Posted July 3, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Floydian Slip” will begin airing on WARR 1520 AM/103.5 FM in Warrenton, NC, next week. The station will carry the show Thursday nights at 7 ET.
WARR is a variety format station serving the Warrenton area in northern North Carolina and southern Virginia.
It’s the latest station to join the Random Precision Radio Network, a collection of more than 110 broadcasters that air “Floydian Slip,” produced in our Shelburne, Vt., studio.
Shine on, Warrenton!
Posted July 2, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Omega Auctions are selling today the purple and orange floorboards featured on the cover of Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett‘s 1970 album The Madcap Laughs.
Estimated to go for £10,000 ($12,662), as of this writing the current bid is £5,000 ($6,331) with three bids registered.
Designer Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis and photographer Mick Rock shot Barrett crouched on the floor of his London flat for the cover of his The Madcap Laughs album. Prior to the shoot, Barrett painted the floorboards alternating colors of purple and orange.
Today’s seller purchased the flat and removed the boards during renovations. There are approximately 70 planks. Most are approximately 2.7 meters long — just less than 9 feet.
The auction’s webpage offers a number of photos of the flat.
Addendum: The auction ended today with a hammer price of £28,500 ($36,101).
Posted July 2, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1473: It’s “Surrogate Bands” — our annual all-covers episode.
The music of Pink Floyd recorded by other artists … including the winner of the 2024 Surrogate Bands Pink Floyd Cover Contest.
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Posted July 1, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Thanks to Billy Green for this shot of his “Floydian Slip” stickers in the wild.
Get your free stickers here. And send us a photo of them, and we’ll post it here.
Posted July 1, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Posted June 25, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1472:
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Posted June 24, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Posted June 18, 2024 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1471:
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Posted June 17, 2024 by Floydian Slip
David Gilmour released today “Between Two Points,” the second single from his upcoming album “Luck and Strange.”
A cover of a song by The Montgolfier Brothers, originally from their 1999 “Seventeen Stars” album, the track features Romany Gilmour on vocals and harp. Romany is the daugher of David and the album’s lyricist Polly Samson.
“Between Two Points” is the second preview from “Luck and Strange,” which will drop Sept. 6. “The Piper’s Call” was released April 25.
Posted June 17, 2024 by Floydian Slip
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