THE 25 MOST IMPORTANT GIGS



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1st March 1970 « Musique en 33 Tours », ORTF TV, Paris, France
This TV show, hosted by Michel Lancelot and with Charles Ives as guest, do a focus on the band’s news.

13 March 1970 «Line-Up », BBC Two , London, England

A rumor about the broadcasting of a Floyd appearance. Most likely a sequence dedicated to the release of « Zabriskie Point ». Broadcasted on 13 March, then rebroadcast at the end of the same year (28 December).

30 March 1970 « Festival Musique Evolution », Hall du Bourget, Le Bourget, France
Some extracts were shown in two french TV show: the news report, March 29th and 30th 1970. But there is no pictures of the band nonetheless. In the french TV show called « A l'affiche du monde» (in a capsule subtitled «La pop musique et les jeunes »), we can see the trip of a young men to this festival. An audio recording was made by RTL.

Source  : INA « Journal du 29 mars 1970 »

Source : « PathéGaumont Archives »

Source  : INA « Journal du 30 mars 1970 »

5 March 1970 « Line Up », BBC TV Centre, Londres, Angleterre

No more details on this TV show.

28 April 1970 « One Hour with Pink Floyd », PBS Network TV, Fillmore West, San Francisco,  USA

The classic footage of the golden era Unlike Floyd’s fans thought for years, this concert was not shot in the studios of KQED television but on the West Fillmore scene. The group was scheduled for a concert on April 29th. John Coney (the director of the concert and co-producer) then asked that the concert be recorded as part of the show « The 10 o'Clock Mix » but it was canceled at the last moment. 

The producer then found the money to produce a show called « One Hour with Pink Floyd » with an additional budget to produce some additional special effects (created by Larry Armstrong). The show was recorded live with video cameras to reduce costs through an mobile studio parked in the parking lot next door.  The installation was performed live and recorded on videotapes 2 inches. 

The $ 100 deal foresaw a single local broadcast; but the producer resell the show for $ 2000 on PBS.  The show was broadcast for the first time on January, 26th 1971 on KSAN-FM channel.

On a side note, the master of this performance without the video effects exist. This is Jim Farber, one of the producers of the show which owns them and he had carefully transferred the tape in high quality! He was in contact with the Floyd's management for a possible official release, but a rift between the company and him compromising any release. Two other tracks were filmed but not broadcasted: Astronomy Dominé and A Saucerful of Secrets. For the first one, the footage was released on the KQED website since.

6 May 1970 « Free Concert », UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Jim Farber, one of producer of the « One Hour with Pink Floyd » special TV show has followed the band the next week to shoot their free gig at the University of Los Angeles. His purpose was to get some additional footage. No footage was finally used.

Jim Farber (Co-producer of the KQED TV Show):

« But Pink Floyd (…) were so eager for an American audience that they played a free concert at UCLA a week later. 

The free concert was really a disaster »

«Exclusive: Unseen footage of Pink Floyd playing in 1970», KQED Website, 14 November 2017

30 May 1970 « Point Chaud », ORTF, Paris, France

Evocation of the Floyd for the French release of « Music Power » and « European Music Evolution » movies: Jean-Noel Roy comments on his images shooted during the « Festival Actuel », in Amougies.

30 May 1970 « Samedi et Compagnie», ORTF, Paris, France
An evocation of the band for the release of the movie « Music Power ».

31 May 1970 « Monsieur Cinéma», ORTF, Paris, France

An extract form on of the movie about the « Festival Actuel » is broadcasted during this show.

28 June 1970 « Holland Pop Festival », Kralingse Bos, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Released in theater under the title « Stamping Ground». Released officially now on DVD and multi-broadcasted.. Gaumont has shot many plans but never released. A new 8 mm source was found on 2023

Source : « Stamping Ground »
Source : « Stamping Ground »

Source  : Official release

Source  :2023 8mm source

29 June 1970 « Festival of Bath », Bath, England

The gig was recorded professionnel by many local movie and TV crews. A part of the set (only Atom Heart Mother) was recorded directly on a screen (released in 2008). There are some additional shots in thehistoricfilms.com vaults.

Source : « Mind your throat, please - Pink Floyd Archives vol. 1 »
Source : « Mind your throat, please - Pink Floyd Archives vol. 1 »

Henrietta Bannister:

«I regret we do not have any film of the Bath Festivals. There was a professional film made of the 1970 festival by a company called Gentle Ghost and Paradise Films ( for which we still own the rights) but goodness knows what has happened to it. If you hear anything your end I should be really grateful if you would let me know»

12 July 1970 « 1st Open Air Festival », Reiterstadion Soers, Aachen, Germany 

Source : « Amon Düül II - Soap Shop Rock Promo »
Source : « Amon Düül II - Soap Shop Rock Promo »


The festival was captured. Unlikely, partially. The footage was under the responsibility of the ZDF german channel. We have seen some extracts all along the years; especially in one of their shows called  « Aspect », in January 1991. The only Floyd related footage comes from an Amon Düul promo. It's vey tiny cos' we can only see a two-seconde frame of Dave. But, we know an another source exist. This source come from a multimedia student's project. It contains a 13 minute tape without audio and mainly focused on the setting of the event. Rolf Grosch owned this tape prior his death

18 July 1970 « Hyde Park Festival », Hyde Park, London, England

The whole 280-minutes show was filmed as well by Hoppy Hopkins (the founder of the legendary underground UFOClub and of the «International Times» magazine) for TVX. The full performance was allegedly screened two times publicly, shortly after the concert, and the Pink Floyd segment was released, albeit in poor quality, on a Japanese bootleg DVD (sourced from a 2006 transfer). The 2006 transfer revealed the poor condition of the reel: only Atom Heart Mother was entirely recoverable. The 5 other songs were really damaged and/or suffered tracking problems. A cleaner version of the footage, sourced from an earlier transfer, represents today the holy grail for many Pink Floyd fans and collectors. A betamax copy (w/.out Timecode) was made for a forthcoming documentary not released finally. Albeit Atom Heart Mother, released on the boxset « Pink Floyd - The early years 1965-1972», the others tracks remain unreleased.

Source: « John Hopkins' Private collection »
Source: « John Hopkins' Private collection »

Source  : « John Hopkins Private collection  » (Source 2014)

Source  : 2017 eBay source

Source  : Mike Smith source

Source  : «  Jochen Laschinsky Private collection  » (Source 2015)


A well know collector of Pink Floyd (Then art-in-school student), Jochen Laschinky, recorded in 8mm some samples of the set. This film was screened in 1970 for students. The original tape is much longer this was released. Public released in early 2015.

Source  : «  Mike Smith Private collection  » 
Source  : «  Mike Smith Private collection  » 


A new source appeared on eBay in 2017. It’s an one reel showing some unknown shots of the band. A last amateur source was taped by a member of the festival crew Mike Smith. He has shot randomly many parts of the festival (the crew and the audience). We can see some glimpses of Pink Floyd

We know there are some other sources when we take alook to the tapes of Jochen or John or the pictures taken from this event.

D’autres plans montrent qu’il existe d’autres captations filmées du set du groupe

26 July 1970 « XIème Festival International de Jazz d'Antibes », Juan-les-pins, France

Some extracts were taped by the french TV and broadcasted the same year, in August 22th. Nothing from the gigs was recorded (only pre-show interviews). No trace of Pink Floyd in one of the films made for the festival (« A cause du Pop » or « Guitare au Poing »). A report about the organisation of the event, without Floyd appearance, was broadcasted in the news report « Provence Actualités », on 20 July .

5 August 1970 « Festival Popanalia », Biot, France

The cinema company Pathé has shot some extracts of the backstage and the performance of the festival. The team of « Pop 2 » (famous  French musical TV show) has recorded some large parts of this event (broadcasted in August 20th 1970). In fact, in cause of rift between the audience and the police, the festival was finally canceled affaire some hours only. Apparently, these riots was due to the denial to play free by Soft Machine.  So, we don't know if Pink Floyd had the time to play (apparently only Joan Baez has played). I think it's highly unlikely to see the Floyd on tape since he have to played the day after the cancel.

Jean Karakos (associated promoter) : 

« Avant d’annoncer un festival, il faut boucler les artistes. A l’époque, tous avaient été payés. Mais il n’y avait aucune protection, c’était un amphithéâtre naturel, envahi par des gens qui ne voulaient pas payer. Après1968, ils considéraient Popanalia comme un festival gratuit, populaire. Au bout du premier jour, on n’avait plus d’argent. Je ne regrette rien, mais c’était quand même une entreprise très hasardeuse »

«Popanalia ressucité», Libération, 9 July 1970

8 August 1970 « Festival de Saint-Tropez », Les Caves du Roy, Saint Tropez, France
The performance and the rehearsals were filmed by ORTF TV to be broadcast in the « Pop 2 » TV show. J-M Esnault is the man who has unburied the tapes.

31 August 1970 « Medicine Ball Caravan », Chalton Park, Canterbury, England 


The french directors François Reichenbach and Gerard Patris had shot this festival. The first cut was rejected by the Warner Studios who are called Martin Scorcese to Re-cut the footage without the Floyd's set. The final cut was released under the title « We come for your daughter ». The first film remained unreleased t this day if was not lost

12 Septembre 1970 « Fête de l'Humanité », Parc de Vincennes, Vincennes, France

Since many years, a rumor stated some pictures were filmed by a TV crew. We thought it was a French footage aimed for the news report. It appears the pictures were filmed by the German TV for inclusion in a TV show called « Fernsehnachrichten » for WRD channel

26 September 1970 Electric Factory, Philadelphie, USA

George Manney shot some extracts of the gig on 8mm tape. The quality is pretty crap et very hard to watch. ORTF TV would be recorded all the concert. It's highly unlikely cos' the TV station taped only french shows of Floyd.

Source  : « George Manney's Private Collection » 
Source  : « George Manney's Private Collection » 

21 Novembre 1970 « Montreux Festival », Montreux, Suisse
An RTS interview conducted by Eric Lehmann with David Gilmour (in French) before the Montreux concert was broadcast in the magazine «Regards» on 15 December 1970 (Glenn Povvey believes it was for the programme «Carrefour»). Before his sudden death, Claude Nobs had indicated his desire to release all the festival's audio-visual archives, along the lines of what the INA can do. We can be hopeful ...

21 November 1970 «Montreux Festival », Montreux, Suisse

Many testimonies indicates the band was shot by many amateurs cameramen. According this bellow snapshot, it seems likely.

28 December 1970 « Line Up 70 », BBC Two, London, England

A look back at 1970 with the participation of Norman Mailer, Barbara Castle, Sir Laurence Olivier, Gore Vidal, John Osborne and Pink Floyd; broadcast at 10:40 pm