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Early Pink Floyd home renovated, for sale

Posted September 2, 2015 by Floydian Slip

The Highgate home in northern London where the founding members of Pink Floyd lived while the band took shape has been renovated and is for sale.

The three-story property was owned by Mike Leonard — the band briefly called itself Leonard’s Lodgers — a lecturer at Hornsey College of Art who was instrumental in developing the band’s trademark light shows.

Floyd’s Roger Waters and Nick Mason moved into the home in September 1963, joined a year later by Syd Barrett. Rick Wright also lived there.

Leonard, who continued to own the property until his death in 2012, had allowed the property to fall into disrepair. It was auctioned shortly after his death.

The newly-renovated home is stunning, and is listed for £3 million.

DailyMail.com has a series of before and after photos.

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“Floydian Slip” mailing list back online

Posted September 2, 2015 by Floydian Slip

After a two-week accidental blackout, the “Floydian Slip” mailing list is back online.

If you’d like Pink Floyd and “Floydian Slip” news emailed to your inbox in daily digest issues, sign up now.

Thanks to crazy diamond Ray Sourdiffe for bring the mistake to our attention.

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“Floydian Slip” preview #1012

Posted September 1, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1012: It’s a special show devoted to Roger Waters on his 72nd birthday:

Roger from Amused to Death (1992) and The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984)
We’ll have Roger doing a protest song from 2010
Roger Live from Berlin, Germany; and 2012’s Hurricane Sandy benefit concert
And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 65 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.

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“Floydian Slip” songlist #1011

Posted August 31, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Speak to Me
The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Breathe in the Air
The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
On the Run
The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Time
The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
The Great Gig in the Sky
The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Fat Old Sun
Live in Gdansk (David Gilmour) (2008)
Julia Dream
Relics (1971)
Ibiza Bar
More (Film soundtrack) (1969)
Freedom (*Floydian Slip Up*)
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight (Jimi Hendrix) (1970)
To Kill a Child
Roger Waters (2004)
When You’re In
Obscured by Clouds (1972)

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Inflatable pig grounded from auction

Posted August 29, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Algie, the inflatable pig that famously flew over the Battersea Power Station on the cover of Pink Floyd’s 1977 “Animals” album, won’t be going up for bid after all.

Thursday we reported Durrants would be auctioning the pig, along with a number of other rock and roll inflatables created by Rob Harries, owner of Air Artists in Halesworth, creator of the items.

Turns out the auction house was premature in listing Algie as part of the auction.

“The auctioneers rather jumped the gun with the list I provided them and publicized the fact the Pink Floyd pig might be one of the lots,” Harries tells the BBC.

“I thought I should offer it back to Pink Floyd and they do want to welcome it home again.”

The Sept. 15 auction will still include a 15-foot anatomically-correct pig used by the Floyd after Roger Waters’ departure from the group; and a 60-foot pig’s head and the teacher inflatable used during Waters’ 1990 concert of “The Wall” in Berlin, Germany.

Details of the auction will be available at the Durrants website.

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Roger Waters launches You! Yes You!

Posted August 27, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has launched a new Tumblr site at you-yes-you.com to promote the Sept. 29 release of the film “Roger Waters The Wall.”

Fans can share their favorite Wall artwork, tour memories and memorabilia on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or Instagram tagged with #YouYesYou; or email them to info@you-yes-you.com.

Selected items will be featured on the new site. The site will award limited edition prizes leading up to the Sept. 29 showing.

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Pink Floyd inflatables to hit auction block

Posted August 27, 2015 by Floydian Slip

A number of Pink Floyd inflatables, including the pig that flew over Battersea Power Station on the cover of the band’s 1977 album “Animals,” will be going up for bid.

On Sept. 15, Durrants will auction off a collection of rock and roll inflatables, which also includes items associated with Roger Waters‘, solo; Queen; The Rolling Stones and others.

Other Floyd-related items will include a 15-foot anatomically-correct pig used by the Floyd after Waters’ departure from the group; and a 60-foot pig’s head and the teacher inflatable used during Waters’ 1990 concert of “The Wall” in Berlin, Germany.

The items come from Rob Harries, owner of Air Artists in Halesworth, creator of the items.

Algie (pictured), the pig from the “Animals” cover, famously broke free from its tether during photography. Listen to Hipgnosis’s Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell tell the story when we spoke with him in January.

Details of the auction will be available at the Durrants website.

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“Floydian Slip” preview #1011

Posted August 25, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1011:

Floyd from The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and Obscured by Clouds (1972)
David Gilmour live from 2008
A Floydian Slip-Up from a classic rock legend’s final UK performance
And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 65 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.

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“Floydian Slip” songlist #1010

Posted August 24, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Echoes
Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii (1972)
Your Possible Pasts
The Final Cut (1983)
Goodbye Blue Sky
The Wall (1979)
Obscured by Clouds
Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Sail to the Moon (*Floydian Slip Up*)
Hail to the Thief (Radiohead) (2003)
Louder Than Words
The Endless River (2014)

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David Gilmour covers The Beatles

Posted August 20, 2015 by Floydian Slip

The upcoming issue of Mojo magazine includes a previously unreleased David Gilmour recording of The Beatles‘ “Here There and Everywhere.”

Gilmour shared the recording, which he made with his son, Joe, with the magazine a couple of years ago. It’ll be included in the “David Gilmour & Friends” CD that ships with Mojo issue 263, on newsstands starting Aug. 25.

“I really wish I had been in The Beatles,” Gilmour tells Mojo. “[They] taught me how to play guitar, I learnt everything. The bass parts, the lead, the rhythm, everything. They were fantastic.”

The other tracks on the CD are from artists who have collaborated with Gilmour over the years, such as Robert Wyatt, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Ben Watt, The Orb, Phil Manzanara and others.

Gilmour is featured on a total of six of the tracks.

The issue also includes an interview with Gilmour.

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