Ah ,yes indeed, those were the days , to go to lovely Hyde Park , find a spot in the shade with a few friends - where the view and sound were likely to be good - then lie on the grass and contemplate the universe until the bands were ready to play . Once in a suitably relaxed frame of mind , one could then listen to FREE MUSIC for up to six hours from some of the best bands in Britain ( and a few from overseas on occasions) and do it relatively hassle free. Nowadays this is such a rare event that its big news if it happens , but in those days, free concerts were a regular event !

Colin Purves has a recollection of another Hyde Park free concert that took place before the first documented concert with Pink Floyd in 1968, he writes :

    The very first was not announced or publicised, it just happened, with a small flat bed truck parked on the walkway in the "cockpit" and with the amps and PA running from a flying lead plugged into one of the pathway lamps, which were not very high luckily!

    I cannot in truth remember who played, but I have a "feeling" it may have been Mick Farren, Pete Brown, and so on; It was "organised" by Blackhill Enterprises, so would have been people they represented at the time. There was a brief write up of sorts in a musical paper, maybe NME or MM or more likely OZ or IT - I suppose I will have to plough through those I have left!.
 
    We all knew of it by word of mouth and there were really only about a couple of hundred there, the Floyd one had thousands as the whole cockpit was pretty full.

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   We have also received photos of a hitherto undocumented concert held sometime in 1968 in the bandstand , which featured Roy Harper, Action and other unidentified bands- view here - and please , if you have any details to add to this one please Contact us !