Pink Floyd has had a productive 2022. The band launched a brand new track in April titled “Hey Hey Rise Up” in help of the folks of Ukraine, marking the primary new authentic music recorded collectively since 1994’s The Division Bell. On Friday, Pink Floyd may also unveil the long-delayed 2018 remix of 1977’s Animals, after years of languishing in growth hell over a liner notes dispute.
Regardless of this current burst of exercise, co-founding drummer Nick Mason does not anticipate any extra music coming from Pink Floyd. “I believe we’re previous the purpose of even contemplating the concept of Pink Floyd doing one thing, to make one other album,” he tells UCR.
Mason has stored busy in recent times along 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 constructive change.
“I believe it might be nice if it was attainable to change into 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 collection of 2005 profit live shows that raised cash to assist poor international locations, notably these in Africa. The supersized occasion, which occurred virtually 20 years to the date after Stay Support, 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 perhaps troublesome to duplicate now as a result of “we’re bit wanting Nelson Mandela figures today.” That stated, 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 might like to be a part of one thing,” Mason provides. “I might reasonably it wasn’t preventing Russia. I might reasonably it was one thing a bit of 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 proper manner.”
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