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Nick Mason’s Saucers guitarist Lee Harris chats with Tim Renwick

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Many of you now will have seen the first two of Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets’ guitarist Lee Harris’s “Live At Lee’s” which he is sharing on his social media pages – these looked at how he approached a couple of the songs in the Saucers repertoire. For the third episode, he recorded something a little different – a chat with fellow guitarist Tim Renwick. Tim, of course, has had a long history with the Floyd (amongst others on his extensive CV which is a bit of a who’s who of top musicians) taking in things like Roger Waters’ 1984 tour, Pink Floyd from 1987 onwards (including the 2005 Live 8 appearance at London’s Hyde Park, and playing guitar on The Division Bell and Richard Wright’s Broken China. We’ve mentioned before on Brain Damage that Tim remains very active, with some lovely solo albums available from his website (https://www.timrenwick.com). Here’s the interview:

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Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets guitarist Lee Harris shares another video

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Following on from Guy Pratt’s excellent Lockdown Licks, and Guy and Gary Kemp’s essential Rockonteur’s podcasts (the first episode of which featured Nick Mason, and subsequent episodes each have other notables from the world of music), their fellow Saucerful Of Secrets bandmate, guitarist Lee Harris, has recently started his own. Lee asked for suggestions on his Facebook page for songs that he could “play and chat about from Live At The Roundhouse”, and from those he had, the decision was made to start Live At Lee’s with the first song in the set list, Interstellar Overdrive. The second video has just been released, and is the song which inspired the name of the band: A Saucerful Of Secrets. More videos are promised in due course and you can find them on Lee’s official Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/lee.harris.official) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mrleeharris) pages. Here’s episode 2: A Saucerful Of Secrets:

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Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets guitarist Lee Harris starts video series

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Following on from Guy Pratt’s excellent Lockdown Licks, and Guy and Gary Kemp’s essential Rockonteur’s podcast (the first episode of which featured Nick Mason, and subsequent episodes each have other notables from the world of music), their fellow Saucerful Of Secrets bandmate, guitarist Lee Harris, has just started his own. Lee asked for suggestions on his Facebook page for songs that he could “play and chat about from Live At The Roundhouse”, and from those he had, the decision was made to start Live At Lee’s with the first song in the set list – Interstellar Overdrive. More videos are promised in due course and you can find them on Lee’s official Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/lee.harris.official) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mrleeharris) pages. Here’s episode 1:

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New website offers academic approach to post-1983 Pink Floyd

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PubliusEnigma.co.uk (https://www.publiusenigma.co.uk/) – is focused on Pink Floyd’s post-1983 activity, with an “additional focus on, and an expansive view of, the studio and touring musicians associated with them.” Ed notes that “The idea is to provide a resource that spans Pink Floyd’s ‘David Gilmour era’, from the departure of Roger Waters through today. This period set the stage for the longest era in the band’s history and for each band member’s most prolific work outside the band itself.” To coincide with the launch of the site, there are new interviews with The McBroom Sisters (Pink Floyd backing vocalists), Bjørn Riis (vocalist and guitarist for Norwegian band Airbag and publisher of Gimourish.com), Scott Page (Pink Floyd saxophonist and rhythm guitar player), and with Jon Carin (of Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, and David Gilmour) in a piece titled A History and Anatomy of Yet Another Movie. With photography by Marie Lopez and artwork by Ahmed Emad Eldin, designer of the album cover for Pink Floyd’s The Endless River, the site is well worth visiting, at PubliusEnigma.co.uk (https://www.publiusenigma.co.uk/), and we wish Ed all the very best with it!

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Another new song from Gilmour, Waters guitarist Chester Kamen

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We recently told you about some new music from respected guitarist Chester Kamen (https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/new-music-from-gilmour-waters-guitarist-chester-kamen.html). Amongst many other artists, Chester has toured with Roger Waters, joining his band in 2002 and playing on subsequent tours, and with David Gilmour on his 2016 Rattle That Lock tour. He first played with David back in 1985 during the Live Aid show – David and Chester were both part of Bryan Ferry’s band for that show (as was Jon Carin). Chester has, like many musicians, kept himself busy whilst lockdowns and restrictions due to Covid-19 have called a halt to many things – in particular, live performance. In October, he shared his recently finished new piece of music called Take This, that runs for over 23 minutes. Chester told us that Take This is the first side of an album he is currently working on – following, or inspired by, the old Floyd blueprint of one long piece and several songs on the flip side. Last month saw the first of the songs on the second side of the album: Brand New Day. Chester has now uploaded the next track on the album to YouTube. It’s called Swimming and features an appearance on bass by Felix Howard, who is Roy Harper’s son. Chester tells us that “this one is a bit darker, reflecting my state of mind at that time.” We’ll update you as he progresses with the rest of the album, as we know that a good number of you are enjoying the songs revealed so far!