{"id":8725,"date":"2018-04-17T09:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=8725"},"modified":"2018-04-17T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:36:00","slug":"nick-mason-forms-band-to-play-early-pink-floyd-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2018\/04\/nick-mason-forms-band-to-play-early-pink-floyd-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Mason forms band to play early Pink Floyd music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> co-founder\/drummer <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> will perform early Floyd music with his new band <strong>Saucerful of Secrets<\/strong> in London next month.<\/p>\n<p>The band consists of Mason, <strong>Spandau Ballet<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Gary Kemp<\/strong>, former Floyd bassist <strong>Guy Pratt<\/strong>, <strong>Blockheads<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Lee Harris<\/strong>, and producer\/composer <strong>Dom Beken<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The band will play selections from &#8220;The Piper at the Gates of Dawn&#8221; and &#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets&#8221; May 20 at Dingwalls in Camden, before giving three shows at the Half Moon in Putney May 21, 23 and 24.<\/p>\n<p>These will be Mason\u2019s first live performances since Floyd played Live 8 in London in 2005. He is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on each of the band&#8217;s albums.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets went on sale at 10 this morning at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com\/\">the band&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd co-founder\/drummer Nick Mason will perform early Floyd music with his new band Saucerful of Secrets in London next month. The band consists of Mason, Spandau Ballet&#8216;s Gary Kemp, former Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, and producer\/composer Dom Beken. The band will play selections from &#8220;The Piper at the Gates of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts","category-events","category-nick-mason","category-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725","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=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8727,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions\/8727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}