Pink Floyd talk new album + live plans

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has opened up about the 'old-fashioned' sound of their upcoming album The Endless River - just don't expect the band to be playing it live any time soon. 

"The idea was that we were going to make Division Bell into a double album, half of it songs and half of it ambient - this is based on some of that ambient material with a lot of other things added in. In some ways it's old Pink Floyd, rather than new Pink Floyd. It's not groundbreaking, but it different, I suppose."

So could it be described as a 'sister album' to Division Bell?

"Yes, but you wouldn't recognise it as such," he said. "The content, the way is put together and in many ways the way that it's played, is very much a band playing together in the studio. It's very old-fashioned."

Asked if the organic and old-school nature of the album would make it easier to play live, Mason revealed doubts - adding that it seems unlikely that they'll tour the record. 

"It would be fun to play live, but it doesn't actually lend itself to a proper tour," he said. "It's something that you could play in UFO Club in 1967, it certainly isn't a stadium sort of event, and without Rick it's probably impossible. It's impossible to play, because the nature of it is that a lot of it is designed there and then - if one played it again, you wouldn't want to repeat what was one the record. It's not something where you learn it and play it. 

When probed on if there were any hopes or ambitions to tour the album at all, Mason added: "I don't think so."