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Pink Floyd designer Aubrey Powell coming to “Floydian Slip”

Posted February 4, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, co-founder of prolific album sleeve design team Hipgnosis, will join host Craig Bailey on “Floydian Slip” Show #984, airing Feb. 16-22.

Hipgnosis designed nearly every Floyd sleeve starting with 1968’s “A Saucerful of Secrets,” as well as iconic sleeves for other bands such as Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Paul McCartney, 10cc, Al Stewart, Black Sabbath, Alan Parsons Project and many others.

Powell knew members of Floyd before the band formed, and shared a flat for a period of time with band co-founder Syd Barrett.

Powell’s new book is “Hipgnosis: Portraits” from Thames & Hudson. We’ll give away copies of the book on Show #984.

Streaming audio and a transcript of the talk will be available on the “Floydian Slip” website beginning Feb. 23.

Past guests on the program include Floyd drummer Nick Mason, illustrator Gerald Scarfe, composer Ron Geesin, producer/engineer Andy Jackson, and Powell’s Hipgnosis partner Storm Thorgerson.

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David Gilmour guests at final Earl’s Court concert

Posted December 14, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour made a surprise guest appearance with Bombay Bicycle Club last night at the final concert to be held at London’s Earl’s Court.

The venue is scheduled for demolition.

Gilmour joined the band for two songs: He played lap steel guitar for the group’s “Rinse Me Down,” and then played acoustic guitar and sang Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here.”

Gilmour had given Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jamie MacColl his first guitar when he was a child.

Earl’s Court will now be demolished to make way for a 77-acre redevelopment project. The project will include areas of Kensington, Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham, and is expected to take 20 years to complete.

Pink Floyd first played Earl’s Court in May 1973, the first year rock bands started frequenting the venue.

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Roger Waters falls; knocked unconscious

Posted October 29, 2014 by Floydian Slip

The NY Post reports Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters attended the Oct. 23 Long Island Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony with a black eye and stitches.

Though he joked he got into a fight with a bottle of tequila the night before — “and the bottle won” — apparently he actually fell in his bathroom, hit his head, and was knocked unconscious.

The paper says Waters was at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia emergency room until 5 a.m. the day of the event.

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Video: David Gilmour: “This is the end”

Posted October 11, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour says the band’s upcoming “The Endless River” will be its last album.

“I think we have successfully commandeered the best of what there is,” he says in a video to promote the album. “I suspect this is it.”

He confirmed his thoughts to BBC 6 Music: “”It’s a shame, but this is the end.”

Read more about “The Endless River” (“Details: The Endless River coming Nov. 10”)

Watch Gilmour and Nick Mason speak about the new album:

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Hawking to appear on “The Endless River”

Posted October 8, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Details are slowly emerging about the upcoming Pink Floyd album “The Endless River,” which will be the band’s first studio work since 1994.

The synthesized voice of British physicist Stephen Hawking will be heard on a track called “Talkin’ Hawkin’.” He also appeared on “Keep Talking,” a track from “The Division Bell.” The upcoming album is culled from material recorded during the making of that ’94 album.

Like those contained in “Keep Talking,” Hawking’s segments are taken from a ’94 British Telecom television commercial that caught the ear of the band’s David Gilmour.

“This was the most powerful piece of television advertising that I’ve ever seen in my life,” Gilmour said in a radio interview. “I just found it so moving that I felt that I had to try and do something with it, or with him or something, in some way.”

The Guardian reports a spokesperson for the band states the song is not meant to be a sequel to “Keep Talking.”

Nonetheless, the album’s track listing includes another song that seems to indicate sequel: “Autumn ’68” would appear to make reference to the song “Summer ’68,” a song written by late keyboardist Rick Wright on the band’s “Atom Heart Mother” album (1970).

One song on “The Endless River” contains lyrics — “Louder Than Words” with lyrics by Polly Samson — but three other songs are now known to have backing vocals by Gilmour.

“The Endless River” will be released in the U.K. on Nov 10, and the following day in the U.S.

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Video: Roger Waters Q&A at Toronto film festival

Posted September 9, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters at this past weekend’s premiere of “Roger Waters: The Wall” at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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“Roger Waters: The Wall” film to premiere in September

Posted August 20, 2014 by Floydian Slip

“Roger Waters: The Wall,” a concert documentary focused on the Pink Floyd co-founder’s recent world tour, will premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

“This immersive experience of Waters’s ‘The Wall Live’ tour, shot in three cities across two continents, is a rib-rattling, sonically stupendous piece of filmmaking,” according to TIFF director and CEO Piers Handling.

Clocking in at 2 hours 13 minutes, the film premieres Saturday, Sept. 6, with additional shows Sept. 7 and 14.

Waters shares directing credit with Sean Evans of production company Deadskinboy, who helped stage the tour. Longtime Waters manager Mark Fenwick is the film’s executive producer.

Waters played 219 shows on his “Wall” tour between 2010 and 2013, grossing $458 million.

No news yet on plans for a commercial release.

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New Andy Jackson album coming this fall

Posted August 11, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Esoteric Antenna will release “Signal to Noise,” a new album by long-time Pink Floyd recording engineer Andy Jackson, on Nov. 3.

The 7-track album will be available as a single CD and as a limited edition 2-disc digipack with 5.1 Surround Sound mix.

The label describes the album as “a fine, modern, progressive work, which draws on Andy Jackson’s exemplary work as an engineer and producer.”

Besides being an allusion to Jackson’s sound engineering background, the title refers to many of the lyrical themes of the album. “The album reflects on the sorting of what is important in life from the humdrum of everyday existence,” he explains, “and is in itself an analogy for the process of the creation of the album.”

The songlist will be:

The Boy in the Forest
One More Push
Invisible Colours
Spray Paint
Herman at the Fountain
It All Came Crashing Down
Brownian Motion

Jackson’s tenure with Floyd and its members includes work on “The Wall” film, “The Final Cut,” “A Momentary Lapse of Reason,” “The Division Bell,” “Pulse,” Roger Waters‘ “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking,” David Gilmour‘s “About Face,” “On An Island,” and “Live in Gdansk,” as well as the upcoming Floyd album “The Endless River.”

His work’s earned him two Grammy nominations and Mix magazine’s award for best live sound engineer for the “Pulse” tour.

Esoteric Antenna is a division of Cherry Red Records of London.

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Audio: New Roger Waters track recorded by Marianne Faithfull

Posted August 6, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Marianne Faithfull‘s upcoming “Give My Love to London” album will include “Sparrows Will Sing,” a number written by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters.

The track is the first single from the album, and is now available on Faithfull’s YouTube channel.

The album is set to drop Sept. 29.

Read more about the album and Faithfull’s past work with Waters (“Marianne Faithfull album to feature Roger Waters music”). And listen to the track here:

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Details: Lost Dream Academy cuts featuring David Gilmour

Posted August 1, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Our copy of the new Dream Academy compilation arrived today. Its liner notes reveal some more details about David Gilmour‘s participation in the previously-unreleased tracks included on the album.

Band frontman Nick Laird-Clowes writes of “Living in a War”: “Another song taken from the third album sessions. It had started life with a simple acoustic/string synthesizer arrangement, but had developed in the studio under the influence of the technology and sounds of the time, including David Gilmour’s multi-octave guitar sound (circa 1989). It was then thought to be ‘too eighties’ and subsequently put on the shelf but emerges now as a pure sound snapshot of its time.”

For the other track featuring Gilmour, “The Chosen Few,” Laird-Clowes writes: “Recorded in sessions for the last album. One afternoon in a break from his ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ Tour, David came down to the Strongroom where we were recording with Anthony Moore and added some electric and slide guitar to the track. With Pete Thomas playing the drums, Guy Pratt and Jon Carin augmenting our sound with the Hammond organ, there was very much a ‘live band’ feel to this recording.”

Careful observers will recognize some of those names as those of other Floyd contributors. (Laird-Clowes co-wrote a couple tracks on Floyd’s “The Division Bell” [1994].)

“Living in a War” and “The Chosen Few” are pretty much as one might expect, and as described above. Unfortunately, for Floyd fans, Gilmour’s contributions rarely rise to the top of the mix in either track.

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