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1968 « Corporal Clegg's Promo »
As for the Jugband Blues' promo the previous year, the Central Office of Information asked the same thing for the Waters' song. We don't know if the band agreed.
12 January 1968 University of Aston, Birmingham, England
In 1985, Andrew King stated to Andy Mabbett and Ivor Trueman that he remembers going to see the first 5-man Floyd gig in Birmingham. He seems to me that there is confusion in King's mind (not very accurate about the history of Floyd) with a real Tony Palmer's footage shot two months later in the sam place ... but for the Who.
Andrew King:
« The big thing was Tony Palmer was going to come to this gig and he was going to make a film or whatever, some …»
« Late Night Fanzine #3», 1998.
13 January 1968 « Saturday Dance Gate», Winters Gardes Pavilion, Weston-Super-Mare, England
Nick Mason has a 8mm film of Syd and the Band cheerfully doing a jokey tap-dace routine together backstage in Weston-Super-Mare. The most wonderful thing is that footage is the only moving document about the short-lived 5-piece formation
Gilmour :
« We've got a bit of film of Syd in a dressing room somewhere at one of these gigs, and he dances this little jig, a little dance, and he's all smiling and laughing. But you just look at him and go: « Oh god, no tragic ... ». Poor chap »
« Pink Floyd Special 50th Anniversary », Classic Rock, September 2015.
7 February 1968 « Mary Hopkins TV Show », ORTF TV, Paris, France
No information on the group's participation, although the tape showing Mary Hopkins' performance is widely available. It seems unlikely that there was a programme devoted to this new artist at the time. The confusion seems to have arisen from an issue of the French rock magazine « Rock & Folk » in December 1968 (issue 23), which carried an article on the two French television appearances by the two artists.
13 February 1968 « German TV Show »
According an issue of «Record Mirror» (10th February), the band have to made an apparition on the German TV. Highly dubious.
Advert from the Belgian TV magazine « Humo »
18 February 1968 Heysel Park, Bruxelles, Belgique
We know many amateurs movies were made by Mason during this year. Some shorts extracts were included in his «Life Could be a Dream» documentary. We can see a very young David Gilmourshowed next a Transit van, while Roger mime a silly Monty Python's Walk and then stable the chest of the drummer who made a laugh Richard Wright.
18 February 1968 « Park Laeken », RTB, Bruxelles, Belgique
Shooting for the programme « Vibrato », broadcast on 27 February. The clip of See Emily Play was rebroadcast in the programme « C’était les 70’s » on Canal+ on 6 July 1992. Extract shown in the programme « Les Pink Floyd en Belgique sur la RTBF » on 28 December 2015. Present on the box set « Pink Floyd - The early years 1965-1972 ».
19 February 1968 « Tienerklanken », RTB Studios, Bruxelles, Belgium Filming for the programme 'Tienerklanken', broadcast on 31 March. It is interesting to hear the playback versions of Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun and Corporal Clegg in this programme as the band brought back with them unfinished mixes of their tracks. Extracts shown in the programme « Les Pink Floyd en Belgique sur la RTBF » on 28 December 2015. Present on the box set « Pink Floyd - The early years 1965-1972 ». Unfortunately, the video has been resynchronised with the album's audio tracks!
20 February 1968 « Bouton Rouge », ORTF TV Studios, Buttes Chaumont, Paris, France
Broadcast on 24 February. The band plays two songs from their old repertoire: Astronomy Dominé and Flaming, followed by two new tracks: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun and Let there be more Light. The show was broadcast on 24 February 1968 alongside Ten Years After's Love until I die and Johnny Hallyday. The first (partial) rebroadcast dates back to 1991 in « Culture Rock » programme on M6. This was followed by a new transfer from INA in 2007, which was the source of the DVDs « French TV 1968-69 » and « Video anthology ». Featured on the « Pink Floyd - The early years 1965-1972 » box set.
21 February 1968 «Bouton Rouge », ORTF, Buttes Chaumont, Paris, France
The Scarecrow and Let there be more light would have been recorded for a future « Discorama » episode in March.
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