Just announced is a move of venue for one of the upcoming shows on Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets European tour. The organisers have had to move the show, on June 3rd from the Dassous Theatre in Thessaloniki, Greece, to Moni Lazariston (https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2022/june-3rd-dassous-theatre-thessaloniki-g.html). The new venue, Moni Lazariston, is a cultural centre and art museum in a former monastery, with an auditorium holding 3,000 for concerts and plays. It is reputedly a great place for a concert! Existing ticket holders will be contacted, and tickets for this new venue are available from Ticketmaster (https://www.ticketmaster.gr/ticketmaster_se_2005573.html). Details of all the Saucers’ upcoming gigs in the UK, Europe, the US and Canada can be found through this link (https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/nick-mason-s-sos-2022/index.php), with details of each gig – including venue and location details, where to get tickets from, and so on – found in the associated show pages.
Every so often, some vintage Pink Floyd surfaces when you least expect it. In the last day or so, some incredible footage of the band playing live in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on June 28th, 1975, has surfaced. This gig was the final show on the 1975 North American tour, showcasing The Dark Side Of The Moon and selections from Wish You Were Here, along with Raving And Drooling and Gotta Be Crazy (both to appear later on Animals), with an encore of Echoes. The footage which has just appeared was shot on Super 8, which allows for around 3 minutes on each cartridge of film. Thus, during the 70s if people were using Super 8 cameras to record shows, they’d grab snippets and highlights, rather than have the camera rolling for entire sequences. The footage, which you’ll see below, features highlights of the band’s performance throughout the evening, showing some of the stage effects well. The footage has also been restored and tidied up, and syncronised with an audio recording of this show (Super 8 film at that time was normally just picture, no sound, although larger cartridges had recently been developed allowing a magnetic sound recording). Enjoy!
With the start of the new year, and the dreadful 2020 now thankfully just a memory, thoughts are now turning to what the future may bring, particularly on a Pink Floyd related front. Whilst things generally are still very much up in the air, January is always a good time for – either serious or completely outlandish – speculation and pondering on things which might happen across the coming year. Covid-19 put paid to concert plans last year of course. We were looking forward to shows that had been announced by Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets, and Roger Waters with his This Is Not A Drill tour, which was to be “in the round” rather than the normal end stage presentation. Both tours were naturally postponed. Some places have tentatively resumed shows but most haven’t yet. Will it take significant inroads into vaccinations, and infection rates/hospitalisations significantly reduced, before concerts will properly resume? Standing gigs would seem particularly unlikely for a while. One thing that seemed clear last year was that once initial lockdown issues had been dealt with (for example, pressing plants and warehouses closed) and new working methods worked out, there was a buoyant release market for artists across the musical spectrum. Whilst a lot of the material was retrospective, with deluxe editions and suchlike, there was also a lot of new material released as well, some of which had been inventively recorded during lockdown. The normal, annual Record Store Day turned into three, pretty full events, with an additional raft of releases on Black Friday, and with National Album Day also taken into account, it was a busy time on the music front. So, it’s time for you to look into your crystal balls – what do you think or hope 2021 will bring us, in particular on the Floyd-related front? It would be interesting if you have other thoughts too. Record Store Day has been announced for June 12th, and there’s normally some tasty things released that day. Will there be a Floyd-related release this year? When do you think gigs will resume? Drop us a line (at matt@brain-damage.co.uk) and let us know what your views are!
Up and coming indie-rockers President Elect share the vibrant new single ‘Pretence’ offering a vibrant taste of their upcoming EP ‘You’ve Gotta Lot of Nerve Believing in Me’. Comprising Iggy Waller (vocals and bass), Vincent Barulis (lead guitar), Jude Crook (rhythm guitar), and Zak Waller (drums), the four piece’s new single comes ahead of their upcoming […]
