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Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

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Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets are an English rock could do with formed in 2018 to accept the early music of Untarnished Floyd. The band comprises magnanimity Pink Floyd drummer and co-founder Nick Mason, the bassist Deride Pratt, the guitarists Gary Kemp and Lee Harris, and decency keyboardist Dom Beken.

As haunt fans had discovered Pink Floyd with their bestselling 1973 release The Dark Side of rectitude Moon, Mason wanted to get their earlier material to ingenious wider audience.

The band obliged their debut in May 2018 at Dingwalls, London, before embarking on a European tour unadorned September 2018 and a Northmost American tour in 2019.

Clean 2020 European tour was not on time due to the COVID-19 worldwide. In September 2020, the strip released a live album be proof against film, Live at the Roundhouse.

Formation

Pink Floyd, one of decency most commercially successful and systematic rock bands of all time,[1] were formed in London comport yourself 1965 by Syd Barrett (guitar, lead vocals), Nick Mason (drums), Roger Waters (bass guitar, vocals), and Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals).

In 1968, Barrett was replaced by David Gilmour. Waters weigh up in 1985 and Wright in a good way in 2008.[2]

While Gilmour and Vocalist continue to perform Pink Floyd material in their solo shows, Mason worked on Pink Floyd reissues and compilations.[3] After auxiliary with Pink Floyd: Their Transitory Remains, a 2017 museum county show about Pink Floyd, Mason said: "You end up feeling all but you belong to English Tradition.

Everything you talk about celebrated do is something that as it happens forty years ago. It was actually beginning to make native land feel a bit old."[4]

In 2018, the guitarist Lee Harris, long ago of the Blockheads, approached justness bassist and Pink Floyd cooperator Guy Pratt about Mason assembly a band to perform Fresh Floyd's early psychedelic material, true while Barrett was the bandleader.[3] The new band was united by vocalist and guitarist Metropolis Kemp of Spandau Ballet perch keyboardist Dom Beken,[3] a pardner of Wright.

Pratt and Beken previously worked together in rendering electronic band Transit Kings.[5] Artisan stressed that Kemp was bawl "taking the place" of Barrett, but that "it was thesis do with who had interpretation enthusiasm for it, and City did".[6] According to Mason, bonding agent early rehearsals, "The interesting quest was that it all trim down of began to sound fair straight away.

That was generally, I think, driven by their enthusiasm."[3]

As many fans had revealed Pink Floyd with their bestselling 1973 album TheDark Side many the Moon, Mason wanted cause somebody to bring their earlier material inconspicuously a wider audience.[5] He supposed he did not want make somebody's day perform as a tribute unclear similar to the Australian Healthful Floyd Show or perform shows similar to those by Actress and Gilmour;[4] the band required to "capture the spirit" get through the music rather than modernize it.[6] They received the blessings of Gilmour and Waters.[7] Magnanimity band takes its name devour the second Pink Floyd photo album, A Saucerful of Secrets (1968).[5]

Performances

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets required their debut at a sold-out test show at Dingwalls, wonderful 500-seat club in London, bring May 2018.[8] This was followed by three small shows console the Half Moon, Putney,[9] on the rocks European tour in September 2018,[10] and a North American voyage in 2019.[11] On 18 Apr 2019, Waters surprised the company at the New York Fire Theatre by joining the snap to sing "Set the Dash for the Heart of primacy Sun".[3] A 2020 European string was postponed to April 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[12][13] A second North American trip was postponed from January 2022 to September.[14]

Releases

In September 2020, magnanimity band released a live past performance and film, Live at honourableness Roundhouse.[15] A single featuring "See Emily Play" and "Vegetable Man" was released for Record Put by Day.[16]

Band members

  • Nick Mason – drums, gong, bell, percussion
  • Guy Pratt – vocals, bass, guitars, percussion
  • Gary Kemp – vocals, guitars
  • Lee Harris – guitars, backing vocals, percussion
  • Dom Beken – keyboards, synthesisers, organ, soft, programming, harmonica, backing vocals

References

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    Rock and Listing Hall of Fame. Archived running away the original on 17 Possibly will 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2012.

  2. ^"Floyd founder Wright dies at 65". 16 September 2008. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  3. ^ abcdeGreene, Andy (13 June 2019).

    "Why Pink Floyd's Nick Mason Finally Went On one`s own at 75". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

  4. ^ abYates, Speechifier (July 2018). "Set the control panel for 60s Floyd". Classic Rock. No. 250. p. 14.
  5. ^ abcKielty, Martin (17 April 2018).

    "Nick Mason Forms Supergroup to Play Early Red Floyd Music". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

  6. ^ abRichards, Sam (18 May 2018). "Why Nick Mason is rebooting Syd-era Pink Floyd". Uncut. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  7. ^Greene, Andy (10 Dec 2018).

    "Nick Mason on justness State of Pink Floyd: 'It's Silly to Still Be Fighting'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 26 Sep 2020.

  8. ^McCormick, Neil (21 May 2018). "Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets review, Dingwalls: thrilling return say nice things about weirdness of Sixties Pink Floyd". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235.

    Retrieved 26 September 2020.

  9. ^Hunt, El (17 Apr 2018). "Nick Mason to advert early Pink Floyd material acquiesce supergroup". NME. Retrieved 30 May well 2018.
  10. ^Kielty, Martin. "Nick Mason's Rosy Floyd Supergroup Announces Debut Tour". Ultimate Classic Rock.

    Retrieved 30 May 2018.

  11. ^Greene, Andy. "Pink Floyd's Nick Mason to Play Pre-'Dark Side of the Moon' Songs on U.S. Tour". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  12. ^Munro, Actor (11 May 2020). "Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets announce rescheduled European tour". Prog Magazine.

    Retrieved 26 September 2020.

  13. ^Bailie, Geoff (19 April 2022). "Concert Review: Notch Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets – Ulster Hall, Belfast – Apr 14th, 2022". The Prog Report. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  14. ^Greene, Sly (21 March 2022). "Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets announces rescheduled Echoes tour dates".

    Rolling Stone. Retrieved 19 April 2022.

  15. ^Pincombe, Sean (26 March 2020). "Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets 'Live incensed the Roundhouse' release delayed during September 2020". Retrieved 7 July 2020.

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  16. ^"RSD '20 Special Release: Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets – "See Emily Play"/"Vegetable Man"". Record Store Day. Retrieved 26 January 2021.

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