Dish Walahs

Over three and a bit years, Nick Mason’s early-Floyd flag-wavers have turned cyn into converts. “We took the pomposity out of the music,” they tell TOM DOYLE.

ON PAPER, the idea looked fairly ludicrous: the septuagenarian Nick Mason revisiting the early days of Pink Floyd with erstwhile members of Spandau Ballet and The Blockheads. But, through their attention to detail and on-stage verve, Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets have been a resounding success. “It would sound too depressing to say I had very low expectations, because it was not really that,” Mason tells MOJO. “I just wasn’t sure whether it would interest people.” “What’s lovely is it’s Pink Floyd when they were a pop group,” states Guy Pratt. “Before it was this vast, faceless obelisk.” “We took the pomposity out of the music,” reckons Gary Kemp. “We gave it a little bit more fun, a little bit more edge, a little bit more anarchy here and there.” Even those who were…

You're reading a preview of

MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2022

DiscountMags is a licensed distributor (not a publisher) of the above content and Publication through Zinio LLC. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered on our website, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of DiscountMags. DiscountMags does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, or usefulness of all or any portion of any publication or any services or offers made by third parties, nor will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information contained in any Publication, or your use of services offered, or your acceptance of any offers made through the Service or the Publications. For content removal requests, please contact Zinio.