Pink Floyd in Cork

SEPTEMBER 1967 — having spent seven years in west London working as a clerk filing legal papers, I was back in Cork. At home one night in Gillabbey Street an ad in the Echo newspaper jumped off the page at me: “Pink Floyd at the Arcadia, Sunday 17 September!” I had to read it several times to believe it.
I had known Syd Barrett and the other members of the Floyd since their residency days at the old Marquee Club — as well as the London Free School activist centre in Powis Square when they played for practically nothing.