Posted March 8, 2010 by FloydianSlip
Posted February 3, 2010 by FloydianSlip
New Music Express reports The Flaming Lips will perform Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety at the Bonnaroo festival in June.
The Oklahoma group recently released a re-recording of the album on iTunes, and performed it live during their New Year’s Eve gig in Oklahoma City.
Bonnaroo takes place in Manchester, Tenn., June 10-13. Tickets go on sale Feb. 9, the same date the festival plans to officially announce its artist lineup.
While the Lips appearance seems to be a sure thing, rumors still circulate that Floyd’s Roger Waters might perform “The Wall” at the festival.
Waters said during interviews spotlighting the 30th anniversary of that seminal Floyd album he’d like to launch a proper tour of “The Wall” in 2010/11.
While his appearance in Tennessee in June is, very likely, just a rumor, we’ll be tuning in next week to see what Bonnaroo has to say.
Posted January 26, 2010 by FloydianSlip
Floyd’s first frontman, Syd Barrett, is on the cover of the latest issue of Mojo magazine.
Mojo celebrates the 40th anniversary of Barrett’s “The Madcap Laughs” album with a cover story featuring Floyd’s David Gilmour, Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine), Floyd designer Storm Thorgerson, photographer Mick Rock and others.
The CD included with the issue is a re-recording of “Madcap” by Hawkwind, Marc Almond, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock and others.
Posted January 11, 2010 by FloydianSlip
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has joined Beat for Peace, a movement calling for renewed diplomatic efforts to prevent violence in the African nation of Sudan.
Mason appears in a video of drummers (below) across the globe lending their support to the cause.
Stewart Copeland (The Police), Phil Selway (Radiohead), Jonny Quinn (Snow Patrol) and many others also appear in the video.
The civil war between North and South Sudan was Africa’s longest-running civil war, killing more than 2 million people. With violence on the increase in southern Sudan, activists are trying to prevent the return of mass human rights violations to that area.
More information about Sudan and Beat for Peace is available at the Beat for Peace Web site.
Posted January 3, 2010 by FloydianSlip
“The Madcap Laughs” 40th Anniversary Special
Posted January 1, 2010 by FloydianSlip
Join us for a special show this weekend, as we feature Syd Barrett’s “The Madcap Laughs” on its 40th anniversary.
We’ll be listening to the entire album, including a few alternate takes.
Posted December 31, 2009 by FloydianSlip
Enter now to win a copy of Syd Barrett’s “The Madcap Laughs” on its 40th anniversary.
“Madcap” was the first solo album from the co-founder of Pink Floyd. Released in the U.K. on Jan. 3, 1970, it was the first of Barrett’s two solo albums, which both came out in 1970.
We’ll be featuring “Madcap” on this weekend’s “Floydian Slip.”
Enter online now to win a copy of the album on CD, courtesy Capitol/EMI.
Posted December 17, 2009 by FloydianSlip
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason offers up his recipe for bouillabaisse in a new charity cookbook.
“A Salute to Cooking” from Bene Factum Publishing Ltd. benefits the Royal Hospital Chelsea’s Chelsea Pensioners’ Appeal fund.
Mason is one of many celebrities who contributed more than 100 recipes for the book.
Illustrator Gerald Scarfe, best-known to Floyd fans for his work on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” album and film, illustrated the book’s cover.
Founded in 1702, Royal Chelsea Hospital is home to 300 aging or disabled veterans who served in the British Army.
Buy “A Salute to Cooking” for £14.99 ($24.30 at time of writing) online. The title’s also available for purchase in-person at the hospital shop in Chelsea, London.
Posted December 13, 2009 by FloydianSlip
Sir David Frost recently interviewed Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters. The 10-minute segment aired Friday on the Al Jazeera English network.
Posted December 7, 2009 by FloydianSlip
The city of London might see a tribute event in 2010 devoted to Syd Barrett similar to the one that took place in Cambridge in ‘08.
Escape Artists, the firm that manages The Syd Barrett Fund and presented the first such event, The City Awakes, in Cambridge last year, says it’s eying London for a second event.
“This project is still in the very early stages, with nothing guaranteed as yet since we still need to secure funding for the project,” the company released in a statement today.
“However, if successful, we hope to present another multi-arts tribute to Syd Barrett (towards the end of 2010).”
More information about The City Awakes is at the event’s Web site.
Escape Artists is a U.K.-based arts and mental health charity and professional production house. It strives to improve quality of life, health and social welfare, by recognizing the importance of creativity to people’s well-being.
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