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Nick Mason awarded CBE

Posted December 29, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd drummer and co-founder Nicholas Berkeley Mason — Nick, to you and me — has been included in Queen Elizabeth’s New Year Honors list to receive a CBE for services to music.

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) is one click below knighthood. Nick and others awarded the citation have no title — so don’t call him Sir Nick — but can choose to put the letters after their names.

The Honors List, published today, recognizes outstanding achievements of people across the U.K.

Nick is the second member of the five Floyds to receive the honor. David Gilmour received a CBE in 2003 for his charity work (“David Gilmour receives CBE citation,” June 20, 2003). Though his guitar work should have been enough. Just sayin’.

Congratulations, Nick!

 


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Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets announces North American dates

Posted October 31, 2018 by Floydian Slip


Pink Floyd co-founder and drummer Nick Mason will bring his group Saucerful of Secrets to North America in 2019.

The group announced its first concerts outside of Europe: 25 dates in Canada and the United States beginning March 12 in Vancouver and ending April 22 in Washington, D.C.

The group debuted in London this May, before launching a tour of Scandinavia and Europe that ran during September.

The band consists of Mason, Spandau Ballet‘s Gary Kemp, former Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, and producer/composer Dom Beken. They play the early music of Pink Floyd.

The 2019 dates also include five more U.K. dates:

North America

  • Mar 12, 2019 – Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
  • Mar 13, 2019 – The Paramount, Seattle
  • Mar 15 2019 – The Masonic, San Francisco
  • Mar 16, 2019 – The Wiltern, Los Angeles
  • Mar 19, 2019 – Comerica Theatre, Phoenix
  • Mar 21, 2019 – Paramount Theatre, Denver
  • Mar 24, 2019 – Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory, Dallas
  • Mar 25, 2019 – Jones Hall, Houston
  • Mar 27, 2019 – The Fillmore At The Jackie Gleeson, Miami Beach
  • Mar 29, 2019 – Tabernacle, Atlanta
  • Mar 31, 2019 – Stifel Theatre, St Louis
  • Apr 1, 2019 – Riverside Theater, Milwaukee
  • Apr 3, 2019 – Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
  • Apr 4, 2019 – Chicago Theatre, Chicago
  • Apr 5, 2019 – The Old National Theatre, Indianapolis
  • Apr 7, 2019 – Palace Theatre, Columbus
  • Apr 8, 2019 – Civic Center, Akron
  • Apr 9, 2019 – The Fillmore, Detroit
  • Apr 11, 2019 – Shea’s Performing Arts Center, Buffalo
  • Apr 12, 2019 – Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford
  • Apr 13, 2019 – Orpheum Theatre, Boston
  • Apr 15, 2019 – Place des Arts, Montreal
  • Apr 16, 2019 – Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto
  • Apr 18, 2019 – Beacon Theatre, New York
  • Apr 22, 2019 – DAR Constitution Hall, Washington

U.K.

  • Apr 29, 2019 – St David’s Hall, Cardiff
  • Apr 30, 2019 – Friars, Aylesbury
  • May 1, 2019 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge
  • May 3, 2019 – Roundhouse, London
  • May 4, 2019 – Roundhouse, London

Learn more at the group’s official website.


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Roger Waters to release “The Soldier’s Tale”

Posted September 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Sony Classical will release Igor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” recorded by Roger Waters next month.

“The Soldier’s Tale” is a musical theatre piece conceived in 1918 by Stravinsky and Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, and based on the Russian folk tale “The Runaway Soldier and the Devil” from the collection of Alexander Afanasyev.

In the original story, a soldier trades his fiddle to the devil in return for unlimited wealth. Waters has rewritten the text of the original piece for his adaptation.

In his recording, Waters plays all of the roles — the principal parts of the Soldier, the Devil and the Narrator, as well as all supporting characters. As originally conceived, the piece uses three actors for the principal roles, along with one or more dancers.

Other recent adaptations of “The Soldier’s Tale” include an animated version featuring Max von Sydow and broadcast on PBS in 1984; a 1993 version by Kurt Vonnegut that set the story in WWII; and a jazz version by Joan Sanmartí in 2002.

Waters’s “The Soldier’s Tale” is set for release Oct. 26.


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Happy Birthday, Roger Waters

Posted September 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Happy Birthday, Roger Waters (b. Sept. 6, 1943)


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Listen to our Nick Mason interview online

Posted September 3, 2018 by Floydian Slip


We’ve made available online last week’s interview with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason.

You can listen to streaming audio of our talk with Nick and read a transcript here.

Thanks to Rich Mahan for his assistance.


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Winners: Unattended Luggage

Posted September 3, 2018 by Floydian Slip


Congratulations to our winners of “Unattended Luggage,” the new box-set from Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason:

  • Ashley Norman, Thompsons Station TN
  • Trevor Meeks, Holt, Norfolk UK
  • Jim Losby, Homewood IL
  • Tim Granger, Williamson WV
  • Benny Forsberg, Norrköping, Östergötland Sweden
  • Chris Lajoie, West Brookfield MA

Prizes courtesy of Warner Music.


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“Floydian Slip” songlist #1168

Posted September 3, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Special Guest: Nick Mason

  1. Things Left Unsaid
    The Endless River (2014)
  2. It’s What We Do
    The Endless River (2014)
  3. Ebb and Flow
    The Endless River (2014)
  4. Have a Cigar
    Wish You Were Here (1975)
  5. Crumbling Land (Take 1)
    The Early Years: 1965–1972 (2016)
  6. Nick Mason interview w/
    Can’t Get My Motor to Start
    Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports (Nick Mason) (1981)
  7. Summer ’68
    Atom Heart Mother (1970)

(Photo: Jill Furmanovsky)


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Win: Nick Mason’s Unattended Luggage box-set

Posted August 29, 2018 by Floydian Slip


Register to win a copy of “Unattended Luggage,” the new box-set of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason‘s solo works.

The box includes Nick’s three previously-released solo albums:

  1. Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports” (1981);
  2. Profiles (1985); and
  3. White of the Eye (Film soundtrack) (1987)

And don’t miss Nick’s interview on this week’s “Floydian Slip” program #1168. Download a complete broadcast schedule.

Prizes courtesy of Warner Music.

Register to win now


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“Floydian Slip” preview #1168

Posted August 28, 2018 by Floydian Slip


Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1168:

We’ll welcome Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason to the show to talk about “Unattended Luggage,” the new box-set of his solo material; as well as “Saucerful of Secrets,” his new band out touring the early music of Pink Floyd.

PLUS … your chance to win a copy of the box-set, courtesy of Warner Music.

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 100 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.

(Photo: Jill Furmanovsky)


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Nick Mason joins “Floydian Slip” at end of August

Posted August 8, 2018 by Floydian Slip


We’ve firmed up plans to bring Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason on the show as a special guest.

Nick will join us on “Floydian Slip” #1168, airing on all 101 affiliate stations the week of Aug. 27-Sept. 2.

Warner Music will reissue Mason’s three solo albums as a box set called “Unattended Luggage” on Aug. 31. (See “Nick Mason box set coming Aug. 31.”)

He begins a 21-date tour of Scandinavia and Europe on Sept. 2 with his group Saucerful of Secrets, playing vintage Floyd.

Nick previously appeared on “Floydian Slip” program #970 in November 2014. You can hear that interview and read a transcript online.

We’ll post this new interview online after it airs.


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