday 9 — Frankfurt Commerzbank Arena
Sunday 11 — Copenhagen Parken Stadium
Wednesday 14 — Oslo Telenor Arena
Thursday 15 — Oslo Telenor Arena
Saturday 17 — Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium
Tuesday 20 — Warsaw Narodowy Stadium
Friday 23 — Vienna Donauinsel
Sunday 25 — Budapest Puskas Ferenc Stadium
Wednesday 28 — Bucharest Piata Consitutiei
Friday 30 — Sofia Vasil Levski Stadium

September
Sunday 1 — Belgrade Usce Park
Wednesday 4 — Berlin Olympic Stadium
Friday 6 — Dusseldorf Esprit Arena
Sunday 8 — Amsterdam Arena
Wednesday 18 — Dublin Aviva Stadium

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