Words by Riley Fitzgerald
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In addition to releasing a new live album this April, Pink Floyd‘s Nick Mason and his Saucerful of Secrets band will be embarking an extensive UK and European tour.

Starting April 23 the tour will kick off in a number of regional UK venues before traveling to Scotland on May 15.

Mason and the company will then traverse Europe from May 18 to May 31, and again from June 2 to June 7.

Recruiting Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp, former Pink Floyd touring bassist Guy Pratt, guitarist Lee Harris and keyboardist Dom Beken, Mason first formed Saucerful of Secrets in 2018.

Tired of waiting for a reunion, the drummer still wanted to perform Pink Floyd‘s songs, particularly those from the group’s earlier years.

The group’s improvisational revisitings of several Syd Barrett era compositions have proven particularly popular amongst fans.

“Probably the first great British glam rock pop star was Syd,” Gary Kemp recently shared in an interview with Prog magazine. “There would have been no David Bowie if it wasn’t for Syd. Bowie wouldn’t have cut his hair like that. There would have been no Johnny Rotten cutting his hair like that if it hadn’t been for the way Syd looked. Syd was our Velvet Underground, really. He was art school, he was dangerous, he was beautiful, he was living on the edge – all of those things that we find deadly attractive as rock musicians.”

Mason has also shared that North American tour dates will be announced shortly.

And, with his European dates wrapping up in June, it seems likely Mason will be touring the US at the same time as former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters.

With Waters having joined Mason on stage last year to celebrate the 50h anniversary of Saucerful of Secrets, it is possible the two could perform together again.

Mason’s full tour dates below.

U.K. Dates
Apr 23 – Guildford – G Live
Apr 24 – Brighton – Brighton Dome
Apr 25 – Oxford – Oxford New Theatre
Apr 27 – Ipswich – Ipswich Regent
Apr 29 – Dublin – Convention Center
May 01 – York – York Barbican
May 02 – Leicester – De Montfort Hall
May 04 – Southampton – Mayflower
May 05 – Cardiff – St. David’s Hall
May 07 – London – Royal Albert Hall
May 08 – Liverpool – Liverpool Philharmonic
May 09 – Sheffield – City Hall
May 11 – Birmingham – Symphony Hall
May 12 – Bath – Bath Forum
May 14 – Gateshead – Gateshead Sage
May 15 – Manchester – Manchester Apollo
May 16 – Edinburgh – Usher Hall

European Dates
May 18 – Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royale
May 19 – Luxembourg – Den Atelier
May 20 – Freiburg – Konzerthaus
May 22 – Paris, France – Grand Rex
May 23 – Lucerne, Switzerland – KKL
May 24 – Nuremberg – Meistersinger Halle
May 26 – Vienna, Austria – Gasometer
May 27 – Prague – Forum
May 28 – Frankfurt, Germany – Jahrunderhalle
May 30 – Muenster – Munsterlandhalle
May 31 – Eindhoven – Muziekgebouw
Jun 02 – Hamburg, Germany – Laeiszhalle
Jun 03 – Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom
Jun 05 – Randers, Denmark – Vaerket
Jun 07 – Bad Honnef, Germany – Insel Grafenwerth