Nick Mason forms new band, European Tour
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Prog News, Press Releases
Forum Description: Submit press releases, news , new releases, prog music news and other interesting things happening in the world of progressive music (featured in home and artist page)
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=114546
Printed Date: November 26 2024 at 12:38 Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Nick Mason forms new band, European Tour
Posted By: ReactioninG
Subject: Nick Mason forms new band, European Tour
Date Posted: April 30 2018 at 21:09
Nick Mason of Pink Floyd has formed a band called "Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets" http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/nick-masons-saucerful-of-secrets-announce-four-concerts-in-l.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/nick-masons-saucerful-of-secrets-announce-four-concerts-in-l.html
They will perform four concerts in the UK in May, 2018 during which they will play material from the first two Floyd albums, Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets.
EDIT: Tour:
http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/nick-masons-saucerful-of-secrets-european-tour-on-sale-now.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/nick-masons-saucerful-of-secrets-european-tour-on-sale-now.html
|
Replies:
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 30 2018 at 23:43
Wow. This is unexpected. I hope he is up to the task.
And obviously, I hope this is recorded in some way for mass consumption.
------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
|
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: May 01 2018 at 00:16
Really great news, I really hope they will continue and come to Finland!
|
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 01 2018 at 01:22
This one better be filmed !!
|
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 01 2018 at 07:57
Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets are Nick Mason, Gary Kemp, Guy Pratt, Lee Harris and Dom Beken.
------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
|
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: May 01 2018 at 21:02
It would be great if this one would work well and it resulted a bigger tour. And yeah, I guess early Pink Floyd makes a lot of sense for Nick Mason, since he had more of a spotlight on those years.
|
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 02 2018 at 09:31
Hi,
Hmmmm ... seems to me that what this band needs is Robert Wyatt to shake up the cobwebs of a time long gone!
Oh well ... so much for new music! I think this will probably be the first PF solo album that I will pass on ... I think I'm going to put on Fictitious Sports for a while ... much more fun!
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com
|
Posted By: ReactioninG
Date Posted: May 02 2018 at 10:19
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
Hmmmm ... seems to me that what this band needs is Robert Wyatt to shake up the cobwebs of a time long gone!
Oh well ... so much for new music! I think this will probably be the first PF solo album that I will pass on ... I think I'm going to put on Fictitious Sports for a while ... much more fun! |
I gotta doubt that Nick Mason will EVER put out a another solo disc unless it is a live album or an archival project. He once, said, and this is me recalling something I read somewhere, that he wanted to redo Momentary Lapse with HIS drumming (it was done with a combo of studio drummers and drum machines). David Gilmour said he wanted to "mix the 80s out of" Momentary Lapse too, if he could, so maybe Nick could get the go ahead on that kind of tinkering. He's kind of the Pink Floyd Legacy guy, especially in public appearances and interviews, whereas David and Roger are usually concerned a little more about their solo work.
|
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: May 03 2018 at 14:26
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
Hmmmm ... seems to me that what this band needs is Robert Wyatt to shake up the cobwebs of a time long gone!
Oh well ... so much for new music! I think this will probably be the first PF solo album that I will pass on ... I think I'm going to put on Fictitious Sports for a while ... much more fun! |
FS is a gem!
------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
|
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 03 2018 at 20:49
^ in reality, FS is a Carla Bley album in disguise - and a bloody good one with Robert Wyatt, heck, great line-up of jazzers on this one !!
|
Posted By: ReactioninG
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 20:12
So fictitious sports is popular. I've only heard Profiles. What's the thought on that one?
|
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 20:42
^ I used to have it - only the lengthy opener was worthy. Very 80’s in the production, I bought it on LP in the mid-90’s and it sounded hideous then !! Thinking about it though, I shouldn’t have ditched it.
|
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 22:30
Profiles is not bad, but far from being a masterpiece. The title track reminds to the middle part if Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast (at least for me), there’s a bit of David Gilmour on Lie for a Lie, wirh the vocals of Maggie Reilly, and some goog but not special songs.
------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
|
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: May 07 2018 at 02:20
Just like Wright´s Wet Dream, Fictitious Sport is the only album from Mason I like. I just can´t stand those horrible eighties sounds! Haven´t heard Broken China as whole, but songs that I´ve heard isn´t very interesting, though sounds are ok.
|
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: May 07 2018 at 13:34
^ Listen to Gilmour's version of "Breakthrough" from the semi-acoustic "David Gilmour in Concert" video, with Wright himself on vocals. He made the song better (which I didn't really like so much from the original album), and almost made it a Pink Floyd song, adding his own guitar, Dick Parry's sax, and female backing vocals.
|
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: May 13 2018 at 03:40
FS is a good album and my introduction to Carla Bley. The song Hot River has a guitar solo that DG would be proud of.
As far as MLOR is concerned, I thought that would have come out on the 30 anniversary. I imagine the remix ship has sailed.
|
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: May 13 2018 at 05:02
Dellinger wrote:
^ Listen to Gilmour's version of "Breakthrough" from the semi-acoustic "David Gilmour in Concert" video, with Wright himself on vocals. He made the song better (which I didn't really like so much from the original album), and almost made it a Pink Floyd song, adding his own guitar, Dick Parry's sax, and female backing vocals. | Just watched it, ok song, but not really the greatest moments of Wright (I prefer for example "Wearing the inside Out" much more). It´s just quite the picture I have got about Broken China, a little bit too dad rock to me. Great solo from Gilmour though. And of course that song is better than any in Gilmour´s About Face.
|
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: May 13 2018 at 05:37
Very interesting news!
-------------
"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
|
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 13 2018 at 06:57
I would love to go see this in the flesh, but I very much doubt this constellation will tour outside of Britan. Unlike Phil (Man With Hat) I am not interested in a live album. Old geezers playing music made by young, wild and reckless whippersnappers? Nah I think I'll pass.
------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: May 22 2018 at 02:54
On the HD Pink Floyd YouTube channel there's videos put up of his shows. Would be better if you were there.
|
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 22 2018 at 04:24
Last night's gig has got good reviews. I'm surprised to see Gary Kemp in a Floyd band but apparently he was very good.
|
Posted By: ReactioninG
Date Posted: May 27 2018 at 18:08
There's a European tour now. See the Brain Damage web site in the OP or google it for details.
|
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: May 28 2018 at 00:13
So sad, no Finland! Just haven´t got money to go to Stockholm...
|
Posted By: deafmoon
Date Posted: May 28 2018 at 08:08
Good to hear that Nick is keeping it going. Takes a ton of money to tour these days so I don't expect to hear much beyond this, but I'm glad to hear even this much.
------------- Deafmoon
|
|