Rabs Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Pink Floyd exhibition announced for Victoria and Albert Museum http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37228496 The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is hoping to replicate the success of its David Bowie exhibition with a major retrospective of Pink Floyd. The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, marking 50 years since the release of the band's first single, will include a laser light show and previously unseen concert footage. The "immersive" show will feature 350 objects and artefacts, including instruments and original artworks. It will run from May to October 2017. The V&A promised "an immersive, multi-sensory and theatrical journey through Pink Floyd's extraordinary world" which will "chronicle the music, iconic visuals and staging of the band, from the underground psychedelic scene in 1960s London to the present day". 'Uniting sound and vision' Pink Floyd were formed in 1965 by four students - Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason. Waters, Wright and Mason had met while studying at the Regent Street Polytechnic. Barrett left three years later after one album and was replaced by guitarist David Gilmour. The band has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide - including 1973's The Dark Side Of The Moon, which stayed in the US album chart for more than a decade. Drummer Mason attended the launch at the London museum, which flew a giant inflatable pig over its roof for the occasion - like the one pictured above Battersea Power Station on the cover of the 1977 album Animals. Mason said the other remaining members of the band are collaborating with the show - despite the fact he was the only one present at the launch. "There was a school of thought that I'd been not enormously excited about it but that's not quite true," he said. "Maybe it was one of the others. I'd always seen it as possible. "I did think we'd be short of material. That's turned out to be entirely incorrect. I can't tell you how much stuff won't fit in. "We seem to have a bit of everything. My favourite drumkits. Quite a lot of the old machinery that we used for recording - that's now completely obsolete with all the digital technology." Hipgnosis, Pink Floyd's creative director which designed the cover for The Dark Side of the Moon, and Stufish, which created the band's sets, are working on the show. V&A director Martin Roth said: "The V&A is perfectly placed to exhibit the work of a band that is as recognisable for its unique visual imagery as for its music. "Pink Floyd is an impressive and enduring British design story of creative success. Alongside creating extraordinary music, they have for over five decades been pioneers in uniting sound and vision, from their earliest 1960s performances with experimental light shows, through their spectacular stadium rock shows, to their consistently iconic album covers." The exhibition will also include items from stage performances, as well as instruments, handwritten lyrics, architectural drawings and psychedelic posters. After it was announced in 2012, the V&A's David Bowie exhibition became the fastest-selling in the museum's history. The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains runs from May 13 to October 1 next year. Tickets are on sale now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Two things: Victoria & Alberts at Grand Floridian is one of our absolute favorites in Disney World, and the country for that matter. Old fashioned continental, served exactly as it was when we learned how to eat that way in the Queen's Colony of Bermuda, in the hazy, hairy 80s when we lived there. My mom saw Dark Side Of The Moon, Philly Spectrum. That's all I got. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Tickets on sale now @£20 - £24 (GBP). You get given a particular time slot so move along there, no dawdling please. Should augment their income a bit more along with the £375 "Early Years" box set, the "Immersion" and "Experience" editions of the albums etc etc..... I saw Floyd about 4 times I think - each time was outside; the last was at Knebworth. BTW (off-topic) Band Of Gypsies is getting another remaster by Eddie Kramer from the original 1" tapes. Out this month. I'd like to hear it but don't think I want to buy it again..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Tickets on sale now @£20 - £24 (GBP). You get given a particular time slot so move along there, no dawdling please. I didn't look in to it yet.. But that is RUBBISH... I wont be going if that's the case... Like some posh restaurants I have heard of which do the same thing. You get an allotted eating time... What nonsense... takes the joy out of the experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Tickets on sale now @£20 - £24 (GBP). You get given a particular time slot so move along there, no dawdling please. I didn't look in to it yet.. But that is RUBBISH... I wont be going if that's the case... Like some posh restaurants I have heard of which do the same thing. You get an allotted eating time... What nonsense... takes the joy out of the experience. No man, it's just to stagger the people in, assuming they take X time to get through. It works, it's fine, all of the big city museums do that, you have to otherwise everyone would be there at 11.30 and nobody would see anything. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 This replaces a tour I think - they cannot and should not play live again as the Floyd, but they can take this to Europe and the States and the albums will sell yet again off the back of it. I am too old myself now to make the offerings and worship the old gods. My pilgrimages are over.... :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 ...that is RUBBISH... I wont be going if that's the case... I tactfully suggest you reconsider. They have to do it, Rabs. It's the only way it works for such popular exhibitions. Seriously. I've missed a few shows which were literally - and I do mean literally - once in a lifetime events because the paintings/ artefacts had never been shown as a whole to the public in one exhibition before - and will probably never be seen together in one exhibition again - but the tickets had already sold-out. I know I will never, ever, have the chance to see those objects again and, in hindsight, I'm considerably p'd off by my lethargy. I'll be going. If there are any tickets left... Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 I tactfully suggest you reconsider. They have to do it, Rabs. It's the only way it works for such popular exhibitions. Seriously. I've missed a few shows which were literally - and I do mean literally - once in a lifetime events because the paintings/ artefacts had never been shown as a whole to the public in one exhibition before - and will probably never be seen together in one exhibition again - but the tickets had already sold-out. I know I will never, ever, have the chance to see those objects again and, in hindsight, I'm considerably p'd off by my lethargy. I'll be going. If there are any tickets left... Pip. Ok ok I get it... Maybe my words were a bit hasty.. As long as you get enough time to have a good look without feeling rushed... Just depends on what the time slot is.. 30 mins? 1hr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingarmadillo Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Ok ok I get it... Maybe my words were a bit hasty.. As long as you get enough time to have a good look without feeling rushed... Just depends on what the time slot is.. 30 mins? 1hr? Most museums give you a timed entry and just calculate an exit time - there's no mandatory exit exit time - they don't have enough money to get people to enforce exits. Also, you can get around the sellout by becoming a member (about £60 I think - we have a joint membership that cost £84) - they don't limit member entries and you don't pay extra to get in although you still have to get a ticket. My wife does a lot of work with museums - she spent a week at Bradford last year and has done things with V&A in the past. I'm trying to talk her into a business trip for next year, although she's not a Pink Floyd fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glp2012 Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 I guess I'm just weird...I have no interest in seeing "artifacts" if that means clothing that someone in the band wore. I've been to the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas and seen many articles of famous clothing from Elvis to Hendrix...boring. I have an interest in the music, but an item that belonged to someone famous is like sympathetic magic to me... Then, to get rushed through it...not for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 I love Pink Floyd. Saw them in one concert, "The Wall" best concert ever. My wife doesn't like them but at least bought the tickets to see them for our Anniversary way back because she knows I like them. Would be neat to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 I saw Floyd at my local Portsmouth Guildhall in about 1972. They were debuting the as yet unreleased 'Dark Side of the Moon'. I recall it was an excellent show. We enjoyed the new material as much as the old 'Set the Controls..' & '.... Axe Eugene' etc. They had been my favourite band for about 3 years, but I started losing interest from '73 on-wards. The exhibition doesn't appeal to me. In London I'd sooner visit the Tate or the the Globe I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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