Posted October 31, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #917:
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Posted October 30, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Posted October 26, 2013 by Floydian Slip
“Darkside,” the BBC-commissioned radio play written by acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard, will be released on CD next month.
Originally broadcast Aug. 26, the production will be released as a luxury package resembling a hardcover book, including a CD containing the 54-minute play — which includes the majority of the album — plus a 56-page bound insert of the play’s script and Roger Waters’ lyrics from the album.
The release features a bonus disc with text translations in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, Mandarin and Russian.
The cast includes Bill Nighy, Rufus Sewell, Adrian Scarborough and Amaka Okafor.
“Darkside” will be released Nov. 25. Pre-order yours now.
Posted October 24, 2013 by Floydian Slip
The folks over at Ear Candy Mag have posted a very cool collection of “Alternate Universe Album Covers.”
Created by graphic designer Jon Hunt, former co-creator of Beach Boys fan site Smile Shop, they imagine what albums that never were might have looked like, right down to the cellophane wrap and stickers.
Two samples of special interest to Floyd fans are below: Hunt’s re-imagining of “The Wall,” if it had been done by Storm Thorgerson; and art for the abandoned “Household Objects” project.
See more of his work covering The Who, The Rolling Stones, Beach Boys and others.
Posted October 24, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #816. It’ll be our annual Halloween special, an hour of scary Pink Floyd:
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Posted October 23, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Posted October 17, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #915:
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Posted October 16, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Posted October 16, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Listeners of CBC Radio One’s “On the Coast” program have selected Pink Floyd as the best band of all time.
The group took nearly 47 percent of the more than 9,000 votes cast during the month-long online poll.
The Beatles came in second, with 36 percent. The rest of the top five: The Rolling Stones, 8 percent; Led Zeppelin, 7 percent; and The Mothers of Invention, 2 percent.
“On the Coast” is produced in Vancouver, B.C. Hosted by Stephen Quinn (pictured with producer Lisa Christiansen), it’s heard from 3-6 p.m. weekdays.
Posted October 12, 2013 by Floydian Slip
Documents recently unearthed reveal details about the final 24 hours of Eric Fletcher Waters, the father of Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters who died in Italy’s Battle of Anzio on Feb. 18, 1944.
The documents, from the National Archives in Kew, were discovered by World War II veteran Harry Shindler, 93, who started his research after learning of Roger’s recent trip to Italy to pay tribute to his father.
“I was very moved that he wanted to find out more about his father’s death and the circumstances of how he was killed,” Shindler tells the Daily Mail.” I don’t know who Pink Floyd are, my music stops at The Beatles.”
The remains of Eric Waters, a second lieutenant with Z Company of the Royal Fusiliers, were never recovered. But his name is on a memorial in Cassino, Italy, commemorating the fallen soldiers.
An entry in the War Diary made at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 18, 1944, reads: “Lt Waters killed and Lt Hill wounded, situation now critical. Message received over air that assistance would now be too late.”
The younger Waters wrote about the battle in “When the Tigers Broke Free” from the film “Pink Floyd The Wall,” and later a part of Pink Floyd’s “The Final Cut” album.
Read more about the battle at the Daily News website.
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