Pink Floyd has had a productive 2022. The band launched a brand new tune in April titled “Hey Hey Rise Up” in assist of the folks of Ukraine, marking the primary new authentic music recorded collectively since 1994’s The Division Bell. On Friday, Pink Floyd may even unveil the long-delayed 2018 remix of 1977’s Animals, after years of languishing in improvement hell over a liner notes dispute.
Regardless of this latest burst of exercise, co-founding drummer Nick Mason would not anticipate any extra music coming from Pink Floyd. “I feel we’re previous the purpose of even contemplating the thought of Pink Floyd doing one thing, to make one other album,” he tells UCR.
Mason has saved busy in recent times together with his new group Saucerful of Secrets and techniques, which performs early Pink Floyd materials and options Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp, longtime Pink Floyd touring bassist Man Pratt, guitarist Lee Harris and keyboardist Dom Beken. Nonetheless, Mason wish to make the most of Pink Floyd’s legendary standing to impact optimistic change.
“I feel it might be nice if it was doable to turn out to be a power for good. I imply, I do know that sounds a bit trite, however a bit like Stay 8,” he says, referring to the sequence of 2005 profit concert events that raised cash to assist poor nations, notably these in Africa. The supersized occasion, which came about virtually 20 years to the date after Stay Help, marked the primary time that Mason, David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Richard Wright carried out onstage collectively in 24 years. (It could even be their final, as Wright died in 2008.)
“I thought Stay 8 was terrific,” Mason says, including that the mammoth profit is likely to be troublesome to copy now as a result of “we’re bit in need of Nelson Mandela figures nowadays.” That mentioned, if someone have been to spearhead the group of such an occasion, he’d would fortunately participate.
“If there was somebody who was able to assembling bands, I would like to be a part of one thing,” Mason provides. “I would slightly it wasn’t preventing Russia. I would slightly it was one thing somewhat extra kind of humane, I suppose, the world peace or no matter it’s – to make use of music for good or social change in the suitable means.”
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