For a long time (I say along time but only since about February) I have been trying to get into Pink Floyd - I know the main big hits but I just wanted to get into them more. I have grown up with my dad being a huge fan of them - all of his music taste rubs of onto me but it took a while for Pink Floyd to. At the end of February the V&A announced they were having a Pink Floyd exhibition, After attending the 'You say you want a revolution' exhibition previously I was intrigued to see what this was going to be like. I was not disappointed.
My dad always likes to tell us about the time he saw Pink Floyd on the wall tour. How they had the wall built up in front of them, having the plane come in and crash right into the wall, the puppet of the headmaster walking across the stage and the time they had the big inflatable pig there as well (I dont know if it was the same time or another time he saw them).
I was pretty happy to turn a corner and see everything my dad always tells me about - 'Another brick in the wall' has always been one of my favourite Pink Floyd song so I was pretty happy to actually see the puppet. I dont know if it was the exact same one because it looks completely different in the 'nose' compared to the video. This particular area had so much to it - The Pig, Headmaster, Inflatable fat TV and fridge, the wall, the room that came out of the wall, the masks used on the children in the 'another brick in the wall' video and so much more.
(for the life of me I cant remember who's shirts these are but I want both of them as well as the hat!!)
Same as before with the 'You say you want a revolution' exhibition there was a performance room, last time I went in there it made you feel like you were at Woodstock, this time Pink Floyd videos were playing all around. I was in the room before this looking at the division bell bits when all of a sudden I hear 'Arnold Layne' playing from somewhere - I marched of like a five year old child just to see why it was playing - Its probably my second favourite Pink Floyd song. I would love to visit this exhibition again before it ends in October, it was so much better than I thought it was going to be.





I really loved this exhibition too, hope you get to see it again! I'm hoping to at the end of September. I really enjoyed the Wall section too, I'm doing my dissertation on the artwork for it so it's come at a really good time for me!
ReplyDeleteThose are Nick Mason's shirts and hat ❤️ I was a bit disappointed those were the only clothes they had on display as they all dressed so fabulously in the early days.