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The Australian Pink Floyd Show - Colston
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http://www.aussiefloyd.com/ |
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By Fred Hale |
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I still find it bizarre that a tribute
band can sell out large concert halls, even more so when the band
inform us that they are used to playing much larger venues than the
Colston Hall these days! Not so surprising when you have no chance
of seeing the real thing (although rumour has it that may change
soon!), and when this lot have refined their performance to such a
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Complete with lasers, back projected
graphics, sound effects and a stunning light show ...they
literally outshines most 'original' bands' set ups. All delivered
with a taste of humour from downunder
Like the real Floyd the Oz
version vary the show and often theme it around a particular
album. This time we are be mostly getting the Wall!
To do the Roger Waters style vocals they have even recruited a
Waters soundalike as an additional singer, although all of the
bands guitarists have strong enough voices and took turns to sing
lead vocals.
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The wall is despatched with their
usual competence but it is some of the other songs that really hit
the mark with this reviewer. Shine on you Crazy Diamond, One of
these days and Wish you Were Here are all stunning but the most
lasting impression left with me is from the Great Gig in the
Sky....sung by two the the quartet of backing singers, who were
quite simply stunning...I even had a little tear in my eye...girls
you were absolutely incredible! To perform this song has to be
one of the best gigs a backing singer can get and these two
clearly loved every second of it. Bloody Marvellous and I would
pay the ticket price just to hear this one again!
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| All of the
musicianship was excellent (especially Bruce!) but those
girls....WOW. |
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