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Teenage memories
When I was a teenager, still living at my parents’ and afterwards in my shared flat in Montreal, I used to have this poster. It was from the 1988 Pink Floyd Canadian tour. It was made by a company/artist called Harron.
It is now completely impossible to find one.
This makes me sad.
Goodbye blue sky
Did you ever wonder
Why we had to run for shelter
When the promise of a brave new world
Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky
This is just a passing phase, one of my bad days.
Day after day, love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man.
Night after night, we pretend its all right
But I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as a razor blade,
Tight as a tourniquet,
Dry as a funeral drum.
Letting my inner Floydian out to play
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There is irony in there somewhere…
So, I’m on hold right now, and the background music that is playing is Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”…
Pink Floyd body paint
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Official merchandise you didn’t know you wanted
I didn’t know any of this existed. I’m part offended by the capitalism of this, part lustful about wanting it.
Pink Floyd to release a new album in 2014
David Gilmour’s wife has revealed that Pink Floyd will release a new album this October. The Endless River is the group’s first album since 1994’s The Division Bell, and was reportedly inspired by the same recording sessions. Polly Samson, who married Gilmour in 1994, unveiled Pink Floyd’s secret plans on her Twitter account. In addition to announcing the album’s title and release date, she referred to the record as “Rick Wright’s swansong”. Wright, who co-founded Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, Nick Mason and Roger Waters, died in 2008.
Vocalist Durga McBroom-Hudson, who has toured with Gilmour and Pink Floyd, subsequently shared some further details. “The recording did start during The Division Bell sessions (and yes, it was the side project originally titled The Big Spliff that Nick Mason spoke about),” she wrote on Facebook. “David and Nick have gone in and done a lot more since then.” That “Big Spliff” session was described in Mason’s memoir Inside Out, where he called it “ambient mood music” akin to “bands like the Orb”.
According to McBroom-Hudson, The Endless River “was originally to be a completely instrumental recording”. But Gilmour gradually changed his mind, inviting McBroom-Hudson to record backup vocals last December and adding more singing since then. Gilmour has “done a lead on at least one [track],” she said, and Samson, who co-wrote seven of The Division Bell’s tracks, described herself on Twitter as one of The Endless River’s lyricists.
Random Floyd moment
