Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason talks V&A exhibition

By Scott Munro
( Prog )
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Nick Mason says he excited about Pink Floyd’s upcoming exhibition at the V&A - as giant inflatable teacher from The Wall is delivered to venue

Pink Floyd's giant inflatable teacher arrives at the V&A
Pink Floyd's giant inflatable teacher arrives at the V&A

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has spoken about the band’s upcoming exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The retrospective on the band’s career will be held at the London venue between May 13 and October 1 and is the result of a collaboration between the museum and Michael Cohl’s Iconic Entertainment Studios.

Mason says: “Museum exhibitions are actually the new thing – everyone’s done the west end musical… well, apart from us.

“The groundbreaker was the David Bowie exhibition – and hopefully being able to take that on a bit further.

“For our exhibition we’re looking at developments, particularly in audio but now also in visual – things that we might be able to do and that’s really exciting.”

As for collecting personal items to be included in the exhibition, Mason adds: “It was never any sense of curating my stuff – it was just the things that were hanging around at the right moment to spirit them away.”

In addition, a photograph of the giant inflatable teacher from The Wall being delivered to the museum has been released. View it below.

The exhibition has been organised to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s debut album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and is described as an “immersive, multi-sensory and theatrical journey” and will explore the music, visuals and staging used by the band throughout their career.

Tickets are available directly through the V&A website.

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Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.