Pink Floyd has had a productive 2022. The band launched a brand new music in April titled “Hey Hey Rise Up” in help of the folks of Ukraine, marking the primary new unique 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 improvement hell over a liner notes dispute.
Despite this latest burst of exercise, co-founding drummer Nick Mason would not anticipate any extra music coming from Pink Floyd. “I think we’re past the point of even considering the idea of Pink Floyd doing something, to make another album,” he tells UCR.
Mason has saved busy in latest years along with his new group Saucerful of Secrets, which performs early Pink Floyd materials and options Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp, longtime Pink Floyd touring bassist Guy Pratt, guitarist Lee Harris and keyboardist Dom Beken. Still, Mason would love to make the most of Pink Floyd’s legendary standing to impact optimistic change.
“I think it would be great if it was possible to become a force for good. I mean, I know that sounds a bit trite, but a bit like Live 8,” he says, referring to the sequence of 2005 profit concert events that raised cash to assist poor nations, significantly these in Africa. The supersized occasion, which happened nearly 20 years to the date after Live Aid, marked the primary time that Mason, David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Richard Wright carried out onstage collectively in 24 years. (It would even be their final, as Wright died in 2008.)
“I thought Live 8 was terrific,” Mason says, including that the mammoth profit may be tough to replicate now as a result of “we’re bit short of Nelson Mandela figures these days.” That mentioned, if anyone had been to spearhead the group of such an occasion, he’d would fortunately participate.
“If there was someone who was capable of assembling bands, I’d love to be part of something,” Mason provides. “I’d rather it wasn’t fighting Russia. I’d rather it was something a little more sort of humane, I suppose, the world peace or whatever it is – to use music for good or social change in the right way.”
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