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Pink Floyd members surprise performers at Barrett tribute

Posted May 11, 2007 by Floydian Slip

The surviving members of Pink Floyd were surprise performers at last night’s sold-out Syd Barrett tribute concert in London.

“Madcap’s Last Laugh,” co-produced by Floyd producer Joe Boyd at Barbican Hall, promised names such as Chrissie Hynde, Robyn Hitchcock, Kevin Ayers and others.

But the audience got more than they planned for when Roger Waters, accompanied by Jon Carin, took the stage to perform “Flickering Flame” at the end of the evening’s first set.

David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright performed “Arnold Layne” at the end of the second set, only to join most of the evening’s performers in “Bike” to close the show.

Not a bad line-up for the show’s $30-50 ticket price.


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Syd Barrett tribute concert May 10

Posted May 8, 2007 by Floydian Slip

Madcap’s Last Laugh,” a tribute to the late Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, will take place at Barbican Hall in London on May 10.

The event, co-produced by Joe Boyd and Nick Laird-Clowes, will feature Kevin Ayers, The Bees, Vashti Bunyan, Mike Heron, Robyn Hitchcock, Chrissie Hynde, Captain Sensible, Sense of Sound and others.

The house band for the evening will include: Andy Bell (Oasis), bass; Simon Finley (Echo & The Bunnymen), drums; and Ted Barnes (Beth Orton), guitar.

The show will include rare film footage and projections of Barrett’s paintings.

Boyd produced Floyd’s “Arnold Layne” single in 1967. Laird-Clowes is a former member of The Dream Academy (“Life in a Northern Town”) and was a contributing songwriter on Floyd’s “The Division Bell” album.

Tickets are £15-25. For more information, visit the Barbican Web site.


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Tangerine Dream records tribute to Syd Barrett

Posted March 6, 2007 by Floydian Slip

Voiceprint Records will release “Madcap’s Flaming Duty” by Tangerine Dream on April 2. The album by the venerable German electronic band pays tribute to Syd Barrett, a co-founder of Pink Floyd, who died last summer.

The album was recorded in Vienna, Austria, and Berlin, Germany, in October 2006. It features Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese, Thorsten Quaeschning, Chris Hausl, Bernhard Beibl, Linda Spa, Gynt Beator, Thomas Beator and Iris Camaa.

Lyrics for the project were adapted from English and American literature from the 17th and 18th centuries, by writers such as Emerson, Whitman, Blake and Shelley.

Barrett died in his Cambridgeshire home Friday, July 7, 2006. He was 60.

Purchase “Madcap’s Flaming Duty” online now.


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