Syd Barrett - Madcaps Last Laugh

Barbican Hall, London, May 11th 2007

This incredible event was a tribute to the late Syd Barrett, a founder member of Pink Floyd, produced by Nick Laird-Clowes (of Dream Acadamy and Trashmonk fame) with associate producer Joe Boyd (early Pink Floyd's producer and founder of legendary UFO club in London). Surprise performances from Roger Waters himself with Jon Carin then the entire current Pink Floyd line-up (David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Nick Mason) were absolutely unbelievable!

The numerous other artists performing Syd Barrett's music included Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz), Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), The Bees, Vashti Bunyan, Captain Sensible, Robyn Hitchcock. The house band included Andy Bell (bass, Oasis), Simon Finley (drums, Echo & The Bunnymen) and Ted Barnes (guitar, Beth Orton).

Lighting legend and Pink Floyd's original lighting designer, Peter Wynne-Willson, provided a stunning giant-scale psychedelic light-show across the large venue, aided by Neil from Optikinetics, Geoff, Sid, Lightning Rod and co - this really was a lighting dream team! The effects were amazing, including numerous liquid/oil based effects, cassettes, the giant Sploda, polarised crystal wheels and Total Eclipse. We were on hand to photograph the event from both in front and behind the projectors! These included numerous Solar 575 projectors, K4, modified OHPs, 2 massive ETC 6kW xenon projectors with external ducted cooling and Peter's range of amazing large scale attachments including his giant Spoldascope!

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Roger Waters with Jon Carin	Roger Waters with Jon Carin	Roger Waters with Jon Carin
Roger Waters with Jon Carin	Roger Waters with Jon Carin	Giant Sploda with 6kW Xenon
Sid	Hog II	Solar 575s
6kW xenon	Solar 575s
Vashti Bunyan + Gareth Dickson	Vashti Bunyan + Gareth Dickson	Syd Barrett film
Vashti Bunyan + Gareth Dickson	Vashti Bunyan + Gareth Dickson
Vashti Bunyan + Gareth Dickson		Damon Albarn & co
Damon Albarn & co	Damon Albarn & co	Damon Albarn & co
Damon Albarn & co	Sid on the Solars	Peter WW
Geoff & Sid	Geoff & Sid
	Geoff	Geoff
View from lighting deck	Liquid OHP
View over Solars		View from lighting deck
View from lighting deck	Peter WW
Robyn Hitchcock	Robyn Hitchcock	Robyn Hitchcock
OHP liquid projection	Robyn Hitchcock	Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock	Robyn Hitchcock & co	Robyn Hitchcock & co
Robyn Hitchcock & co		Robyn Hitchcock & co
Robyn Hitchcock & co		Robyn Hitchcock & co
Chrissie Hynde & Adam Seymour	Chrissie Hynde & Adam Seymour	Chrissie Hynde & Adam Seymour
Chrissie Hynde & Adam Seymour	Chrissie Hynde & Adam Seymour	Chrissie Hynde & Adam Seymour
Chrissie Hynde & Adam Seymour	Chrissie Hynde & Adam Seymour	Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd
Rod on liquid OHP	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd	'We just did a liquid light show for PINK FLOYD!'	Barrett film
Finale	Finale	Finale
Finale	Finale	Finale
Mirror ball	Mirror ball	Finale
Finale	Finale	Finale
Finale	Peter WW
	Mystic Geoff	OHP and 6kW xenon
	K4 with 'The Boingerator'
	Peter's giant sploda	Lightning Rod's magic wheels