Personnel

Nick Mason to host charity event at his home

Posted April 17, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and his wife, Annette, will host a charity auction at their Corsham, Wiltshire, home June 21 and 22.

The event will benefit Springboard Opportunity Group in Chippenham and the Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust.

“We wanted to support two different charities who impact on the lives of folk locally,” Nick says. “We thought about one for the elderly and one for the young.”

He’ll bake a cake to be auctioned.

“Nick is an excellent cook and often creates wonderful diner parties for our friends,” Annette says. “When his daughters and sons are home, he still makes a special biscuit with a secret recipe which I know includes Mars Bars.”

The couple’s home was once owned by the Duchess of Cornwall (pictured with the Masons at last year’s event).

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Storm Effect visual companion available online

Posted April 16, 2014 by Floydian Slip

We’ve created a visual companion for this week’s special program, “Storm Effect: Remembering Storm Thorgerson.”

Show #940 — airing now until Sunday, April 20, on all “Floydian Slip” stations — features music from a variety of albums all designed by Storm and/or his team at Hipgnosis.

View the artwork here

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“Floydian Slip” preview #940

Posted April 14, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #940. It’s a special show remembering longtime Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thogerson on the anniversary of his passing, April 18, 2013.

We’ll be playing material from a variety of bands Storm did work for: Genesis, Alan Parsons Project, Led Zeppelin, 10cc, and many others.

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 50 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.

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Video: David Gilmour plays with Ben Watt

Posted April 9, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Q Magazine has posted a new video of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour performing with Ben Watt.

The two play Watt’s “The Levels” from his upcoming album “Hendra,” to be released April 14.

Gilmour plays steel pedal guitar in the video, and plays on the album track, too.

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“Floydian Slip” songlist #934

Posted March 10, 2014 by Floydian Slip

David Gilmour Birthday Special

On an Island
Live Selections from ‘On an Island’ (David Gilmour) (2006)
Cry from the Street
David Gilmour (David Gilmour) (1978)
Echoes
Live in Gdansk (David Gilmour) (2008)
Dark Globe
Arnold Layne EP (David Gilmour) (2006)
Murder
About Face (David Gilmour) (1984)

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“Floydian Slip” preview #934

Posted March 3, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #934. It’ll be a special program devoted to Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour on his 68th birthday:

David with “Echoes” from a Gdansk concert
Cuts from “David Gilmour” (1978) and “About Face” (1984)
David covering Syd Barrett at a 2006 Austrian show
And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 50 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.

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Roger Waters honors fallen father

Posted February 20, 2014 by Floydian Slip

This past Tuesday, 70 years to the day his father was killed at the Battle of Anzio, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters honored Eric Fletcher Waters at a memorial ceremony in Italy.

“I have finally come to the end of a journey to discover what really happened to him,” Waters said at the site of a new marble monument in the town of Aprilia, south of Rome. “I feel an enormous attachment to my father today. I’m very happy to be here.”

The monument, which commemorates Eric Waters “and all the other fallen who have no known grave,” displays lyrics taken from Roger’s “Two Suns in the Sunset” from Floyd’s “The Final Cut” album: “Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend; we were all equal in the end.”

The younger Waters was 5-months-old when his father was killed Feb. 18, 1944. His body was never found.

Roger learned details of his death just recently, when WWII veteran Harry Schindler, 93, who also fought at Anzio, researched the battle and managed to recover a War Diary providing details.

Schindler also attended this week’s ceremony.

“Roger, I hope that you can go into calmer waters now and that this wall at least is down for you,” he said.

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Nick Mason discovers lost Floyd film

Posted January 27, 2014 by Floydian Slip

The Daily Mirror reports Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has unearthed never-before-seen film of the band.

He discovered the black and white footage while researching archival material to be used for exhibitions about the band.

It shows band members Mason, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Syd Barrett backstage at some early gigs in the late-’60s

“There are some unseen bits and pieces,” Mason explains. “We have got a bit of backstage black and white footage — 8mm film — that we took ourselves.”

No word on when or how the footage might be made public.

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Pink Floyd stage designer’s estate worth £7 million

Posted January 24, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Mark Fisher, who designed elaborate stages for Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, U2 and many others, left behind an estate valued at £7,132,622.

Fisher, who died last year on June 25, designed the original show of “The Wall” in 1980, as well as Roger Waters‘ performance of the show in Berlin, Germany, in 1990 and its most recent world tour in 2010-13.

He also designed for Floyd’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour in 1987-89 and The Division Bell shows of ’94.

The £7 million figure was released by the Probate Office in London. The net amount after outstanding debt was settled was £6,835,331, the equivalent of $11.3 million.

See “Pink Floyd stage designer Mark Fisher dies”

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Roger Waters to be made honorary citizen of Anzio

Posted January 23, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Officials of the Italian city of Anzio will make Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters an honorary citizen.The city will hold a ceremony Feb. 18, 70 years to the day Waters’ father, Eric Fletcher Waters, died at the Battle of Anzio.

In addition to honoring Roger, officials will erect a monument to his father, inscribed with the lyrics to Roger’s “Two Suns in the Sunset” from Pink Floyd’s “The Final Cut” (1983).

Waters received details of his father’s death only last autumn, when WWII vet Harry Shindler discovered a War Diary describing the day’s events. (See “New documents reveal final day of Roger Water’s father“)

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