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In a statement released on social media “To mark the release of Pink Floyd’s Animals 2018 Remix, London’s Battersea Power Station will be an eminently suitable canvas next Wednesday and Thursday, between 8:30pm – 11pm, with a sneak preview on Tuesday night at the same time, as a test run…“
For this edition of Brain Damage, its an excellent fun, cool, old school mix! There is one thing in common with all the songs! Try to guess what it is.
Roger Waters’ concerts in Poland have been canceled after he commented on the war in Ukraine. Krakow City Council has said it will discuss declaring the Pink Floyd musician “persona non grata.”
Concerts by Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters have been canceled by a venue in the Polish city of Krakow, organizers said on Sunday after the artist’s comments on the war in Ukraine sparked a storm of criticism.
“Live Nation Polska and Tauron Arena Krakow have canceled Roger Waters’ concert,” organizers said in a statement on the venue’s website. However, they did not elaborate on the reason for the cancellation.
Pink Floyd have just released a video to their YouTube channel with Interviews from Roger Waters, Nick Mason and David Gilmour describing the recording process for the 1977 Animals album. The footage was originally shown at the 2017 London debut of the Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remains Exhibition.
Pink Floyd’s’ Animals 2018 Remix was released on September 16th, 2022 and is available to purchase here:
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets are an English psychedelic rock band formed in 2018 by drummer Nick Mason and guitarist Lee Harris to perform the early music of Mason’s band Pink Floyd. The band also includes Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet on guitars and vocals and longtime Pink Floyd collaborator Guy Pratt on bass and vocals with producer Dom Beken on Keyboards
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The much anticipated Animals 2018 Remix has finally been released today in the UK and will hit the US on October 7th.
The limited-edition 4-disc packages feature the remixed album on LP, CD, Blu-ray and DVD, with the Blu-ray and DVD versions delivering new hi-resolution stereo and 5.1 mixes alongside the original 1977 stereo mix.
Roger Waters The bassist and architect of the original project confirmed that the reissue features new remixes of the UK band’s tenth studio record.
After claiming he has been “banned by Dave Gilmour from posting on Pink Floyd’s Facebook page with its 30,000,000 subscribers“, Waters went on to explain the hurdles he has faced in dealing with his former bandmate in recent years.
“What precipitated this note is that there are new James Guthrie Stereo and 5.1 mixes of the Pink Floyd album, “Animals”, 1977,” begins Waters. “These mixes have languished unreleased because of a dispute over some sleeve notes that Mark Blake has written for this new release. Gilmour has vetoed the release of the album unless these liner notes are removed. He does not dispute the veracity of the history described in Mark’s notes, but he wants that history to remain secret.
“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. Yes he was, and is, a jolly good guitarist and singer. But, he has for the last 35 years told a lot of whopping porky pies about who did what in Pink Floyd when I was still in charge. There’s a lot of ‘we did this’ and ‘we did that,’ and ‘I did this’ and ‘I did that.‘”
“I am agreeing to the release of the new ‘Animals’ remix, with the sleeve notes removed,” Waters continues. “Good work James Guthrie by the way, and sorry Mark Blake. The final draft of the liner notes was fact checked and agreed as factually correct by me, Nick and Gilmour.“ Waters then goes on to share Blake’s liner notes for the set, which fans can read on his Facebook page.
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Yesterday, September 13th, 2022 Journalist of Consequeunce Sound hosted an interview with Nick Mason on the upcoming Pink Floyd Animals 2018 release, which is scheduled for September 16th, 2022.
For Nick Mason, the best thing about this week’s release of Pink Floyd‘s Animals 2018 Remix album is that people may stop asking him when an updated Animals will come out.
“It has taken a while,” the drummer tells Consequence with a laugh via Zoom from his home in England. “But we’re very pleased with it, I think.”
Originally released in January of 1977, Pink Floyd’s 10th studio album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). But it’s been conspicuously absent as other albums, including The Dark Side of the Moon (which we just named the No. 29 best album of all time), Wish You Were Here and The Wall, have been given deluxe treatments with remixed sound, expanded track lists and opulent packaging.
The 2018 date in the new Animals‘ title gives some indication of how long the project has been underway, while in 2021 bassist Roger Waters, who left Pink Floyd in 1985, issued a statement that the release was delayed because he and guitarist David Gilmour had clashed over proposed liner notes by British writer Mark Blake. Waters subsequently posted the rejected essay on his web site.
Animals 2018 Remix, out Friday, September 16th, was helmed by longtime Pink Floyd engineer James Guthrie, comes in Stereo, 5.2 Surround, Blu-ray and DVD audio mixes, as well as the original 1977 version. A 32-page booklet will feature rare photos and memorabilia, but no liner notes. And Hipgnosis’ Aubrey “Po” Powell updated the late Storm Thorgerson’s iconic original cover of the inflatable pig floating over London’s Battersea Power Station.
Mason says that “Covid, Brexit and everything else” contributed to the delayed release in addition to the liner notes kerfuffle. “David and Roger had a major disagreement about the liner notes,” Mason notes, “and like all great world wars no one can quite remember what it was about now and what the problem was. But there was a lot of to-ing and fro-ing and eventually some sort of resolution was reached.” Without his active participation, too; “I managed to stay well out of it,” Mason contends.
Mason’s own memories of Animals are, interestingly, more about the construction of Britannia Row, Pink Floyd’s then-new headquarters, than about making the music. “The trouble with Animals is I don’t remember that much about how we did it,” he says. “I was very much more involved in the building and the whole installation and so on. We built it from scratch, more or less, within the shell of an older building. It is really quite extraordinary how some things lay in my memory, like how we laid the concrete for the base of the studio floor but I cannot remember for the life of me why we did something on ‘Sheep’ or anything like that.”
He does feel, however, that Animals — which features three extended pieces (“Dogs,” “Pigs [Three Different Ones]” and “Sheep”) bordered by two short “Pigs on the Wing” tracks — does not get its proper due in Pink Floyd’s history. “People tend to know Pink Floyd through maybe three or four albums, and Animals isn’t one of them,” he says of the set, which lyrically uses George Orwell’s Animal Farrm to comment on societal classism. “I think there’s relevance in the lyrics, and there’s certainly some very good playing on it.” The concept, still apropos today, may be partly responsible for that, Mason surmises.
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I think lyrically it’s a little more complicated, in terms of what Roger’s saying in it, whereas something like Dark Side is a lot cleaner, and the same with Wish You Were Here,” Mason explains. “So maybe that’s a part of it.” Despite the track lengths and intricate arrangements, meanwhile, Mason considers the playing on Animals to be more direct and stripped down, and “relatively to record” compared with Animals’ predecessors.
“It comes out of a period where there was a lot of other music going on, of all other forms,” he says. “The big thing is whether punk had any influence on it, and in a way I would suggest that it did because it’s a little bit simpler in certain ways than other things. Perhaps we didn’t want to get caught up in the whole business of prog rock having become so grandiose — although we never had a conversation that I was party to or can remember about whether punk was an influence or should be considered when we were making it.”
In addition to the new mix, Mason is also happy with the cover, which was displayed as part of the Pink Floyd This Mortal Remains exhibit. “I think it’s terrific,” Mason says, “and it’s a continuation of an idea we’ve had before, which is sort of updating something that has existed — including 1971 Relics compilation and last year’s reissue of 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
Powell, meanwhile, told Ultimate Classic Rock last year that he was moved by the appearance of Battersea in the midst of upgrading and nearby construction. “Google or Apple or one of those is taking over the station itself… they’re refurbishing it with lots of apartments around it,” Powell explained. “I was driving over a bridge nearby at night and there’s hundreds of cranes around it, all with red lights on, and a big railway station with great shapes and shiny, and I thought, ‘Would that be great?’ So I had (photographer) Rupert Truman take a photograph of it, then we put in a pig and sent it to Roger, ‘What do you think?’ He said, ‘Amazing! So interesting. It’s the same thing, just different,’ and funnily enough David, Nick, everybody loved it.”
The Animals Remix 2018 comes while the surviving Pink Floyd members are ensconced in their own activities. Gilmour is currently quiet while Waters is taking his “This Is Not a Drill Tour” through North America until mid-October. Mason, meanwhile, is preparing his Saucerful of Secrets band — which specializes in Pink Floyd music pre-The Dark Side of the Moon — for a North American jaunt that starts September 22nd in Boston. Waters’ includes Animals‘ “Sheep” in his shows, but Mason plans to stay true to his parameters even if there’s ostensibly something “new” to promote.
“I think there has to be a line drawn,” he says, “and for us the idea was we would go up to and not include Dark Side. I think to jump into Animals, the next thing you know we’ll be playing ‘Comfortably Numb,’ and that’s not what we want to be doing.”
Recently posted online by the website loudersound is a new interview with long-serving Pink Floyd/Roger Waters collaborator Snowy White.
Terence ‘Snowy’ White has always seemed like an accidental guitar hero. Raised on the Isle of Wight in the 1950s, the modest now 74-year-old was a British blues-boom disciple who tells us today that “the limit of my ambition was to play simple blues phrases over simple chord progressions – and it still is”.
White has done plenty of that across his four-decade solo career, which includes the ’83 hit single Bird Of Paradise, and continues with this year’s Driving On The 44 album. But fame also came calling whether he liked it or not, thanks to playing with peak-period Pink Floyd and an unravelling Thin Lizzy.
The new album’s lyrics often sound like you’re pining for the road. How hard was it to step back from live work in 2019 due to your health issues?
In some respects it was difficult, but I’ve had to admit to myself that nothing lasts for ever. My fingers don’t really do what my brain tells them to these days, and it became more stressful than fun. It was just time.
Studio-wise, though, it’s obvious that you can still cut it.
Yeah, but I can do a guitar part then have a break, as opposed to doing an hour and a half solid.
You were close to Peter Green. What’s your favourite memory of him?
When he stayed at my parents’ house on the Isle of Wight. It only occurred to me recently how surreal it was, because he slept in my old bedroom, where I used to sit for weeks learning his guitar phrases – you know, there was Pete, snoring away. He’d help with the washing up, too. I washed and he dried. My mum thought he was a nice boy.
How do you feel when you see Peter portrayed as this tragic figure?
Well, he turned into a slightly tragic figure. He went very strange in the end. I’d go and see him and he was in a really strange way, his fingernails so long they curled up. He’d just let himself go. That was sad. But I accepted it as Pete’s path.
Roger Waters has a reputation among music journalists as being pretty ferocious. Have we got him all wrong?
Roger can be ferocious. He gets into places in his mind where he just doesn’t want to put up with any crap. Which is fair enough. He doesn’t put up with fools or people who aren’t pulling their weight, and he gets a bit cross with them. But if you’re working with him and you’re doing your best, then you get treated extremely well. He’s fun.
What makes you so good at working with superstars?
It’s because I really don’t care. With Pink Floyd [he first toured with them in 1977] I didn’t even realise they were a particularly big band. I was quite narrow-minded. If it didn’t have a blues guitar solo in it, I didn’t listen. I was probably the only person in the UK who’d never heard Dark Side Of The Moon. Somebody said their manager had been trying to get in touch and maybe I should call him. I didn’t bother. I just sort of drifted into the gig.
You don’t get impressed by fame?
No. And I can’t understand people who do. I mean, after a long tour playing stadiums and flying around in jets, I get back home and within ten minutes I’m up there unplugging the shower.