Roger Waters joins Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets in NYC last night

New interview with Nick Mason for the New York Post

In the run-up to Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets hitting the stage of the Beacon Theatre in New York City on Thursday/Friday, Nick spoke to the New York Post (https://nypost.com/2019/04/17/pink-floyds-nick-mason-shares-the-secrets-of-the-bands-legacy/) about the project, in an interesting and wide-ranging discussion. Nick explained the philosophy behind the project: You only have to wait for 15 minutes before another version of the greatest hits come ’round, whether it’s Brit Floyd or the Australian Floyd or Roger [Waters] or David [Gilmour], and what I didn’t want to do is get into a competition of who can do the closest to the original Comfortably Numb. What I wanted to do was something a lot freer than that that was sort of based in how we did do things 50 odd years ago, and that was sort of important that there’d be some freedom in the music rather than slavishly copying every single note that David did.. What’s really nice about this is from the moment we started last year it was almost sort of going back in time,. It reminded me of all the really good times playing with Pink Floyd, in fact. It wasn’t that I ended up playing it in a despondent way. I enjoyed it all the way through. It’s sort of turning back the hands of time, really. In the article, Mason says fans can expect a live Saucerful album, and while he has given up on a full-blown Floyd reunion, the band still remains a working entity in some ways, referring to the Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains which Nick hints at a European city as its next stop, with a longer term view of taking it to America. He also talks about plans for remasters and mentions Animals as ripe for this process as technically we sort of did it in our own studio and it’s not quite up to the standard of an Abbey Road production. He also muses on the likelihood – or not – of a Floyd biopic, and suggests potential actors for key roles. You can read the entire interview over at the New York Post (https://nypost.com/2019/04/17/pink-floyds-nick-mason-shares-the-secrets-of-the-bands-legacy/) website.

Nick Mason opens his gardens again to raise over £50,000 for charity

In a return to what was an annual event pre-2020, on 26th and 27th June Nick Mason and his wife Annette opened up their gardens at Middlewick House in Corsham, Wiltshire, to support the Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust, of which Annette is a vice-patron, and the Wiltshire Air Ambulance. Over the two days, they had over 5000 visitors and raised over £50,000 for the two charities. Nick told the Wiltshire Times (https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/inyourtown/trowbridgenews/19407450.visitors-flock-pink-floyd-drummer-nick-masons-open-gardens-event/) that he was delighted to be able to go ahead with this year’s event, after last year’s was cancelled due to Covid-19: “People are delighted to take a look at the gardens; they look so much better after one of these events than they did before. “Many people have been bottled up for so long during the pandemic they are just pleased to come out.” Brain Damage regular Ian McKenzie made it along to the Sunday opening (27th), and was grateful that the rain (only just) kept off. He told us that “there were a lot more of Nick’s cars there compared to 2017 when I last attended, including two very special cars. I managed to have a chat with him on a couple of occasions, and asked him which task requires the most co-ordination and concentration; driving a Ferrari or playing the drums. For the record, he said the former is the hardest!” Ian kindly sent a selection of his pictures from the day, which can be seen in full over at the Brain Damage Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/BrainDamageUK), but the thumbnails here give a flavour of the shots – Nick’s cars, his helicopter, and Nick himself. For more information about the event itself, and for tickets to attend in future years, visit middlewickhouseopengarden.com (https://middlewickhouseopengarden.com).

Tycho Jones offers alt-pop treasure “Missing in Action”

In an era where the music industry is graced by young artists diving into the depths of their own identities, UK alt-pop artist Tycho Jones stands out with his EP – Negative Space. The EP’s latest treasure “Missing in Action” resonates with its emotionally charged lyricism and passion-soaked vocals, adding a vibrant and off-kilter energy …

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