Posted December 21, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to Peter Petersson of Great Meadows, NJ, who won an autographed copy of “The Raging Storm,” the new book from Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson.
Prize courtesy of StormStudios.
Read more about the book (“New book coming from Storm Thorgerson”), and read our ’97 interview with the author.
Posted November 23, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has donated some rare items to be auctioned for charity.
The eBay auction, which ends at 6 p.m. (PST) Dec. 2, includes Mason’s signed and framed silver disc of Floyd’s “A Momentary Lapse of Reason,” designating double-platinum status of the 1987 album; and a pair of signed drumsticks.
The auction benefits the Dan Wheldon Family Trust Fund through the Graham Rahal Foundation. Wheldon was an English Indy car driver who was killed in a crash Oct. 16.
Bidding is currently at $1,025. Place your bid now.
Posted November 15, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Register online now to win a free download of the new Pink Floyd iPhone app This Day in Pink Floyd.
Read more about the app in our previous post (“Pink Floyd app releasing tomorrow“).
Register now. Deadline is 6 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 23.
Posted November 13, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson has released “The Raging Storm,” a new coffee table book featuring output over the past four years from his most recent d/b/a, Storm Studios.
Thorgerson was a founding member of design team Hipgnosis, and had a hand in creating nearly every Floyd album cover, as well as the band’s solo members’, numerous reissues for the band, and iconic sleeves for groups such as Genesis, 10cc, Led Zeppelin and others.
“The Raging Storm” is available in two editions: a hardcover version for £34.99; and a deluxe limited edition that includes a giclee print of Biffy Clyro‘s “Only Revolutions” for £395.
Both are 160 pages and include art produced for Floyd, Biffy Clyro, Pendulum, Wombats, Shpongle, Disco Biscuits, Powderfinger, Muse, Steve Miller and others.
Thorgerson has also created monthly calendar wallpaper available for free download.
It’s all available at the online Raging Storm store.
You can read our 1997 interview with Thorgerson at the time of the release of his book “Taken by Storm” online.
Posted November 13, 2011 by Floydian Slip
This Day in Music will release a Pink Floyd iPhone/iPad app tomorrow.
The app is officially sanctioned by the band, according to the company, and will feature 100,000 words devoted to Floyd for 366 days and will sell for £1.99 ($2.99).
This is the second app from the Hayfield, Derbyshire, U.K. company, whose other assets include a Web site and book. It released its popular Led Zeppelin app in ’10 and is planning a third to be devoted to Bob Dylan.
In addition to information on the Floyd’s activities for every day of the year, the app will include trivia questions, notes about every Floyd studio track, loads of photos and graphics, embedded video (“Point Me at the Sky”), a ringtone (“Shine on You Crazy Diamond”) and wallpaper.
This Day in Pink Floyd will be available in the iTunes Store Nov. 14. For more information, visit the company’s Web site.
Posted October 1, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Italian Pink Floyd fanzine Heyou has put out issue #19.
Published in Italian and English, the issue features coverage of this fall’s Why Pink Floyd? remaster campaign, Roger Waters live in Milano, the new “Barrett” coffee table book and more.
Posted September 29, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Rolling Stone issue #1141 will be a keeper for Pink Floyd fans: The magazine devotes its cover story to the band and its “The Dark Side of the Moon,” with new interviews with each surviving member.
“I understand how other people want that sort of (reunion) thing to happen, but I’m entirely selfish in thinking that I want to enjoy my declining years exactly the way that I want to do it,” David Gilmour says in the magazine. “And that wouldn’t be part of it.”
Issue #1141 is on newsstands now.
Posted September 24, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd has beefed up its already pretty beefy YouTube channel with a new hourly feature: “The Greatest Gig in the Sky.”
Every hour, on the hour, the channel is featuring audio from its previously unreleased November 1974 Wembley show, along with original concert screen footage and a real-time social media stream.
The channel also features nearly 30 other Floyd videos, including this new full-length British advertisement for the Why Pink Floyd? remaster campaign:
Posted September 17, 2011 by Floydian Slip
We’ve just received a 6-track promotional sampler from the upcoming “Why Pink Floyd?” reissue campaign.
The sampler contains previously unreleased material that will be made available Sept. 27 as part of the Experience and Immersion editions of “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
Five tracks — “Breathe,” “Time,” “Money,” “Us and Them” and “Brain Damage/Eclipse” are taken from a 1974 Wembley show. The 6th is a demo of “Money” by Roger Waters.
We’ll feature some or all of the tracks on “Floydian Slip” #807, beginning Sept. 23.
Posted September 14, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Mind Head Publishing Ltd. has published “Pink Floyd: Backstage” by Bobby Hassall.
First published in 1991, the book is a document of super fan Hassall’s experiences following and eventually work for Pink Floyd on the “Momentary Lapse of Reason” and “Division Bell” tours of 1989 and ’94.
This new softcover edition has been redesigned, updated and expanded from its initial run.
The book was edited by Mind Head’s Glenn Povey, author of the excellent “Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd.”
Buy “Pink Floyd: Backstage” for £15 at www.mindheadpublishing.co.uk.
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