{"id":2109,"date":"2010-11-26T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T01:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2010-11-26T21:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T01:27:21","slug":"pink-floyd-reunion-a-near-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2010\/11\/pink-floyd-reunion-a-near-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd reunion a near miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd drummer <strong>Nick Mason <\/strong>revealed that a planned Floyd reunion show was called off when the venue was found to not suit the band&#8217;s tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Mason told The Independent the band backed out of a charity gig when it learned the event would be held at the home of socialite <strong>Jemima Khan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That particular event wasn&#8217;t right for a reformation of Pink Floyd,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I said I would do it, but it was a charity event for suits, and it felt wrong to turn a small thing into a big deal just because Jemima Khan was in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why play for a lot of posh totty instead of some of the other things we should save that up for \u2014 a Live 8 type of thing,&#8221; he added, referring to the group&#8217;s 2005 reunion, its last with keyboardist <strong>Rick Wright<\/strong>, who died three years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason revealed that a planned Floyd reunion show was called off when the venue was found to not suit the band&#8217;s tastes. Mason told The Independent the band backed out of a charity gig when it learned the event would be held at the home of socialite Jemima Khan. &#8220;That particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}