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.
Pink Floyd’s 1979 double-album “The Wall” is the cover story on the new issue of Mojo magazine.
The issue includes a new interview with Roger Waters by David Fricke, as well as information about the band’s 1980/81 tour.
The CD that comes with the issue is a re-recording of “The Wall” by a variety of artists, including Sweet Billy Pilgrim, The Young Republic, The Amazing, Astra, Woodpigeon and others.
“The Wall” was released 30 years ago, Nov. 30, 1979.
The surviving members of Pink Floyd were surprise performers at last night’s sold-out Syd Barrett tribute concert in London.
“Madcap’s Last Laugh,” co-produced by Floyd producer Joe Boyd at Barbican Hall, promised names such as Chrissie Hynde, Robyn Hitchcock, Kevin Ayers and others.
But the audience got more than they planned for when Roger Waters, accompanied by Jon Carin, took the stage to perform “Flickering Flame” at the end of the evening’s first set.
David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright performed “Arnold Layne” at the end of the second set, only to join most of the evening’s performers in “Bike” to close the show.
Not a bad line-up for the show’s $30-50 ticket price.
The video for “Hello (I Love You),” the new song by former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters, will be included as an extra on the DVD release of “The Last Mimzy.”
The song was co-written by Waters and the film’s composer, Howard Shore. The video shows Waters recording the song in-studio.
The film “The Last Mimzy” will feature “Hello (I Love You),” a new song from Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters.
The song will be featured in the film, and will play during the end credits. It will also be included on New Line Cinema’s release of the official film sountrack this spring.
Waters collaborated with James Guthrie (”The Wall”) and composer Howard Shore (”The Lord of the Rings”) on the new song.
“It has been great collaborating with (director) Bob Shaye and Howard Shore on ‘The Last Mimzy,’” says Waters. “I think together we’ve come up with a song that captures the themes of the movie, the clash between humanity’s best and worst instincts, and how a child’s innocence can win the day.”
Musicians on the track, which was written by Waters and Shore, include drummer Steve Gadd (Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Steely Dan), guitarist Gerry Leonard (music director and guitarist for David Bowie), and Waters on bass and vocals. The film’s 6-year-old star, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, sings along with Waters on the chorus.
The film stars Timothy Hutton (”Ordinary People”), Joely Richardson (”Nip/Tuck”) and Rainn Wilson, and is based on a science fiction short story by Lewis Padgett. It tells the story of two children who discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys.
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.
Pink Floyd’s 1979 double-album “The Wall” is the cover story on the new issue of Mojo magazine.
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