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If you like Pink Floyd, even a little bit, or you like class visual shows, go see the Australian Pink Floyd Show. Last night was incredible! Since the real Pink Floyd ain't touring anymore, these guys are really the alternative, although they are pretty damn close to the real thing. Myself and Niall went and decided to stand, which was a good choice.
They kicked off by performing the 'Wish you were here' album in it's entirety, then they took a break cause of technical problems. 20 mins later, and £45 lighter, the two of us had two t-shirts and a concert DVD before going back in to see the rest of the show. The cool woman let me pay for my t-shirt in euros & pounds (:.
Anyways, i'm trying to list most of what they played. Second half contained (in no order) Us & Them, Another brick in the wall Pt2, The Great Gig in the Sky, Comfortably Numb, Money, Run like Hell, Mother, In the Flesh, On the Run (i think), One of These Days, and a few Syd Barett-era songs, which were class.
Anyways, these shows are massively visual. They have loads of coloured lights, big projection screens, lasers and whatnot. Highlights had to be:
The vocal scat solo in Great Gig was incredible, better than the way the real Pink Floyd do it on my live album.
Then there was One of These Days. I wasn't expecting this to be played, but as you were probably told, it's been my MSN name for like 2 weeks. It was class! I've been to quite a few concerts with strong bass, but this was unbelievable. In the build up the bass was so strong that it just incased everybody in a shell of low frequency vibrations for about 10 seconds. It's one of the most incredible things i've ever heard! Then during that, they blew up their big pink kangaroo mascot which was the size of the stage, and when the music really got going, the roadies bounced it around! It was class, you had to be there!
So, some brilliant music all supported by lots of visual videos during songs, in Pink Floyd's style, except replacing their pink elephants with pink kangaroos. It should be renamed The Australian Pink Floyd Experience. I'm so going next time!
To complete the night, Niall and i got into his car, drove 5 metres, and realised that we had a flat tyre! Great! So we spent about 20 mins under the M3 bridge getting our hands dirty and doing a good job. Yea, the tyre stayed on all the way home thankfully!
They kicked off by performing the 'Wish you were here' album in it's entirety, then they took a break cause of technical problems. 20 mins later, and £45 lighter, the two of us had two t-shirts and a concert DVD before going back in to see the rest of the show. The cool woman let me pay for my t-shirt in euros & pounds (:.
Anyways, i'm trying to list most of what they played. Second half contained (in no order) Us & Them, Another brick in the wall Pt2, The Great Gig in the Sky, Comfortably Numb, Money, Run like Hell, Mother, In the Flesh, On the Run (i think), One of These Days, and a few Syd Barett-era songs, which were class.
Anyways, these shows are massively visual. They have loads of coloured lights, big projection screens, lasers and whatnot. Highlights had to be:
- All the lights shining on the audience during the chorus of 'Shine on you Crazy Diamond'
- The saxophone guy, who was class!
- The hugely extended Another brick in the wall Pt 2.
- Money, just cause it's a class song.
- Lasers, specially during Run like Hell
- The guy with the Auzzie hat and long hair playing 5 keyboards
The vocal scat solo in Great Gig was incredible, better than the way the real Pink Floyd do it on my live album.
Then there was One of These Days. I wasn't expecting this to be played, but as you were probably told, it's been my MSN name for like 2 weeks. It was class! I've been to quite a few concerts with strong bass, but this was unbelievable. In the build up the bass was so strong that it just incased everybody in a shell of low frequency vibrations for about 10 seconds. It's one of the most incredible things i've ever heard! Then during that, they blew up their big pink kangaroo mascot which was the size of the stage, and when the music really got going, the roadies bounced it around! It was class, you had to be there!
So, some brilliant music all supported by lots of visual videos during songs, in Pink Floyd's style, except replacing their pink elephants with pink kangaroos. It should be renamed The Australian Pink Floyd Experience. I'm so going next time!
To complete the night, Niall and i got into his car, drove 5 metres, and realised that we had a flat tyre! Great! So we spent about 20 mins under the M3 bridge getting our hands dirty and doing a good job. Yea, the tyre stayed on all the way home thankfully!
posted by TheNightMonkey at 17:37
2 Comments:
ha....c those automatics...
Awesome, we had the lights on the audience in the chorus of shine on and the big disco ball for comfortably numb too. And I had forgotten about the keyboard player's hat!
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