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The Australian Pink Floyd Show
De Vereeniging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
February 13th 2008

So, there it is. My first TAPFS gig! I’ve been a Floyd-fan for a couple of years so I never had the opportunity to see the real ones live. I was quite excited when TAPFS announced their European “Best Of The Wall” tour.  So I immediately bought tickets for the show.

Alright, the gig! I haven’t been  to the Vereeniging venue before, but it’s a nice small concert hall with great acoustics I must say. It wasn’t a sellout, there were places left on the balcony. We had seats in the back of the hall on an elevated platform, so we had a great view on the stage.
At exactly 8:00 PM the light went down and a familiar piece of music came on:  the melody of ‘Outside The Wall’. The guys and girls came up in the dark and were grabbing their gear. I knew (through this forum) they would start with In The Flesh? so I held on tight! And yep there it was! What a sound! And so loud! And crystal clear! Awesome!  And that was my feeling during the whole concert. 

I’m not going to review every song just a couple of highlights.
There was a great rendition (like Roger Waters is playing on his DSOTM Tour) of Set The Controls.. with a magnificent soprano saxophone (I guess that was the one, I looked it up and this was the most likely) solo and I had a good laugh about Mike Kidson’s hat (the one with the ropes in front of it, how do you call such thing?).

After Mother came Sheep, one of my favourite songs. I just like the atmosphere of the song and the rocking solo at the end. In my opinion, it didn’t rock completely. Colin Wilson’s voice isn’t capable of singing this with the same power as Roger Waters did. I like Colin’s voice on the other songs, sometimes it’s a bit fragile but with Sheep it just didn’t match. But still, it’s a great song!

Then Steve Mac announced the intermission: “Go and grab a beer or have a ride on your bicycle!”

In the end of the second set the golden oldies: One Of These Days, Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb. Just before the last song Jason introduced the band, no Bruces and Sheilas but their real names. Comfortably Numb gave me goosebumbs, it was amazing.

So the band left the stage and the crowd started roaring, clapping and stamping. Off course the band came back and obviously for Run Like Hell. Great performance of that one. I love the pauses in the beginning of the song.

All in all, a great evening, superb sound and a great atmosphere.  Thank you TAPFS!

Setlist

Set 1
In The Flesh?
The Thin Ice
Another Brick In The Wall Part I
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Another Brick In The Wall Part II
Learning To Fly
Money
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Mother
Sheep

Set 2
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-V
Time
Breathe (Reprise)
The Great Gig In The Sky
Goodbye Blue Sky
Empty Spaces
Young Lust
Keep Talking
One Of These Days
Wish You Were Here
Comfortably Numb

Encore
Run Like Hell


P.S. I looked at the other setlists on this forum and I saw that they played Hey You and High Hopes almost everytime. They didn't do it this time and there were no songs instead of them. Any ideas? A short timeframe?

Thanks Rik, glad you had a good time. I have High Hopes that they will play the full set in the UK. 

I'm glad that you sound so pleased Rik ?
                Another really nice review. Thank you .
     I must say we've had some most  interesting reviews this week,its really good that fellow fans are prepared to take the trouble to share their thoughts and experiences.

Great review, thanks!
The hat with the 'ropes' I am reliable informed is called a 'Dudley Trilby'

Nice job by you Rik, glad you enjoyed the show and had the cojones to mention a few things I didn't...ah politics 

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