Roger Waters

Video: Roger Waters’ “The Last Refugee”

Posted May 20, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has released a video for “The Last Refugee,” a track from his upcoming new album.

“Is This the Life We Really Want” is coming June 2.

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Roger Waters in new Uncut magazine

Posted May 17, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters is the cover story for the new Uncut magazine.

Waters talks about his upcoming new album “Is This the Life We Really Want,” dropping June 2.

“It’s not much of a leap from ‘Is This The Life We Really Want?’ to ‘Money’, ‘Us And Them’ or ‘Welcome To The Machine’,” he tells Uncut. “They’re all interconnected in ways that are … unsubtle.”

The magazine will be in U.K. shops tomorrow, arriving in the U.S. some time later.

Read a detailed summary of the issue

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Video: Roger Waters on The Late Show

Posted May 9, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters performed his new single “Déjà Vu” on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” last night.

Watch the video

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Roger Waters releases second new single

Posted May 8, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Sony/Columbia has released “Déjà Vu,” the second single from Roger Waters‘ upcoming new album “Is This the Life We Really Want?”

Formerly known as “If I Had Been God,” the song is available from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and other online outlets.

“Déjà Vu” follows the release of the first single, “Smell the Roses,” last month.

“Is This the Life We Really Want?” drops Friday, June 2.

Waters will appear tonight on CBS TV‘s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The show airs at 11:35 p.m. EDT.

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New Roger Waters track available now

Posted April 21, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Columbia Records has released the first single from Roger Waters‘ new album “Is This the Life We Really Want.”

“Smell the Roses” is available for streaming on Spotify and for sale on the iTunes Music Store.

It has a decidedly “Have a Cigar”-feel, with some passages similar to “Dogs.”

“Is This the Life We Really Want” will be released June 2 (See “New Roger Waters album tracklist; release delayed”.)

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New Roger Waters album tracklist; release delayed

Posted April 20, 2017 by Floydian Slip

The release date for “Is This the Life We Really Want?,” the new album from Roger Waters, has been delayed by two weeks. Originally scheduled for May 19, Columbia Records will now release it globally on Friday, June 2.

Pre-orders for the album begin tomorrow in three formats: double 180-gram vinyl LP in a gatefold jacket, four-panel soft pack CD, and digital.

A Columbia press release describes the album as “an unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times” and “a natural successor to classic Pink Floyd albums such as ‘Animals’ and ‘The Wall.'”

It’s produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Beck, U2).

Tracklist for the album is as follows:

When We Were Young
Déjà Vu
The Last Refugee
Picture That
Broken Bones
Is This the Life We Really Want?
Bird in a Gale
The Most Beautiful Girl
Smell the Roses
Wait for Her
Oceans Apart
Part of Me Died

Lyrics for “Wait for Her” were written by Waters and inspired by an English translation by an unknown author of “Lesson from the Kama Sutra (Wait for Her)” by Mahmoud Darwish.

Musicians on “Is This the Life We Really Want?” are: Waters (vocals, acoustic, bass), Godrich (arrangement, sound collages, keyboards, guitar), Gus Seyffert (bass, guitar, keyboards), Jonathan Wilson (guitar, keyboards), Joey Waronker (drums), Roger Manning (keyboards), Lee Pardini (keyboards), and Lucius (vocals) with Jessica Wolfe and Holly Proctor.

Waters will launch his North American “Us + Them” tour in Kansas City, MO, on Friday, May 26. The tour runs through Oct. 28, finishing in Vancouver, BC.

See the Roger Waters website for complete and up-to-date concert dates.

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Post-performance report: “Another Brick in the Wall” opera

Posted March 12, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Last night in Montreal, “Floydian Slip” attended the premiere of “Another Brick in the Wall,” a new opera based on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.”

The crowd outside the entrance of Place Des Arts‘ Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier theater grew steadily as we approached the 7:30 curtain time. Two or three television camera crews were there reporting on-scene, likely adding to the crowd as passers-by stopped to see what the commotion was.

Roger Waters arrived about 15 minutes before the performance and posed for photos with other production personnel on the red carpet. Inside, Waters sat in the center of the audience, receiving a standing ovation when we was acknowledged from the stage during pre-show announcements.

We enjoyed the show, and imagine other Floyd fans — opera beginners, like us, or otherwise — would, too.

The show runs through March 27.

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Roger Waters teases new album

Posted March 3, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters released another snippet from his new album.

“Is This the Life We Really Want” will hit stores May 19.

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Roger Waters confirms album release date

Posted February 24, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has confirmed his upcoming album “Is This the Life We Really Want?” will be released on May 19.

He dropped the date in a new interview with Rolling Stone published yesterday.

In the interview he talks about inspiration he’s drawn from the recent presidential election, the new album’s shift away from an earlier radio play concept, and plans for his 2017 tour.

Read the full interview

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