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Super! No, had missed them. Brit Floyd or The Australian Pink Floyd Show?

Thread starter pak1001 Start date Dec 9, 2022
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Dec 9, 2022 #1

Preferences? Differences? Thoughts?

[...] Dec 10, 2022

#6 Admittedly, I've never seen Brit Floyd live, but.....

2003-2010 era Australian Pink Floyd gets my vote. They had Damian Darlington and Steve Mac as the one/two guitar punch. Like every Pink Floyd cover band, their vocals were the weakest link, especially Gilmour, but during those years they had a musical cohesion much tighter than anything I've seen since from Brit Floyd.

I was lucky enough to see PF several times in 1994. I remember thinking back then "I'll never see a show that good again". To this day that still stands, but about 10 min into the APF show I thought "dayum!".

I feel fortunate to have APF's 2004 live DVD and couple tour promo DVD's in my collection. Surprisingly, this trailer is all I could find on YT.

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/brit-floyd-or-the-australian-pink-floyd-show.2419538/#post-36009954

Top 10 Best Pink Floyd Tribute Bands

David Victor David Victor
February 27, 2023

Table of Contents

The Band
The Top 10 Best Pink Floyd Tribute Bands
#1 – The Machine
#2 – The Australian Pink Floyd Show
#3 – Brit Floyd
#4 – Pigs On The Wing
#5 – In The Flesh – Echoes of Pink Floyd
#6 – Pigs
#7 – In The Pink
#8 – Beyond The Darkside
#9 – Pig Floyd
#10 – Pinky And The Floyd
The Need for Pink Floyd Tribute Bands
Fun Facts About Pink Floyd and Pink Floyd Tribute Bands



Pathbreaking, experimental, and uniquely addicting, Pink Floyd is among the world’s most iconic bands whose music remains relevant to date. Formed in London in 1965, the British rock group was a trendsetter in the psychedelic rock music genre of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

During this time, Pink Floyd grabbed the attention of music lovers with their characteristic hypnotic style that included spacey sound effects, extended instrumental solos, and improvisation.

However, Pink Floyd’s worldwide popularity was largely due to the band perfectly capturing the era’s zeitgeist.

Pink Floyd last performed together in 2005. Although they did release an album in 2014, the simple pleasure of experiencing a Pink Floyd concert is bar none.

The 10 best Pink Floyd tribute bands from across the globe now fill this void. Dating back as far as 1988, Pink Floyd tribute bands have kept alive not only the music of Floyd but also their vivacious vitality that continues to enthrall musicians and music lovers generation after generation.

The Band


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The original band line-up of Pink Floyd consisted of Syd Barrett as the vocalist, songwriter, and lead guitarist, Roger Waters as the bassist, drummer Nick Mason, guitarist David Gilmour, and Rick Wright on the keyboards.

Together they popularized “concept albums” and presented their music through extravagant live performances with spectacular laser shows, giant screens, and grand productions.

As the poster child for the emerging psychedelic rock scene, their music was at times defiant, deeply profound, and biographical. Simultaneously, it encapsulated ideas of free will and experiences after consuming “mind-altering” drugs.

The band’s unmatched zeal is what the best Pink Floyd tribute bands now mimic, not just in sound but also in their visual representation of the group’s legendary performance pieces.

The Top 10 Best Pink Floyd Tribute Bands

https://www.protributebands.com/top-10-best-pink-floyd-tribute-bands/

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Pink Floyd: the long and brutal history of Roger Waters and David Gilmour’s feud
Joe Taysom and Tom Taylor
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/pink-floyd-roger-waters-david-gilmour-feud/

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David Gilmour Blasts Roger Waters As “Misogynistic, Antisemitic Putin Apologist”

Gilmour's wife Polly Samson initially went after his ex-Pink Floyd bandmate


David Gilmour (photo by Polly Samson) and Roger Waters (photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Carys Anderson
February 6, 2023 | 10:31pm ET

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Well, David Gilmour and Roger Waters still hate each other. Gilmour’s wife, the author Polly Samson, took to Twitter to denounce Waters as a “misogynistic, antisemitic Putin apologist” (amongst several other things), and Gilmour shared the claims as “demonstrably true.”

“Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” Samson tweeted. “Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching,misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.” Soon after, Gilmore quoted his wife’s tweet, adding, “Every word demonstrably true.”

Waters has long been outspoken in his beliefs surrounding the Russia-Ukraine conflict, even calling President Joe Biden a “war criminal .. https://consequence.net/2022/08/roger-waters-biden-war-criminal-russia-china/ ” by supplying arms to Ukraine and, in his mind, “fueling” its war with Russia. He expanded on those beliefs in a recent interview .. https://www.pressenza.com/2023/02/roger-waters-questioned-in-depth-about-ukraine-russia-israel-u-s/ , walking back a previous remark calling Putin a “gangster” and instead saying he’s more open to listening to what the Russian president has to say.

Elsewhere in the interview, Waters defended his longstanding boycott of Israel, stating simply, “The Israelis are committing genocide.”

“In my opinion, Israel has a right to exist as long as it is a true democracy, as long as no group, religious or ethnic, enjoys more human rights than any other,” Waters added later. “But unfortunately that is exactly what is happening in Israel and Palestine. The government says that only Jewish people should enjoy certain rights. So it can’t be described as democratic.”

Following Samson’s post, Waters responded with a message of his own, saying he was aware of the “incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him” which he “refutes entirely.” “He is currently taking advice to his position,” the statement reads.

Read Waters’ full interview here .. https://www.pressenza.com/2023/02/roger-waters-questioned-in-depth-about-ukraine-russia-israel-u-s/ , and see Samson and Gilmour’s remarks below. As a band, Pink Floyd previously pulled their music .. https://consequence.net/2022/03/pink-floyd-david-gilmour-russia-ukraine/ .. from streaming services in Russia and Belarus as as show of solidarity with Ukraine. Gilmour and Nick Mason also released their first Pink Floyd song in 28 years, “Hey, Hey Rise Up! .. https://consequence.net/2022/04/pink-floyd-new-song-ukraine/ ,” to benefit the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.
https://consequence.net/2023/02/david-gilmour-polly-samson-roger-waters-antisemitic/

Every word demonstrably true https://t.co/KWk4I3bMTN

— David Gilmour (@davidgilmour) February 6, 2023

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— Roger Waters ✊ (@rogerwaters) February 6, 2023

https://consequence.net/2023/02/david-gilmour-polly-samson-roger-waters-antisemitic/