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Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets announces North American dates

Posted October 31, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder and drummer Nick Mason will bring his group Saucerful of Secrets to North America in 2019.

The group announced its first concerts outside of Europe: 25 dates in Canada and the United States beginning March 12 in Vancouver and ending April 22 in Washington, D.C.

The group debuted in London this May, before launching a tour of Scandinavia and Europe that ran during September.

The band consists of Mason, Spandau Ballet‘s Gary Kemp, former Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, and producer/composer Dom Beken. They play the early music of Pink Floyd.

The 2019 dates also include five more U.K. dates:

North America

Mar 12, 2019 – Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
Mar 13, 2019 – The Paramount, Seattle
Mar 15 2019 – The Masonic, San Francisco
Mar 16, 2019 – The Wiltern, Los Angeles
Mar 19, 2019 – Comerica Theatre, Phoenix
Mar 21, 2019 – Paramount Theatre, Denver
Mar 24, 2019 – Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory, Dallas
Mar 25, 2019 – Jones Hall, Houston
Mar 27, 2019 – The Fillmore At The Jackie Gleeson, Miami Beach
Mar 29, 2019 – Tabernacle, Atlanta
Mar 31, 2019 – Stifel Theatre, St Louis
Apr 1, 2019 – Riverside Theater, Milwaukee
Apr 3, 2019 – Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
Apr 4, 2019 – Chicago Theatre, Chicago
Apr 5, 2019 – The Old National Theatre, Indianapolis
Apr 7, 2019 – Palace Theatre, Columbus
Apr 8, 2019 – Civic Center, Akron
Apr 9, 2019 – The Fillmore, Detroit
Apr 11, 2019 – Shea’s Performing Arts Center, Buffalo
Apr 12, 2019 – Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford
Apr 13, 2019 – Orpheum Theatre, Boston
Apr 15, 2019 – Place des Arts, Montreal
Apr 16, 2019 – Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto
Apr 18, 2019 – Beacon Theatre, New York
Apr 22, 2019 – DAR Constitution Hall, Washington

U.K.

Apr 29, 2019 – St David’s Hall, Cardiff
Apr 30, 2019 – Friars, Aylesbury
May 1, 2019 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge
May 3, 2019 – Roundhouse, London
May 4, 2019 – Roundhouse, London

Learn more at the group’s official website.

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Original Pink Floyd album art on exhibit, for sale

Posted September 17, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Several pieces of original Pink Floyd album artwork by Hipgnosis and Gerald Scarfe are part of an exhibit in downtown San Francisco.

“Art of the Album Cover” opened Saturday at the San Francisco Art Exchange (SFAE). It’ll run through October.

The exhibit includes nearly 100 original works, including layered concept drawings for Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973), “considered to be the single most valuable artwork in rock history,” according to SFAE.

The drawings constitute a three-layer mock-up done on transparent paper that served as a guide for the printer in manufacturing the cover.

According to the exhibit’s catalog, “These drawings were utilized in much the same way that builders construct a house. The final ‘work of art’ is the house itself, but the creative original artworks were the plans for the house (think Frank Lloyd Wright). These three drawings bring the final artwork to life as each is superimposed over the other — guiding the printer to the final achievement.”

Frank Floyd Wright, more likely.

The price of the “Dark Side” piece is listed only as “Price on request” in the SFAE catalog. “The most expensive prices aren’t shown for a variety of reasons,” SFAE founder and executive director Jim Hartley explained to Floydian Slip. “Several of the more spectacular pieces go into the seven figures, as you might imagine.”

Other Floyd-related pieces include the original montage to 1969’s “Ummagumma” and a C-print photo of that album’s back cover; the original dye-transfer airbrushed photo that appeared on the cover of the U.K. edition of “Wish You Were Here” (1975); a number of Scarfe sketches of the band from its ’74 U.K. winter tour program; and a 2017 commemorative print of “The Wall.”

All original Floyd pieces are signed.

Other albums featured at the exhibit include “Abbey Road,” “Rubber Soul,” “Meet the Beatles,” “Beggars Banquet,” “Candy-O,” “Hair,” “The Best of the Doors,” “Blonde on Blonde,” “At Folsom Prison” (Johnny Cash), and many more.

All pieces come from private, corporate, and artists’ collections from around the world.

The exhibit catalog is available as a download, along with the price list.

More information is available at info@sfae.com or (415) 441-8840.

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Nick Mason announces Scandinavian, European tour

Posted May 25, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd drummer and founding member Nick Mason will take his group Saucerful of Secrets on a 21-date tour of Scandinavia and Europe this fall.

The announcement comes on the heals of the group’s four sold out shows in London (pictured) this past week.

The group, which includes Spandau Ballet‘s Gary Kemp, former Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, and producer/composer Dom Beken, plays early Floyd tracks from the group’s Syd Barrett and soundtrack eras.

The tour starts Sept. 2 in Stockholm, and wraps Sept. 29 in Nottingham. It’ll be Mason’s first tour since Floyd’s ’94 concerts supporting “The Division Bell.”

Tickets go on sale today. Visit the band’s official site for a full schedule.

Here’s the songlist from the group’s London shows:

“Interstellar Overdrive”
“Astronomy Domine”
“Lucifer Sam”
“Fearless”
“Obscured by Clouds”
“When You’re In”
“Arnold Layne”
“The Nile Song”
“Green Is the Colour”
“Let There Be More Light”
“Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun”
“See Emily Play”
“Bike”
“One of These Days”
“A Saucerful of Secrets”
“Point Me at the Sky”

Photo: Jill Furmanovsky

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Nick Mason forms band to play early Pink Floyd music

Posted April 17, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder/drummer Nick Mason will perform early Floyd music with his new band Saucerful of Secrets in London next month.

The band consists of Mason, Spandau Ballet‘s Gary Kemp, former Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, and producer/composer Dom Beken.

The band will play selections from “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” and “A Saucerful of Secrets” May 20 at Dingwalls in Camden, before giving three shows at the Half Moon in Putney May 21, 23 and 24.

These will be Mason’s first live performances since Floyd played Live 8 in London in 2005. He is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on each of the band’s albums.

Tickets went on sale at 10 this morning at the band’s website.

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Mono remaster of “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” coming

Posted March 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd will release a new heavy weight vinyl remaster of its first album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (1967), on Record Store Day, April 21.

James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman remastered the album in mono working from the original ’67 mono mix.

Hipgnosis’s Aubrey Powell and Peter Curzon designed the cover for the new version, which features Syd Barrett‘s silhouetted graphic of the band that adorned the back of the original LP.

A poster of the Colin Prime photo that was the basis for Barrett’s graphic is included with the disc.

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Roger Waters adds European concert dates

Posted October 2, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters will take his Us + Them tour to Europe in 2018.

Waters announced five dates:

Friday June 29, Glasgow, The SSE Hydro
Monday July 2, Liverpool, Echo Arena
Tuesday July 3, Manchester, Arena
Friday July 6, London, Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park
Saturday July 7, Birmingham, Arena

After 63 sold-out shows in the U.S. and Canada in ’17, the tour will visit Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K. in ’18.

Complete schedule is at www.rogerwaters.com.

(Photo: Kate Izor)

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Win: Sennheiser HD1 Dark Side of the Moon-themed headphones

Posted October 2, 2017 by Floydian Slip

These wireless headphones feature printed prisms and a rainbow coating background on the ear cups, rainbow-colored stitching on the headband, and a tag commemorating “Their Mortal Remains,” the band’s exhibition showing now at the V&A Museum in London.

Suggested retail price $499.95.

Prize courtesy of Sennheiser and Hummingbird Media.

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Roger Waters announces European dates

Posted September 18, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has announced his 2018 European Us + Them tour.

Six dates have been announced for Germany and Austria, starting May 14 in Hamburg.

Waters will take his show to 21 other countries later in ’18.

Full concert details are at rogerwaters.com.

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Winners: “David Gilmour Live at Pompeii” at Palace 9

Posted September 11, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to the winners of tickets to see “David Gilmour Live at Pompeii” this Wednesday at Palace 9 Cinemas in South Burlington, Vt.:

Jodee Bryce, St. Albans, Vt.
Michael Camp, Burlington, Vt.
Bobbi Holbrook, Essex, N.Y.
Gary Lafaille, Cambridge, Vt.
Jared Pendak, Bradford, Vt.
James Reilly, Morrisville, Vt.
Ian Schulze, Bristol, Vt.
Richard Single, Burlington, Vt.
Barry Whitworth, Burlington, Vt.

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Burlington, VT area fans: Win tickets to “David Gilmour Live at Pompeii”

Posted September 4, 2017 by Floydian Slip

For fans in the Burlington, Vermont, area, we’ve got another chance to win tickets to see the concert film “David Gilmour Live at Pompeii,” Wednesday, Sept. 13, at the Palace 9 Cinemas in South Burlington.

Enter to win tickets to the Palace 9 Cinemas now.

The film is a document of Gilmour’s July 2016 shows at the ancient amphitheater, 45 years after Pink Floyd famously played the same venue to an audience of none for the film “Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.”

Music for the show is taken from Gilmour’s “Rattle That Lock” (2015) and “On an Island” (2006), and also includes a number of Floyd classics.

Tickets courtesy of Palace 9 Cinemas.

Enter now. Deadline to enter is Sunday, Sept. 10.

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