A Saucerful of Secrets

We have just had a very enjoyable evening in Edinburgh with Gordon. We started off with a tasty dinner in Topolabamba and then strolled the few steps to the Usher Hall, to see Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, playing the very early music of Pink Floyd. Eagle-eyed blog readers might recall that James and I have seen this band before, in September 2018. 

Our seats were very high up in the theatre, steeply banked for a great view. Again the band included ex Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp, long term collaborator Guy Pratt (who mentioned that he is Richard Wright’s ex son-in-law) and of course Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason himself, looking on good form for seventy-eight years old. I enjoyed the music and recognised most of it from James playing his Pink Floyd albums over the years. Pink Floyd fan-boys James and Gordon of course knew it intimately. 

I certainly recognised the lyrics of the last encore “Bike” because James sings them around the house:

“I know a mouse and he hasn’t got a house, I don’t know why I call him Gerald. He’s getting rather old, but he’s a good mouse.”