Happy Birthday, Roger Waters (b. Sept. 6, 1943)
Win: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets Live at the Roundhouse
Posted August 3, 2020 by Floydian Slip
The Saucerful of Secrets Official Store is giving away merchandise and media bundles for the band’s upcoming “Live at the Roundhouse.”
Pink Floyd co-founder and drummer Nick Mason founded the Saucerfuls in 2018 to play out live the early music of Floyd.
Sony Legacy will release “Live at the Roundhouse” on Sept. 18.
The performance, recorded at the London venue in May 2019, will be available as a double LP, three-disc CD/DVD, and Blu-ray.
Ennio Morricone dead at 91
Posted July 6, 2020 by Floydian Slip
Italian composer Ennio Morricone has died in Rome. He was 91.
He scored more than 500 film soundtracks, including a number of “spaghetti Westerns” for director Sergio Leone such as “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964), “For a Few Dollars More” (1965) and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966).
In 1999, Morricone composed music for “The Legend of 1900,” including “Lost Boys Calling.” Roger Waters provided lyrics for the song and recorded it with guitar work by Eddie Van Halen.
Waters’s recording is included on the film soundtrack, and a demo version appears on his 2002 collection “Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Volume 1.”
Morricone succumbed to complications following a fall and broken leg he suffered last week.
New David Gilmour song released as single
Posted July 3, 2020 by Floydian Slip
Legacy/Columbia today released David Gilmour‘s “Yes, I Have Ghosts” as a single.
The new track, written by Gilmour and his wife, Polly Samson, features their daughter, Romany Gilmour, on backing vocals and harp.
“I was working on this song just as we went into lockdown and had to cancel a session with backing singers,” Gilmour said in a statement.
“As it turned out, the solution was right here and I couldn’t be happier with the way Romany’s voice blends with mine and her beautiful harp playing has been another revelation,” he added.
The song was originally released last week as part of the audiobook of Samson’s novel “A Theatre for Dreamers,” and was inspired by one of the characters in the story.
Release date set for Roger Waters Us + Them
Posted June 17, 2020 by Floydian Slip
“Roger Waters Us + Them,” a document of the Pink Floyd co-founder’s 2017-18 tour, will be released on Blu-ray, DVD, CD and vinyl by Sony Music Entertainment on Oct 2.
Already available for digital purchase and rental on 4K, HD and SD Digital from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the film and soundtrack’s physical release date was announced yesterday.
Us + Them, directed by Waters and Sean Evans, was filmed on tour in Amsterdam, and on location in the UK. Viewers on digital, Blu-Ray and DVD have access to new post-feature content including two additional concert songs not included in the original feature (“Comfortably Numb” and “Smell the Roses”) as well as “A Fleeting Glimpse,” a documentary-style short film featuring behind-the-scenes moments from the tour.
New song coming from David Gilmour
Posted June 12, 2020 by Floydian Slip
The upcoming audiobook of Polly Samson‘s “A Theatre for Dreamers” will include the song “Yes I have Ghosts,” a new single from husband David Gilmour.
Gilmour has been writing with Samson since Pink Floyd’s “The Division Bell” (1994). He provides original incidental music throughout the audiobook.
The single is inspired by a character in the book, set on the Greek island of Hydra, and was co-written by Samson.
“We didn’t set out to work together on the audiobook, but lockdown meant I had to narrate and I’m grateful to David Gilmour for stepping in to the producer’s chair,” says Samson “We wanted to explore the creative possibilities of the format and produce something new, refreshing and innovative.”
Publisher W.F. Howes Ltd. lists the release date of the audiobook as Sept. 1.
Uncut and Prog magazines have both published a date of June 25, though it’s unclear whether that’s the release date for the audiobook or the stand-alone single.
(Photo: Romany Gilmour)
Digital release coming for “Roger Waters: Us + Them”
Posted May 22, 2020 by Floydian Slip
“Roger Waters: Us + Them,” the concert film of Waters’s 2017/18 live shows shown in theaters last October, will be released digitally June 16.
The film was directed by Waters and Sean Evans, and shot at concerts in Amsterdam and the U.K.
The digital release will come in 4K, HD and SD versions and will include two bonus tracks: “Comfortably Numb” from “The Wall”; and “Smell the Roses” from Waters’s “Is This the Life We Really Want?”
Release dates for the DVD and Blu-ray versions will be announced soon.
Roger Waters calls for access to Pink Floyd social media
Posted May 19, 2020 by Floydian Slip
In a video posted to Facebook today, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters makes a case for equal access to the websites and social media accounts operated under the Floyd name.
During the 5-minute video, Waters thanks fans for their comments and enthusiasm for a new video of “Mother” he recorded Zoom-style with a number of backing musicians and posted online Sunday.
He explains none of his work outside of Pink Floyd, which he left in the mid-’80s, is promoted through the official Floyd channels online, since “David (Gilmour) thinks he owns it.”
Waters goes on to point out Gilmour has tied promotional efforts for his wife and writing partner Polly Samson‘s new novel to the band’s social media.
“This is wrong. We should rise up,” he says, “or just change the name of the band to Spinal Tap.”
Waters has postponed to 2021 his “This is Not a Drill” North American tour, which was originally scheduled to open July 8.
Watch “David Gilmour Live at Pompeii” on YouTube Friday
Posted May 5, 2020 by Floydian Slip
David Gilmour will stream “Live at Pompeii,” the concert film created from his 2016 shows at the ancient Italian amphitheater, on YouTube Friday at 12:00 EDT.
Gilmour played two sold-out shows at Pompeii in July 2016. It marked his return to the venue 45 years after Pink Floyd played it for the band’s 1972 film “Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii.”
“David Gilmour Live at Pompeii” was released as audio and video sets in September ’17.
Pink Floyd is streaming a full concert performance each week through May 17 as part of the @YouTube Film Festival.
“Floydian Slip” songlist #1253
Posted April 20, 2020 by Floydian Slip
“Storm Effect— Remembering Storm Thorgerson”
- Joey
Pretty Things/Silk Torpedo (1974) - Last Cloud Home
Orange Bicycle/Orange Bicycle (1970) - Art for Art’s Sake
10cc/How Dare You (1976) - Always Somewhere
Scorpions/Lovedrive (1979) - The Aleph
Howard Werth and the Moonbeams/King Brilliant (1972) - Morgana Da Capo
Ashra/Correlations (1979) - Yet Another Movie/Round and Around
Pink Floyd/A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
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