{"id":8855,"date":"2018-07-09T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2018-07-09T08:09:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:09:36","slug":"p-floyd-wins-surrogate-bands-pink-floyd-cover-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2018\/07\/p-floyd-wins-surrogate-bands-pink-floyd-cover-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"P-Floyd wins Surrogate Bands Pink Floyd Cover Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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P-Floyd<\/strong>, a Pink Floyd tribute band from Dalarna, Sweden, has won our 8th Annual Surrogate Bands Pink Floyd Cover Contest.<\/p>\n

The group took the prize with its lounge-styled recording of “Shine on You Crazy Diamond.”<\/p>\n

Formed in 1993 by guitarist Jan Stumsner<\/strong>, the group has sold-out concert halls in Sweden and Scandinavia. Its 2016 shows at Dalhalla earned the band “Live Act of the Year” at the Dalecarlia Music Awards.<\/p>\n

This past week, P-Floyd had their winning entry played on “Floydian Slip” episode #1160 \u2014 a special episode of our weekly Floyd radio show that was devoted entirely to other bands’ recordings of Floyd music.<\/p>\n

The group also receives $200 in merchandise from the official webstore of Pink Floyd, shop.pinkfloyd.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone who submitted entries to this year’s contest. We had an impressive and diverse collection of tracks to choose from.<\/p>\n

Watch for details on our 9th annual contest, announcing in Spring 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

P-Floyd, a Pink Floyd tribute band from Dalarna, Sweden, has won our 8th Annual Surrogate Bands Pink Floyd Cover Contest. The group took the prize with its lounge-styled recording of “Shine on You Crazy Diamond.” Formed in 1993 by guitarist Jan Stumsner, the group has sold-out concert halls in Sweden and Scandinavia. Its 2016 shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8857,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions\/8857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}