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Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason plans US tour in 2019

Nick Mason performing with Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets (Jill Furmanovsky/www.rockarchive.com via AP)
Nick Mason performing with Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets (Jill Furmanovsky/www.rockarchive.com via AP)

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is planning to tour North America next year to perform some of the band’s classic songs.

But fans expecting Comfortably Numb or Another Brick In The Wall will be disappointed because Mason will be digging deep into the Pink Floyd archives to offer tunes not heard live in America for a long time, if ever.

Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets will be jamming to pre-Dark Side Of The Moon material.

Mason said: “I really wanted to find something different and a bit quirky. I think, for me, what’s most interesting is to revisit the thinking behind some of these pieces.”

The band – which includes Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp, long-time Pink Floyd touring bassist Guy Pratt, guitarist Lee Harris and keyboardist Dom Beken – formed this year in the United Kingdom after bandmates nudged Mason to make music again.

The name of the new band comes from A Saucerful Of Secrets, released in June 1968. Some of the songs they play live include See Emily Play, Arnold Layne, The Nile Song, Bike, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun and Obscured By Clouds.

US and Canadian audiences can expect those and more.

“Frankly, we feel there’s still more to do and can be explored,” Mason said. “The set list that we’ve done in Europe will almost certainly be the basis for what we do, but we certainly intend to add a few more tracks.”

Mason said he is not worried that Floyd fans will turn up and expect to hear hits from such later albums as The Wall or Animals. He cites social media for making it clear what will be played, something he noticed after the band’s first concert.

“Almost two hours after doing the very first pub gig, everything was all over the web and everyone had a pretty good idea of what they were going to get,” he said. “So if it wasn’t what they wanted, they didn’t turn up.”

The new 25-date tour will kick off on March 12, 2019, in Vancouver and take the band to Washington, California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington DC.

Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd who has performed on all of the band’s studio albums. He said he is not trying to compete with Floyd alumni Roger Waters and David Gilmour or any Floyd tribute bands.

“The world is absolutely stuffed with Pink Floyd tribute bands, let alone Roger and David. So I think it’s very important to say, ‘This is not version No. 297. This is something a bit weird and a bit different.’”

The tour will mark Mason’s first performances in North America since Pink Floyd played Giants Stadium in New Jersey in 1994 as part of the Division Bell Tour. The 74-year-old musician said he’s having more fun behind the drum kit than he initially expected.

“I had no idea how much I was going to enjoy it. This is not a grand scheme that I created. This is me being nudged into it by the rest of the band. That’s my entire career — not leading so much as being gently prodded.”