Photographer
Peter Mercier has a collection of rare images of one of Britain's top
bands at one of their very early gigs
You know the old saying which goes "If you can remember the Sixties,
you weren't really there?" Well, Peter Mercier can remember at least some of
them thanks to remembering to take his trusty Pentax camera with him when he was invited along to a very early Pink Floyd show. Peter was
a photographic student in London in 1966 and so also managed to grab a portable flash for the evening from the College stores.
The gig was at the All Saints Church Hall, Powys Gardens, London. Inside there was a crowd of about 35 people, some sitting on the
floor, others swaying with an odd motion. Gently undulating amoeboid shapes were projected onto the walls, and on the stage a bunch of
guys, in what would likely have been Bri-Nylon shirts and Sta-Prest trousers,
were playing a sound from another dimension! - sounds that had simply
never been heard before.
The photographs are true period pieces, (note the bare
light bulb in the picture of the stage and Richard Wright sitting on a battered
suitcase on top of a chair!) and they have been variously described as 'Great', 'Superb', and 'Simply of a stunning beauty'.
Peter Mercier has been a studio still life photographer since those heady
days.
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