Tributes have been paid to Florian Pilkington-Miksa, Curved Air’s original drummer, who died on May 20 following several bouts of pneumonia. Sonja Kristina, Curved Air’s singer, said: “His drumming identified the tracks as Curved Air. He is a great drummer – on a par with Ginger, Bonham and Mitchell in the context of the power, emotion and complexity he created with us.”
Stewart Copeland, who succeeded him in the band, added: “As a drummer, he was deft yet powerful, fully at ease with the crazy prog meters.”