The concerts featured visual performance elements such as the sawing and construction of a table, and consumption of afternoon tea onstage.
[1] The concept was first performed 14 April 1969 at the Royal Festival Hall in a show billed as The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes – More Furious Madness from Pink Floyd.
[1][2] The 17 September performance at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is the most widely bootlegged of the shows on the tour (however, incomplete)[3] because it was broadcast by radio station VPRO.
[1][2] Plans for an official live album release of The Man and The Journey were considered,[2] but abandoned in favour of Ummagumma.
A live recording of The Man and The Journey was released for the first time in 2016 as part of the boxset, The Early Years 1965–1972, included in the 1969: Dramatis/ation volume.