PINK FLOYD

Meanwhile Roger gets an asteroid named after him:
https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%26%2310003%3B&object_id=495181

I kinda expected it'd be a hemorrhoid but an asteroid will do.

I bet it’s got its controls set for the heart of the sun

X-post

Listening to A Saucerful of Secrets again tonight and it is fucking ruling.

Late night listen to Too Early For A Gig and good grief it rules so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc3Y-gGuNmc

Oh man, I love that recording.

Pink Floyd, 1969. pic.twitter.com/jQQqcZQz64

— Mood:Vintage (@moodvintage) March 4, 2018

that photo rules

it's too bad a bus with a gong on top of it crashed through all the equipment a split second later. it's a miracle they all survived tbh

I do like comfertabally numb

gilmour / mason / wright's collective expression in that pic screams: "roger made us do this, we just want to get to the pub"

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

You thrilled to him as Ronnie Kray, now Gary Kemp is Syd Barrett in Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets... unless there's another Gary Kemp?

A quick GIS of Nick Mason and Gary Kemp suggests that they are, indeed, china plates, as Ronnie Kray might have said.

Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets is the brainchild of former Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris who back in 2016 suggested putting a group together around Nick Mason and featuring esteemed Pink Floyd/ David Gilmour session bassist Guy Pratt.

To distance themselves from Roger Waters and David Gilmour's live set lists, the idea was to focus solely on Pink Floyd’s embryonic years of 1967 to 1972.

With Nick Mason on board, they completed Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets with Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp on guitars and music producer/composer Dom Beken on keyboards.

The four gigs in May will be Nick Mason’s first live musical outing since Pink Floyd’s historic Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park in 2005. Nick, of course, is a founder and the only constant member of Pink Floyd performing on all of their albums as well as all of their live shows

https://www.planetrock.com/news/news/rock-news/nick-mason-to-perform-early-pink-floyd-with-new-band-saucerful-of-secrets/

But is Gaz going to be singing, "A gnome named Grimble Gromble"?

And then one day, hooray
another way for gnomes to say
Trueh..

"To cut a long story short
Syd lost his miiiind"

sad lols

Would be cool if Mason sang the songs he did vocals for on the originals e.g. One Of These Days, Corporal Clegg, Scream Thy Last Scream.

Putting "Nick Mason's" in front is a great way to make a band name more reasonable

Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets is the brainchild of former Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris

i just remembered that i have this (terrible) rave version of 'time' by lee harris - gotta be the same guy right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pLd-7pm-ow

Rodge let slip in a radio interview that there is a 5.1 of Animals on the way sometime soon, didn't say anything about an Immersion Box type of deal.

there was also a lee harris in talk talk, surely it's not him but who knows? xp

Dingwalls and 3 dates at the Half Moon, jfc couldn't they have aimed a little higher?

I mean that would probably just about accommodate Guy Pratt's fucking guest list.

Putting "Nick Mason's" in front is a great way to make a band name more reasonable

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion)

i can't ever consider "nick mason's fictitious sports" to be "reasonable". only "reasonamable".

Will Nick bust out 'The Grand Vizier's Garden Party'?

First encore.

5-1 odds that Robert Wyatt comes out for an "I'm A Believer" encore.

would rather hear "wervin'"

^Yes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnfPzODj1kI

Dingwalls 20th May 2018

1. Interstellar Overdrive
2. Astronomy Domine
3. Lucifer Sam
4. Fearless
5. Obscured By Clouds
6. When You're In
7. Arnold Layne
8. Green Is The Colour
9. Let There Be More Light
10. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
11. See Emily Play
12. Bike
13. One Of These Days
14. A Saucerful Of Secrets
15. Point Me At The Sky

for a second mistook that for a Waters setlist and was like wtf rad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-HJNJm4I0

There's a clip of Bike out there too (with Pratt singing) but I'm not gonna link it because it sounds like a pub band.

Bunch of UK and European tour dates announced at http://www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com/

This thing isn't coming anywhere near me which kind of solves my dilemma of whether I want to put myself through it or not

I will go for sure, perhaps I'm taking it a bit too seriously, but the youtube clips feel under-rehearsed and like a bit of a busman's holiday to me, I wish he hadn't just gone down the crony route with the band members.

yeah i love all these songs but i'm not really excited to hear these folks play them. if he'd gotten, you know, somebody like robyn hitchcock to go on tour with him i'd jump at the chance.

May have been Guy Pratt's idea

XP - my thoughts exactly, Hitchcock would be a perfect frontman.

There are Robyn Hitchcock And Heavy Friends Play Pink Floyd concerts on archive.org for any who doubt it

I'm just bummed he didn't name the band Set The Controls For The Heart Of Mason

I'm bummed it turned out to be pretty good so no-one got to use the headline, A Mason Disgrace.

i wish he would do electronic duo versions of the PF songbook and call it Mason-Jarre

http://floydpodcast.com/nick-masons-saucerful-of-secrets/

^this RULES

i hope he brings this to the US, I would absolutely go and would probably prefer this over seeing gilmore at this point. or gilmour. or however he spells it.

dang i would totally go ... what size places is he playing?

dingwalls is fucking tiny

xxp surely Set the Controls for the Heart of the Drums

He’s playing the Olympia here (where Dylan played in 66 w the giant American flag), maybe 2000 people? saw Paramore there recently