fegmania.org update, 1 January 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The Second Syd Tribute
Following the second night at the Three Kings pub where Robyn and his Heavy Friends performed the entirety of Pink Floyd's The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn to raise money for Medecins Sans Frontieres, the following note was posted on his website:

Our two performances of "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" (the first Pink Floyd album, mostly composed by Syd Barrett) last weekend at the 3 Kings in Clerkenwell, London raised £4,080 for Medecins Sans Frontieres.

The line up on Saturday was me on guitar, Terry Edwards on keyboards and horns, Paul Noble on bass, and Morris Windsor on drums and vocals. On Sunday we were joined by Kimberley Rew on guitar and vocals.

Compere/auctioneer on Saturday was Mark Ellen, on Sunday it was Adam Buxton. The shows were organised by Michèle Noach and Deke Eichler. James Kliffen from MSF spoke about the situation in Darfur, which is the money raised here will be targeted.

We'd like to thank everybody who came along to support MSF and give us an excuse to play this unbelieveable music.

Many thanks!

Happy Solstice,
Robyn

Thanks to Matthijs, recordings of both nights have appeared on dimeadozen and I hope to have them uploaded to the Live Music Archive soon as well. If you are one of the people who downloaded those lovely recordings, please consider making a donation to MSF to help out!