The song was bootlegged for decades before finally getting an original release as part of a retrospective compilation record in 2016. When you play the opening riffs, you can freestyle it so many different ways.” Interstellar Overdrive‘ – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967 -“This is a track that is open to improvisation and reinterpretation. Once you start examining Syd Barrett’s work carefully, it’s quite often more complex than you expect. Mason tells Billboard: “Being an eternal optimist, I thought it would just come straight back to me. That’s my entire career - not leading so much as being gently prodded.” Bike’ – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967.“The lyrics to this are so very Syd, astonishingly clever,” Mason said of the song. This is me being nudged into it by the rest of the band. This is not a grand scheme that I created. “I had no idea how much I was going to enjoy it.
“It reminds me a little bit of Ginger Baker, who was a huge influence on me,” he added before describing the song’s sci-fi vibe. “This is such a great drum track in an interesting time signature,” Mason told Rolling Stone. As of now, they have no American shows booked. Along the way, they are even playing a couple of shows in Russia. They have dates all across Europe before wrapping up July 2nd at the Palacio Municipal in Madrid, Spain. The group has been on break for the past few months, but they resume touring March 23rd in Guildford, England, at G Live. Nick Mason: Re-learning early Pink Floyd material wasn’t easy- Video comes from Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets ‘Live at the Roundhouse’ live album/film NIGHT OF THE PROG, LORELEY AMPHITHEATREBUY
The band are playing nine European dates this summer as part of The Echoes Tour before heading to Australia in September. The shows were later immortalised with the 2017 live album and concert film ‘Live at Pompeii.’Īs with all Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets shows, the Pompeii concert will see the band perform songs from Pink Floyd’s embryonic days only. Pink Floyd, of course, have very close links to Pompeii having filmed their fabled concert film ‘Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii’ over four days at the amphitheatre in October 1971.ĭavid Gilmour returned to perform two concerts at the amphitheatre in July 2016 as part of The Rattle That Lock Tour. Tickets to the Pompeii go on sale at midday on Wednesday 22nd March on official site “With the amphitheatre unavailable for concerts now, the band will perform in the similarly ancient Grand Theatre in the grounds of the ruins.”
“Another secret has been revealed: Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets are heading to Pompeii in July,” Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets said. Nick Mason, Dom Beken, Lee Harris, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt’s concert on Monday 24th July 2023 will be held located in the theatre area of Pompeii rather than the nearby Pompeii amphitheatre, according to Planetradio. It was a concert that was virtually centuries in the making – the first-ever rock show to take place in front of an audience in the structure there – and it was a milestone, too, for Gilmour, age 70, as it was the first time he’d played there since he and his Pink Floyd bandmates shot the 1972 cult-hit concert film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, what director Adrian Maben once described as an “anti-Woodstock” picture.Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets have announced a very special show in Pompeii this summer, 52 years on from Pink Floyd’s legendary live film. Related: David Gilmour Talks Pompeii Return: ‘It’s a Place of Ghosts’ And one end of the structure housed a stage that, in addition to giving the former Pink Floyd singer a platform, also held a mammoth circular projector screen with enough lights and lasers to approximate the alien touchdown scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The majority of the spectators were gathered on the field where gladiators once squared off against their adversaries. The perimeter atop the structure was lined with light, fire pots and pyrotechnics that shot flames into the air, much like the volcano that wiped out the city in 79 A.D. would have thought of David Gilmour‘s concert there on Thursday. It’s hard to imagine what the ancient Pompeiians who built an amphitheater in their region of Italy around 80 B.C.
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