Posted August 28, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1168:
We’ll welcome Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason to the show to talk about “Unattended Luggage,” the new box-set of his solo material; as well as “Saucerful of Secrets,” his new band out touring the early music of Pink Floyd.
PLUS … your chance to win a copy of the box-set, courtesy of Warner Music.
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(Photo: Jill Furmanovsky)
Posted August 8, 2018 by Floydian Slip
We’ve firmed up plans to bring Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason on the show as a special guest.
Nick will join us on “Floydian Slip” #1168, airing on all 101 affiliate stations the week of Aug. 27-Sept. 2.
Warner Music will reissue Mason’s three solo albums as a box set called “Unattended Luggage” on Aug. 31. (See “Nick Mason box set coming Aug. 31.”)
He begins a 21-date tour of Scandinavia and Europe on Sept. 2 with his group Saucerful of Secrets, playing vintage Floyd.
Nick previously appeared on “Floydian Slip” program #970 in November 2014. You can hear that interview and read a transcript online.
We’ll post this new interview online after it airs.
Posted June 21, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd drummer and founding member Nick Mason will join host Craig Bailey on an upcoming “Floydian Slip.”
Mason will appear on an episode of the show that’ll air in late August.
Last Tuesday, we announced Warner Music will reissue Mason’s three solo albums as a box set called “Unattended Luggage” on Aug. 31. (See “Nick Mason box set coming Aug. 31.”)
He begins a 21-date tour of Scandinavia and Europe on Sept. 2 with his group Saucerful of Secrets, playing vintage Floyd.
Mason’s the only member of Floyd to have appeared on each of the band’s albums.
He previously appeared on “Floydian Slip” program #970 in November 2014. You can hear that interview and read a transcript online.
We’ll announce a specific air date in August.
(Photo: Jill Furmanovsky)
Posted June 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Warner Music will release a limited edition box set of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason‘s previously-released solo work on Aug. 31.
Titled “Unattended Luggage,” it’ll include three discs:
The box set will be available in CD and LP formats. Each individual album in the box will also be made available as a digital download and through streaming platforms.
This will be the first time in more than 20 years the titles will be available in CD and LP format.
“White of the Eye,” a film soundtrack Mason recorded with Rick Fenn, who also collaborated on “Profiles,” has never been available on CD.
“These recordings hold a very special place for me in my musical life,” Mason says. “‘Fictitious Sports’ developed initially from working with Mike Mantler, Carla Bley, and Robert Wyatt on a couple of their projects, and benefited enormously from a whole crew of great musicians that I was introduced to by them at Grog Kill Studios in Woodstock.
“‘Profiles’ and ‘White of the Eye’ were an extension of working with Rick Fenn on some advertising and short documentary film soundtracks, which then developed into something more,” he adds.
“Listening back after 30 odd years, I’m delighted they are getting the reissue treatment. I’m rather hoping that sales will be sufficient to damage the market in the original rare vinyl versions!”
Mason is a founding member of Pink Floyd and the only member to appear on every Floyd album and at every Floyd show.
The release of “Unattended Luggage” is timed to coincide with Mason’s tour with Saucerful of Secrets, a band he assembled to perform early Floyd music.
The 5-person group debuted at four small shows in London May 20-24, and will launch a tour of Scandinavia and Europe starting Sept. 2.
Michael Hann (Financial Times) wrote of the May 20 performance, “This was the most extraordinary and joyous show — a reminder of what a peculiar and brilliant band Pink Floyd were.”
Tickets are on sale now at www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com.
(Photo of Nick Mason by Jill Furmanovsky)
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:
Photo: Jill Furmanovsky
Posted May 22, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd is the cover story in MOJO issue #296, hitting U.K. newsstands today.
The British periodical has created two covers for its latest issue: One featuring the early Syd Barrett-era Floyd, and a second with a later line-up.
The issue includes a 20-page feature detailing the 50 greatest Floyd tracks, and a new interview with drummer Nick Mason talking about his latest project bringing early Floyd back to the stage with “Saucerful of Secrets.”
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.
Posted June 24, 2017 by Floydian Slip
A 1988 Ferrari F40 Berlinetta first owned by David Gilmour will go on the auction block June 30.
The car, purchased by Gilmour in July 1988, is expected to fetch as much as £1 million at Bonhams’ Goodwood Festival of Speed auction.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason purchased a similar model at the same time as Gilmour at the Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy, after Floyd’s Modena leg of its Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour. The pair are said to have driven them back to the U.K. following their purchase.
List price for the F40 in 1988 was £163,000. Just more than 1,300 were produced.
Though the car can reach a respectable 201 mph, its interior is spartan, sporting a pair of red body contour seats.
The auction takes place at Chichester, Goodwood.
See dozens of photos of the car at the Bohmans website.
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