The Making of "The Madcap Laughs"
PINK FLOYD DATE SHEETS: 1966
Sept 30th London free school
Oct 14 All Saints' Hall, London
Oct 15 International times launch party
Oct 23 All Saints' Hall
Oct 29 All Saints' Hall
Oct 31 Demo session - Thompson Recording Ltd.
Nov 4 All Saints'
Nov 5 Wilton Hall, Bletchley
Nov 8 All Saints'
Nov 15 All Saints'
Nov 18 Hernsey Art College
Nov 19 Canterbury tech.
Nov 22 All Saints
Nov 29 All Saints
Dec 3 Roundhouse (anti Ian Smith gig)
Dec 9 Marquee
Dec 12 Albert Hall Oxfam charity gig
Dec 22 Marquee
Dec 23 UFO club, London, plus Roundhouse all nighter
Dec 24 UFO
Dec 29 Marquee
Dec 31 Roundhouse all nighter
Jan 5 Marquee
Jan 6 Seymour Hall 'freakout'
Jan 8 Upper Cut, Forest Gate
Jan 9 Rehearsal
Jan 11 Sound techniques studio (see note 1)
Jan 13 UFO
Jan 14 Reading University
Jan 16 ICA
Jan 17 Commonwealth Institute
Jan 19 Marquee
Jan 20 UFO
Jan 21 Birdcage, Portsmouth
Jan 22 Rehearsal
Jan 23-25 Sound Techniques Studio (see note 1)
Jan 26 Rehearsal
Jan 27 UFO
Jan 28 Essex University
Jan 29 Sound Techniques
Jan 30 Photo rehearsal (this probably means photo session and music rehearsal!)
Jan 31 Sound Techniques Studio
Notes: 1) The date on the EMI tape library card gives Feb 21st as
the first date allocated to any masters. The date for Arnold
Layne, then, generally given as 27/2/67 may well be the date EMI
logged the master, and this may not be the actual date of
recording. Nick Mason's sheet gives 21/2/67 as 'EMI' (studios)
and in all 6 days were spent at Sound Techniques before 27/2/67!!
The above information comes courtesy of Bernard White, Nick
Mason, with occasional help from the salutary work of Rick
Sanders ('Pink Floyd' - Futura)
Feb 1 Sound Techniques
Feb 2 Cadenna's, Gu[i]ldford
Feb 3 Queen's Hall, Leeds
Feb 6 'Jackie' photo session
Feb 7 'Fabulous' photo session
Feb 8 Rehearsal
Feb 9 Addington Hotel, Croydon
Feb 10 Leicester
Feb 11 Sussex University
Feb 13 Photo Session
Feb 16 Southampton Guildhall
Feb 17 Cambridge Dorothy Ballroom
Feb 18 California Ballroom, Dunstable
Feb 20 West Bromwich Adelphi Ballroom
Feb 21 E.M.I. (probably an Abbey Road session, to record
'Matilda Mother' their first EMI session). Feb 27th
is usually the date given for the 'Arnold Layne'
session at Sound Techniques studio. I suspect in
view of the fact that already 6 days had been spent
in the studio that this is erroneous (the date comes
from the EMI files) and that this is the date when
EMI _received_ the tape from Sound Techniques. It
was probably recorded earlier in the month. The date
of Feb 27th does not appear on Nick Mason's sheet at all.
Feb 28 Blaises, London
March 1 Eel Pie Island
March 2 Worthing
Mar 3 St Albans and UFO
Mar 4 Regent St Poly (Rag Ball)
Mar 5 Saville Theatre, London
Mar 6 Granada TV., Manchester
Mar 7 Malvern
Mar 9 Marquee
Mar 10 UFO
Mar 11 Canterbury
Mar 12 Camberley
Mar 14, 15, 16 (Mar 14 not noted in EMI files)
Mar 17 Kingston Tech
Mar 18 Enfield
Mar 19 - 22 (Mar 19 not noted in EMI files).
Mar 23 Rotherham
Mar 24 Ric Tic Club, Hounslow
Mar 25 Windsor
Mar 26 Bognor Regis
Mar 26/7 EMI. The Bognor date may have meant the canceling of the Mar 26 EMI date.
Mar 28 Bristol
Mar 29 Eel Pie Island
Mar 30 Ross-on-Wye
April 1 EMI reception; Portsmouth Birdcage
April 3 BBC (Mon-Thurs)
April 6 Salisbury
April 7 Belfast
April 8 Bishops Stortford; Roundhouse
April 9 Nottingham
April 10 Bath
April 11 EMI
April 12 EMI
April 13 Tilbury
April 15 Brighton
April 16 Bethnal Green
April 17, 18 EMI
April 19 Bromley
April 20 Barnstable
April 21 Greenford; UFO
April 22 Rugby
April 23 Crawley Starlite
April 24 Ealing Feathers
April 25 Oxford
April 28 Stockport
April 29 Holland Ally Pally
April 30 Huddersfield
May 3 Ainsdale (Southport)
May 4 Coventry
May 6 Leeds Kitson Hall
May 7 Sheffield
May 12 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London ('Games For May')
May 13 Hinkley
May 14 BBC Look of the Week
May 18 Sound Techniques studio
May 19 Newcastle
May 20 Southport
May 21 Sound Techniques; Brighton 'See Emily Play' recorded May 21 and delivered to EMI on May 23rd
May 23 High Wycombe
May 25 Abergavenny
May 26 Blackpool
May 27 Nantwich
May 28 Spalding
June 2 UFO
June 9 Hull
June 10 Lowestoft; UFO
June 13 Ealing
June 16 Tiles
June 17 Margate
June 18 Brands Hatch
June 20 Oxford
June 21 Bolton
June 22 Bradford
June 23 Derby
June 24 Bedford
June 26 Coventry / Warwick University ?
June 28 Eel Pie Island.
July 1 Birmingham, Swan (Yardley)
July 2 Birmingham Civic Hall
July 3 Bath ?
July 5 Eel Pie Island
July 6 Top Of The Pops recording
July 7 Portsmouth
July 8 Norwich Memorial Hall
July 9 Roundhouse (BBC TV)
July 15 Stowmarket
July 16 Redcar
July 17 ITV recording
July 18 Isle of Man
July 19 Great Yarmouth (Floral Hall)
July 20 Elgin
July 21 Nairn
July 22 Aberdeen
July 23 Carlisle (Cosmopolitan Ballroom)
July 27 Top Of The Pops
July 28 BBC Saturday Club
July 29 Dereham / Ally Pally
July 31 Torquay
August 1, 2 German TV.
August 7, 8, EMI
August 15, 16 Sound Techniques Studio
September 1 Roundhouse
Sept 2 UFO
Sept 5,6, Sound Techniques
Sept 9 Copenhagen (press)
Sept 10 Copenhagen Star Club
Sept 11 Copenhagen
Sept 12 Arhus ?
Sept 13 Stockholm
Sept 15 Belfast, Starlight Ballroom
Sept 16 Ballymena, Flamingo
Sept 17 Cork, Arcadia Ballroom
Sept 21 Worthing
Sept 22 Tiles
Sept 23 Chelmsford Corn Exchange
Sept 27 Leicester 5th Dimension
Sept 28 Hull, Skyline Club
Sept 30 Nelson, Imperial Club
October 1 Saville Theatre
Oct 2 Photo session
Oct 5, 6 Sound Techniques Studio / Brighton
Oct 7 Bristol Victoria Rooms
Oct 9-12 EMI (may have been cancelled)
Oct 12 Rotterdam
Oct 13 Weymouth Pavilion
Oct 14 Bedford, Caesars
Oct 16 or 17 Bath Pavilion
Oct 20,21 De Lane Lea studios
Oct 22 York
For the rest of October the Floyd were in the USA on their first tour.
November 12 Rotterdam
Nov 14 Royal Albert Hall (with Hendrix, Move, Amen Corner)
Nov 15 Bournemouth, as above
Nov 16 Sheffield, as above
December 9 Oz (magazine interview)
Dec 13 Redruth
Dec 14 Bournemouth
Dec 15 Middle Earth
Dec 16 Ritz; Birmingham
Dec 17 BBC
Dec 20 Top Gear
Dec 21 Speakeasy
Dec 22 Olympia Christmas Show 1968
Jan 8,9 Rehearsals
Jan 10,11 EMI
Jan 12 Aston University
Jan 13 Weston-super-mare
Jan 15,16 Rehearsals
Jan 17,18 EMI
February 1 EMI ('Corporal Clegg')
Feb 6 Rehearsals
Feb 10 Nelson
Feb 11 Top Gear, BBC.
Feb 16 Pontypool
Feb 17 Pushing
Feb 18,19 Brussels TV (Dave Gilmour now with the group announcement)
Feb 20,21 Paris TV
March 4 Vanessa Redgrave party!
March 5 EMI ('It Would Be So Nice')
March 9 Manchester Tech
March 12 EMI
March 14 Belfast
March 16 Hampton Court / Middle Earth
March 17 Belgium
April 1,2 EMI
April 6.
Syd's departure from the Floyd was announced around
this time, although it is likely that he did not participate in
most of the activities on this page to any great extent. I have
overlapped on this date sheet in the same manner as I did on the
recording session files for much the same reasons. Some of the
tapes with dates as late as May, such as those recorded some time
before at Sound Techniques but not delivered until much later,
did feature Syd. They were probably called for by EMI so that
they could get hold of Jugband Blues which was needed for
'Saucer', being assembled in the running order for release the
next month (June). I have refrained from making notes in this date sheet
linking recording dates with the EMI files. In leaving this to
the reader I will suggest that, when a studio other than EMI is
listed and no date appears in the session file, then if a date
follows shortly after in the session lists, it may be supposed
that these are the titles, if any, recorded. It is always a
possibility, that studio dates listed in this date sheet could
have been cancelled in order to fulfill an important club
booking, and the studio dates replaced later!