Founding Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, the only surviving member of the band to take part in all of the seminal English rock outfit’s incarnations, will play four intimate shows in London with a newly-formed supergroup. Mason’s new band—comprised of Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Lee Harris (Ian Dury & the Blockheads), Dom Beken (frequent Nick Mason collaborator), and Guy Pratt (latter-day Pink Floyd bassist)—will keep its setlists focused on the pioneering psych-rock of Pink Floyd’s first two albums, 1967’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and 1968’s A Saucerful of Secrets.
Brooklyn Vegan reports that the group will play at least four shows next month under the moniker Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets. The first of those gigs is slated for May 20th at Dingwall’s and the next three are slated for May 21st, 23rd, and 24th at Half Moon. Unfortunately, your chances of actually seeing these shows are pretty slim, even if you are in London, as all four nights sold out more or less instantly.
Notably, these shows will mark Mason’s first full shows since Pink Floyd reunited at Live 8 in 2005 (a few 2011 sit-ins with Roger Waters and a 2012 collaboration with Ed Sheeran for the Olympic closing ceremony don’t count). His former bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour have both been hitting the road fairly hard in recent years, so someone should probably float the idea of getting the gang together again now that everyone is back in the saddle. How about it, guys?
[H/T – JamBase]