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Roger Waters at 12.12.12 on iTunes

Posted December 18, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Three tracks from Roger Waters‘ performance at last week’s 12.12.12 concert are available for sale online.

“Us and Them”; “Comfortably Numb,” a duet with Eddie Vedder; and an extended version of “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2” called “Another Brick in the Atlantic Wall” are part of the album released today.

The album contains 24 selections from the event held at Madison Square Garden last Wednesday.

The album’s available for purchase in it entirety only. No single tracks are being sold. A CD will be released next month.

The Robin Hood Relief Fund will receive 100% of net proceeds of digital retailers. The fund is providing money, materials and know-how to local organizations serving those in the regions hardest hit by the storm.

Buy the album now.

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Waters on Fallon show tonight

Posted December 11, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters will appear on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” tonight.

Waters isn’t scheduled to perform, but will likely discuss his appearance scheduled for tomorrow night’s 12.12.12 concert to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Fallon devoted a week to the band in September 2011 to mark the “Why Pink Floyd” reissue launch.

The program airs in NBC-TV at 12:35 a.m. ET.

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Roger Waters to appear in theatrical production

Posted November 21, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters will take the stage next week playing a different kind of role than usual. The Pink Floyd co-founder will join the cast of Culture Project‘s revival of “The Exonerated,” a play about wrongfully convicted survivors of death row.

Written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, the show’s original production ran for more than 600 performances beginning in October 2002. Featuring a rotating cast of celebrities reading accounts by former death row inmates, the show focuses on the true stories of six people sentenced to death and later freed after being proven innocent.

Waters will share the stage with Kathleen Chalfant, William Marshall and Chris Sarandon.

Founded by Allan Buchman in 1996, Culture Project’s dedicated to addressing human rights issues by shining an artistic spotlight on injustice.

The show plays at 45 Bleecker St. in New York’s East Village Nov. 27 through Dec. 2. (866) 811-4111.

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Roger Waters charity appearance streaming online

Posted November 10, 2012 by Floydian Slip

The concert appearance Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters made this past week is available online.

Waters was joined by a band of wounded veterans Nov. 8 at the Stand Up for Heroes event in New York City.

Video of the 2½-hour event is available at reMIND.org, the site of The Bob Woodruff Foundation, devoted to helping wounded veterans and their caregivers.

Waters’ appearance, including a rambling ad-libbed vamp while stagehands set the stage, is at about 1:10:20 into the program.

One of the easiest ways to give to the cause is to text BWF to 50555. Your text will donate $10 to helping wounded veterans and their caregivers. You can also donate at the website.

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Roger Waters announces 2013 European concert dates

Posted November 10, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has announced 20 concert dates for 2013.

The co-founder of Pink Floyd will ramp up his tour of “The Wall” again in Werchter, Belgium, on July 2. The tour will run through Sept. 18, wrapping up in Dublin, Ireland.

Ticket pre-sales begin Nov. 12 for registered members of rogerwaters.com.

The ’13 tour will visit a number of countries not included in the previous legs of the tour, including Croatia, Turkey, Romania and Serbia.

Waters has redesigned and scaled up the show to accommodate the larger, open air stadiums scheduled for ’13.

“I’m extremely glad to be playing ‘The Wall’ in Europe again,” Waters says. “It’s going to be a lot of fun for all of us. I’ve reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums. It’s really good. Even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the arena shows.”

Press conference

Waters’ press conference detailing his ’13 tour will be streamed live on the web Nov. 15 at 12:30 GMT at rogerwaters.com and his Facebook page. He’s taking questions from fans in advance of the event. You can submit your question at his Facebook page.

Concert dates

July
Saturday 20 — Werchter Festival Site
Tuesday 23 — Split Poljud Stadium
Friday 26 — Padova Euganeo Stadium
Sunday 28 — Rome Olympic Stadium

August
Wednesday 7 — Prague Synot Tip Stadium (Slavia)
Friday 9 — Frankfurt Commerzbank Arena
Sunday 11 — Copenhagen Parken Stadium
Wednesday 14 — Oslo Telenor Arena
Thursday 15 — Oslo Telenor Arena
Saturday 17 — Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium
Tuesday 20 — Warsaw Narodowy Stadium
Friday 23 — Vienna Donauinsel
Sunday 25 — Budapest Puskas Ferenc Stadium
Wednesday 28 — Bucharest Piata Consitutiei
Friday 30 — Sofia Vasil Levski Stadium

September
Sunday 1 — Belgrade Usce Park
Wednesday 4 — Berlin Olympic Stadium
Friday 6 — Dusseldorf Esprit Arena
Sunday 8 — Amsterdam Arena
Wednesday 18 — Dublin Aviva Stadium

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Roger Waters discusses new album

Posted November 7, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Roger Water has confirmed he has plans to record another album.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Waters reveals he’s written an as-yet untitled song about religious extremism that will likely be part of an upcoming album with the working title “Heartland.”

Waters, who wrote the new song during breaks of his recent tour of “The Wall,” also revealed that former bandmates David Gilmour and Nick Mason will not appear on the album. (A bit premature to call, we’d like to think, since recording for the project hasn’t started.)

Waters’ last rock record was 1992’s “Amused to Death.” Since then he completed work on “Ca Ira,” a French opera.

Read the Rolling Stone article.

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Roger Waters to perform with veterans at charity event

Posted November 3, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters will perform at the 6th annual Stand Up for Heroes event, Thursday, Nov. 8, at New York’s Beacon Theatre.

The event, presented by the New York Comedy Festival and The Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF), supports injured service members and their caregivers.

Waters will perform with a band comprised entirely of military veterans. Other acts scheduled to perform include Mike Birbiglia, Ricky Gervais, Patton Oswalt, Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen and Robin Williams.

The event is sold out, but musical performances will be streamed live at YouTube and made available at the BWF’s reMIND website.

The five previous events have raised more than $10 million to support wounded veterans and their families.

Learn more about the event and donate at reMIND.

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“Floydian Slip” songlist #857

Posted September 12, 2012 by Floydian Slip

“Roger Waters Birthday Special”

Wish You Were Here
Tsunami Aid (Roger Waters f/Eric Clapton) (2005)
Each Small Candle
In the Flesh (Roger Waters) (2000)
We Shall Overcome
Roger Waters (2010)
To Kill a Child
Roger Waters (2004)
The Russian Missile/Towers of Faith
When the Wind Blows (Roger Waters) (1986)
Flickering Flame
Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Volume 1 (Roger Waters) (2002)
The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2
Live Earth (Roger Waters) (2007)
Lost Boys Calling
The Legend of 1900 (Film soundtrack) (Roger Waters f/Eddie Van Halen) (1999)

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“Floydian Slip” preview # 857

Posted September 6, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #857. It’ll be a special program devoted to the more rare solo numbers from Roger Waters, who turns 69 on Sept. 6:

Roger from When the Wind Blows (1986) and In the Flesh (2000)
An Internet-only release from 2004
Roger performing at Live Earth (2007)
And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 30+ stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.

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Waters’ Quebec Wall to rival Berlin’s

Posted May 23, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has added a new final date to his tour of “The Wall,” which will be more than twice as big as any other show on the tour.

When the former Pink Floyd front-man performs at Quebec City’s Fields of Abraham on July 21, the wall will be more than 800 feet wide, more than twice the size of any other show on his revival tour of the show.

It’ll be the largest outdoor staging of his magnum opus since he performed it at the site of the former Berlin wall in 1990 on the same day: July 21.

Initial sales are reserved for those who’ve purchased admittance to the Festival d’été de Québec.

Festival fans can register online today at InfoFestival.com from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. for a drawing to purchase wristbands for the concert.

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