Floydian Slip

Signed Pink Floyd artwork to benefit charity

Posted January 9, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has signed 10 limited edition prints, which are being sold to benefit charity.

Digital Artist Tim Wakefield uses soundwaves as templates to create some pretty far out artwork. His Pink Floyd piece is title “Careful with That Axe, Eugene,” inspired by the 1968 song of the same name. The number was originally released as the B-side to the “Point Me at the Sky” single, and later appeared on the 1971 “Relics” compilation.

Ten prints of his Floyd piece, signed by Mason, along with works inspired by Alice Cooper, Kate Bush, Queen, Eric Clapton and many others are being sold at the Indiegogo site.

Sales of the prints benefit the War Child’s Children of Syria Appeal, which will create safe havens in Syrian refugee camps to help protect children affected by the conflict.

The Floyd piece is 40″ x 40″ and goes for $1,000.

Learn more at Indigogo.

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Contest: 2014 Pink Floyd wall calendar

Posted January 9, 2014 by Floydian Slip

We have several copies to give away, courtesy of the official Pink Floyd store.

Deadline is 8 p.m. ET Jan. 22.

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“Floydian Slip” preview #927

Posted January 9, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #927:

Floyd from The Final Cut (1983) and The Division Bell (1994)
Rick Wright solo from 1996
Soundtrack music from 1970
And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 50 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.

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Winner: Tom Stoppard’s “Darkside”

Posted January 8, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to the winner of a CD copy of Tom Stoppard’s radio play “Darkside”:

Alex Lemmermann
Mankato, MN

Shine on, Alex!

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“Floydian Slip” songlist #926

Posted January 8, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-6, Live, 1974)
Wish You Were Here (1975 [Immersion boxset])
Corporal Clegg
A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
Baby Lemonade
Barrett (Syd Barrett) (1970)
Green Is the Colour
More (Film soundtrack) (1969)
High Hopes
The Division Bell (1994)
The Last Lighthouse Keeper (*Floydian Slip Up*)
Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God (Transit Kings) (2006)
The Hero’s Return
The Final Cut (1983)

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“Floydian Slip” coming to WRNR 103.1 FM (Baltimore, MD)

Posted January 7, 2014 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on WRNR 103.1 FM in Annapolis, MD, on Jan. 12. The station will carry the show Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.

WRNR is a 6,000-watt progressive Adult Album Alternative station serving the Baltimore radio market, the nation’s 21st largest according to Nielsen Audio, formerly Arbitron.

“Floydian Slip” is currently heard on more than 50 stations in the U.S., Canada and overseas. The show joined Arbitron’s #3 market, Chicago, on Dec. 21, when we signed WFXF 103.9 FM in Crystal Lake, IL.

Want to hear “Floydian Slip” on your local airwaves? Search our database of more than 600 stations and drop your local station a friendly word of encouragement.

Shine on, Maryland!

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Happy birthday, Syd Barrett

Posted January 6, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Happy birthday to Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, who would have turned 68 today.

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WWII vet who aided Roger Waters awarded MBE

Posted January 3, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Veteran Harry Shindler, who survived the Battle of Anzio and helped liberate Rome during World War II, has been appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

Shindler was in the news last year for digging into government records and discovering details about the death of Eric Fletcher Waters, the father of Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, who died at Anzio when the younger Waters was an infant. (See “New documents reveal final day of Roger Water’s father“)

The battle was described in Roger’s “When the Tigers Broke Free,” an outtake from Floyd’s “The Wall” album, later to become part of “The Final Cut” when that album was reissued in 2004.

Shindler received the honor for helping find graves of British soldiers killed or listed as missing in action.

He moved to Italy in the 1980s and has campaigned for years to restore the voting rights of UK citizens living abroad.

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