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WP_150/ 2008
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Paintings 2 | | Medium: | acrylic on paper | | Size (inches): | 11.7 x 8.3 | | Size (mm): | 297 x 210 | | Catalog #: | WP_0150 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
The Pink Floyd Time Line -
1966
January: Pink Floyd make their debut appearance using that name with the line-up of Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Rick Wright. The venue is the Countdown Club in London's Palace Gate. They play for five hours with only a 20 minute break. Their fee is £ 15.
13th March: Pink Floyd gets its first billing at London's Marquee Club.
14th October: The band play their first real "underground" set at All Saints Hall, Powis Gardens in London having dumped all their r&b material.
15th October: Band performs at the International Times "All Night Rave" at London's Roundhouse.
31st October: Pink Floyd sign a management contract with Peter Jenner and Andrew King.
18th November: A "philadelic" music event is staged at Hornsey Colege Of Art featuring Pink Floyd and light show.
November: Peter Jenner and Andrew King take the band into Thompson Private Recorders in Hemel Hempstead to record a demo tape. Four tracks are cut, "Interstellar Overdrive", "Lucy Leave", "Stoned Alone" and "Silas Lane".
12th December: Band plays for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall.
18th December: Pink Floyd play The Blarney Club in Tottenham Court Road. The next week it changes its name to the UFO Club.
1967
11th January: Two days of recording at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea with Joe Boyd. The tracks recorded are "Interstellar Overdrive", "Arnold Layne", "Let's Roll Another One" (later to be called "Candy And A Currant Bun") and "Nicks Boogie".
20th January: Granada TV film part of a TV documentary at London's UFO Club, featuring the "house band", Pink Floyd.
1st February: Pink Floyd turn professional.
7th February: Granada's TV documentary on the UFO club and underground scene is broadcast.
27th February: The band go into Sound Techniques studios to record with Joe Boyd. The tracks will become the band's first single.
Early March: Pink Floyd sign to EMI records with an advance of £ 5,000.
11th March: "Arnold Layne" is released backed by "Candy And A Currant Bun".
16th March: Sessions start at EMI's Abbey Road Studios for the first album.
24th April: Roger Waters is hurt when a coin is thrown from the audience.
29th April: The "14 Hour Technicolour Dream" is staged London's Alexandra Palace. 10,000 watch Pink Floyd play at sunrise.
12th May: A "musical and visual exploration" is staged at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Titled "Games For May:" it features a song composed for the event, which is soon re-named "See Emily Play". The concert features the most complex light show seen in London and the first use of a quadrophonic sound in the U.K.
23rd May: After several days abortive work at Abbey Road Studios, the band moves to Sound Technique studios to record "See Emily Play" and "Scarecrow". They'd been unable to re-create the sound achieved on "Arnold Layne" without returning to the same studio.
16th June: "See Emily Play" is released backed by "Scarecrow".
24th June: First appearance on Top Of The Pops to promote "See Emily Play". Syd is immaculate in velvet and satin.
31st June: Top Of The Pops again. Syd is still wearing he same, now crumpled, clothes.
6th July: Top Of The Pops. This time Syd arrives in all his psychedelic finery but changes into dirty rags before going in front of the cameras.
5th August: "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" is released.
7th August: Danish tour starts.
11th August: Sessions at Abbey Road Studios for "Apples And Oranges".
21st August: German tour is abandoned when Syd vanishes.
24th October: First U.S. tour.
26th October: First of three nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
29th October: The band appear on Dick Clark's American Bandstand lyp-synching to "See Emily Play". Syd doesn't open his mouth.
30th October: The Pat Boone Show. The band are interviewed but Syd doesn't react when questioned.
2nd November: Recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios for "Paintbox".
14th November: Start of U.K. tour supporting the Jimi Hendrix Experience. David O'List of The Nice (also on the tour) stands in on dates when Syd doesn't show up or cannot play
18th November: "Apples And Oranges" is released backed by "Paintbox".
5th December: The Hendrix tour ends at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow.
22nd December: "Christmas On Earth Revisited" is staged at Olympia. Syd seems incapable of playing, standing staring at the audience.
1968
January: Dave Gilmour steps in to play guitar when Syd is unable to play at Brighton.
11th February: Pink Floyd record a session for John Peel's Top Gear show.
13th February: "It Would be So Nice" and "Julia Dream" are recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
2nd March: During a meeting at their Ladbroke Road offices, Syd is asked to stop touring and contributing material.
6th April: A statement is issued to the press announcing that Syd has left the band.
-www.pinkfloydonline.com/timeline.html
UFO Club -
The UFO Club was a famous but shortlived club in London during the 1960s, venue of performances by many of the top bands of the day.
It was founded by John Hopkins (usually known as "Hoppy") and Joe Boyd in an Irish dancehall called the "Blarney Club" in the basement of 31 Tottenham Court Road, under Berkeley Cinema and opposite the Dominion Theatre. It opened on December 23 1966. Initially the club was advertised as "UFO Presents Night Tripper". This had been because Boyd and Hopkins could not decide on "UFO" or "Night Tripper" as a name for their club.[1] Eventually they settled on "UFO".
The original arrangement with the Blarney Club was for the last two Fridays of December. Boyd and Hopkins had started the club because they were in need of cash, and they were unsure as to how large a crowd they would attract. But, as Boyd later wrote, "freaks came out of the woodwork from all over the city and we made a profit." [1].
Pink Floyd were booked for the first two Fridays, and then re-engaged as the club carried on into 1967 after its initial success. Initial events combined live music with light shows, avant garde films and slide shows, dance troupes and even "spot the fuzz" competitions as attention from plain clothes police units increased.
Pink Floyd's tenure at UFO was short run. As their fame grew they were able to play bigger venues for higher fees. Boyd protested that their increasing fame was largely due to the success of UFO, but the band's management wanted to move on and an agreement was made for just three more Floyd performances at UFO, at an increased fee.
Hopkins and Boyd had to cast around for a new "house band" for UFO. They settled on Soft Machine but also started booking other acts who were attracted by the club's reputation. Amongst them were The Incredible String Band, Arthur Brown, Tomorrow, and Procol Harum, who played there when "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was No 1 in the charts. Other artists appeared unexpectedly: for instance on April 28 1967, Jimi Hendrix turned up as part of the audience, and then jammed with Tomorrow, who led the bill.
An advertisement featuring the Flammarion woodcut in the Feb 13–26 issue of The International Times for "UfOria! Festival of Love 10.30 till dawn" [sic] announced "feb.10 — the bonzo dog doodah band • flix–dali–bunuel • ginger johnson african drums" as well as "feb 17 — soft machine • mark boyle projections • movies • food • erogenius 3 + 4".
Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, consisting of Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, designed psychedelic posters to advertise events.
The UFO Club’s success was its downfall — being too small to accommodate the increasing number of visitors. The crunch came in June 1967, when Hopkins was imprisoned for drug offences. Police pressure on the club increased in the following weeks, and the landlords revoked the lease. The club moved into The Roundhouse for a few months but, despite the building being almost derelict, the rent was exorbitant. If a big name such as Jeff Beck was playing, UFO broke even, but the club usually lost money. In October 1967 the UFO Club at the Roundhouse folded.[citation needed]
UFO Club billings:
* Dec 23/30: Freakout under Berkeley Cinema; Warhol movies; Pink Floyd sounds; Anger movies; Heating warm; IT god
* Jan 13: Pink Floyd; Marilyn Monroe movie; The Sun Trolley; Technicolor strobe; Fiveacre slides; Karate
* Jan 20: Pink Floyd; Anger movie
* Jan 27: AMM Music; Pink Floyd; Five Acre Light; Flight of the Aerogenius Chpt 1; International Times; IT Girl Beauty Contest
* Feb 3: Soft Machine; Brown's Poetry; Flight of the Aerogenius Chpt 2; Bruce Connor Movies
* Feb 10: Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band; Ginger Johnson; Bank Dick WC Fields
* Feb 17: Soft Machine; Indian Music; Disney Cartoons; Mark Boyle Feature Movie
* Feb 24: Pink Floyd; Brothers Grimm
* Mar 3: Soft Machine
* Mar 10: Pink Floyd
* Mar 17: St Patrick's day off
* Mar 24: Soft Machine
* Mar 31: Crazy World of Arthur Brown; Pink Alberts; 'spot the fuzz contest'
* Apr 7: Soft Machine
* Apr 14: Arthur Brown; Social Deviants; Special: the fuzz
* Apr 21: Pink Floyd
* Apr 28: Tomorrow; The Purple Gang
* (Apr 29/30: 14-Hour Technicolor Dream at the Alexandra Palace)
* May 5: Soft Machine; Arthur Brown
* May 12: Graham Bond Organisation; Procol Harum
* May 19: Tomorrow; Arthur Brown; The People Show
* May 26: The Move
* Jun 2: Pink Floyd
* Jun 9: Procol Harum; The Smoke
* Jun 16: Crazy World of Arthur Brown; Soft Machine; The People Blues Band 4.30am
* Jun 23: Liverpool Love Festival
* Jun 30: Tomorrow; The Knack
* Jul 7: Denny Laine; Pretty Things
* Jul 14: Arthur Brown; Alexis Korner; Victor Brox
* Jul 21: Tomorrow; Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
* Jul 28: Pink Floyd; CIA v UFO; Fairport Convention
* Aug 4: Eric Burdon; Family
* Aug 11: Tomorrow
* Aug 18: Arthur Brown; Incredible String Band
* Sep 1/2: UFO Festival: Pink Floyd; Soft Machine; The Move; Arthur Brown; Tomorrow; Denny Laine
* Sep 8: Eric Burdon & The New Animals; Aynsley Dunbar
* Sep 15: Soft Machine; Family
* Sep 22: Dantalion's Chariot w Zoot Money & His Light Show; The Social Deviants; The Exploding Galaxy
* Sep 29: Jeff Beck; Ten Years After; Mark Boyle's New Sensual Laboratory; Contessa Veronica
Berlin:
There was also a UFO Club in Berlin started in 1988 by the electronic music label Interfisch. UFO was the original centre of Berlin house and techno music, but due to financial problems that club closed in 1990.
After UFO closed, Interfisch's head, Dimitri Hegemann and some investors in the club found the new space in East Berlin. This was advantageous timing, as it was only a few months before Germany unified. The vaults under the Wertheim department store proved to be the perfect location for a new club, and Tresor quickly became the place to be in Berlin
References:
1. ^ a b Boyd, Joe, White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent's Tail, 2006. ISBN 1-85242-910-0
Further reading:
* Boyd, Joe, White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s, Serpent's Tail. 2007. ISBN 978-1-85242-489-3
* Miles, Barry: In the Sixties. (London 2002)
* Green, Jonathon: Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961-71 (London 1998)
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Club
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