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Jimmy Fallon to present week of Pink Floyd

Posted September 22, 2011 by Floydian Slip

“Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” will feature a Pink Floyd song each night of the week next week. The band’s Roger Waters and Nick Mason will also appear on the show.

On Monday, The Shins will perform “Breathe” from “The Dark Side of the Moon,” with Mason appearing for an interview. Tuesday Waters will join Foo Fighters to perform “In the Flesh” from “The Wall.” He’ll also be interviewed by Fallon.

MGMT performs “Lucifer Sam” Wednesday; country artist Dierks Bentley will do “Wish You Were Here” Thursday; and Pearl Jam appears Friday to do “Mother.”

The program airs at 12:35 a.m. ET on NBC.

The week of Floyd is timed to coincide with the beginning of the Why Pink Floyd? remaster campaign.

Fire up those DVRs …

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Video: Gilmour joins Waters at the 02

Posted May 12, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Video from this evening’s performance of “The Wall” at London’s 02, featuring the reunion of David Gilmour and Roger Waters.

Gilmour joined Waters, along with drummer Nick Mason, for playing “Outside the Wall” at the end of the show, as well: Gilmour on mandolin, and Mason on tambourine.

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Gilmour joins Waters tonight

Posted May 12, 2011 by Floydian Slip

The nearly-year-long mystery was revealed on David Gilmour’s blog moments ago: When would he make good on his promise from last summer to join Roger Waters on stage to perform “Comfortably Numb” with former bandmate Roger Waters?

The answer: At tonight’s o2 show in London.

Gilmour’s post says the song will be recorded for posting on “various websites,” but is not intended for an eventual DVD of “The Wall” in the works.

“Look on the bright side: that means you’ll get to see it sooner,” the post reads, before adding tonight’s appearance truly is a one-off.

“David is not repeating his special guest performance at a later occasion, I’m sorry to disappoint those of you with fingers crossed and tickets for later shows.”

Waters joined Gilmour on stage at a charity event last July (“David Gilmour, Roger Waters perform together“). The deal, as it was revealed later, was Gilmour agreed to, in turn, join Waters during one show of his “Wall” tour, to perform “Comfortably Numb.”

“Floydian Slip” turned the upcoming pairing into a contest (“Reunion date contest: The results“), asking people to guess the date of the reunion for a chance to win Waters’ “The Wall Live in Berlin” from 1990. Guess the exact date, and we’d throw in a sealed copy of Classic Rock‘s excellent 3D Pink Floyd issue from Fall 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The Wall.”

We’ll be mulling over entries this evening to determine our winner.

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Greek ‘Wall’ shows to be filmed; Milan dates moved

Posted April 20, 2011 by Floydian Slip

“The Wall” will be committed to film when the show is performed by Roger Waters in Greece in early July.

To accommodate the filming, the tour’s Milan, Italy, dates have been rescheduled. The July 6 and 7 shows for Milan have been moved to July 3 and 4, respectively.

Ticket holders are instructed to hold on to their tickets, which will automatically become valid for the new dates. Those who cannot attend the new dates, should return to their point of purchase for a refund no later than June 15.

Waters previously announced the shows in London would be filmed, asking for close attention of the show’s no photography policy, since flash photos interfere with the show’s projections and affect filming.

We’ve been told to expect a possible theatrical release of the show, as well as a DVD.

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Roger Waters on NPR

Posted March 26, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters was a guest on National Public Radio’s “World Cafe” yesterday.

He joined WXPN’s Michaela Majount in an excellent 30-minute talk about “The Wall.”

Listen to the interview online.

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Roger Waters box set coming to U.K.

Posted March 19, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Sony Music will release in the U.K. a box set of Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters‘s solo material.

“The Album Collection” will be available for £31.99 on April 4. It’ll be available the following day in the U.S. as an import for $46.43.

The 8-CD set includes: “The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking” (1984), “Radio K.A.O.S.” (1987), “Amused to Death” (1992), “In the Flesh” (2000) as a 2-CD/1-DVD set, and Waters’s 2-CD opera “Ca Ira” (2005).

This is supposedly a limited edition, which will be available only during the balance of Waters’s tour of “The Wall.”

Buy “The Album Collection” online now. Your purchase helps support “Floydian Slip.”

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“The Wall Live in Berlin” to be re-released

Posted March 9, 2011 by Floydian Slip

In case you haven’t had your fill of talk about live performances of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” this month will see a re-release of Roger Waters‘ Berlin, Germany, performance from 1990.

“The Wall Live in Berlin” will be re-issued with bonus material as 2-DVD and 2-CD sets on March 29 in the U.S.

Some of the extras promised are:

An extended cut of the “Behind The Wall” documentary, expanding it from 30 to 70 minutes.
The original, unedited “warts and all” broadcast of the event. It includes an introduction by Leonard Cheshire, the then-72-year-old British war hero-turned-activist who founded the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, the beneficiary of Waters’ concert. (Cheshire died the summer following the concert.)
Footage shot by Floyd animator Ian Emes of Rupert Everett (Pink), Marianne Faithful and Ute Lemper for stage projections, edited here as theatrical promotional clips.
Original, full-screen Gerald Scarfe animations
New liner notes by Record Collector editor Daryl Easlea

The concert took place at Berlin’s Potzdamer Platz on July 21, 1990, and was originally released by Mercury Records in September ’90.

It received its first re-release in 2003, with new packaging, artwork and liner notes.

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Roger Waters wins Pollstar award

Posted February 9, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters‘s 2010 North American tour of “The Wall” received two Pollstar Concert Industry Awards.

The tour received “Major Tour of the Year” as well as “Most Creative Stage Production.”

The 22nd annual awards, voted on by peers within the concert industry, were handed out at an event at Los Angeles’s Club Nokia last Saturday, with Chris Hardwick of G4 TV network’s “Web Soup” hosting.

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‘Wall’ tour 2nd highest grossing of 2010

Posted January 28, 2011 by Floydian Slip

According to Pollstar, Roger Waters‘s North American tour of “The Wall” was the second highest grossing tour of 2010. It earned $89.5 million.

Waters was second only to Bon Jovi, who grossed $108 million.

Here are the Top 10 for ’10:

Bon Jovi ($108 million)
Roger Waters ($89.5 million)
Dave Matthews Band ($72.9 million)
Michael Bublé ($65.7 million)
Eagles ($64.5 million)
Paul McCartney ($61.8 million)
Lady Gaga ($51 million)
James Taylor/Carole King ($50.7 million)
Black Eyed Peas ($50.5 million)
John Mayer ($49.9 million)

Waters begins his European leg of the tour in March.

Pollstar is a Fresno, Calif., trade publication that covers the worldwide concert industry.

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Roger Waters’ “Conan” appearance online

Posted December 16, 2010 by Floydian Slip

If you missed last night’s “Conan” on TBS, you can watch Conan O’Brien‘s interview with Roger Waters on Waters’ Web site.

The chat seemed a little awkward — maybe bordering on contentious at a couple points.

Anyone else think so?

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