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Pink Floyd Visual Collaborator Gerald Scarfe Relaunches Website
Pink Floyd and Roger Waters visual collaborator Gerald Scarfe has just relaunched his official website.
Gerald was discovered on UK TV by Nick Mason and began his involvement with Pink Floyd by providing the artwork for the “Welcome To The Machine” video.
His biggest and most notable work is for providing the animation for Pink Floyd’s The Wall, whilst also providing artwork for Roger Waters – The Pros & Cons Of Hitch Hiking.
Happy Birthday Jon Carin !!
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Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill Europe 2023 Manchester & Extra Amsterdam Date Announced
Roger Waters has announced that he is taking his critically acclaimed This Is Not a Drill tour on the road again in 2023.
The full schedule has now been announced.
Tickets can be bought now by visiting www.rogerwaters.com
2023 EUROPEAN LEG
MARCH
17th – Altice Arena , Portugal
18th – Altice Arena , Portugal
21st – Palau Sant Jordi, Spain
23rd – WiZink Center, Spain
24th – WiZink Center, Spain
27th – Mediolanum Forum, Italy
28th – Mediolanum Forum, Italy
31st – Mediolanum Forum, Italy
APRIL
1st – Mediolanum Forum, Italy
4th – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
6th – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
7th – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam *Additional Show
11th – Telenor Arena, Norway
12th – Telenor Arena, Norway
15th – Tele2 Arena, Sweden
17th – Royal Arena, Denmark
18th – Royal Arena, Denmark
21st – Tauron Arena, Poland *Cancelled By Krakow City Council
22nd – Tauron Arena, Poland *Cancelled By Krakow City Council
23rd – MVM Dome, Hungary
25th – Hallenstadion, Switzerland
28th – Unipol Arena, Italy
29th – Unipol Arena, Italy
MAY
3rd – AccorHotels Arena, France
4th – AccorHotels Arena, France
7th – Barclays Arena, Germany
9th Lanxess Arena, Germany
12th – Stade Pierre Mauroy, France
14th – Sporpaleis, Belgium
17th – Mercedes-Benz Arena, Germany
21st – Olymiaphalle, Germany
24th – O2 Arena, Czech Republic
28th – Festhalle, Germany
31st – Utilia Arena, Birmingham
JUNE
2nd – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
3rd – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
6th – The 02, London
7th – The 02, London
10th – Ao Arena, Manchester *New Show
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of the Moon 50th Anniversary Edition Book
1 March 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd have announced a band new publication entitled the same name as the album. This highly desirable album-sized package combines rare and unseen backstage and onstage photography with the visual evolution of the iconic album artwork.
With a provisional publication date of 1 March 2023, The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd is a Book designed by Pentagram to high specifications, this official book commemorating the band and the album will be a covetable package for the legions of Floyd fans out there – new and old. This date will also see the launch of a luxury box set containing a re-release of the album together with numerous related music items.
This luxurious book is divided into two parts. The first documents the members of the band between 1972 and 1975, during the making of the album, the album release and throughout the album tours in the UK, US, Europe and Japan in 120 candid black-and white photographs by Storm Thorgerson, Jill Furmanovsky, Aubrey Powell and Peter Christopherson. A review of the October 1972 Wembley gig by Chris Charlesworth, originally published in Melody Maker, provides insight into one of Floyd’s most celebrated performances.
The second part explores in 60 colour images how the original prism motif by Hipgnosis and StormStudios evolved into an array of graphics and homages to the world’s great artists, some of which went on to grace further projects of the band.
Hipgnosis Announce New Documentary – Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd explores the enigmatic Barrett, who wrote Pink Floyd’s first two hits and even came up with the band’s name (a mashup of obscure blues players Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). In 1968, only a few years after the group’s founding, Barrett was forced out of Pink Floyd when his bandmates became alarmed about his mental stability and use of psychedelic drugs.
Barrett dropped out of music, returning home to Cambridge for the last 30 years of his life and his first love of painting,” according to a release about the documentary. “Poignantly, some of Pink Floyd’s biggest worldwide hit records – Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall examine themes of madness and stardom including ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ and ‘Wish You Were Here,’ written as tributes to Barrett.”
Have You Got It Yet? was directed by award-winning filmmaker Roddy Bogawa and the late graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, co-founder of the firm Hipgnosis that created some of the most famed rock album covers of all time, including Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. Thorgerson had known Barrett going back to the 1960s.
“The film was completed by Bogawa with StormStudios photographer Rupert Truman and producer Julius Beltrame after Storm’s untimely death in 2013,” the release noted. “Producer Orian Williams… came on the project while still in production.”
The documentary, produced by Believe Media and A Cat Called Rover, features fresh interviews with Pink Floyd band members David Gilmour (Barrett’s childhood friend who joined Pink Floyd in 1967 and essentially filled the void left by Barrett), Nick Mason and Roger Waters, as well as Barrett’s sister Rosemary Breen, Pink Floyd managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King, The Who’s Pete Townshend, Blur’s Graham Coxon, and Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT, playwright Tom Stoppard, and others. Actor Jason Isaacs narrates the film. The film’s soundtrack includes over 50 Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett music tracks.
“Syd Barrett was more than just the co-founder of Pink Floyd,” Mercury Studios CEO Alice Webb said in a statement. “He was the creative fuel, who became a pop culture icon, and left everyone wondering where he went as his presence lived on in the music that came after.”
Orian Williams commented, “The most difficult part in telling Syd Barrett’s story was interpreting his process of harmony and how unexpected sonic synergy and visual discord, both seemingly random, was planned and well thought out. [Director] Roddy Bogawa gives us a glimpse into how Barrett funneled the genius, madness and experimentation into Pink Floyd, the vessel in which all things came to life but also took Syd away.”
Bogawa adds, “It’s the tragic story of Brian Wilson and Kurt Cobain and many others in music and art whose explosive creative drives often rest on fragile exuberant energy that gets pressure cooked from their success. The film is not only a portrait of one of the most iconic cult figures in music through the lens and memories of his bandmates, lovers, friends, and musicians but also a look back at a group of friends growing up in the mid-sixties and their idealism, ambitions, hopes and dreams during such an amazing cultural moment.”
Executive Producers of the film include Luke Thornton and Liz Silver for Believe Media, Paul Loasby, and Geoff Kempin and Alice Webb for Mercury Studios. Distribution of the documentary is pending; Will White of Mercury Studios is handling sales.
$500m Pink Floyd Catalogue Sale Stalled By Band Infighting
Legendary prog rockers Pink Floyd have allegedly been looking to sell their catalog for a total of $500 million, and the Financial Times reports there are bidders willing to spend it. However, Roger Waters’ multitude of controversial political comments may have put the sale in jeopardy.
Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and the estate of Rick Wright have apparently been looking to sell their catalog, some of their assets and the rights to the band’s name and album artwork for several months now. Sony Music, Warner Music, BMG, Primary Wave and Hipgnosis Songs Capital are among the top-bidders looking to make the deal.
Variety notes, though, that some of the buyers have been reluctant to finalize their offers because of Waters’ politically-charged remarks about the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Syria and more, which were especially fiery in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. Sources reportedly said that one buyer is likely to pull out, and that the value of the catalog and assets may decrease as a result.
“The other band members must be furious,” one of the sources said [via Variety].
It should be noted that the musicians’ declarations aren’t the only factor holding up the finalization of the sale — tax issues, interest rates, the decrease in value of the British pound and the overall global recession have impacted it too.
Waters claimed he’s on a Ukrainian “kill list” during the interview in question, but made other extreme comments too, such as that the U.S. is the “most evil” country in the world.
“I’m now speaking as a taxpayer in the United States. We are the most evil of all by a factor of at least 10 times,” he said during the conversation. “We kill more people. We interfere in more people’s elections. We, the American empire, is doing all this shit.”
Endangering the sale of their catalog will only further the divide between Waters and his former bandmates even more. Though they’d been bickering back and forth for several decades now, one of the more recent issues they faced had to do with the reissue of their 1977 Animals. Waters argued that Gilmour wouldn’t allow the record — which had been remixed in 2018 — to be re-released unless the liner notes were taken out, which had been written by journalist Mark Blake.
“He does not dispute the veracity of the history described in Mark’s notes, but he wants that history to remain secret,” Waters stated in a post on his website regarding the matter. “This is a small part of an ongoing campaign by the Gilmour/Samson camp to claim more credit for Dave on the work he did in Pink Floyd, 1967-1985, than is his due.”
Roger Waters On The Joe Rogan Experiance Podcast Episode #1878
The Joe Rogan Experience is a podcast hosted by American comedian, presenter, and UFC color commentator Joe Rogan. It launched on December 24, 2009, on YouTube by Rogan and comedian Brian Redban, who was its sole co-host and producer until 2012 when Jamie Vernon was hired to co-produce. Vernon would eventually take over production.
By 2015, it was one of the world’s most popular podcasts, regularly receiving millions of views per episode,also including a wide array of guests, including business magnate Elon Musk, whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Senator Bernie Sanders. Since December 2020, the podcast has been exclusively available on Spotify, with highlights uploaded onto the main Joe Rogan Experience YouTube channel.
The podcast was originally recorded at Rogan’s home in California, before moving to a private studio in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Production was relocated to Austin, Texas after the podcast was exclusively licensed on Spotify in 2020.
This weeks guest is Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, co-founder of the legendary rock band Pink Floyd, and successful solo artist Roger Waters.
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The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains Heads Montreal
The Pink Floyd Exhibition : Their Mortal Remains in Montreal
The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains has just announced that it is coming to Montreal for the first time ever.
Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains was an exhibition on the history of the British rock band Pink Floyd, opening on 13 May 2017 (with a museum members’ preview on 12 May) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, and originally scheduled to run until 1 October. After high visitor numbers, the exhibition’s run was extended by two weeks, to 15 October 2017, Before it continued visiting the world with stops in Rome, Dortmund, Madrid and Los Angeles and now scheduled for Montreal.
The exhibition’s title reflects the lyric “I’ve got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains”, from the song “Nobody Home”, on The Wall. The Exhibition has been highly promoted with media appearances by all three surviving band members (David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Roger Waters), and designer Aubrey Powell,
Treating the band’s history in chronological order, the exhibition ends with their 2005 reunion at Live 8, with footage of the band performing “Comfortably Numb”, using specially-remixed audio, delivered via AMBEO, a Sennheiser 3D audio technology, over 17 channels and 25 speakers, seven of which are subwoofers.
The exhibition will open at the Arsenal Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal on November 4th 2022.
Visit https://www.arsenalcontemporary.com/ to pre-book your visit.