Ahead of the 2022 North American Echoes Tour for Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets - which starts tomorrow night in Boston - here's another new interview with Nick. It's a packed 22 minutes covering his old band (Pink Floyd) as well as his current troupe. Definitely worth a listen! For more info on dates, places and tickets for the upcoming tour, click here.

Further dates have been released for the 2023 Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill tour of Europe, with some tickets already on sale, and most of the newly announced shows going on presale this coming Wednesday, with the general sale starting on Friday. Tickets for some of the shows are already selling very quickly.

Important: please check the individual show(s) you are interested in for confirmation of the exact ticketing details for that event, as they might differ from the majority.

This European tour announcement is on the back of his current tour of the US and Canada, which is 30 shows in, with 12 still to play. The new staging sees the band playing "in the round", with Roger prowling the stage to present to all sides of the arenas. Above is a new screen, arranged in a kind of cross. We don't want to say too much for those who are trying to avoid spoilers!

You might also notice from this new graphic to support the European tour, that it refers to "his first ever farewell tour" - make of that what you will, not least as a farewell tour isn't normally referred to as that person's "first ever"! Maybe it is Roger having a little joke...

We suspect the following list will grow quickly, so please keep checking back for more details.

Each show will link off to a specific page for that event, including ticket links, directions to the venue, and - once the show has taken place - details of the set list, video from the show, and submitted reviews and pictures from kind Brain Damage readers.

Here's the dates so far, as revealed on Roger's website, along with ticketing websites in some of the countries. We're keeping an eye out for further shows as they get added to the schedule. The TICKETS link gives more information on the dates, any presales there might be, and the various VIP packages that are available for most (if not all) of the shows.

• 17th March 2023 - Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal - TICKETS
• 18th March 2023 - Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal - TICKETS
• 21st March 2023 - Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain - TICKETS
• 23rd March 2023 - WiZink Center, Madrid, Spain - TICKETS
• 24th March 2023 - WiZink Center, Madrid, Spain - TICKETS
• 27th March 2023 - Mediolanum Forum, Assago, Milan, Italy - TICKETS
• 28th March 2023 - Mediolanum Forum, Assago, Milan, Italy - TICKETS
• 31st March 2023 - Mediolanum Forum, Assago, Milan, Italy - TICKETS
• 1st April 2023 - Mediolanum Forum, Assago, Milan, Italy - TICKETS
• 4th April 2023 - Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - TICKETS
• 6th April 2023 - Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - TICKETS
• 7th April 2023 - Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - TICKETS
• 11th April 2023 - Telenor Arena, Oslo, Norway - TICKETS
• 12th April 2023 - Telenor Arena, Oslo, Norway - TICKETS
• 15th April 2023 - Tele2 Arena, Stockholm, Sweden - TICKETS
• 17th April 2023 - Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark - TICKETS
• 18th April 2023 - Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark - TICKETS
• 21st April 2023 - Unipol Arena, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy - TICKETS
• 23rd April 2023 - MVM Dome, Budapest, Hungary - TICKETS
• 25th April 2023 - Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland - TICKETS
• 28th April 2023 - Unipol Arena, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy - TICKETS
• 29th April 2023 - Unipol Arena, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy - TICKETS
• 3rd May 2023 - Accor Arena, Paris, France - TICKETS
• 4th May 2023 - Accor Arena, Paris, France - TICKETS
• 7th May 2023 - Barclays Arena, Hamburg, Germany - TICKETS
• 9th May 2023 - Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany - TICKETS
• 12th May 2023 - Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille, France - TICKETS
• 14th May 2023 - Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium - TICKETS
• 17th May 2023 - Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin, Germany - TICKETS
• 21st May 2023 - Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany - TICKETS
• 24th May 2023 - O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic - TICKETS
• 25th May 2023 - O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic - TICKETS
• 28th May 2023 - Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany - TICKETS
• 31st May 2023 - Utilita Arena, Birmingham, England - TICKETS
• 2nd June 2023 - OVO Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland - TICKETS
• 3rd June 2023 - OVO Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland - TICKETS
• 6th June 2023 - The O2, London, England - TICKETS
• 7th June 2023 - The O2, London, England - TICKETS
• 10th June 2023 - AO Arena, Manchester, England - TICKETS

Please note that the originally revealed pair of shows at the Tauron Arena, Krakow, Poland on 21st and 22nd April are reported to have now been cancelled, although Roger has taken issue with this. Having said that, both shows have now been removed from Roger's website, and the ticketing site.

As we get further dates we will update this page - and once the entries above turn into links, our dedicated page for the show will be live, with ticket dates and links!

Ahead of the Saucerful Of Secrets North American Echoes Tour opener in Boston this coming Thursday, there's an interesting and wide ranging new interview, running at almost half an hour that Nick Mason has just undertaken for the Mistress Carrie Podcast. It's available on MistressCarrie.com where there are multiple options for those of you with different podcast providers. You can also listen to it directly there, and for ease, here's the Spotify version:

In a new interview with Consequence Of Sound, Nick Mason revealed he kept out of the arguments over the sleeve notes for the upcoming release of the incredible 2018 remix of Pink Floyd's Animals. The remix (including surround versions) is out this Friday on LP, CD, Blu-ray and Super Audio CD (SACD), with a deluxe edition gathering together the first of those three, with a DVD containing the same material as the Blu-ray, all in a well-designed gatefold cover, following on October 7th.

Nick said: "David and Roger had a major disagreement about the liner notes, and like all great world wars no one can quite remember what it was about now and what the problem was. But there was a lot of to-ing and fro-ing and eventually some sort of resolution was reached. I managed to stay well out of it." Adding to the delay in the release was Covid and Brexit.

Nick also praised the new cover designs (there's two different ones, with the main, dusk image joined by a darker, night-time shot for the Blu-ray cover) with the return to Battersea: "I think its terrific, and it's a continuation of an idea we've had before, which is sort of updating something that has existed — including the 1971 Relics compilation and last year's reissue of 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason".

You can read the full article here.

For those yet to order their copy, we really would urge you to consider this release, as it sounds superb - a really great job has been done by James Guthrie! Full format details are here but we suspect many will go for the deluxe set which has everything other than the SACD. Here are the direct links available to place your orders (which help us with Brain Damage's ongoing running costs, without costing anything further to you!). Amazon purchases before release will take advantage of their pre-order price guarantee, where you will automatically pay the lowest price offered between when you bought the item, and release. With regard to the SACD, this only seems to be available from a couple of retailers.