Another Nick Mason radio interview for you to hear: he appears on the Billy Sloan show on BBC Radio Scotland, at 10pm UK time tonight (Saturday, July 14th).

Billy chats to Nick ahead of his Scottish concert (taking place in Glasgow, on September 28th) with his new band Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets, where they'll be exploring the early material of Pink Floyd during their European tour which takes place across the month of September this year. Nick also talks about those early touring days, what made The Dark Side of The Moon a masterpiece, his views on the Pink Floyd tribute bands and how the classic Live8 reunion performance came about.

UPDATE: The interview with Nick is now available to listen on demand through this link. Our thanks to Stuart Barstow for the info about this radio show.

This coming Sunday, July 15th, the BBC Radio 6 Music's 'The First Time with...' Nick Mason airs. One of the founding members of Pink Floyd, Nick shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt. Nick discusses the early years, and his first impressions of band mates Roger Waters and Syd Barrett. The hour long show is broadcast from 1pm UK time.

If you go to the BBC Radio 6 website you can find a landing page that not only includes Nick's upcoming show, but also the ability to hear, on demand, the same show featuring Roger Waters from July 2016, and David Gilmour from September 2015.

BBC6 Music can be heard in much of Europe, online at www.BBC.co.uk, and the show itself can be heard via the BBC's iPlayer service following broadcast. Listeners worldwide may also be able to tune in via the TuneIn app for Apple/Android devices. Our thanks to Dave Carlin, Stuart Barstow and Ken Carter for letting us know about this show.

Some of you will recall our posts from the end of 2016, and the start of 2017 about Another Brick in the Wall, the award-winning new opera based on Pink Floyd's The Wall. Following the incredibly successful run in Canada, it has moved south of the border to the US, and Cincinnati Opera, in Ohio, will present it for the first time in the country from July 20-31, 2018, with tickets priced from $35 to $190.

Created with Roger Waters's full endorsement, it depicts Pink's journey from madness to redemption as never seen before, with sets created by designers from Cirque du Soleil, colossal video projections, a cast of 80, and a 70-piece orchestra in the pit. The production sold out its entire 10-performance run at the world premiere in Montreal last year. Read our fully illustrated review of the Montreal staging here.

For more information, and to buy tickets for any of the performances, visit www.cincinnatiopera.org/the-wall.

UPDATE: Sam Jacobson was at one of these performances, and reviewed it for the classical music/opera website Bachtrack which you can read through this link. Worth checking out in case you are interested in attending any future stagings that may be arranged and announced...

"Indescribable, and not to be missed!" This is Nick Mason's take on the subject of this recent documentary, and to my mind, this is also a fair reflection on the film itself. 'Ron Geesin: An Improvised Life' is a fascinating, one-hour look at this truly unique composer, musician, adjustable spanner enthusiast, performer and artist. Whilst most visitors to Brain Damage will be fully aware of his work with Pink Floyd, co-composing Atom Heart Mother, and working (principally) with Roger Waters on the soundtrack to The Body (which features a full, uncredited Floyd performance on one track), other aspects of his career won't be so familiar to most.

'Ron Geesin: An Improvised Life' is having its first UK broadcast at 9pm this coming Saturday, July 14th. It is being shown on the Sky Arts channel, which is available via Sky, Virgin Media, Talk Talk TV and Now TV.

The documentary gives a potted history of Geesin, with some fascinating pictures and footage of his first major exploits in the world of music: joining the jazz band The Original Downtown Syncopators. 'An Improvised Life' shows how his piano playing in this band lead to other things; soundtracks for adverts, appearances in television productions, and suchlike.

Geesin himself talks of his activities, with the help of his wife Frankie, and various key people from throughout his career. News to me was how he was support act for a couple of major performers - The Who and Genesis.

Pete Townshend talks at length about Geesin, who had him open for The Who twice - until Roger Daltrey had to "have a word" with Geesin as he'd been too popular with the audience as a support act! Townshend called him "badly behaved, and a vigilante" in his performance, and draws parallels with the likes of Syd Barrett (whom Townshend shares his memories of).