2025-01-01

Happy New Year 2025

Pan and a couple of Dryads
Pan having fun with a couple of Dryads. Artist Unknown. Taken from The Greek God Pan Tinkering: Felix Atagong.

The Internet is forever, they say. Once you upload something, it will be there until the end of time, they say. I have a slightly different opinion. Information is evaporating fast or is diluting in a sea of useless social media crap.

Even more disturbing than artificially coloured pictures, see underneath, actively taking over the B&W originals, will be AI-created monstrosities: fake articles, fake documentaries, fake photos, and fake YouTube movies. Welcome to the pleasure dome. Here comes 2025.

So thank Pan for some of those old dinosaurs that are still around, like the Late Night forum or, why not?, this silly old blog making a dozen readers happy every day.

This year, 2025, we will gravely diminish our online presence, be it Facebook or Tumblr, and no one will miss it. So, probably for the last time, here is our yearly overview of things we put on Tumblr in 2024. See you at the dark side of doom.

Happy New Year!

Syd Barrett
January 2024. Just a coloured photograph of the wonder boy to send to magazines back home.
Iggy the Eskimo
January 2024. A Garden in Brighton offered us a new picture from Iggy the Eskimo. Many thanks to Emo Moore for finding it.
Syd Barrett
February 2024. A picture of The Madcap Laughs cover shoot. The question is: who took it?
Octopus (compulation)
March 2024. One of the lesser known Syd Barrett compilations on the Cleopatra label. Still not mentioned on the official Barrett website.
Denzil Souman
April 2024. Denzil Souman, the King of the Mods, was a sharp dressing man who visited the same dancing palace as Iggy. Decades later she was still thrilled about him.
The Madcap Laughs
May 2024. Hipgnosis photo collage on the inside of The Madcap Laughs. What the hell were they smoking?
Floorboards for sale
June 2024. When the event of the year is the auction of some weirdly coloured floorboards. The Case of the Painted Floorboards (v 2.024) .
Dried Flowers
July 2024 Another month, another Barrett auction. This time a 1963 drawing. Dried Flowers Painting for Sale.
Syd Barrett by Mick Rock
August 2024. Syd by Mick.
Luck and Strange (David Gilmour)
September 2024. The musical event of the year. Luck and Strange. Lucky Number.
Pink Floyd
October 2024. Pink Floyd perform at the UFO Club, London, December 1966. Photo by Adam Ritchie.
Iggy by Anthony Stern
November 2024. Iggy picture by Anthony Stern.
Syd Barrett by Mick Rock
December 2024. Happy New Year!

The Church wishes to thank all our friends, collaborators and some old enemies whom we can’t live without: Allison Renee, Anne M, Antonio Jesùs Reyes, Astral Piper Redux 2013, Beata Kruczkowska, Birdie Hop, Brian Wernham, Dion Johnson, Duggie Fields, Eleonora Siatoni, Gretta Barclay, Hallucalation, Iain Emo Moore, Iggy Rose, Jenny Fabian, Jenny Spires, Josip, JuhaS, Kwadguy, Libby Gausden, Little Queenies, Maira Barrett, Malcolm Jones, Marc-Olivier Becks, Maurock Guglielmi, Mayu, Mick Rock, Miss Peelpants, Mr. Grumpy, Neptune Pink Floyd, Nuno Bento, Omega Auctions, Petra Eder, Pink Floyd Collectors, Rarepinkfloyd, Rich Hall, Richard Blank, Rob Chapman, Roddy Bogawa, Rontoon, Sam Vojoudi, Stanislav V. Grigorev, StarsCanFrighten, Stephanie Hawkins, Steve (Melodylaughter), Steve Bassett, Steve Hoffmann Music Forum, Thomson Roddick Callan auctions, Vanessa Flores, Zeki… and those we may have forgotten...
♥ Iggy ♥ Libby ♥