Posted April 3, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Variety reports Trafalgar Releasing will turn “Us + Them,” the 2017-18 tour of Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters, into a feature film.
The tour included more than 150 performances, mostly in North American and Europe, playing to a total audience of 2.3 million.
The film, yet to be named, will hit theaters this fall. It’ll be composed from a number of performances along the tour.
Trafalgar released “Roger Waters – The Wall” in 2015.
Posted February 9, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Actor Albert Finney died Thursday at 82.
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times throughout his career, Pink Floyd fans might remember him best as The Judge in Roger Waters‘s July 1990 performance of “The Wall” in Berlin, Germany.
“I adored Albert Finney, a great actor, obviously, also obviously, a lovely man,” Roger wrote yesterday on Facebook. “Best reading ever of ‘The Evidence Before The Court.'”
Posted February 2, 2019 by Floydian Slip
KNTR 106.3 FM (K292GC) in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., has dropped “Floydian Slip” from its schedule citing Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters‘s recent statement regarding the Super Bowl.
Yesterday we received an email from KNTR General Manager Traceye Jones that reads, in part:
“KNTR News Talk will no longer carry Floydian Slip effective immediately. We will not air this week’s show as we have previously scheduled for Sunday evenings 7PM AZ time.
“It has been brought to our attention that Mr. Waters has made a public statement regarding entertainers for the Super Bowl to not perform or ‘take a knee’ when in attendance.
“KNTR News Talk 106.3FM is a conservative radio station operated by a conservative owner and we feel if Mr. Waters chooses to use his fame to disrespect our Nation then KNTR News Talk will use our Freedom (to) not air his music.”
The station’s website lists Steve Greeley as “Owner/Operator.”
On Wednesday, Waters posted a statement to Facebook calling on this Sunday’s Super Bowl half-time performers to kneel on stage in solidarity with former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose similar past actions were a statement against racism in America.
“I call upon them to do it in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, to do it for every child shot to death on these mean streets, to do it for every bereaved mother and father and brother and sister,” Waters wrote.
Waters was Pink Floyd’s driving creative force throughout the ’70s before he left the band following “The Final Cut” album in ’83. He’s continued to record and perform as a solo artist ever since. He often makes news for his outspoken views on social injustice.
Jones brought “Floydian Slip” onto KNTR Dec. 30. She’d previously managed “Floydian Slip” affiliate station KVYL 93.7 FM in the same market. “Vinyl” carried the show from 2014 until a format change in ’18.
(Pictured: Waters and his band kneeling at the end of a performance in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 24, 2017.)
Posted September 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Sony Classical will release Igor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” recorded by Roger Waters next month.
“The Soldier’s Tale” is a musical theatre piece conceived in 1918 by Stravinsky and Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, and based on the Russian folk tale “The Runaway Soldier and the Devil” from the collection of Alexander Afanasyev.
In the original story, a soldier trades his fiddle to the devil in return for unlimited wealth. Waters has rewritten the text of the original piece for his adaptation.
In his recording, Waters plays all of the roles — the principal parts of the Soldier, the Devil and the Narrator, as well as all supporting characters. As originally conceived, the piece uses three actors for the principal roles, along with one or more dancers.
Other recent adaptations of “The Soldier’s Tale” include an animated version featuring Max von Sydow and broadcast on PBS in 1984; a 1993 version by Kurt Vonnegut that set the story in WWII; and a jazz version by Joan Sanmartí in 2002.
Waters’s “The Soldier’s Tale” is set for release Oct. 26.
Posted September 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Happy Birthday, Roger Waters (b. Sept. 6, 1943)
Posted April 17, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters says a 5.1 Surround Sound edition of Pink Floyd‘s “Animals” (1977) is on its way.
According to Super Deluxe Edition, the Floyd co-founder mentioned the release during an interview on Dutch radio station NPO Radio 2:
“I’ve just been working with Po (Aubrey Powell),” he said. “There’s a reissue of ‘Animals,’ I think, a 5.1 remix of ‘Animals,’ and so he came up with some new photographs of Battersea Power Station, as it is now, to use as a CD cover for the new 5.1 mix. It’s beautiful.”
Any 5.1 remix wouldn’t be pressed to compact disc, since the format doesn’t support the technology. So Waters most likely was referring to an upcoming Blu-ray or DVD.
Posted March 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Lucius, featuring vocalists Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, released its “Nudes” album last Friday. The album features Roger Waters on the closing track, a cover of Leadbelly‘s “Goodnight, Irene.”
Yesterday the group published a video of Waters, Laessig and Wolfe — barely recognizable without the pair’s matching wigs — recording the song direct to vinyl in a vintage Voice-O-Graph booth at New York City’s Electric Lady Studios.
Laessig and Wolfe provide backing vocals for Waters Us + Them tour and also appear on his album “Is This the Life We Really Want?” (2017).
Posted January 23, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters will make a guest appearance on the upcoming Lucius album “Nudes.”
Waters is featured on the band’s cover of Lead Belly’s “Goodnight Irene.”
Lucius is a four-person L.A.-based band most recognizable for its look-alike lead vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig. The pair provided backing vocals on Waters’ recent Us + Them tour.
“Nudes” is an acoustic collection of original and re-recorded Lucius tracks, as well as cover songs, recorded over two days at Electric Lady Studios in New York City.
The album drops March 2 and is available now for pre-order now.
Posted November 29, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters‘s “Is This the Life We Really Want?” has earned a Grammy nomination.
The album’s in the running to win “Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.”
It was engineered by Nigel Godrich, Sam Petts-Davies and Darrell Thorp. Bob Ludwig acted as mastering engineer.
Other albums nominated in that category are “Every Where Is Some Where,” K. Flay; “Natural Conclusion,” Rose Cousins; “No Shape,” Perfume Genius; and “24K Magic,” Bruno Mars.
The Grammys will be held Jan. 28 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
Addendum (Posted Jan. 30, 2018): The Grammy went to “24K Magic,” Bruno Mars.
Posted October 2, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters will take his Us + Them tour to Europe in 2018.
Waters announced five dates:
After 63 sold-out shows in the U.S. and Canada in ’17, the tour will visit Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K. in ’18.
Complete schedule is at www.rogerwaters.com.
(Photo: Kate Izor)
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