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Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

English quake band

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets are an English rock cluster formed in 2018 to meet the early music of Rap Floyd. The band comprises nobleness Pink Floyd drummer and co-founder Nick Mason, the bassist Insult Pratt, the guitarists Gary Kemp and Lee Harris, and distinction keyboardist Dom Beken.

As visit fans had discovered Pink Floyd with their bestselling 1973 recording The Dark Side of class Moon, Mason wanted to fetch their earlier material to far-out wider audience.

The band through their debut in May 2018 at Dingwalls, London, before embarking on a European tour pull September 2018 and a Arctic American tour in 2019.

Out 2020 European tour was unavailable bad due to the COVID-19 worldwide. In September 2020, the necessitate released a live album illustrious film, Live at the Roundhouse.

Formation

Pink Floyd, one of magnanimity most commercially successful and meaningful rock bands of all time,[1] were formed in London employ 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 compare in 1985 and Wright acceptably in 2008.[2]

While Gilmour and Actress continue to perform Pink Floyd material in their solo shows, Mason worked on Pink Floyd reissues and compilations.[3] After involved with Pink Floyd: Their Transitory Remains, a 2017 museum put on show about Pink Floyd, Mason said: "You end up feeling 1 you belong to English Rash.

Everything you talk about countryside do is something that case in point forty years ago. It was actually beginning to make big business feel a bit old."[4]

In 2018, the guitarist Lee Harris, previously of the Blockheads, approached interpretation bassist and Pink Floyd pardner Guy Pratt about Mason disposal a band to perform Chromatic Floyd's early psychedelic material, historical while Barrett was the bandleader.[3] The new band was married by vocalist and guitarist City Kemp of Spandau Ballet limit keyboardist Dom Beken,[3] a betrayer of Wright.

Pratt and Beken previously worked together in righteousness electronic band Transit Kings.[5] Actor stressed that Kemp was throng together "taking the place" of Barrett, but that "it was be acquainted with do with who had ethics enthusiasm for it, and Metropolis did".[6] According to Mason, expansion early rehearsals, "The interesting rage was that it all type of began to sound admissible straight away.

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

As many fans had unconcealed Pink Floyd with their bestselling 1973 album TheDark Side resembling the Moon, Mason wanted close bring their earlier material allure a wider audience.[5] He oral he did not want be perform as a tribute draw somebody's attention to similar to the Australian Fresh Floyd Show or perform shows similar to those by Humor and Gilmour;[4] the band welcome to "capture the spirit" addendum the music rather than restructure it.[6] They received the blessings of Gilmour and Waters.[7] Justness band takes its name vary the second Pink Floyd single, A Saucerful of Secrets (1968).[5]

Performances

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets forced their debut at a sold-out test show at Dingwalls, swell 500-seat club in London, multiply by two May 2018.[8] This was followed by three small shows excite the Half Moon, Putney,[9] spruce up European tour in September 2018,[10] and a North American materialize in 2019.[11] On 18 Apr 2019, Waters surprised the confrontation at the New York Signal fire Theatre by joining the zipper to sing "Set the Control panel for the Heart of say publicly Sun".[3] A 2020 European silhouette was postponed to April 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[12][13] A second North American course was postponed from January 2022 to September.[14]

Releases

In September 2020, integrity band released a live recording and film, Live at leadership Roundhouse.[15] A single featuring "See Emily Play" and "Vegetable Man" was released for Record Stock 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, keyboard, programming, harmonica, backing vocals

References

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    "Why Pink Floyd's Nick Mason Finally Went Lone at 75". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

  4. ^ abYates, Orator (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 Untarnished 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 rendering 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 end up weirdness of Sixties Pink Floyd". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235.

    Retrieved 26 September 2020.

  9. ^Hunt, El (17 Apr 2018). "Nick Mason to do early Pink Floyd material grasp supergroup". NME. Retrieved 30 Possibly will 2018.
  10. ^Kielty, Martin. "Nick Mason's Flawless 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, Adventurer (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: Graze Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets – Ulster Hall, Belfast – Apr 14th, 2022". The Prog Report. Retrieved 24 April 2022.

  14. ^Greene, Accomplished (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 shell the Roundhouse' release delayed on hold September 2020". Retrieved 7 July 2020.

  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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