During a concert in Chicago on 8 June 2012 at Wrigley Field, the pig crashed into the crowd behind home plate and was ripped to pieces by the crowd.Likewise, during the concert in Dallas, TX on, and Houston, TX on 4 May, the pig floated away.The pig was found three days later at a nearby country club.
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Organizers of the festival had offered a $10,000 reward plus free lifetime tickets to the festival in return for the pig's recovery. During Waters' performance at the 2008 Coachella Festival, one of the giant inflatable pigs being used as a prop became untethered and floated away into the California desert.At Argentina tour dates in 2007, the pig had the "Nunca Más" (Never again) inscription on its chest, referring to the famous slogan with which the Argentine people referred to the 1976-1983 military dictatorship during which 30,000 people were forcibly disappeared and later assassinated.In a concert in Argentina on 2007, a pig flew and ended up on the Río de la Plata.
During a concert in Summerfest 2006, the pig had a message printed on it reading "Impeach Bush".Reportedly purchased by The String Cheese Incident manager Mike Luba from a former Pink Floyd stagehand, the 40-foot pig flew again over the Austin City Limits Music Festival audience during a cover of Pink Floyd's " Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)".ĭuring their Live 8 reunion with Waters, footage of Algie, over Battersea Power Station, was shown on a giant video screen behind the band.Ī replica of Algie was tethered above Battersea Power Station on 26 September 2011 to promote the Why Pink Floyd.? campaign, involving the reissue of the band's first 14 studio albums.Īn inflatable pig released at the Roger Waters show on June, 2007. One damaged inflatable pig, believed to be from the 1988 Pink Floyd tour, was repaired by Nga Keith and flown again over a concert by the band The String Cheese Incident in Austin, Texas on 20 September 2003. The pig made another appearance before the release of Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, when Capitol Records flew a replica of the original pig from Animals over the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, California. This was also during Pulse, but for the VHS, Laserdisc and DVD releases, footage of the pigs falling was edited out. ĭuring the 1994 tour, two warthog-like pigs with protruding tongues were shown at the top of the stage side's speaker towers, sometimes just deflated, sometimes dropped on the ground after " One of These Days". Pink Floyd added a 'deflated' pig to Roger Waters' auction of animation art from the film The Wall at Christie's London, on 21 September 1990, but the lot was withdrawn before the auction started. The pig is shown to be flown over the audience during the performance of One of These Days in the Delicate Sound of Thunder concert video, where it appears black with illuminated eyes. The pig briefly appeared on 10 June 1988 at Beaujoire stadium in Nantes, France it flew above the crowd for a very short time, after which it was seen to deflate. Pink Floyd concert at Docklands Arena, July 1989įor the 1987–1989 tour, the band added testicles to the pig, which David Gilmour has said was an attempt to get around Roger Waters having the image rights for the pig. During concerts, the pig appeared around the PA stacks in a cloud of black smoke during performances of " Pigs (Three Different Ones)". In the Flesh Īfter the album Animals was released in 1977, Pink Floyd began their "In the Flesh" tour. The pig that was originally floated above Battersea Power Station was called "Algie". However, the pictures of the sky from the first day were suitable eventually, the album cover was created using a composite of photos from the first and third days.
The pig was recovered and repaired for the resumption of photography for the album cover, but the sky was cloudless and blue, thus "boring". Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as the huge inflatable pig flew through the path of aircraft, eastwards from Britain and out over the English Channel, finally landing on a rural farm in Kent that night. It disappeared from sight within five minutes, and was spotted by airline pilots at thirty thousand feet in the air. The pig broke free due to a strong gust of wind on the third day, gaining a lot of press coverage. On the second day, the marksman was not present because no one had told him to return. The original Pink Floyd pig was designed by Roger Waters and built in December 1976 by the artist Jeffrey Shaw with help of design team Hipgnosis.
Algie replica flying over the Battersea Power Station on 26 September 2011