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Pink Floyd : Their Mortal Remains 360-Degree Audio Experiance

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Fans of Pink Floyd will soon get a special opportunity to hear one of the band’s most famous live performances like never before, as part of a special exhibition on the band at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

The museum has partnered with Sennheiser to present a 360-degree recording of Comfortably Numb from Pink Floyd’s famed Live 8 performance in 2005, the last time that the band’s classic lineup — guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, keyboardist Richard Wright and bassist Roger Waters — ever shared a stage together.

The demonstration of the latest 3D audio technology seems particularly well-suited to the famed classic rock outfit, who helped pioneer the use of surround sound in the music industry decades ago.

“We have been using Sennheiser equipment ever since Pink Floyd started out as a live band,” said Mason of the collaboration, “It is only fitting that they provide the audio experience at our exhibition.”

To achieve the feeling of being at the concert in person, the team from Sennheiser will employ 25 speakers and its Ambeo 3D technology, which places sound both around and above the listener for a fully immersive audio experience.

This isn’t the first time that fans of Floyd have been able to hear this technology applied to their music. The company premiered the mix to an exclusive audience at Abbey Road Studios, where the band recorded iconic records like Dark Side of the Moon, earlier this month.

Pink Floyd engineer Andy Jackson worked closely with the audio wizards at Sennheiser and producers like Simon Roads (Spectre, Avatar) at Abbey Road to make sure the mix was up to snuff.

The exhibition called Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains,  will open at the museum on May 13.

MOJO Magazine #282 May 2017 : Pink Floyd [Limited Edition Lenticular Cover]

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You’ll believe a pig can fly! MOJO celebrates 50 years of Pink Floyd as a recording band and 40 years since Animals, their angriest album, was unleashed. Get hold of the strictly limited Lenticular Edition and watch Pink Floyd’s iconic pig, “Algie”, fly across the cover!

The package contains a lovingly curated CD of progressive sounds, including mind-expanding tracks by Hawkwind, Foxygen, Public Service Broadcasting, Gong, The Phoenix Foundation, Dungen, Jane Weaver and more. Inside the magazine, the Floyd’s Roger Waters gives an exclusive interview about the Animals album and MOJO is afforded an exclusive preview of the V&A’s extraordinary Pink Floyd exhibition.

MOJO 282’s Lenticular Edition is limited to 5000 copies and is only available to buy online. So order now to avoid disappointment. Our “regular” edition, featuring the free CD and identical content is in UK stores from Tuesday, March 21.

Click here to purchase online.

Rick Wright : Identity (Zee album) To Be Remixed and Re-released

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Identity is the only album by Zee, a short-lived side project of Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, a duo partnership consisting of Wright and Dave Harris of New Romantic outfit Fashion, released in 1984. The album was written and produced by Wright and Harris and all the lyrics were penned by Harris.

Dave Harris recently posted on social media that he is “Looking towards remixing and re recording certain tracks from the Zee album with Richard Wright, with a view to a digital release of the original album as it stands and a separate album of re worked songs from ‘Identity’, using Ricks recorded work from 1984.This will involve certain old friends of mine, with whom I have played and conversed with over the years. I cant say anything else at this stage, only to promise that the new tracks will shine with Ricks posthumous involvement.”

Pink Floyd : Their Mortal Remains Merchandise Now Available Online

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London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has announced the first major international retrospective of Pink Floyd.  The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Moral Remains experience will be a spectacular and unparalleled audio-visual journey through Pink Floyd’s unique and extraordinary worlds; chronicling the music, design, and staging of the band, from their debut in the 1960s through the present day.

The Official Pink Floyd Store is proud to offer the first three items available in conjunction with this exhibit – a 2-sided t-shirt, double-sided hoodie and a tote bag – all emblazoned with the Their Mortal Remains logo.

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Roger Waters : I Can’t Play ‘The Wall’ at U.S.-Mexico Border…Yet

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Pink Floyd bassist and mastermind Roger Waters plans to bring his incredible live show on the road again this spring for his Us + Them Tour.

Waters addressed rumors that he is planning on performing The Wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it is logistically impossible for him to do so at this point with his own tour to prepare for.

He added in his interview with Jim and Shelli that he might do such a show in the future, if the Trump administration, or a future one, abandons the border wall concept.

You can read more and listen to the full interview by clicking here.

Roger Waters Is Fighting Trump With Upcoming Tour & Concept Album

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A week after last year’s U.S. election, Barack Obama made a speech in which he lambasted nationalism “built around an ‘us’ and a ‘them.'” It was a phrase that resonated with Roger Waters, and not just because he’d co-written a song called “Us and Them” when he was in Pink Floyd.

“It’s because I agree with [Obama],” says Waters, who is working on a new album in a New York recording studio. “There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’; it’s an illusion. We are all human beings and we all have a responsibility to support one another and to discover ways of wresting the power from the very, very few people who control all the cash and all the property.”

That notion that we’re all in this together is one of the major themes the former Pink Floyd singer and bassist will highlight on his upcoming arena tour, also dubbed Us + Them, which kicks off a North American leg in May. He’s promised a spectacle worthy of following up his blockbuster The Wall tour for the trek, and it will feature a mix of older songs with a taste of some new songs, since the tour coincides with the release of a new Waters solo album, Is This the Life We Really Want?, which he says also addresses concepts similar to the tour.

The singer, age 73, says the tour and album fall in line with the sense of discontentment that he’d previewed when he posted video of himself performing the Animals track “Pigs (Three Different Ones)” in Mexico City last October in front of projections of Donald Trump juxtaposed with the word pendejo (“stupid”). “I was wanting to make a strong point of my disapproval of the Donald and everything that he stands for before the election,” he says. “Sadly, it didn’t seem to have quite enough effect. I wrote a long speech that I was gonna make at Desert Trip, but I didn’t because it would not have been good theater. I’ve still got that speech written, and I think I might post it at one point.”

Ever outspoken, Waters is ready to take his message of humanity on the road and play it before giant audiences, even if it alienates a few fans along the way. “Out of the 80,000 people at Desert Trip, I’m guessing maybe 1,000 got up in disgust and walked out of my performance – I don’t know for sure,” he says. “But there was a very small number people who were upset that I was lampooning the nincompoop.”

In a wide-ranging interview with Rolling Stone, Waters talks about the intersection of his musical and political views.

To read the Interview in full you can do so by clicking here

The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains Update

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The West End basement bar where Pink Floyd got their big break will be recreated inside the V&A for a new blockbuster show dedicated to 50 years of the giants of rock.

Fans will enter the exhibition by climbing into the back of a replica of the beaten-up old Bedford van they toured in during their early days.

The story of their career, taking in multi-million-selling albums and spectacular concerts full of theatrical effects, will then unfold.

A section dedicated to the UFO club in Tottenham Court Road, where Pink Floyd be-came the unofficial house band 50 years ago, includes a psychedelic light show  created by designer Peter Wynne Willson, who worked with the band at the time.

The show will open in May. Researchers, led by long-time Pink Floyd collaborator Aubrey “Po” Powell, spent more than two years hunting down memorabilia in the homes of band members including bass player Roger Waters. Some 350 exhibits include a painting by original lead singer Syd Barrett, guitars, album art, and clothes worn by the band when they were starting out and kept ever since by drummer Nick Mason.

Mr Powell said: “Nick was a collector from the early days. He had a very well organised archive and had shirts from the UFO days kept on hangers.

“We searched through their houses and barns and sheds. You would open up a box and there would be a Gerald Scarfe piece of animated film in pristine condition that’s been untouched for 30 or 40 years.”

One exhibit is a letter from the helicopter pilot hired to chase the giant inflatable pig, suspended above Battersea Power Station for the cover of 1977 album Animals, after it broke free and floated off towards Kent.

Another item is a cane used to punish some of the band members during their Cambridge school days which helped inspire the character of the Teacher in The Wall.

Mr Powell said: “The Teacher was taken directly from Roger’s teacher at school, who was a bully. We went back to the school and found they still had the cane that was used  on them. I told Roger and he was over the moon about that.”

Waters and Mason were expected to make a rare public appearance together today to discuss the show — but Mr Powell said the trip down memory lane had not plastered over all the cracks in the band’s famously fractious relationships. “I would like to say ‘yes’ but no comment will be appropriate,” he said.

“This is about a band that have gone on for 50 years, made some of the most fantastic music ever, and judging by audiences at their solo shows are as popular as ever.”

The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains runs from May 13th to October 1st. Tickets are on sale now.

Extended / New Roger Waters Us & Them Tour Dates

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Roger Waters 2017 New / Extended Dates

Due to overwhelming demand, eleven new dates* have been added to Roger Waters North American Us + Them tour, including a third show at Los Angeles’ Staples Center and a second at Denver’s Pepsi Center.

Listed Below Are The New / Extended Dates
You can find ALL tour dates and information on the venues in our dedicated Tour Zone by Clicking Here

 

June 4th
Pepsi Center
Denver, CO
June 10th
Oracle Center
Oakland, CA
June 27th
Staples Center
Los Angeles, CA
July 1st AT&T Center San Antonio, TX
July 8th Smoothie King Center New Orleans, LA
July 29th BMO Harris Bradley Center Milwaukee, WI
August 13th Bridgestone Arena Nashville, TN
September 21st Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland, OH
September 23rd Times Union Center Albany, NY
September 24th XL Center Hartford, CT
October 22nd MTS Centre Winnipeg, MB

Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London Blu-ray

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British label Network Releasing will bring to Blu-ray Peter Whitehead ‘s 1967 semi-documentary entitled “Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London” about the “swinging London” scene of the sixties. The film consists of a series of psychedelic performances and interviews and features live performance by Pink Floyd, together with footage of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Vanessa Redgrave, Lee Marvin, Julie Christie, Allen Ginsberg, Eric Burdon, Michael Caine and many others attending one of the band’s concerts

The release will be available for purchase on May 1st.

Synopsis: Featured here as a brand new restoration, Peter Whitehead’s celebrated film probes the myth and the reality of “Swinging London” presenting an intimate, impressionistic collage of rare concert and studio performances, interviews with key figures from the worlds of music, art and cinema, and images of Sixties counterculture.

John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Vanessa Redgrave, Lee Marvin, Julie Christie, Allen Ginsberg, Edna O’Brien, David Hockney and Michael Caine are among those captured on film and in sound; bookended by a performance of Pink Floyd’s Interstellar Overdrive, the soundtrack features songs by the Rolling Stones and Eric Burdon. Made when many young people saw politicised hedonism as the logical response to global uncertainty, Whitehead’s “Pop Concerto for Film” taps into both the confidence and the confusion of an iconic moment in time.

Thanks go to forum member AphroditeMF for the heads up.