The Man and The Journey Tour

The Man and The Journey tour was an informal (mostly English) concert tour of a few dates by Pink Floyd during which the conceptual music piece The Man and The Journey was played.^[1]

The Man and The Journey Tour

Tour by Pink Floyd
Start date	27 March 1969
End date	24 September 1969
Legs	1
No. of shows	29 (31 scheduled)
Pink Floyd concert chronology

Setlist

At most shows Pink Floyd performed The Man and The Journey, however at some shows this was not performed - these shows had a shorter set which usually included "Astronomy Domine", "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" and unaltered versions of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "A Saucerful of Secrets" as heard on Ummagumma. At concerts in Europe in early 1970, "The Man" section (first set) of The Man and the Journey was still performed, but "The Journey" section was not.

The Man and The Journey set list

This set list is from the 17 September 1969 show in Amsterdam.^[2][3]

First set

1. "Daybreak" ("Grantchester Meadows")
2. "Work" (Percussion and vibraphone with musical sawing and hammering)
3. "Teatime" (The band members were served tea on stage)
4. "Afternoon" ("Biding My Time")
5. "Doing It!" ("Entertainment" section of "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" with tape effects. Earlier dates had an improvised drum and gong solo, with Farfisa organ and tape effects or "Up The Khyber" with tape effects)
6. "Sleep" ("Quicksilver")
7. "Nightmare" (Extended "Cymbaline" with tape effects. Improvisation with tape effects on early dates)
8. "Labyrinth" (instrumental alarm clock sounds and tape effects)

Second set

1. "The Beginning" ("Green is the Colour")
2. "Beset by Creatures of the Deep" ("Careful with That Axe, Eugene")
3. "The Narrow Way, Part 3"
4. "The Pink Jungle" (Extended "Pow R. Toc H.". Improvisation on early dates)
5. "The Labyrinths of Auximines" (Middle instrumental section of "Let There Be More Light". Improvisation on early dates)
6. "Footsteps/Doors" (tape effects)
7. "Behold the Temple of Light" (beginning of "The Narrow Way, Part 3 extended with jamming")
8. "The End of the Beginning" ("Celestial Voices")

Encore (when played)

1. "Interstellar Overdrive" (April 14 in London and May 24 in Sheffield) or "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (22 June in Manchester and 26 June in London)

Other shows

When The Man and The Journey was not performed, the shows usually contained all or some of the following:^[4]

1. "Astronomy Domine"
2. "Careful with That Axe, Eugene"
3. "Interstellar Overdrive"
4. "Green Is the Colour"
5. "Pow R. Toc H."
6. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
7. "Let There Be More Light"
8. "A Saucerful of Secrets"

For the recording of Top Gear for BBC Radio 1, the band performed:

1. "Grantchester Meadows"
2. "Cymbaline"
3. "The Narrow Way, Part 3"
4. "Green Is the Colour"
5. "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" (truncated version)

This performance was released as part of The Early Years 1965–1972 box set in 2016.^[3]

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Notes
Europe
27 March 1969	Chesterfield	England	St James's Hall	The Man and The Journey not performed
14 April 1969	London		Royal Festival Hall	First performance of The Man and The Journey Rick Wright played the Hall's pipe organ
19 April 1969	Stuttgart	West Germany	SDR TV Villaberg TV Studios
23 April 1969	Hamburg		NDR Funkhaus
26 April 1969	London	England	Bromley Technical College	The Man and The Journey not performed
27 April 1969	Birmingham		Mothers	The Man and The Journey not performed Shows recorded for Ummagumma
2 May 1969	Manchester		Manchester College of Commerce
3 May 1969	London		Queen Mary College	The Man and The Journey not performed
9 May 1969	Southampton		University of Southampton Students' Union
	Camden		Camden Festival '69
10 May 1969	Nottingham		Notts County F.C.
12 May 1969	London		BBC Radio 1 (Top Gear)	The Man and The Journey not performed
15 May 1969	Coventry		Locarno Ballroom
16 May 1969	Leeds		Town Hall
24 May 1969	Sheffield		City Oval Hall
25 May 1969	London		Roundhouse
29 May 1969	Bristol		HTV TV Studios (Fusions)
30 May 1969	Croydon		Fairfield Halls
31 May 1969	Oxford		Pembroke College
8 June 1969	Cambridge		Rex Ballroom
10 June 1969	Belfast	Northern Ireland	Ulster Hall
13 June 1969	Exeter	England	University of Exeter
14 June 1969	Bristol		Colston Hall
15 June 1969	Portsmouth		Guildhall
16 June 1969	Brighton		Brighton Dome
20 June 1969	Birmingham		Town Hall
21 June 1969	Liverpool		Philharmonic Hall
22 June 1969	Manchester		Free Trade Hall
24 June 1969	Oxford		The Queen's College
26 June 1969	London		Royal Albert Hall	Rick Wright played the Hall's pipe organ
9 August 1969	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Paradiso Club	The Man and The Journey not performed Performance broadcast on local radio
17 September 1969			Concertgebouw	Rick Wright played the theatre's pipe organ Performance recorded and broadcast on VPRO radio station
24 September 1969	Maastricht		Staargebouw

Release

The 27 April (Birmingham) and 2 May (Manchester) concerts were recorded and parts released on the live half of the Ummagumma album, in November 1969.^[5] The recordings from 6 September and 17 September 1969 in Amsterdam were released as part of the box set The Early Years 1965-1972 in 2016. They are included in the volume titled 1969: Dramatis/ation. The volume also contains video footage from a rehearsal at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 14 April 1969.^[3]

Personnel

• David Gilmour – electric and acoustic guitars, percussion, vocals
• Roger Waters – bass, nylon-string acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals, vocalisations
• Richard Wright – Farfisa organ, vibraphone, trombone, vocals, pipe organs (where available)
• Nick Mason – drums, percussion

References

1. Guesdon, Jean-Michel; Margottin, Phillipe (2017). Pink Floyd All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. Black Dog & Leventhal. p. 158. ISBN 978-0316439244.
2. Pink Floyd – The Man & The Journey (CD) (in German), January 1992, retrieved 1 March 2021
3. Pink Floyd – The Early Years 1965-1972 (2016, Box Set), 11 November 2016, retrieved 1 March 2021
4. Mabbett, Andy (2010). Pink Floyd- The music and the mystery. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-857-12418-0.
5. Pink Floyd – Ummagumma (1969, Vinyl) (in German), 25 October 1969, retrieved 1 March 2021