In an unsurprising, and arguably sensible move – bearing in mind the current global situation with Covid-19 and the Omicron variant, which is spreading extremely fast – the January/February 2022 Saucerful Of Secrets tour of the US and Canada has now been postponed until later in the year. The band’s social media channels note the move “with great regret” and point at the “uncertainty surrounding the Covid pandemic”. We think this is totally understandable and an eminently sensible move, despite any disappointment. Everyone’s health has got to be the priority at the current time. Venues involved are suggesting that the rescheduled dates will be taking place in the Fall (Autumn) of 2022, which we all hope will see things on a much better footing than at the moment. As most of you will have had experience of Covid-related postponements of various events, you will know that as a ticket holder, you are advised to hold onto your original tickets and await further information from the venue and/or ticket company where you purchased your tickets. Once we have the revised dates, we will let you all know. Rescheduling dates is a difficult thing, to ensure a logical and achievable route, so we’d expect it to take a little while, particularly with the Christmas and New Year seeing businesses and venues either closed for the festive period or on reduced staffing.
On the eve of the much anticipated release of Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets: Live At The Roundhouse, there’s a couple of things involving Guy Pratt which may help ease you through the wait for the postman to deliver the goodies to your house! The first is the start of an ongoing series of podcast interviews conducted by Guy with his Saucers bandmate, Gary Kemp. Rockonteurs aims to bring the “real stories behind real music”, promising “exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes”. The first podcast is a 40 minute chat with a further fellow bandmate – none other than Nick Mason! Episode two is also now available, and features Sir Bob Geldof, who of course played Pink in The Wall movie. Later episodes will find Gary and Guy talking to Phil Manzanera, Trevor Horn, Chris Difford, and others. You can hear and subscribe to the podcast via your favourite podcast service; here it is on Spotify: If that’s not enough to keep you going, Guy has also been speaking to RollingStone.com (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/guy-pratt-bassist-interview-pink-floyd-madonna-smiths-1057601/) in a lengthy, and typically honest and revealing interview, which you really should check out here (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/guy-pratt-bassist-interview-pink-floyd-madonna-smiths-1057601/). Find out more about his background, the artists he played with, how he got the job with Pink Floyd, and brings the story up to date with a lot of background to the Saucers. It’s a great read! ORDERING INFORMATION:If you are yet to order the various editions, you can do so through the following direct links, whilst giving Brain Damage much needed help with running costs without costing you any extra. We really appreciate it too!LIVE AT THE ROUNDHOUSE – Blu-ray: Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XWMFWG/braindamage-20)Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B083XWMFWG/ref%3Das_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=1634 creative=19450 creativeASIN=%20%20B083XWMFWG linkCode=as2 tag=braindamage-21)Canada (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XWMFWG/braindamageon-20)Germany (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XWMFWG/braindamage0f-21)France (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XWMFWG/braindamageon-21)Italy (http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B083XWMFWG/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=3370 creative=23322 creativeASIN=%20%20B083XWMFWG linkCode=as2 tag=bradamonl-21)Spain (http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B083XWMFWG/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=3626 creative=24822 creativeASIN=%20%20B083XWMFWG linkCode=as2 tag=braidama01-21)LIVE AT THE ROUNDHOUSE – 2CD/DVD: Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XTGCLZ/braindamage-20)Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B083XTGCLZ/ref%3Das_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=1634 creative=19450 creativeASIN=%20%20B083XTGCLZ linkCode=as2 tag=braindamage-21)Canada (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XTGCLZ/braindamageon-20)Germany (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XTGCLZ/braindamage0f-21)France (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XTGCLZ/braindamageon-21)Italy (http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B083XTGCLZ/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=3370 creative=23322 creativeASIN=%20%20B083XTGCLZ linkCode=as2 tag=bradamonl-21)Spain (http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B083XTGCLZ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=3626 creative=24822 creativeASIN=%20%20B083XTGCLZ linkCode=as2 tag=braidama01-21)LIVE AT THE ROUNDHOUSE – DOUBLE VINYL LP: Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XVFP2D/braindamage-20)Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B083XVFP2D/ref%3Das_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=1634 creative=19450 creativeASIN=%20%20B083XVFP2D linkCode=as2 tag=braindamage-21)Canada (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XVFP2D/braindamageon-20)Germany (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XVFP2D/braindamage0f-21)France (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B083XVFP2D/braindamageon-21)Italy (http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B083XVFP2D/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=3370 creative=23322 creativeASIN=%20%20B083XVFP2D linkCode=as2 tag=bradamonl-21)Spain (http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B083XVFP2D/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=3626 creative=24822 creativeASIN=%20%20B083XVFP2D linkCode=as2 tag=braidama01-21)
A Nottingham native now living in London, Drew Thomas has a knack for writing honest music suited to arenas and small bars. After establishing himself as a solo artist in 2018, Drew has built quite a reputation gaining positive feedback from BBC Introducing and Sofar Sounds (to name a few). We had a chance to …
Well, it’s that time of year when we look back at the past twelve months, and forward to what the following year is likely to bring. Obviously life for all of us has been somewhat disrupted due to the obvious, with things like concerts on the whole a distant memory! Tour dates for Roger Waters’ This Is Not A Drill outing, and Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets, were originally planned for 2020, with some of them moving to dates this year (2021) and now postponed again to 2022. Whilst in the early days concert postponements and cancellations were disappointing and at times, frustrating or annoying for some, it now seems to have an inevitability to it, and events are routinely cancelled or postponed, some of which at very short notice. We’re remaining hopeful that things improve on the Covid front in 2022 to enable the various tours to happen. It partly relies on a decent take-up of the vaccination programmes ongoing in most countries, and also hopefully no further variants such as Omicron to come and spoil things. In terms of releases and publications, there’s the recently announced PULSE double Blu-ray and double DVD sets, complete with the long awaited return of the flashing LED on the spines. Could there be other things on the horizon? The Animals section has a caption up at the Los Angeles staging of The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains which mentions a release in June 2022, which if that happens, will be a very popular one indeed. There’s also the (slightly delayed) 320-page book from Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell – Through the Prism: Untold rock stories from the Hipgnosis archive, which should be fascinating! We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank you all so much for your support and kindness – the site is done purely for you, and as we approach the staggering total number of visitors since its inception of 100 million (the previous version of the site reached 21 million), we look forward to continuing to bring you news and information from the Floydian world! We might also have some prize opportunities coming your way soon… Whatever your plans for Christmas and the New Year (and we suspect that, like many, they will be smaller scale than in previous years, and potentially just sitting at home!) we hope you have a peaceful, happy and healthy time, and here’s to a 2022 that is significantly better for all of us!