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Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason Shares New 2022 North American Tour Dates

Nick Mason performing with Saucerful of Secrets in 2018 (Photo: Jill Furmanovsky; used with permission)

Pink Floyd co-founder and drummer Nick Mason has announced the rescheduled dates of his North American tour with his band, Saucerful of Secrets. The dates, now scheduled for the fall, had been planned to begin in mid-January but were postponed citing “uncertainty surrounding the Covid pandemic.” The North American tour, with the band performing early Floyd classics, now begins on Sept. 22 following an extensive tour of the U.K. and Europe this spring and summer. (The U.K. shows had been delayed for a third time due to the uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.)

Eight dates have been added to the North American run, though the re-routing required that concerts in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Memphis, KC, Sacramento and Spokane needed to be canceled. See the full itinerary below. Tickets for the concerts are available here .

“We are really looking forward to returning to North America and we’re happy to be able to now announce these new dates for later this year,” said Nick Mason in the March 21 announcement. “We wanted to make sure to come back when it’s safe for our fans, the band, and our crew.”

Mason released a live album in autumn 2020, recorded in London. The 22-track collection, titled Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets Live at the Roundhouse , is available in a variety of formats. The concerts on the recordings took place in May 2019.

Watch them perform “Fearless” from the album

Related: Our review of  Live at the Roundhouse

As Mason noted when he first formed the combo, “With the help of some like-minded friends, I have embarked on a voyage of discovery of the music that was the launch pad of Pink Floyd and my working life. It seems too early to retire, and I missed the interaction with other musicians.”

He is the only constant member of Pink Floyd, performing on all of their albums as well as all of their live shows.

Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets are Mason, Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp, longtime Pink Floyd touring bassist Guy Pratt, guitarist Lee Harris and keyboardist Dom Beken.

The group played their first gigs at four intimate live shows at London’s Dingwalls and The Half Moon in Putney in May 2018. These were Mason’s first live musical outings since Pink Floyd’s Division Bell tour in 1994, and the show at Dingwalls was his first since Pink Floyd played at the 2005 Live 8 concert in London.

The band went on to sell-out theaters around the world including three nights at London’s Roundhouse, where Pink Floyd played some of their most revered early shows in the 1960’s.

In April 2019, Mason’s longtime bandmate, Roger Waters, joined him on stage.

Watch the trailer for the album, in which Mason explains the venue’s importance in Floyd’s history

The 2022 tour will see the band further expand their repertoire and will play songs from Pink Floyd’s early catalog up to the 1972 album Obscured by Clouds .

Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets 2022 Tour (Tickets are available here  and here )

Ireland, U.K. Dates Apr 13 – Dublin – Convention Centre Apr 14 – Belfast – Ulster Hall Apr 16 – York – York Barbican Apr 18 – Liverpool – Liverpool Philharmonic Apr 19 – Oxford – Oxford New Theatre Apr 20 – Guildford – G Live Apr 22 – Birmingham – Symphony Hall Apr 23 – London – Royal Albert Hall Apr 24 – Ipswich – Ipswich Regent Apr 26 – Brighton – Brighton Dome Apr 27 – Cardiff – St. David’s Hall Apr 28 – Nottingham – Royal Concert Hall Apr 30 – Sheffield – City Hall May 01 – Leicester – De Montfort Hall May 03 – Newcastle – O2 City Hall May 04 – Edinburgh – Usher Hall May 06 – Manchester – O2 Apollo May 07 – Bath – Bath Forum May 08 – Plymouth – Plymouth Pavilions May 10 – Portsmouth – Guildhall May 11 – Croydon – Fairfield Halls

European Dates May 14 – Randers, Denmark – Vaerket May 16 – Copenhagen, Denmark – The Royal Theatre May 17 – Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene May 19 – Helsinki, Finland – House of Culture May 21 – Tallinn, Estonia – Alehela Hall May 23 – St. Petersburg, Russia – BKZ Ohtyabrsky May 25 – Moscow, Russia – Kremlin May 28 – Lodz, Poland – Klub Wytwornia May 30 – Budapest, Hungary – Budapest Park May 31 – Zagreb, Croatia- Hall 9 @ Zagreb Trade Fair Jun 01 – Belgrade, Serbia – Belexpo Centar Jun 06 – Istanbul, Turkey – VU Arena Jun 08 – Sofia, Bulgaria – National Palace of Culture Jun 09 – Bucharest, Romania – Arenele Romane Jun 11 – Vienna, Austria – Gasometer Jun 12 – Prague, Czech Republic – Forum Jun 13 – Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom Jun 15 – Luxembourg – Den Atelier Jun 16 – Eindhoven, Netherlands – Muziekgebouw Jun 17 – Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royale Jun 19 – Nuremberg, Germany – Meistersinger Halle Jun 20 – Frankfurt, Germany – Jahrunderhalle Jun 22 – Paris, France – Grand Rex Jun 24 – Lucerne, Switzerland – KKL Jun 25 – Lucca, Italy – Lucca Summer Festival Jun 26 – Turin, Italy – Stupinigi Sonic Park Jun 28 – Geneva, Switzerland – Theatre de Leman Jun 30 – Stuttgart, Germany – Leiderhalle Beethoven-Saal Jul 01 – Hamburg, Germany – Laeiszhalle Jul 02 – Bad Honnef, Germany – Insel Grafenwerth Jul 04 – Munich, Germany – Circus Krone Jul 05 – Leipzig, Germany – Haus-Avensee Jul 06 – Munster, Germany – Halle Munsterland Jul 09 – Barcelona, Spain – Barts Jul 10 – Madrid, Spain – Vistalegre Arena Jul 12 – Porto, Portugal – Super Bock Arena Jul 13 – Lisbon, Portugal – Campo Pequeno

North American Dates Sep 22 – Boston, MA – Shubert Theatre Sep 23 – Philadelphia, PA – Merriam Theater Sep 25 – Providence, RI – Providence PAC Sep 26 – Port Chester, NY – Capitol Theatre Sep 27 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theatre Sep 29 – Akron, OH – Akron Civic Theatre Sep 30 – Pittsburgh, PA – Benedum Center Oct 01 – Columbus, OH – The Palace* Oct 03 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre Oct 04 – Minneapolis, MN – State Theatre* Oct 05 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater Oct 07 – Detroit, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre* Oct 08 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall Oct 09 – Buffalo, NY – Shea’s PAC* Oct 11 – Montreal, QC – Théâtre Saint-Denis 1 Oct 12 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre Oct 14 – Indianapolis, IN – Clowes Hall* Oct 16 – Tulsa, OK – Tulsa Theatre* Oct 17 – Grand Prairie, TX – Texas Trust CI Theatre Oct 18 – Austin, TX – Bass Concert Hall* Oct 20 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre Oct 22 – Phoenix, AZ – Orpheum Theatre Oct 24 – San Diego, CA – Balboa Theatre Oct 25 – Los Angeles, CA – Orpheum Theatre Oct 26 – Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theatre* Oct 28 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater Oct 31 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre Nov 01 – Vancouver, BC – The Orpheum

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Saucerful Of Secrets’ Gary Kemp: “Playing with Nick Mason and Roger Waters was utterly intimidating”

Gary Kemp on sharing a stage with Pink Floyd members, Spandau Ballet’s secret prog past and the chances of brand new Saucerful Of Secrets songs

It’s a brave band that takes on Pink Floyd ’s back catalogue, even if they feature a member of Pink Floyd themselves. But Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets , the group formed in 2018 by Floyd’s founding drummer and longest-serving member, played it smart. Their live shows have found themselves forgoing the obvious big hitters to focus exclusively on deep cuts from Floyd’s early, pre- Dark Side Of The Moon catalogue, leaning heavily on the Syd Barrett era. That means See Emily Play , Interstellar Overdrive , The Nile Song and Fearless rather than Comfortably Numb , Money and Another Brick In The Wall . “All the stuff David Gilmour and Roger Waters don’t play,” says Saucerful Of Secrets singer and guitarist Gary Kemp.

Kemp is the wild card in the SOS frontline. Where bassist/co-vocalist Guy Pratt, guitarist Lee Harris and keyboard player Dom Beken all have direct or indirect links to Floyd, Kemp is best known as a member of New Romantic dandies Spandau Ballet. But as anyone who saw the band’s shows in 2018 and 2019 – or has listened to the subsequent Live At The Roundhouse album, recorded at the eponymous North London venue - can vouch, he’s a key factor in helping make Saucerful Of Secrets more than a Pink Floyd tribute band who just happen to feature Pink Floyd’s drummer in their line-up. “Yes, we are playing those old songs,” says Kemp, “but we play them with a youthful energy, despite the age we all add up to. I think there's a sense of fun and fury about what we do.”

Planned Saucerful Of Secrets dates in spring 2020 were, inevitably postponed, with the shows now taking place in early 2022 . It’s tantalisingly named The Echoes Tour, which suggests they’ll be bringing the epic track that makes up side two of Meddle into the set. “It’s not as daunting as you think, but you’ve still got to get it right,” says Kemp. “I’m just lucky that’ll I’ll be up there playing it with Nick.”

Saucerful Of Secrets’ very first gig was at the Dingwalls club in London in May 2018. What do you remember about that show?

There was a lot to think about. You’re just trying to hold on to the parts of the song in your head. But what I remember most is the look on people’s faces. They were jammed together, amazed that they were hearing Nick play this, with a small band, in a small club. There we were, making these psychedelic noises, and you could see the glee on people’s faces.

A mate of mine who used to go to [legendary late 60s London hangout] the UFO Club was there. I spoke to him afterwards, and he said he just closed his eyes and he was back there. I like to think we probably played the songs better than they were played originally [laughs].

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True. But we started with Interstellar Overdrive which, apart from the big riffs, is a really broken-down, atonal, freeform track. I think we were immediately saying to our audience, “This is the heart of where we’re going, this is very different to what David and Roger have been doing for the last 20 years.”

Were you nervous about touching the back catalogue of a band who are so sacred to so many people?

You’ve got to have faith in yourself. Everyone’s nervous, but if you haven’t got the balls, you’re never going to get on. I compare it to when it got announced that I was going to be playing Ronnie Kray [in the 1990 movie The Krays ], and there was so much shit in the press: “How can this bloke from Spandau Ballet play Ronnie Kray?” I knew I could deal with that one and I knew I could deal with this one too.

But, yeah, there’s always gonna be trepidation, and probably most of all for Nick. He had more to lose than anybody, because his reputation was so strong and powerful: was this band going to live up to that? But I think having him in the band has really given it validation to the Floyd freaks. And it’s the Floyd rhythm section from two big tours, so I think that helped as well.

What’s Nick like? Is he the one pulling the strings?

Nick is very open to ideas. We were all experimenting. When we first got into rehearsals, I'd never sat and made those kinds of noises with my guitar before, the kind of atonal stuff we were really coming up with, and Nick was really willing to go with it. It must have taken him back to those early days when Syd and Roger were just fucking around with guitar loops.

The best thing about this band are the gags. There’s a competition for who can crack the most jokes. And that carries onto stage, which I think is a revelation for Floyd fans. If you go and see any Floyd tribute act, or watch them on YouTube, there’s an utter po-facedness to what they do. That seriousness has become the image of Floyd forever. We wanted a sense of fun, a sense of dynamics. Funnily enough, Roger moves around a lot on stage now - he’s quite theatrical.

On the live album, you drop a cheeky little line from the Sex Pistols’ Holidays In The Sun into The Nile Song …

As a band, we’ve had music filtered down to us through so many layers of reverence for other acts. We are the sum of many parts, of many genres, and that naturally comes out in your work. We’ve never gone, “We are trying to emulate the source, and get this exactly like the record.” We don't need to be because we're not a tribute act; we have Nick in the band, so we can push it in any direction as long as that's OK with him.

At another point on the album, you shout, “You’re my guitar hero”, which is a nod to The Clash. Is there a connection between Syd-era Floyd and punk, in terms of the way both were doing things their own way and nobody else’s?

I think there’s a through-line from Syd to Bowie to punk, even though there were very few ‘punk’-type songs. But Syd definitely had that moody, punk energy about him - very London. And that spreads through all the stuff I love, personally. When I do See Emily Play , there’s a bit of [Bowie guitarist] Mick Ronson in there.

So what era Floyd is your era?

My first introduction to Floyd was definitely Dark Side , but the first time I ever got introduced to Syd was when I heard Bowie do See Emily Play on Pinups . I can look back and admire the whole canon, but for me what they were doing with Syd early on was really pushing the envelope so much.

My fantasy would be to walk back into the UFO club, and not just to see the band playing on stage, but to feel the youth culture that was burgeoning there. That was a great tribe to belong to, and Floyd were at the head of that; they were the house band. So, really, in my heart, that’s my era.

When you and Spandau Ballet were hanging out with the New Romantics down at the Blitz club, were you allowed to admit that you liked Pink Floyd?  

[Laughs] No, it definitely wasn't. Any band, when they become huge, people are going to be contrary about them, but without any doubt, we were all listening to them secretly.

But the era that we’re dealing with, the Syd era, has always been hip. The first thing I ever played in my life with a band was Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun . It was in [boho publisher/author] Jay Landesman’s countercultural house in Islington. We were down in the basement, jamming this song with [actor] Phil Daniels and a couple of other guys. It went on for hours and hours.

When we did the second Spandau Ballet album [1982’s Diamond ], we didn’t know what we were going with it – on one side of it was [hit single] Chant: No.1 , but the other side was us totally trying to make a Floyd record, with soundscapes and the rest of it. We didn’t know if we were going to go prog or not. [Laughs] Obviously things turned out very differently.

But Syd has never been anything but an icon in the world of fashion and art. He was forever hip. I think Roger was right to hang on to him as an icon within the band as a kind of invisible fifth member, and to write albums and tracks about him. That was a very clever thing to do, even though it was done for emotional reasons.

Speaking of Roger, he joined Saucerful Of Secrets onstage in New York to play Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun . What was it like being up there with two members of Pink Floyd?

One of the highlights of my musical career, but also utterly intimidating. [Laughs] I didn’t want him to look me in the eye. Me and Guy are musical control freaks, and it was a little bit out of control. We hadn’t soundchecked, which worried me a little. But Roger’s such a pro, plus it’s a song you can elongate – it’s not, like, “Oh, we’ve got to go to the bridge.”

But yeah, it was a great moment, because him and Nick were there right at the beginning. They have those memories of going to America the first time with Syd, and what that must have been like - a bunch of kids experimenting and trying to sell something that was bigger than the band, this youth movement. So there was a massive smile on my face. Obviously, it isn’t very Floyd to smile onstage, is it?

So have you tried to get David Gilmour to join you onstage?

[Laughs] We’d be more than happy. Obviously, Guy knows him. But we don’t need to ask him. If he wants to, I’m sure he’d ask us.

Do ever think, “I fancy having a crack at Money or Comfortably Numb ”?

All the solos that I do, or Lee [Harris, co-guitarist] does, are made up by us. They’re not copying anything Syd or David did before. In fact there are solos where there weren’t solos before - I do a solo at the end of A Saucerful Of Secrets , which wasn’t even there on the record

With songs like Comfortably Numb , the solos get purple, which is a phrase people use in the theatre for lines like, “To be or not to be”, which everybody knows and people can’t bear to hear it any other way. Everybody knows every lick in those songs, so if we played them it would just turn us into a bunch of session players, which we’re not. So we’ve tried to avoid that.

Also, they were a much bigger band when they started doing those songs, in terms of the number of people onstage. They were going out with double keyboard players and three backing singers and lots of saxophones. There are only five of us, and we want to keep the kind of sound we have.

The flipside of that is, could you imagine writing new material with this line-up?

I've mentioned it to Nick, and it is something I'd be ready to talk about, but it’s really got to come from him. If David writes a song, or Roger writes a song, it's different because they're going get up and sing it, but with us, it would need to be something where Nick would be heavily involved. But I'm not closing any doors on it.

Saucerful Of Secrets’ Live At The Roundhouse is out now. Gary Kemp’s new solo album, Insolo, is out on June 25.

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Martin Kemp and Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet look back: ‘We were stern young men who wanted to take over the world’

The bassist and saxophonist recreate an old photo and look back at a mortifying incident in a German sauna

Pioneers of the New Romantic movement, Spandau Ballet’s career launched in the late 70s within the walls of Blitz, an enigmatic club in Covent Garden known for influencing the sound and style of 80s pop. Formed by London school friends Gary Kemp, Tony Hadley, Steve Norman and John Keeble – and later Gary’s brother and former roadie Martin – Spandau Ballet went on to soundtrack the bombast and excess of the decade, selling 25m albums globally. Known for their bitter breakup – Tony, Steve and John launched an unsuccessful case against Gary for a share of the band’s songwriting royalties – they’ve since reformed but are now on hiatus. Martin has gone on to have a successful television career, while saxophonist Steve and his band, the Sleevz, celebrate the 40th anniversary of Spandau’s debut album with a UK tour later this year.

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This was on the set of the video for To Cut a Long Story Short, our first single. I was 18 at the time and my face is very serious. We were stern young men who wanted to take over the world. But behind that mask we had the best laugh. I always thought of Spandau as five boys who went to Benidorm for 10 years. After this photo was taken, the single went on to sell about 400,000 copies and everything shot like a rocket. Before I joined the band, I used to tag along to some of my brother’s school parties. Steve would be there and I always liked him. He never treated me like I was younger or looked down on me. We became best friends really quickly. When the band went away in the early days, we had no money so I always shared a hotel room with him. There are lots of secrets from those days but sadly nothing that we are allowed to share publicly!

My favourite days were right at the start when we were completely unknown, travelling the world and totally clueless. On our first trip to Germany, Steve said to me: “When we get there, I’m going to take you to a sauna!” At this point in the 80s, all of the saunas were mixed. I was just a teenager at the time, so sitting on the top shelf of a sauna looking down at these naked women, it felt like I’d landed on a different planet! After a while, Steve said: “Come outside, I want to show you something else.” There was this long trough full of pummel stones. He said I should get in it – according to Steve it was great for getting the dead skin off your feet. So there we are, both completely naked, walking up and down this trough, digging our feet into the stones, dead skin flying off, and all of a sudden this German woman bursts out of these double doors and shouts: “What are you doing? You are in my plant pot!” We weren’t even in the sauna any more, we were in the reception. Those memories beat anything like playing in front of 150,000 people in Madrid.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. It’s how you deal with it that’s important. My band dealt with it well for a certain amount of years, but we found it a struggle in the end. I have nothing against anyone in the band – if I saw Tony tomorrow, I would speak to him and love him the same as I do Steve today. If that’s reciprocated, I’m not sure, but I pretty much guarantee if we bumped into each other in a room, we would be laughing and joking within seconds. But what’s made mine and Steve’s friendship last so long is that we’ve never fought. We had a few years, during the court case, where we didn’t speak on the phone. Then there was the period of time in the 90s when I was having treatment for my brain tumour. I have no idea which friends came to visit, Steve might have been there, but all I remember is Shirlie [Holliman, Kemp’s wife]. It’s a big black hole in my head and it turned me from a boy into a man. But whatever has happened in my life, Steve and I still loved each other very much.

Having fun was always core to Spandau, and when I think of Steve, in my head he is laughing. He hasn’t changed an inch. Inside and out. He still fits into that kilt!

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When this was taken, we represented a huge, burgeoning movement. We rocked up at the London Dungeon to shoot the video – it was before they tarted it up and made it into a theme park. It really was quite scary. There was an incongruousness to seeing our look against that kind of decay. We felt like we were smashing our way through the doors into the future.

The first time I met Martin he was 13 – I’d popped over to Gary’s family home, off the Essex Road. They shared a room at the time: Gary had posters of Bowie, and on the other side, Martin had Bruce Lee. I was into both of them. We got on straight away.

Before the band got properly big, both of us spent a lot of time in the arcades playing Space Invaders. We had odd jobs, like handing out magazines at Chancery Lane, but were skint, so we’d drink at home before going out. I had a beer-making kit and a couple of pints of it was like rocket fuel. Or we’d nick a bottle of Martin’s dad’s homemade wine which was lethal.

One time we were drinking that stuff all afternoon, and decided to head off to Exmouth Market. I can’t remember too much; we went to a pub, and there was a stripper. We were meant to be going to Blitz – it was the time when people were popping pills, so I got us some Pro Plus tablets instead. The next thing I know it’s the next day and we’re passed out in a tiny little park in town, being woken up by a homeless guy who’s saying we’re sleeping on his bench.

Martin was a sweetheart back then and still is. To this day he’s never been in a fight in his life. Well, I’ve seen him in one with his brother in the early 80s and it was handbags at dawn. No punching, just flapping. Spandau were always gentlemanly but when it came to bolshiness, we were right at the front, sticking up for each other. We’re coming! Better move! We were mob-handed in that respect. We needed to be, as what we wore was quite shocking – on trains people would stand and stare like we were aliens. The band that fell to Earth. Then, soon enough, Princess Di was wearing frilly collars and it had hit the mainstream.

Even though I never treated him like a younger brother, I always looked after Martin – I still do. He’s a popular man. Since he was in EastEnders, people often approach him when we’re out together, so I tend to step in and say: “No autographs! He’s got to go!” I love it. I’d hate to have the fame he’s got. I’m surprised he can handle it because he is such a shy man.

At the peak of Spandau’s fame, we’d be touring together for the best part of a year. We’d desperately need space from each after we got back home. But back in the day Martin and me had girlfriends who knew each other, so once our bags were unpacked, he’d give me a bell and say: “Steve, do you fancy going for a pint and a curry with the girls?” I’d reply: “I’ll see you in an hour!” I’m never tired of Martin. Never anyone in the band, but least of all him.

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• 2018 Dec 20 Jan 26 2019 London, The Harold Pinter Theatre Celia Imrie, John Simm, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Abraham Popoola, Gary Kemp, Phil Davis …
• Oct 10 2018 London, The Harold Pinter Theatre Tom Hiddleston, Kit Harington, Simon Russell Beale, Jon Snow, Jade Anouka, Kristin Scott Thomas, Frances De La Tour, Felicity Kendal, Indira Varma, Zawe Ashton, Gawn Grainger, Forbes Masson, Sheila Hancock, Lee Evans, David Suchet, Tamsin Greig, Paapa Essiedu, John Simm, Patrick Marber, Russell Tovey, Gary Kemp, Lia Williams …
• May 24 2018 London, Half Moon Putney Nick Mason, Gary Kemp, Guy Pratt, Lee Harris, Dom Beken
• May 23 2018 London, Half Moon Putney Nick Mason, Gary Kemp, Guy Pratt, Lee Harris, Dom Beken
• May 21 2018 London, Half Moon Putney Nick Mason, Gary Kemp, Guy Pratt, Lee Harris, Dom Beken
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Moscow Metro Tour

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Description

Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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