Nick Mason: Talks to BBC Radio 6’s Matt Everitt on his ‘new’ band – Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets
Earlier this year Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason launched his new band – Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets – a group featuring, Gary Kemp from Spandau Ballet on guitar and Floyd live bassist Guy Pratt.
They played four intimate live shows across London – only playing early Floyd songs – so tracks from albums ‘The Piper At The Gates of Dawn’ and ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’ and they got the most amazing reviews!
And now they’ve announced some more UK shows for September kicking off in Portsmouth on the 23rd which will coincides with the release of a new box set of Nick’s solo material on 31 August.
For the first time in over 20 years the records 1981’s ‘Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports’, 1985’s ‘Profiles’ and his soundtrack for the 1988 Donald Cammell movie ‘White of the Eye’ will be available in both CD and vinyl three-disc deluxe boxsets.
6 Music Breakfast’s Matt Everitt sat down with Nick to talk about how it feels revisiting the past and some of the most influential and psychedelic music ever created…