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David Gilmour, Roger Waters perform together

Posted July 11, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pigs flew last night at an Oxfordshire, England, charity event, when Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Roger Waters performed live together.

Appearing in Kidlington for a concert to benefit the Hoping Foundation, the two played four songs together, accompanied by Guy Pratt, on bass and acoustic guitar; Harry Waters, on keyboards; Andy Newmark, on drums; Chester Kamen, on guitar; and Jonjo Grisdale, also on keyboards.

The set contained four songs: Floyd classics “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” and “Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two),” along with Phil Spector’s “To Know Him Is To Love Him.”

The photo is from a rehearsal for the event.

Let’s hope this is a sign of things to come.

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Final four dates announced for “Wall” tour

Posted June 10, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has announced the “final four” U.S. dates for the North American leg of his tour of “The Wall”:

Sept. 24
United Center, Chicago, Ill.
Oct. 3
TD Garden, Boston, Mass.
Dec. 3
Oracle Arena, Oakland, Calif.
Dec. 5
Staples Center, Los Angeles, Calif.

The tour now has 87 confirmed dates for North America. Watch the official Roger Waters site for all official dates.

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Roger Waters releases “We Shall Overcome” video

Posted June 7, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has made available a new recording of the protest song “We Shall Overcome.”

Posted June 3 to YouTube, the video is a call for the end of the blockade of Gaza.

Waters is seen in the video singing and playing acoustic guitar. Lead guitar is played by G.E. Smith, with drums by Thor Jonsson, neither of whom are seen in the video.

Waters explains his motivation by referencing the freedom march to Gaza this winter. “The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the U.S. tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza,” he writes.

“I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of ‘We Shall Overcome.’ It seems appropriate.”

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Waters “not unhappy” at Floyd’s end

Posted May 27, 2010 by Floydian Slip

The BBC spoke to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters in a piece published online today. Waters talks about the band’s last performance at the Live 8 event in 2005, and says he believes it will be the band’s last appearance.

“It was an extraordinarily moving experience for me,” he says. “Live 8 was so beautiful, and Rick (Wright) obviously was still with us then. … If that’s the way we draw a line under Pink Floyd, so be it. I won’t be unhappy about that.”

Wright died in 2008, leaving Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason as the surviving members.

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Roger Waters announces European concert dates

Posted May 27, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has announced 28 concert dates for Europe — the second leg of his tour of “The Wall” that starts in Toronto Sept. 15.

The European tour starts March 27 in Lisbon, Portugal, and wraps up June 18 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

As with the North American tour, rogerwaters.com will offer fans the chance to buy premium tickets during a members-only presale, which will start “very soon.”

See the complete, up-to-date list of venues and dates at rogerwaters.com.

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Roger Waters’ “Wall” tops ticket sales chart

Posted May 19, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Ex-Pink Floyd member Roger Waters‘ tour of “The Wall” is at the top of the chart for ticket sales of musical, theatre and sports events for the week ending May 16.

Ticket sales tracking company TicketNews announced Waters was #1 on its Top Combined Events chart.

“The Wall” show has a huge lead over #2 on the list — with a 13.19 “power score” over the 4.83 score of Broadway show “Wicked.” Lady Gaga is third at 2.48; Justin Bieber is in fourth place at 2.29.

None of this is news to people who logged on at 10 a.m. May 10 when “Wall” tickets went on sale. Waters immediately sold-out many venues, and added a dozen shows to the tour by the end of the day to help meet demand.

TicketNews’ scores are based on sales from the TicketNetwork Exchange, the world’s largest secondary market exchange. Total ticket sales from the given event and total ticket sales within the category are used to calculate power scores.

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Four more “Wall” shows announced

Posted May 10, 2010 by Floydian Slip

On top of the eight new Roger Waters shows we told you about this morning (“Eight shows added to “Wall” tour”), another four have now been added to his “Wall” tour in four venues:

Sept. 23, United Center, Chicago, Ill.
Nov. 11, Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
Nov. 30, Staples Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
Dec. 14, Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif.

Ticket for these shows go on sale tomorrow at 9 a.m., local time.

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Eight shows added to “Wall” tour

Posted May 10, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Eight shows were immediately added to Roger Water’s tour of “The Wall” once general tickets went on sale this morning:

Sep 18, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Oct 1, TD Garden, Boston, Mass.
Oct 6, Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y.
Oct 13, Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, N.Y.
Oct 20, Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Nov 4, Izod Center, East Rutherford, N.J.
Nov 14, BankAtlantic Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Dec 8, HP Pavilion, San Jose, Calif.

Tickets are on sale of all of these additional venues.

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Roger Waters tickets selling briskly

Posted May 10, 2010 by Floydian Slip

General tickets for Roger Waters‘ tour of “The Wall” went on sale this morning at 10. If our experience buying tickets for his Montreal shows coming up Oct. 19-20 is any indicator, sales are brisk.

The first date sold out within 20 minutes, along with many sections for the second show.

What’s been your experience buying tickets? Post them as replies to this message.

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Video: Roger Waters on “Late Night”

Posted May 6, 2010 by Floydian Slip

In case you missed it, here’s streaming video — in two parts — of Roger Waters‘ appearance last night on the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” show.

Fallon begins by confessing he’s a huge fan, and then goes on to prove it with his nearly breathless interview in which he gets Waters to talk about Pink Floyd’s early days, Syd Barrett‘s infamous visit to the studio while the band was making “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” and Waters’ recent venture into Facebook.

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