The problem is, it was never finished or finally mastered and so it's very hard to know what he would have done with it. "I think there is a quite a lot of anger in it, but who knows. "I think Vegetable Man is interesting because it's almost like a punk record", suggests Mason. "A couple of Beatles turned up and Michelangelo Antonioni (director of Blowup), it was quite a wild evening… a proper night out."Ī focus on the early work has brought key Barrett tracks such as Arnold Layne to a modern live setting as well as lesser-known and unfinished songs. It was an ideal party venue to launch the International Times which was the so-called 'underground' newspaper. "When Pink Floyd first played there in 1966, it was an earth floor with nothing whatsoever in it, they had just cleared the last of the gin. It was originally where they used to turn (railway) engines around and then it was used as storage for Gilbey's Gin. "The Roundhouse is a very odd building but there's something about these round buildings that have a particular quality. The Live At The Roundhouse album and film captures Mason's return to the scene of a notable early performance by the band. In the UK and Europe, it's a more expert audience." Mason suggests American audiences are "entirely new to the old Pink Floyd material, they started with The Dark Side Of The Moon we were much less well known there in the early days. Sharing vocals with Pratt is Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp who also features on guitar.Ī forthcoming concert film captures the strange, psychedelic energy of the Syd Barrett period and the influential cult-status long-players that pre-date The Dark Side Of The Moon. Joining him, Guy Pratt had previously played bass for Pink Floyd (after Waters departure) on the A Momentary Lapse Of Reason and Division Bell tours, also singing lead for some tracks. It's now almost two years since he introduced Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets. "I COULD'VE been waiting until we were 100." Nick Mason admits he had become tired waiting for his erstwhile bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour to call him about a much hoped for Pink Floyd reunion.Īs one of the founding members, which also included the late Syd Barrett and Richard Wright, the drummer had always held out hope for the prospect and he remains the only musician to have played on every Pink Floyd album.
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