Pink Floyd – 1969.04.14 – The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes – Royal Festival Hall – London, UK – AUD 2CDS B (HRV 09)

Disc 1:
1. Daybreak (part 1) 6:16 (Grantchester Meadows)
2. Work 8:39 (unreleased instrumental)
3. Afternoon 5:25 (Biding My Time)
4. Doing It 5:18 (Syncopated Pandemonium*)
5. Sleeping 10:55 (Quicksilver)
6. Daybreak (part 2) 2:25 (Grantchester Meadows reprise)

Disc 2:
1. The Beginning 4:35 (Green is the Colour)
2. Beset By Creatures of the Deep 8:25 (Careful with that Axe, Eugene)
3. The Narrow Way 4:46
4. The Pink Jungle 4:18 (Pow R. Toc H.)
5. The Labyrinths of Auximenes 8:30 (unreleased instrumental)
6. Behold the Temple of Light 6:42 (unreleased instrumental)
7. The End of the Beginning 5:49 (Storm Signal/Celestial Voices)
8. Interstellar Overdrive (encore) 11:14

*I’ve seen three other possibilities for the actual official release of Doing It: Up the Khyber, Grand Vizier’s Garden Party, and Party Sequence.

This is the first performance of the concept concerts “The Man” and “The Journey.” Quality is not the best, but the performances are very different from the Amsterdam show. It is 2 CD’s and Interstellar Overdrive is performed as an encore. There are many differences between this and the Amsterdam show: 1) the song that would become Cymbaline (called Nightmare) has not yet become separate from Sleep(ing). 2) Daybreak (part two) is very different. 3) The Labyrinths of Auximenes does not yet contain the bass line that can be found in latter parts of post-Syd performances of Interstellar Overdrive (perhaps because IO was performed at this concert) and thus is very different from the version on the Amsterdam show. Interstellar Overdrive is a very good version with some neat guitar riffs about 5 minutes in. Although sound quality is just one step above horrendous, this concert is very historical in terms of the 1969 shows.