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“Floydian Slip” coming to Botany Radio (Auckland, NZ)

Posted April 27, 2013 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on Botany Radio 107.1 FM in Howick, Auckland, New Zealand, May 5.

Botany Radio will carry the show Fridays at 10 p.m. and Sundays at 12 p.m. NZST. The station is a low-power station serving the Village of Howick, and streaming online. It’s the sister station of recent “Floydian Slip” affiliate station Howick Village Radio.

More than 40 affiliate stations have now joined the show’s Random Precision Radio Network, created in Summer 2009 when we began syndicating our show from our Vermont studio.

Shine on, New Zealand!


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“Floydian Slip” coming to Nagoya Radio (Japan)

Posted April 25, 2013 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on Nagoya Radio (NAGJP), a netcaster based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan on April 29.

NAGJP will carry the show Mondays at 10 p.m. JST.

More than 40 affiliate stations have now joined the show’s Random Precision Radio Network, created in Summer 2009 when we began syndicating our show from our Vermont studio.

Shine on, Japan!


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“Floydian Slip” preview #890

Posted April 25, 2013 by Floydian Slip


Join us this week for Floydian Slip #890:

  • Floyd from More (Film soundtrack) (1969) and Atom Heart Mother (1970)
  • Syd Barrett from The Madcap Laughs (1970)
  • Remembering the kick-off of Floyd’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour 25 years ago
  • And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 40 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.


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“Floydian Slip” songlist #889

Posted April 24, 2013 by Floydian Slip

  1. The Post War Dream
    The Final Cut (1983)
  2. Your Possible Pasts
    The Final Cut (1983)
  3. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
    Animals (1977)
  4. Comfortably Numb
    David Gilmour in Concert (DVD) (David Gilmour f/Bob Geldolf) (2002)
  5. Fearless
    Meddle (1971)
  6. Childhood’s End
    Obscured by Clouds (1972)
  7. Jugband Blues
    A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
  8. Mr. Golden Trumpet Player (*Floydian Slip Up*)
    Battersea Power Station (Junior’s Eyes) (1969)
  9. Take It Back
    The Division Bell (1994)

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Help bring “Floydian Slip” to your local airwaves

Posted April 22, 2013 by Floydian Slip

We’ve created a new way for you to hear the “Floydian Slip” radio show on your local airwaves.

Head over to the newest page at our website where you can search our database of stations we’re targeting to add “Floydian Slip.” Plug in your ZIP code and with a few clicks you can send an email to the stations in your area lending your words of support.

Lost for words? Let the new app suggest a message for you.

Can’t find your local stations in our database? We’ve pitched more than 600 stations over the last few years, but are always interested to hear which stations you think are worth contacting. Use the app’s “Suggest a station” form to submit your suggestions.

And remember … to always … keep … talking …


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Contest: Win a copy of “Pigs Might Fly”

Posted April 22, 2013 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” is giving away four copies of Mark Blake‘s “Pigs Might Fly,” called “the definitive Pink Floyd book” by Q magazine.

Register to win now. Deadline is 6 p.m. EST May 1.

Prizes provided postage-free courtesy of Aurum Press.


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Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson dies

Posted April 19, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Longtime Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson died yesterday at age 69.

Along with Aubrey Powell, he co-founded  design team Hipgnosis in 1967, and went on to became one of history’s most prolific designers of album covers.

Working for some of the best-known recording artists — Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Wings, Black Sabbath, 10cc, Alan Parsons, Al Stewart and countless others — he and his team have been responsible for some of the most lasting images in the iconography of rock and roll, including the sleeve for Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973).

During his career he likely created more than 300 sleeves. “I don’t really keep count,” he told Rolling Stone in 2011. “I’m privileged to work with music, so I’m happy to work. … As long as I can keep working, and paying the rent as they call it over in England, then I’m relatively happy.”

A childhood friend of members of Floyd, Thorgerson’s first sleeve for the band was its second album: A Saucerful of Secrets (1968). He would go on to design and photograph many others for the group, including Atom Heart Mother (1970), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988).

His work also included covers for Floyd’s David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright.

Thorgerson died peacefully surrounded by friends and family, who released a statement saying, “He had been ill for some time with cancer though he had made a remarkable recovery from his stroke in 2003. He is survived by his mother Vanji, his son Bill, his wife Barbie Antonis and her two children, Adam and Georgia.”

Thorgerson met Floyd’s Gilmour when the two were in their teens. He served as best man at Gilmour’s wedding to Polly Samson.

“He has been a constant force in my life, both at work and in private, a shoulder to cry on and a great friend,” Gilmour said in a statement.

“The artworks that he created for Pink Floyd from 1968 to the present day have been an inseparable part of our work.”

Thorgerson was the first of only four guests we’ve welcomed to the “Floydian Slip” radio show in the program’s 20 years. In 1997 we spoke to him via phone from his London studio, following the release of “Mind of Matter: The Images of Pink Floyd.”

Cordial if not a little clownish, his first concern seemed to be for our well-being, considering the trans-Atlantic time difference that required the interview be conduct at 7:30 a.m. our time. “Are you awake?” he asked. “Are you on the ball? Are you focused?” he demanded with a rapid-fire British clip.

You can read the transcript of that interview at floydianslip.com.

Thorgerson’s work for Floyd has been enjoying a renewed appreciation with new variations he created for the Why Pink Floyd? reissue series. His reinterpretations of the “Dark Side” prism for the album’s 40th anniversary last month have been shared widely across the web.


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Storm Thorgerson dead at 69

Posted April 19, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson has died of cancer at 69.

A fuller appreciation will be posted soon.


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“Floydian Slip” preview #889

Posted April 18, 2013 by Floydian Slip


Join us this week for Floydian Slip #889:

  • Floyd from The Final Cut (1983) and The Division Bell (1994)
  • An early track from A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
  • David Gilmour and Bob Geldolf recorded out live
  • And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 40 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.


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“Floydian Slip” songlist #888

Posted April 17, 2013 by Floydian Slip

  1. Sorrow
    A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
  2. High Hopes
    Pulse (1995)
  3. Hey You (Band demo)
    The Wall (1979 [Immersion boxset])
  4. Watching TV
    Amused to Death (Roger Waters) (1992)
  5. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
    The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
  6. The Second Sitting for the Last Supper (*Floydian Slip Up*)
    Live and Let Live (1977) (10cc)
  7. Burning Bridges
    Obscured by Clouds (1972)
  8. Paranoid Eyes
    The Final Cut (1983)
  9. Holiday
    Wet Dream (Rick Wright) (1978)

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