The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream

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The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream was a

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
.

History

At the time, The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream was described as a multi-artist event, featuring poets, artists and musicians.

Mike Horovitz, Poison Bellows, Christopher Logue, Robert C. Randall, Suzy Creamcheese, Sam Gopal's Dream, Giant Sun Trolley, Simon Vinkenoog, Jean Jaques Lavel, the Stalkers, Utterly Incredible Too Long Ago To Remember Sometimes Shouting At People, Barry Fantoni, Noel Murphy, Dick Gregory, Graham Stevens and Yoko Ono.[1][3] In the audience watching Ono's performance art that night was John Lennon who attended the event with his friend John Dunbar.[4] Lennon had met Ono half a year earlier, on 7 November 1966, when he attended a private preview of an exhibition of her work entitled "Unfinished Paintings and Objects" at Dunbar's Indica Gallery.[5]

There were two main stages inside the hall, with a smaller central stage designed for poets, performance artists, jugglers, dancers including The Tribe of the Sacred Mushroom), Philippine dancer David Medalla and The Exploding Galaxy Dance Troupe. The largest stage for the main events, constructed along the rear wall, was flanked by the large glass windows of the Palace. Light shows and strobes lit up every inch of available space from a massive light tower at the center of the hall. Underground films, (most notably the Flaming Creatures) were screened on white sheets taped to scaffolding. The center piece was a helter skelter which was rented for the night.[6]

The Great Hall of Alexandra Palace, venue for The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream

Pink Floyd appeared right at the end of the show, just as the sun was beginning to rise at around five o'clock in the morning. The details of the set-list are rather sketchy; however, one source suggests that they played "Astronomy Domine", "Arnold Layne", "Interstellar Overdrive", "Nick's Boogie", and other material from their then unreleased debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.[7] Apparently, Pink Floyd members were exhausted from playing another gig in the Netherlands that same night and arrived at Alexandra Palace at around three in the morning.[8]

A film crew were on hand to capture footage of the event, some of which was shown as part of the BBC show

Man Alive
, about the concert. A short excerpt of The New Animals can be seen performing, as can John Lennon in the crowd. Photos of Pink Floyd's set clearly show that some of theirs was also filmed, but the footage has never been seen.

A song named after the event was released by The Syn.

On Saturday 6 December 1997, a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream took place at the

Mike Horovitz, Charles Shaar Murray and Jenny Fabian chaired by the author and critic Lucy O'Brien. Link Leisure and Marcus Gogarty created psychedelic installations and there were more modern takes on underground culture represented by Bruce Gilbert, Paul Kendall, Ausgang, Zwang Taboo and drum and bass DJs. There was performance and live art from Jane Turner,[12] Mark Waugh and Graham Duff. Malcolm Boyle also performed his own one-man show The Madcap - a biography of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett
.

On 21 April 2007, the 40th anniversary of this event was again celebrated at the

The Pretty Things and Arthur Brown
played; in addition, there was a repeat performance of Malcolm Boyle's The Madcap and showings of rare films and more talks from several of the original sixties faces and attendees of the Alexandra Palace event. In the spirit of the original event, there was also an all-night after-party in a secret location organised by promoters Sleep All Day Drive All Night.

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-84353-575-0
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-571-23855-2
    .
  3. ^ ""The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream". Excerpted from Syd Barrett: Lost in the Woods by Julian Palacios". Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  4. ^ ""John Lennon attends the 14 Hour Technicolour Dream - 10.00pm, Saturday 29 April 1967"". 29 April 1967. Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  5. ^ "Richard Buskin, "John Lennon - John Lennon Meets Yoko Ono", How Stuff Works". 3 July 2007. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  6. ^ ""The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream". Excerpt from Lost in the Woods by Julian Palacios". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  7. ^ "Pink Floyd – The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream". Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2006.
  8. Mojo Magazine. Archived from the original
    on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  9. Independent.co.uk. 7 December 1997. Archived
    from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  10. Independent.co.uk. 23 October 2011. Archived
    from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  11. ^ "John's Children". Archived from the original on 21 October 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  12. ^ "TURNER DANCE". www.janeturner.net. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.

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