Down Under Side Of The Moon - The Pink Floyd Australian Discography

Ummagumma was the first local Pink Floyd release on EMI's progressive Harvest Records label. It was released here some four and a half months after it hit the streets in the UK.

For the Australian release, EMI Australia imported UK metal mothers. EMI UK provided un-numbered stereo mothers with matrices SHDW 1 A-1/ SHDW 1 B-2/ SHDW 2 A-1/ SHDW 2 B-2. Stampers were created locally.

Sleeve art followed that of the UK release, although, presumably as EMI Australia no longer held the MGM rights, the cover of the Gigi album was airbrushed out completely.

Michael Foster, in his review published in The Canberra Times on 29 April 1970, seemed to sum up well the local reaction to the album, stating in part "Here is another group trying to go somewhere different and in some cases they have broken away so completely that they are almost lost to view, and one cannot help wondering if they are sure where they are or where they have been". The review is reproduced in full in the image at right.

Ummagumma was released on cassette in 1974. It was not released on 8 track format. The album remained in print well into the 1980s.

First release has labels typeset with Futura Demi Bold Italic. Reissue has IBM Classified News. All tracks either Essex or MCPS (Lupus still not established in Australia). Interestingly, the track "A Saucerful Of Secrets" is listed with the UK Magdalene publishing credit. It should have been MCPS (it was Lupus in the UK). Not corrected on subsequent reissues.