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Drummer refused to play benefit
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was absent from the mini-reunion that brought Roger Waters and David Gilmour together for a short set the summer of 2010. The two played a benefit for the Hoping Foundation in England to a crowd of about 200. Nick said, “That particular event wasn’t right for a reformation of Pink Floyd. I said I would do it, but it was a charity event for suits, and it felt wrong to turn a small thing into a big deal just because British socialite Jemima Khan was in attendance.” The show took place at the home of her ex-husband, retired Pakistani cricket legend Imran Khan. Nick said, “Why play for a lot of posh totty instead of some of the other things we should save that up for – like a Live 8 type of thing?”
Brit Floyd at the Sony Centre
Brit Floyd – The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show - is touring worldwide in 2012 with “A Foot in the Door”, a brand new show celebrating the amazing musical legacy of Pink Floyd. Brit Floyd is coming to the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on Thursday, March 1. A Brit Floyd show is truly the genuine reincarnation of the Pink Floyd live experience…plus everyone receives a free live 2 hour Brit Floyd promo DVD at the show! For more information, click here.
An artist first, not musician
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason’s autobiography “Inside Out” says the late Syd Barrett always considered himself a painter before the Pink Floyd founder. Speaking at an exhibition of his canvases and letters, his sister Rosemary Breen said Syd could never understand why people put his success with Pink Floyd ahead of his art. Barrett died of cancer in 2006 at 60. “He was firstly an artist and secondly a musician. When people asked what he did, he always said, ’I’m an artist’, never ’I’m a musician.’”
Roger Waters at the Rogers Centre
Roger Waters, the co-founder and principal songwriter of the archetypal progressive band Pink Floyd, brings his historic production of “The Wall” to Rogers Centre in 2012. His aural and visual masterpiece of alienation and transformation will be performed in its entirety featuring a full band and state-of-the-art production on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 8pm. To purchase tickets online, visit Ticketmaster.ca.
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