16 February 1967 The Guildhall, Southampton, England
The promoter would have cancel the show due to the drug-related reputation about the band. It seems it was only a rumor. The cancellation would only be due to planning problems
29 March 1967 The Ballroom of Eel Pie Island Hotel, Twickenham, England
The concert was eventually cancelled when the management choose to participate at « The Top of the Pops » TV show.
David Gilmour:
«There were jolly moments. Two or three of us in a row including Syd, doing a jig in a dressing room before going on stage»
Nick Mason:
«I always maintain that we looked after Syd very, very badly, but we didn’t know any better. We didn’t recognise what was going on. because we were all so focused on wanting the band to be a success. He really should haw retired three, four, six months carter. We should haw wabed what was happening and gone our separate ways. But we didn't because we thought we needed him. and we didn't know enough about what was going on»
« Dark globe», Uncut, May 2020
David Gilmour:
«It was tragic, really. There were five gigs we did together. We've got a bit of film of Syd in a dressing room somewhere at one of those gigs, and he dances this little jig, a little dance, and he's all smiling and laughing. But you look at him and go: 'Oh God, no, tragic.' Poor chap. I can't remember much about it. I was brand new and I think they knew I'd be taking over»
«David Gilmour interview: the past, the present, and the future of Pink Floyd», Classic Rock, 12 August 2015.
14 April 1967 Club a’gogo, London, England
The show has been rescheduled on May, the same year. It seems that the time freed up was used for the famous photo shoot at the Ruskin Park by Colin Prime just before leaving for Brighton
22 April 1967 Sixty Nine Club, Royal York Hotel, Isle of Wight, England
The band finally choose to participate to the « Rugby » festival the same day.
21 May 1967 Regent Ballroom, Brighton, England
30 June 1967 « Bedfork Park Festival », Bedford Park, London, England
The band was planned for the last day as stated on the poster or the programme. The band likely cancelled for a recording session.
10 August 1967 Skyline Ballroom, Hull, England
11 August 1967 « 7th National Jazz&Blues Festival », Royal Windsor Racecourse, Windsor, England
Pink Floyd were replaced by The Nice as Floyd had to cancel since Syd Barrett encounters some troubles.
« The National Jazz Federation had the problems of groups that didn’t turn up at all like The Pink Floyd (…) Chants of « We want The Pink Floyd » didn’t help, because the group’s lead singer Syd Barrett was ill and the group couldn’t appear »
«I've got those Seventh National Jazz and Blues Festival blues», Melody Maker, 19 August 1967
«The Pink Floyd had to pull out of the show because their leader, Syd Barrett, alias « Vegetable Man », was suffering from a nervous breakdown. And one evening of the Floyd’s delightful mediocrity in concert is enough to make anyone nervous»
« Not so much a festival, More of a pop-in», Go-Set, 8 September 1967
Nick Mason:
«Syd had been up for Games for May, but later in the summer we had to pull out of a number of gigs, including the Blues and Jazz estival at Windsor, because of Syd. So Roger and Syd went to Formentera with the idea that it gave Syd the opportunity to recover - which clearly didn't work»
«Dark Globe», Uncut magazine, May 2020
12 August 1967 «7th NJF Festival», Royal Windsor Racecourse, Windsor, England
20 August 1967 Pavilion Ballroom, Hastings Pier, England
First of the gigs who were cancelled at the end of this month due to the Sud’s erratic behaviour. 5 months later day-by-day, the band will go to this club to play the last 5-members gig (and the last Syd Barrett concert with the band).
1st September 1967 « UFO Festival », Paignton, England
8 September 1967 Following the legal problems encountered by the Rolling Stones due to their drug use, a charity concert event is planned. Scheduled on September 8, with the Floyd taking part among others. It was eventually cancelled.
30 October 1967 « KPFA Benefit », Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, USA
23&24 October 1967 Whisky A Go Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA
26-28 October 1967 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, USA
These October 1967 Fillmore show was cancelled and re-scheduled for November because the US Immigration authorities delayed the issue of their work permits.
« Next big English sound to come across with their sound is the Pink Floyd. San Francisco’s Fillmore auditorium greets them on Oct. 26 »
« Tomorrow’s sounds: take your pick », Dayton Daily News, 17 October 1967
Andrew King:
«We missed the first Fillmore West gig„ as they had no visas. Bill (Graham) rang the US ambassador In London at about 0am, got him out of bed and screamed at him to get the visas sorted. "They came through and the band arrived. But they were totally dysfunctional from the start»
«Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett», Mojo, Septembre 2006
31 October 1967 Pacific West High School, San Jose, USA
22 February 1968 Rijschool, Leuven, Belgium
The Floyd came to Belgium and precisely to Leuven when the country was going through a social crisis linked to the French-speaking presence in the city. On 5 November 1967 30,000 people marched through the streets of Antwerp to demand the departure of the French-speaking students from Leuven. By mimicry, Flemish nationalist students from Leuven regularly marched in the streets of the city, chanting anti-French slogans, including the famous 'Walen buiten'. French-speakers responded by organising counter-demonstrations.
It was in this atmosphere of tension between Dutch and French-speaking students that the Floyd played their concert. A general brawl broke out between the two groups of students, making it impossible to arrest the group.
Alan Escombe (the Shake Spears):
«We had just finished playing, and Pink Floyd equipment was being set up on the other stage (there were two stages in the hall), when the fighting started. It was really frightening as tables which were metal were thrown from upstairs on the balcony down onto the crowd below. Glasses - everything was being thrown. We locked ourselves in the dressing room behind the stage with the band Pink Floyd, and their roadies until the police came and told us it was safe to come out. I will never forget that night. We managed to get out and load our van and leave before all the people came out of the hall - and the police were keeping them away from us. We saw their roadies in Brussels the next day, and they told us that when the band had already left, the police went also so that when they came out there were guys waiting for them. They had to fight to get their equipment in their van.
When they drove out of the town they all picked up cobble stones (the big stones that were what the roads were made of in the country - I don't know what you call these in French), and then they drove back into town and threw them through the big shop windows. A lot of damage »
« L’odyssée de Pink Floyd en Belgique », Mémoire 60-70 Website
« We remember one particularly hairy gig. the worst run-in of our career, actually. We were playing in Belgium. Nick Mason turns to the others, “Remember that?” They shudder. “It seems Belgium itself is divided. Flemish on one side, and French on the other. The Flemish are fond of swigging beer and singing all these old drinking songs. That's fine, except that most of the audience was French. Even the seating was divided. Ail the Flemish on one side of the room, the French on the other. Well, they really got into one of their songs and the French kids started yelling and stamping for Pink Floyd. All of a sudden, as if on cue, ALL the Flemish side hurled their beer glasses across the room. It was a beautiful sight, actually. Everything was quiet for a moment while the glasses were in the air. I thought it was some sort of Flemish ritual until I heard the screams when the glasses started landing. Even we decided not to stay around to hear Pink Floyd »
« Pink Floyd tell their troubles », Circus, February 1972
25 February 1968 t'Smurf, De Engh, Bussum, The Netherlands
Many venues were considered as the Jongerencentrum Spola at Amersfoort or the Daddle Doofy club at Groningen but were shelved for financial or practical reasons.
2 March 1968 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England
9 March 1968 Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, England
15 March 1968 Royal Albert Hall, London, England
16 March 1968 Town Hall, Birmingham, England
24 March 1968 11th Deutsches Frankfurt Jazz Festival, Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt, West Germany
25 March 1968 Zurich, Switzerland
31 March 1968 Daddle Doofy, Concertzaal De Jong, Groningen, The Netherlands
4 May 1968 Theatre 140, Bruxelles, Belgique
«Trois concerts avaient été prévus par Jo Dekmine. Le groupe de Pink Floyd n'ayant pu arriver à temps à Bruxelles, la représentation de samedi soir a dû être supprimée. Nous ne croyons pas que le public bruxellois doive regretter outra mesure cette défection»
«Au théâtre 140», La dernière Heure, 7 May 1968
24 May 1968 The Punchbowl Hotel, Lapworth, Birmingham, England
31 May 1968 Lijn 3, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1 June 1968 De Kentering, Rosmalen, The Netherlands
15 June 1968 Magic Village, Manchester, England
The Floyd was present to the festival but eventually not played for unknown reasons. The management sued the promoter following this incident (see the document below).
1st September 1968 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1 September 1968 «Oakland Pop Festival», Baldwin Pavilion of Oakland University, Oackland, USA
1 September 1968 « Sky River Rock Festival », Washington, USA
8 September 1968 Châtelet Teenage Festival, Gemeentepark, Châtelet, Belgium
14 September 1968 « First Fug Festivity », Westerkerk, Leeuwarden, The Netherland
28 September 1968 « The International Essener Song Tage », Gruga Halle, Essen, Germany
4 October 1968 Orford Club, Norwich, England
19 October 1968 Salford University, Salford, Manchester, England
1 November 1968 « The Sound Of Colours », Highbury Technical College, Portsmouth, England
1st November 1968 Fillmore East, Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA
2 November 1968 Fillmore East, Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA
8 November 1968 Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA, USA
9 November 1968 Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA, USA
11 January 1969 « Kink Pop Festival », Dordrecht, The Netherlands
17 January 1969 Brunel University (Uxbridge) Rag Week Ball, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, London, England
7 February 1969 University of Hull, Hull, England
24 April 1969 Star Club, Hamburg, West Germany
17 May 1969 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18 May 1969 Concertzaal de Jong, Groningen, The Netherlands
6 June 1969 Concertzaal de Jong, Groningen, The Netherlands
7 June 1969 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
8 June 1969 Meerpal, Dronten, The Netherlands
11 July 1969 « Popmanifestatie », Veilinggebouw, Groningen, The Netherlands
8 November 1969 Refectory Hall, University Union, Leeds University, Leeds, England
20 November 1969 Circus Krone, Munich, West Germany
21 November 1969 Messehalle, Nürnburg, West Germany
22 November 1969 Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt, West Germany
23 November 1969 Friedrich-Ebert Halle, Hamburg, West Germany
24 November 1969 Messe & Kongresshalle 8, Cologne, West Germany
25 November 1969 Stadthalle, Bremen, West Germany
23 May 1970 State Fair Music Hall, Dallas, Texas, USA
30 May 1970 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, USA
1st August 1970 «Le festival de musique progressive», Parc de Saint Pons, Aix-en-Provence, France
« Aix-en-Provence. On attendait cent mille personnes au domaine de Saint-Pons, où s'est tenu - sous le nom de " concerts prolongés " - le premier véritable festival de musique pop' sur le territoire français, malgré l'interdiction prononcée par le maire d'Aix. Concerts " prolongés ", mais raccourcis en définitive : commencés samedi soir, ils s'achevaient ce lundi vers 5 heures du matin. Vedette annoncée, le Flock (sic) n'est pas venu, mais ce n'est pas le seul absent à ce rendez-vous de la pop'music: le public a lui aussi fait faux bond »
«Aix-en-Provence: la pop' music a manqué son entrée en France», Le Monde, 4 August 1970
Rick Wright:
«We have had a lot of trouble with festivals crowds in France, where we were supposed to play at Aix-en-Provence, ant the reason these riots develop is that a lot of people believe they should get in for nothing. There is nothing wrong in that - it is good, but only if they can offer a way of paying for the groups We say, it you want to come in for nothing, you should pass around the hats, because we need the money to live. We cannot afford to play for free all the time »
« The Floyd on rock today », Melody Maker, 26 September 1970
5 August 1970 « Popanalia Festival », Biot, France
Planned to last 36 hours, the event was abandoned soon after it started. Unfortunately, the organizers only managed to get payment out of 4,000 spectators. The other 30,000 just crashed the site. As a result, there was not enough money to pay the artists. The only acts that actually got to play were Joan Baez, Country Joe and Rare Bird. When Soft Machine were told they wouldn't receive their contracted fee, they refused to perform. When the crowd was told about the situation, some radical revolutionaries, called Les Companions de la Route, burned the stage and destroyed the equipment in protest. The result was that the event was cancelled. It was subsequently dubbed by the French as « Festival Maudit de Biot » (The cursed festival of Biot)
« En ce 5 août 1970, une petite année après Woodstock, Biot se réveille aux couleurs hippies. Une scène géante est installée dans le quartier de l'Eganaude à l'emplacement des bâtiments actuels de la société Amadeus. Le terrain a été loué par Jean Karakos, un homme d'affaire qui estime que l'organisation d'un concert rock en France peut être rentable. Ce festival doit durer deux jours dans des conditions «woodstockiennes» : ni point d'eau, ni toilettes et une piste poussiéreuse en guise d'accès. « Nous étions un groupe de Biotois bénévoles pour aider ce Festival à se monter. Aucune autre commune n'en avait voulu », se souvient Michel Coulet retraité et consultant en sécurité. Pour ce Biotois, Popanalia a été un échec retentissant. « C'était un raté considérable pour l'organisateur. Les stars étaient là, mais le public ne voulait pas payer. L'organisation s'est laissée débordée. Les gens arrivaient de n'importe où. C'était le bordel. Le concert s'est mal passé, des individus ont coupé le cable du groupe électrogène, et ce fut la panique la plus totale. Il n'y avait plus d'électricité, plus de concert. Les Pink Floyd, comme Eric Clapton sont partis chez Emile De La Tour où ils étaient logés »
« Antibes : « Ce fut un véritable fiasco »», Nice-Matin, 18 février 2010.
«(…) Peut-on parler de festival pop' pour la nuit Popanalia de Biot, mercredi 5 ? L'affiche est de premier ordre : J. Baez, Pink Floyd, E. Clapton, mais les conditions posées aux organisateurs sont strictes : aménagement de voies d'accès, installations sanitaires, prise en charge d'un service d'ordre de deux cents gendarmes et C.R.S., et d'un service de sécurité composé d'une dizaine de camions-citernes et d'une cinquantaine de sapeurs-pompiers. M. Jean Georgakarakos, qui réussit la gageure d'organiser la manifestation pop' d'Amougies, parviendra-t-il à faire la preuve que la France est un pays où cette musique a droit de cité ailleurs que dans les boites à musique et les salles de music-hall ?»
«Le festival pop' de l'île de Wight aura lieu à la fin du mois», Le Monde, 5 August 1970
«(…) Il y avait pourtant à Biot l'amphithéâtre naturel perdu au milieu des bois, parmi les senteurs de thym et de sauge, il y avait l'enthousiasme et la générosité de Jean Georgakarakos qui, avec le soutien de Radio-Télé-Luxembourg paraissait le seul en France à pouvoir organiser - après celui d'Amougies - un festival de pop' music sans que l'odeur du commerce asphyxie la fête, la passion de Georgio Gomelski qui avait constitué une affiche hors du commun avec Joan Baez, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd et de nombreux groupes de pop' music, de folk et de free jazz, enfin, la rare qualité des " light shows ", c'est-à-dire des projections sur écran se mélangeant harmonieusement avec la musique»
«Les festivals de pop'music pourront-ils connaître le succès en France ?», Le Monde, 8 August 1970
« En ce 5 août 1970, une petite année après Woodstock, Biot se réveille aux couleurs hippies. Une scène géante est installée dans le quartier de l'Eganaude à l'emplacement des bâtiments actuels de la société Amadeus. Le terrain a été loué par Jean Karakos, un homme d'affaire qui estime que l'organisation d'un concert rock en France peut être rentable. Ce festival doit durer deux jours dans des conditions «woodstockiennes» : ni point d'eau, ni toilettes et une piste poussiéreuse en guise d'accès. « Nous étions un groupe de Biotois bénévoles pour aider ce Festival à se monter. Aucune autre commune n'en avait voulu », se souvient Michel Coulet retraité et consultant en sécurité. Pour ce Biotois, Popanalia a été un échec retentissant. « C'était un raté considérable pour l'organisateur. Les stars étaient là, mais le public ne voulait pas payer. L'organisation s'est laissée débordée. Les gens arrivaient de n'importe où. C'était le bordel. Le concert s'est mal passé, des individus ont coupé le cable du groupe électrogène, et ce fut la panique la plus totale. Il n'y avait plus d'électricité, plus de concert. Les Pink Floyd, comme Eric Clapton sont partis chez Emile De La Tour où ils étaient logés »
« Antibes : « Ce fut un véritable fiasco »», Nice-Matin, 18 février 2010.
8 August 1970 Fete de Saint Raphael, Les Arènes, St. Raphael, France
29 August 1970 Thingstatte Amphitheatre, Heidelberg, West Germany
15 AUgust 1970 Yorkshire Folk, Blues & Jazz Festival, Krumlin, Barkisland, Halifax, England
June 1971 « Canterbury Festival », The band was announced as the headwall with the Faces, T. Rex, King Crimson and Fairport Convention. The festival would has been cancelled as it would have clashed with another festival at Weeleyin Essex. The Floyd chose to take part of the Roma Festival instead.
Promoter: « If we continued with our event we'd damage Weeley's chances of raising money. So we're cancelling it completely and we'll have to think again about when to hold it."»
« Canterbury Festival Cancelled », Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, 13 June 1971
12 June 1971 « Cambridge Free Festival », Coldham’s Common, Camb
« Organisers of the two-day Cambridge Pop Festival are hoping to attract up to 5,000 people this weekend, by making it a family event. About 30 groups and singers are playing at the free festival on Coldham’s Common. The promoters has hoped to book Pink Floyd to play, but didn’t manage it. No matter, other big names and not so big names, have been booked »
« Pop », Cambridge Daily News, 9 June 1971
Articles seen in the « Daily Mirror ». April, 5th (left) and April 12th (right)
Sounds, 5 April 1980.
26 July 1980 « Milton Keynes festival », Milton Keynes
« Les Pink Floyd prévoient un grand concert en plein air cet été au Milton Keynes Bowl, une ancienne carrière transformée en vaste amphithéâtre et susceptible d'accueillir un certain nombre d'événements rock cette année. On ne sait pas encore si le groupe y jouera en plus de ses concerts prévus à Wembley ou à la place de ceux-ci
« Will Pink Floyd’s wall be built » Record Mirror, 5 April 1980
« Pink Floyd have switched the venue for their summer concerts in Britain from Wembley Arena to Earls Court, plus large open air show. They are also considering appearing at the massive super bowl, open air arena near Milton-Keynes »
« Floyd move Wall », Melody Maker, 29 March 1980
11 November 1987 Hoosier Dome, Indianapolis, IN, USA
