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Pink Floyd - 9th National Jazz & Blues Festival, Plumpton August 8th 1969 (Stereo Remaster) (1969)

Track listing:
  1. Announcements - Tuneups 1:04
  2. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 9:50
  3. Tuneups 0:44
  4. Cymbaline 9:33
  5. The Beginning (Green Is The Colour) 3:37
  6. Beset By Creatures Of The Deep (Careful With That Axe, Eugene) 6:09
  7. The Narrow Way 5:09

Notes

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***Neonknight's Background Information For This Show***
One of 42 acts scheduled, the Floyd were booked to appear at 10.25 p.m. for an hour on Friday 8 August, following UFO club friends and rivals Soft Machine and closing the first night of the 3-day festival. Future collaborators Ron Geesin and Roy Harper appeared on the other 2 days, along with major groups such as The Who.

The festival comperes, one of whom can presumably be heard at the start of the tape, were John C Gee (Marquee Club) and Colin Caldwell (Marquee Studios).

Including a nice Ummagumma style sleeve photo, the event programme noted in the style of the time that Pink Floyd’s “music is so highly personal many a pagan has been converted to their musical conceptions.” For their “unique, avant garde” contribution to proceedings records show that the band were paid £600.

Because of power problems affecting the preceding bands, some accounts suggest the Floyd played their set in the early hours of Saturday morning when, it’s commonly reported, a good part of the audience had gone to sleep. It’s possible therefore that we should therefore really be referring to the date of this tape as 9 August 1969. International Times 63 records the start time differently, however suggesting the “the Floyd finally appeared at 11, very cool and unconcerned by it all”.

IT went on to say that “their sound was as nicely balanced as it’s ever been outdoors but there was a controlling restraint that went through the first part of their set which was unfortunate under the circumstances, as already there were hang-ups with the last train.”