The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream was a concert held in the huge Great Hall of the Alexandra Palace, London, on 29 April 1967. The fund-raising concert for the International Times was organised by Barry Miles and John "Hoppy" Hopkins and David Howson. It was part-documented by Peter Whitehead in a film called Tonite Let's All Make Love in London.
At the time, The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream was described as a multi-artist event, featuring poets, artists and musicians. Pink Floyd headlined the event; other artists included: Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Arthur Brown, Soft Machine, Tomorrow and The Pretty Things.
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.[1] Apparently, Pink Floyd members were exhausted from playing another gig in Holland that same night and arrived at Alexandra Palace at around three in the morning.[2]
On 21 April 2007, the 40th anniversary of this event was celebrated at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. A number of the bands who originally played were there, including The Pretty Things and Arthur Brown; in addition, there were showings of rare films and talks (with questions and answers) 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.
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