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Nick Mason : Answers Fans Questions In The New Edition Of Uncut Magazine
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is the latest musician to face a grilling by the readers in the new issue of Uncut.
In a candid and wide-ranging chat, he discusses his soon-to-be re-released solo projects, producing The Damned, what’s in the Pink Floyd archives, and the formation of his new ‘early Floyd’ band Saucerful Of Secrets
“What I didn’t really want to do was go out as another version of Pink Floyd and play the best of Dark Side and so on,” says Mason. “All this other material was there, lying dormant, and could be interpreted in a slightly different way… No, I didn’t ask [Roger Waters and David Gilmour] to join in, because that would be Pink Floyd. But I did tell them what I was proposing to do, as good manners, and I have to say both of them were supportive – which I found slightly disturbing! ‘Yeah, go ahead, make a fool of yourself…’ I know David has looked at a lot of it online.”
Asked if there’s anything left in the Pink Floyd vault, Mason replies: “Not much! I think there’s a re-release of Animals planned – it’s a record that would benefit from remastering. After many years of Abbey Road and Air Studios, this was done on a much more funky level, in our own studio. So it perhaps lacked a bit of that sharpness and sparkle you get from Abbey Road.”
Another reader wonders why Pink Floyd snubbed Stanley Kubrick when he asked to use some of “Atom Heart Mother” in A Clockwork Orange. “Probably because he wouldn’t let us do anything for 2001,” says Mason. “It sounds a bit petulant! I don’t remember whether he did ask for something from Atom Heart Mother. We’d have loved to have got involved with 2001 – we thought it was exactly the sort of thing we should be doing the soundtrack for.”
Naturally the questioning eventually turns to the subject of potential Floyd reunions. “You’re asking the wrong person!” claims Mason, although he refused to rule anything out. “I saw a quote where someone said, ‘On my tombstone it’ll say: I’m still not sure it’s quite over…”
The October 2018 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – with Jimi Hendrix on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, you’ll find exclusive features on Spiritualized, Aretha Franklin, Richard Thompson, Soft Cell, Pink Floyd, Candi Staton, Garcia Peoples, Beach Boys, Mudhoney, Big Red Machine and many more. Our free CD showcases 15 tracks of this month’s best new music, including Beak>, Low, Christine And The Queens, Marissa Nadler and Eric Bachman.
Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets Tour
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Tickets can be purchased via www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com
Sunday 2nd September – Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden
Monday 3rd September – Forum Black Box, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tuesday 4th September – Moya, Rostock, Germany
Thursday 6th September – Royal Theatre Carré, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Saturday 8th September – Stadsschouwburg, Antwerp, Belgium
Sunday 9th September – Den Atelier, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Monday 10th September – Olympia, Paris, France
Tuesday 11th September – Mitsubishi Electric Halle, Dusseldorf, Germany
Thursday 13th September – Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany
Saturday 15th September – Beethovensaal, Stuttgart, Germany
Sunday 16th September – Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany
Monday 17th September – Haus Auensee, Leipzig, Germany
Wednesday 19th September – Weiner Stadthalle F, Vienna, Austria
Thursday 20th September – Teatro Arcimboldi, Milan, Italy
Friday 21st September – Samsung Hall, Zurich, Switzerland
Sunday 23rd September – Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth, UK
Monday 24th September – Roundhouse, Camden Town, London, UK
Tuesday 25th September – Birmingham Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK
Thursday 27th September – O2 Apollo Manchester, Manchester, UK
Friday 28th September – SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, UK
Saturday 29th September – Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, UK
Roger Waters : Debuts “Broken Bones” Live at Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark on 10th August 2018
Roger Waters Recently premiered “Broken Bones” from the 2017 album “Is This The Life We Really Want?” live at Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark on 10th August 2018
Nick Mason : On the Impetus Behind Saucerful of Secrets, His New Band Focusing on Early Pink Floyd
Up until recently, it would have appeared that Pink Floyd’s founding drummer, Nick Mason, was semi-retired from music. It has been four years since the release of Floyd’s last studio album, The Endless River. With a few rare exceptions—such as when he guested at Roger Waters’ 2011 The Wall show, and appeared with Ed Sheeran to play the closing ceremony at the 2012 Olympics—Mason hadn’t performed in public for an extended period of time; Pink Floyd’s last major tour was for The Division Bell album nearly 25 years ago.
That recently changed for the 74-year-old drummer, the only member of Pink Floyd who has performed on all of the band’s studio albums. This past May, he played four intimate concerts in London with his new band, Saucerful of Secrets. The setlist for those shows concentrated on Pink Floyd’s early years—especially songs with founding singer/guitarist Syd Barrett – more than the commercially successful post-Dark Side of the Moon material. Following those gigs, Mason and Saucerful of Secrets— which consists of guitarist Lee Harris, longtime Floyd touring bassist Guy Pratt, Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp, and keyboardist Dom Beken—will embark on an 21-date European tour starting Sept. 2 in Stockholm.
The full interview can be read over on the Bilboard official website by clicking here
UKs Prog Magazine Issue 89 Features Interview with Nick Mason
The new issue of the UK’s Prog Magazine is published today (July 19th), and amongst the interesting articles about various artists who fall within the progressive music sphere, there’s a very enjoyable, and insightful, interview with Nick Mason and his new band members Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt about their Saucerful Of Secrets supergroup, the joys of improvising, and why they definitely won’t be doing Comfortably Numb.
Accompanied by a couple of great, double page shots of the band backstage, and in action in their recent intimate London gigs, the interview is a fun and insightful look at how the band came together, what informed the set list, the importance of improvisation – as was done by the Floyd in their earlier days – and throughout it is clear how much all the band are enjoying the experience.
Peter Gabriel’s on the front cover as there’s a look at what went on when Peter left Genesis in 1975 up until the release of his first solo album Car in 1977 – a fascinating 20 months in which he grew cabbages, worked with a poet, released a little know single, covered The Beatles, went to see Bruce Springsteen and the Sex Pistols, and got Robert Fripp, Phil Collins, Sandy Denny, Keith Tippett and Percy Jones to play on a single by comedian Charlie Drake. And finally, with help from old Genesis pals Anthony Phillips and Richard Macphail, emerged as the solo artist in his own right, all illustrated with a load of previously unseen Gabriel pictures.
Also in Prog 89, Is an interview with Bev Bevan, the former ELO and Black Sabbath drummer, articles on other prog artists, concert and album reviews, and a cover mounted CD including music from Big Big Train, Regal Worm, Southern Empire, James McFadden and more.
Pink Floyd : A Foot In The Door Coming To 2LP 180-Gram Vinyl
On September 28th, 2018, Pink Floyd Records are releasing on heavyweight 2LP 180-gram vinyl, the 2011 compilation A Foot In The Door – The Best of Pink Floyd. This is the first time it has been available on vinyl, being released as a CD only, originally, and gathers tracks from throughout much of the band’s career, taking in selections (chosen by members of the band) from 1967-1994. It is the latest in the series of vinyl releases, and bears catalogue number PFRLP21.
The tracks have been newly mastered for vinyl by longstanding Pink Floyd associate James Guthrie, with Joel Plante, and with lacquers cut by Bernie Grundman of Grundman Mastering in Los Angeles, California. This 2LP version features the reinstated version of Time, with the ringing alarm clocks at the start of the track restored, after being omitted on the CD release.
The original sleeve design, has been amended by Pink Floyd Creative Director Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis and Peter Curzon, to include alternate versions of the photographs used in the original CD version. The album package comes in a gatefold outer sleeve, with two separate printed inner bags, and is pressed on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl.
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Nick Mason : Talks To Rilling Stone On New Solo Box Set, Reviving Band’s Early Work Onstage
“Just for once, we couldn’t find an anniversary,” Nick Mason says with a laugh, explaining the imminent arrival of Unattended Luggage, a new box set of the Pink Floyd drummer’s solo work, on August 31st. The three-disc reissue, in vinyl and CD editions, collates Mason’s eclectic releases under his own name in the early and mid-1980s, as Pink Floyd hit their theatrical peak with The Wall, then ruptured over creative control and direction. Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports, made in 1979 but not issued until 1981, was the drummer’s holiday in the jazz avant-garde, recorded with a large corps of American musicians performing compositions by the pianist Carla Bley. The synth-heavy prog-pop of Profiles, from 1985, and the 1987 film score White of the Eye came out of an extended period of collaboration with 10cc guitarist Rick Fenn that included creating music for advertisements and documentary soundtracks.
“It was a very dead time,” Mason says, referring to the four years between The Final Cut, the Floyd’s last album with bassist Roger Waters in 1983, and the group’s late-Eighties rebirth with Mason, guitarist David Gilmour and keyboard player Richard Wright. And, the drummer insists, “I found this other work absolutely fulfilling,” including the commercials. “‘Jingle’ is such a derogatory word. But if you get it right, there is a great sense of satisfaction.”
Mason is also on the phone from London to enthuse about his return to live performance – 13 years after the classic Floyd lineup’s last concert appearance in 2005, at the Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park – with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, his first band as a leader. The quintet features Mason, now 74, and bassist Guy Pratt, who played with the post-Waters Floyd and Gilmour’s solo band, with an unlikely pair of deep-cut fans – guitarists Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet and Lee Harris from Ian Dury’s Blockheads – specializing in the Floyd’s psychedelic and space-rock canons prior to 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon, with an emphasis on the compositions of founding guitarist Syd Barrett.
The set lists at Saucerful of Secrets’ four London club shows in May included the Floyd’s early, improvising signature “Interstellar Overdrive”; the galactic title piece from Gilmour’s 1968 debut, A Saucerful of Secrets; rare outings of songs from the ’69 and ’72 soundtracks, More and Obscured by Clouds; and, in the encore, “Point Me at the Sky,” a 1968 single that Mason can’t remember ever playing live with the Floyd. He tours England and Europe with his Saucerful of Secrets in September and expects to bring the group to America in 2019.
The full interview is available to read online by clicking here.
Guy Pratt : Tests the new Foxgear Echosexbaby Delay Pedal
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Pink Floyd’s bass player Guy Pratt testing the new Foxgear Echosexbaby for the very first time..