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Roger Waters to broadcast live to theaters May 25

Posted April 18, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Trafalgar Releasing and Sony Music Entertainment will broadcast live the Roger Waters performance of his “This Is Not a Drill” tour from O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic on May 25.

The worldwide event will be distributed to more than 1,500 theaters across more than 50 countries. Tickets go on sale at 3 p.m. BST (10 a.m. ET; 7 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, April 25 at www.ThisIsNotADrillFilm.com.

Billed as his first ever “farewell tour,” the event is directed by Sean Evans. The live film will include 20 Pink Floyd and Waters classics, including: “Us & Them,” “Comfortably Numb,” “Wish You Were Here,” and “Is This the Life We Really Want?” Waters will also debut his new song, “The Bar.”

Waters will be joined on stage by Jonathan Wilson, Dave Kilminster, Jon Carin, Gus Seyffert, Robert Walter, Joey Waronker, Shanay Johnson, Amanda Belair and Seamus Blake.

Complete cinema listings and times will be announced when tickets go on sale April 25.

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Winners: Dark Side boxset, Live at Wembley

Posted April 3, 2023 by Floydian Slip

The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary

Congratulations to our winner of “The Dark Side of the Moon” 50th anniversary boxset:

Dan Marsh
Media, PA

Runners-up win LP copies of “The Dark Side of the Moon: Live At Wembley”:

Matt Cooper
Waterloo, ON

Jason Harding
Missoula, MT

All prizes courtesy of Legacy/Sony Music.

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Enter “Dark Side of the Moon” sweepstakes

Posted March 9, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Enter for your chance to win a 50th anniversary deluxe boxset of The Dark Side of the Moon and a shopping spree at the Pink Floyd Official Store.

One (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive:

The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary boxset
A $100 gift card to the Pink Floyd Official Store

Two (2) Second Place Winners will receive:

The Dark Side of the Moon — Live At Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974 1-LP vinyl
A $50 gift card to the Pink Floyd Official Store

Enter to win now

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Winners: Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon: The Official 50th Anniversary Book

Posted March 6, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to our winners of copies of “Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon: The Official 50th Anniversary Book:”

Wendy Bland, Surfside Beach, SC
Corey McGrath, Wilmington, MA
Curtis Prescott, Chapel Hill, NC
Alan Sawyer, Westfield, MA
Jeremy TePaske, Cameron, WI

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Win: Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon: The Official 50th Anniversary Book

Posted February 27, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Register to win a copy of “Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon: The Official 50th Anniversary Book” This is the official anniversary volume for Floyd’s seminal 1973 album. Contributors include photographer Jill Furmanovsky and designer Aubrey “Po” Powell. 160 pages. Hardcover. Retail value: $48.

Prizes shipped postage-free courtesy of publisher Thames & Hudson.

Enter to win now

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Roger Waters re-records “The Dark Side of the Moon”

Posted February 10, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters revealed he has re-recorded Pink Floyd‘s 1973 album “The Dark Side of the Moon.” He broke the news to German newspaper Berliner Zeitung Feb. 4, and provided more details to the U.K.’s The Telegraph on Feb. 8.

Roger is one of only a handful of people to appear on the redo, which he began months ago without the participation or knowledge of any of his former Floyd bandmates.

“I’m the only one singing my songs on these new recordings, and there are no rock and roll guitar solos,” he told Berliner Zeitung.

“The new concept is meant to reflect on the meaning of the work, to bring out the heart and soul of the album — musically and spiritually.”

In addition to Waters, his long-time collaborator Gus Seyffert plays keyboards on the new work; and Seyffert’s girlfriend, Bedouine, provides backing vocals.

“I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ c—p!,” he told The Telegraph. “Of course we were a band, there were four of us, we all contributed. But it’s my project and I wrote it. So blah!”

The album will be released in May, according to The Telegraph.

News of the redux album was overshadowed by an inflammatory tweet posted by David Gilmour‘s wife and writing partner Polly Samson, perhaps in response to Waters’s German interview.

“Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” Samson posted to Twitter. “Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.”

Gilmour retweeted the post, and added “Every word demonstrably true.”

Waters acknowledged Samson’s tweet by posting to social media: “Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely. He is currently taking advice as to his position.”

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Roger Waters releases The Lockdown Sessions

Posted December 9, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Sony Music today released Roger Waters‘s “The Lockdown Sessions” on all digital music platforms.

The collection of six songs were recorded remotely by Waters and his band during Covid lockdown; with the final track coming from a live show during his North American “This Is Not a Drill” tour:

“Mother” (from The Wall)
“Two Suns in the Sunset” (from The Final Cut)
“Vera” (from The Wall)
“The Gunner’s Dream” (from The Final Cut)
“The Bravery of Being Out of Range” (from Amused to Death)
“Comfortably Numb” (from The Wall)

The tracks were produced by Waters and Gus Seyffert. Appearing on the recordings are Waters – Vocals, Guitar and Piano; Seyffert – Bass, Cellos and Vocals; Joey Waronker – Drums and Percussion; Dave Kilminster – Guitar and Rhythm Guitar; Jonathan Wilson – Guitar and Vocals; Jon Carin – Keyboards and Vocals; Lucius (Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig) – Vocals; Bo Koster – Hammond (on all tracks except “Mother”); and Ian Ritchie – Saxophone (“Two Suns in the Sunset”).

Videos of the first five were originally posted by Waters on social media during ’20 and ’21. The videos were produced and directed by Sean Evans. “Comfortably Numb” was released last month.

“Our ‘Us and Them Tour’ lasted three years. At every gig we did an encore after the main show closed with ‘Comfortably Numb.’ The encore was always ‘Mother.’ I can’t remember why I decided to start doing other songs,” Waters says.

“At some point after the end of the tour, I started thinking, ‘It could make an interesting album, all those encores.’ ‘The Encores.’ Yeah, has a nice ring to it!

“Then I’m in England doing the Ginger Baker tribute gig one Tuesday night at the Hammersmith Odeon with Eric Clapton and the following Saturday marching from The Australian Embassy to Parliament Square to make a speech in support of Julian Assange, when bugger me, Covid. Schlummmm! For me it was Friday, March 13th, 2020. Lockdown! So much for the ‘Encores’ project. Unless,” he adds.

“We’ve tacked ‘Comfortably Numb’ on the end of the collection, as an appropriate exclamation point in closing this circle of love.”

Waters first announced his intention of releasing the collection under the title “The Lockdown Sessions” during a podcast appearance last month. “I’ve given all these things away,” he said. “They’re all out there. Anybody can find them on the internet.”

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David Gilmour appears on new Donovan album

Posted November 26, 2022 by Floydian Slip

David Gilmour is featured on two tracks from the new Donovan album,”Gaelia,” which drops Dec. 2.

The first Gilmour recording, “Rock Me,” has been released ahead of the album. The other track is “Lover O’ Lover.”

Donovan explains his connection to Gilmour goes back to the ’60s, when the Pink Floyd guitarist purchased Donovan’s cottage. “He said my album track ‘Three Kingfishers,’ off my ‘Sunshine Superman’ album of 1966, had launched him in a celestial music direction,” according to Donovan. “And so when I was selling my cottage, where so many of my songs were written, he wanted to be in my creative space. Makes sense in a Floyd sort of way.

“David had already learned to fly (he wrote a song about it, too ) and flew himself in to Ireland for the session,” he adds. “David brought his guitar roadie, who set up two amps in the studio, handed David his pink Strat, and his unique signature sound enthralled us all.”

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New book about album sleeve designers Hipgnosis

Posted November 24, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Eight Nine Books will publish “Us And Them: The Authorised Story Of Hipgnosis” by Mark Blake Feb. 2.

Founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell in the late-’60s, the first album sleeve the agency designed was Pink Floyd‘s “A Saucerful of Secrets” (1968). The firm went on to design many covers for Floyd, as well as iconic artwork for Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, 10cc, AC/DC and many others.

Blake, whose work has appeared in Prog and Classic Rock magazines, is the author of “Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd” (2007) as well as other titles about bands such as The Who and Queen.

Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason all contribute exclusive commentary to the new book.

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Roger Waters releases new recording of “Comfortably Numb”

Posted November 18, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Sony Music released today “Comfortably Numb 2022,” a new recording of the Pink Floyd classic from Roger Waters‘s recent “This Is Not a Drill” tour.

The new track is available on streaming platforms.

“During lockdown I made a demo of a new version of ‘Comfortably Numb‘ as an opener for our new show,” Waters explains. “I pitched it a whole step down, in A Minor, to make it darker and arranged it with no solos, except over the outro chord sequence, where there is a heartrendingly beautiful female vocal solo from Shanay Johnson, one of our new singers.”

The accompanying video was produced and directed by Sean Evans. Photography by Kate Izor.

The track was produced by Waters and Gus Seyffert. Appearing on the track are Waters, vocals; Gus Seyffert , bass, synth, percussion, vocals; Joey Waronker, drums; Dave Kilminster, vocals; Jonathan Wilson, harmonium, synth, guitar and vocals; Jon Carin, synth, Vocals; Johnson, vocals; Amanda Belair, vocals; Robert Walter, organ/piano; Nigel Godrich, strings, amp and backing vocals from Roger Waters The Wall Sessions.

Waters’s “This Is Not A Drill” will tour Europe in 2023 with 40 shows across 14 European countries, starting in Lisbon on March 17, 2023, at Altice Arena.

Listen to the track now

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