Pink Floyd: An Important and Rare 'Evolutions' Southampton University Concert Poster,Friday 26th January 1968,printed on metallic paper, for a concert featuring performances by Pink Floyd, John Peel, Incredible String Band, Jimmy Cliff and the Shakedown Sound, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Chicken Shack, Nelson's Column, held at the Old Refectory, University of Southampton, England, 20in x 30in (51cm x 76cm)Footnotes:Provenance:The title of this event is eerily apposite, the date being that on which Pink Floyd effectively sacked Syd Barrett. His increasingly drug-related erratic and difficult behaviour through 1967 and the band's evolving musical direction led them to seek another guitar player. At the end of that year they brought in one of Syd's friends, David Gilmour, and the band played a handful of gigs as a five-piece in January 1968. It was upon travelling to Southampton for this gig, that the band simply decided not to pick Syd up en route.Those who attended this event had real value for the ticket price and were treated to an eclectic mix of music, from the psychedelia of Pink Floyd and the mystic folk of the Incredible String Band and Tyrannosaurus Rex, to the West Indian-influenced Jimmy Cliff and the blues/rock of Chicken Shack and Nelson's Column.This is only the second example we have seen at auction, the first being one owned by John Peel which was sold at Bonhams on the 14th June 2022.