We have said it before, and I am afraid we will say it again. Whenever
you think that the Iggy well has been dried up, she will surprise us
with something new.
July 2023 confronted us with 32 new Iggy pictures, take by Feri
Lukas in the mid-seventies, and found in a Viennese antiquity shop by
art collector Kevin Geronimo Brandtner. More about that a bit later when
we present you our annual overview of our Tumblr sister-blog,
aptly titled The Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit.
And guess what? In December, we were confronted with another new Iggy
picture, but that is for a new article to appear in a couple of days.
Happy New Year!
It’s a new year and before we thank all our friends who participated in
the Church in 2023 we’ll have a quick overview of that mad place that is
the Tumblr edition of the Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit. It is
ridiculously popular, compared to its original. Make your own comment
using the terms ‘pearls’ and ‘swine’.
January
2023. Start the year with a roaring Syd Barrett. Our review of the
2011 Barrett art book from Russell Beecher & Will Shutes can be found at Barrett:
come on you painter! February
2023. The man standing behind the boys is not a groupie, nor a roadie.
Meet Jean-Marie Deschamps in If
you're going to Sausalito. March
2023 . Iggy, by Anthony Stern, who passed away in 2022. We are still
waiting for the Get all that, Ant DVD, that promises unseen footage of
Pink Floyd and Iggy. Read more at: RIP
Anthony Stern: 1944-2022. April
2023. A documentary that did get a release in 2023 was Have You Got It
Yet? Started by Storm Thorgerson in 2012 it took director Roddy Bogawa
over a decade to finish it. The truth and nothing but the truth can be
read in Incarceration
of a Flower Child. May
2023. Bonhams tried to sell Syd’s manuscript of Apples and Oranges, a
leftover found in the archives of Blackhill Enterprises (Peter Jenner).
However, the demanded amount of apples wasn’t reached. A couple of months
later the same document was auctioned again at Omega Auctions and this
time the right amount of oranges was reached. Our reports at: An
Apple a Day…… andBarrett
on Paper. June
2023. Muziek uit de Ruimte (Music from Space), a Dutch ad for the
Floyd’s second album. Just because we like it. July
2023. Art collector Kevin Geronimo Brandtner visited a Viennese
second-hand shop where he stumbled upon a contact sheet with 32 unknown
Iggy pictures, taken by Feri Lukas. More details: Viennese
Iggy Treasure Found! August
2023. Because some people still don’t know which record gave the Pink
Floyd name away. Read the bawdy truth at: Step
It Up And Go. September
2023. A review of some Floydian records, issued in 2023: Any
Colour you Like , featuring The Orb and David Gilmour, Roger Waters
and Rick Wright. October
2023. Iggy, by Chris Lanaway. The start of a legend. Picture taken in
2011 for Mojo magazine. Read Mark Blake's exclusive interview here: The
Strange Tale Of Iggy The Eskimo. November
2023. Fun with the Floyd. Dark Side of the Moon at 50, a real MILF of
a record. December
2023. Mick Brown on Syd’s bench. Still greatly missed by the 0.001%
who knew him. The
great curry in the sky. He probably is insulting Syd in heaven, much
to the enjoyment of both.
The Church wishes to thank all our friends, collaborators and some old
enemies whom we can’t live without: ‘Georgie Boy’ Lukàc, Alexander,
Alien Brain, Antonio Jesús Reyes, Aubrey Powell, Benji, Birdie Hop,
Chapter 24, Dillharris1953, Drkrazee, Ebronte, Eleonora Siatoni,
Elizabeth Joyce, Eternal Isolation, Ewgeni Reingold, Feri Lukas, Göran
Nyström, Hipgnosis Covers, Iain Emo Moore, Iggy Rose, Jackie Orme Ward,
Jenny Spires, Kevin Geronimo Brandtner, Libby Gausden, Mark Blake, Mark
Cobley-Jones, Mark Lawton, Mimi Hnamte, MluciferSam, NO TIME TO ROCK,
Petra Eder, Peudent, Psych62, Ramenastern, Rich Hall, Rino Di Lernia,
RJBuffalo, Roddy Bogawa, Sean Beaver, Simon Matthews, Stanislav, Suzie,
SwanLee, Syd Wonder, Thana Hnamte, Vanessa Flores, Wolfpack, Younglight,
Zeebo… and all the others we have forgotten. ♥ Libby ♥ Iggy ♥
