1966 Before the records
Liquid light
In autumn 1966 the light show was made by hand: coloured oil and dye between glass slides, boiled by a projector lamp with its heat filter taken out.
Surface: warped noise boiling like the slide in a projector.
A Pink Floyd tribute
MONEY
Fly the band's story from 1967 to 1994: one world for each album, from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn to The Division Bell.
Next show
Date, venue and city to come
1967 Album 1 of 14
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Recorded at Abbey Road in the spring of 1967, in the studio next to the Beatles making Sgt Pepper. The title comes from chapter seven of The Wind in the Willows.
Surface: a kaleidoscope, after the prism lens Vic Singh shot the cover through.
1968 Album 2 of 14
A Saucerful of Secrets
The first Pink Floyd sleeve by Hipgnosis, the studio of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, who went on to design The Dark Side of the Moon.
Surface: two inks that will not mix, boiling in a slide.
1969 Album 3 of 14
More
The soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder's film More, recorded at Pye studios in London in January and February 1969.
Surface: cobalt ink screened onto orange in halftone dots.
1969 Album 4 of 14
Ummagumma
A double album. One disc is live, from Mothers Club in Birmingham and the College of Commerce in Manchester. On the other, each member takes a turn on his own.
Surface: a picture inside a picture, the frames falling inward forever.
1970 Album 5 of 14
Atom Heart Mother
After the space-rock years the band asked for something plain on the cover. They got a cow in a field, with no band name and no title on the front.
Surface: Holstein patches over green pasture.
1971 Album 6 of 14
Meddle
Echoes and One of These Days were played for Live at Pompeii, filmed over four days in October 1971 in the empty amphitheatre, with no audience at all.
Surface: cooled crust over magma, cracked like a heated slide.
1972 Album 7 of 14
Obscured by Clouds
The soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée, recorded at the Château d'Hérouville in France in two breaks from making The Dark Side of the Moon.
Surface: a valley you only see through gaps in the cloud.
1973 Album 8 of 14
The Dark Side of the Moon
At Earls Court in May 1973, a seven-foot model plane crashed into the stage at the end of On the Run.
Surface: op art. Two sets of rings in a vibrating colour pair, tuned to equal brightness.
1975 Album 9 of 14
Wish You Were Here
On 5 June 1975, while the band were mixing Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Syd Barrett walked into Abbey Road. At first the band did not recognise him.
Surface: marbled bands in the colours of an oil film.
1977 Album 10 of 14
Animals
In December 1976 a 12-metre inflatable pig broke loose over Battersea Power Station and came down in Kent.
Look for the pig in orbit.
1979 Album 11 of 14
The Wall
On the 1980–81 tour a wall was built across the stage during the show, then brought down at the end.
Keep going: this one comes down too.
1983 Album 12 of 14
The Final Cut
It began as Spare Bricks, music for the film of The Wall. After the Falklands War, Roger Waters wrote new songs for it under the working title Requiem for a Post-War Dream.
Surface: ash and poppies under a passing searchlight.
1987 Album 13 of 14
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
The first Pink Floyd album without Roger Waters, recorded mostly on David Gilmour's houseboat, the Astoria.
Surface: a beach at low tide.
1994 Album 14 of 14
The Division Bell
By 1994 the light show ran on hundreds of automated lights and copper-vapour lasers.
Its moon is a mirror ball.
1967 1994
Fourteen albums line up
That was the band's story, record by record. The rest of the page belongs to MONEY: a slide you can run yourself, the history in 3D, the dates, the band, and how to book them.
Interactive · the projector
Run the light show
In 1966 Peter Wynne-Willson took the heat filters out of slide projectors and let the lamp cook coloured liquids between glass. This slide is a fluid simulation running on your graphics card.
Drag across the slide to drop dye. Heat the lamp to boil it.
Visuals are paused. Press Play visuals at the top to run the slide.
Learn · the constellation
The story in light
51 people, places, records and machines on a helix of time: 1962 at the bottom, 1995 at the top. Scroll to climb the years, drag to turn the helix, pick a star to read its story.
Drag to turn the helix. Tap a star to read its story.
- People
- Places
- Records
- Light and sound
Browse as a list
The show
What you'll hear
Set list to come. This is where MONEY's set goes: which albums and songs they play, whether any album is played in full, how long the show runs, and what the production includes.
Live video to come. One full song filmed at a real show. It will load only when someone presses play.
Live
Dates
No dates are listed yet. These handbills show how each show will look once real dates are added.
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City, State
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Date
Venue name
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Doors · Show
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Who plays
The band
Member names, roles and photos will go here.
- NameGuitar, vocals
- NameBass, vocals
- NameKeyboards
- NameDrums
- NameSaxophone, vocals
For Syd
Where it started
Syd Barrett named the band after two bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. He had trained as a painter at Camberwell.
He left in 1968 and went home to Cambridge, where he painted and kept a garden. He died there on 7 July 2006.
Sources: Syd Barrett, Wikipedia · Pink Floyd archive, 2006
Dawn
Book MONEY
Tell us the date, the room and how many people it holds.
Press kit
- Bio, short and long
- Press photos
- Logo files
- Tech rider and stage plot
Downloads will appear here.