"IT'S ALMOST LIKE WATCHING A DREAM"
Floyd "superfan" STEVEN WILSON on a lifetime of loving At Pompeii, and his new mix.
PINK FLOYD have always been my favourite band. My dad had brainwashed me playing
The Dark Side Of The Moon
, but I didn’t know that other side of the group – the early, psychedelic, improvisational aspect – before I saw Pink Floyd At Pompeii. I was about 12 or 13 years old, it was at the Odeon in Chesham, on a double bill with T. Rex, Born To Boogie, which became another of my lifelong obsessions. To see the Floyd playing that music, in that location, all looking the epitome of detached, intellectual cool, left a deep, deep impression on me.