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Australian Pink Floyd tickles crowd pink
By Pat Reavy

Deseret News

Published: Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 12:32 a.m. MST

Utah's love affair with The Australian Pink Floyd Show continued Thursday night as the world's ultimate tribute band chalked up another outstanding show before a roaring crowd at the E Center during its annual trek to the Beehive State.
Aussie Floyd performed nearly three hours of Pink Floyd songs with note-for-note accuracy, highlighted by Floyd's classic 1979 double rock opera album "The Wall" performed in its entirety.

Gems from "The Wall" that rarely get played on the radio, such as "The Thin Ice," "Mother," "Goodbye Blue Sky" and "In the Flesh" were among some of the highlights. But the biggest applause came for some of Floyd's most recognized songs such as the anthem "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" and its well-known lyric, "We don't need no education," which the arena sang along in unison with the band.

Although Steve Mac and Colin Wilson have opted not to participate in APF's U.S. tours, as long as guitarist Damian Darlington, keyboard player Jason Sawford and bassist Ian Cattell are there, audiences are just about guaranteed to get a great show. Darlington and Cattell, the David Gilmour and Roger Waters of the band, handled the large majority of vocal duties.


But it was Darlington's guitar playing and vocals that were the highlights of the evening on songs such as "Hey You," (another tune the large crowd sang back loudly to the band), "Wish You Were Here" and an epic "Comfortably Numb" that deservingly received a long standing ovation as the best song of the evening.
Other high points included "Young Lust" and a great rendetion of "Run Like Hell."

This year's tour included more theatrical elements than years past. A giant video screen projected images complementing the music. Many of the images shown on the video screen were taken from "The Wall" motion picture — but with APF's own home touch added — such as kangaroos topping off the symbolic marching hammers.

Cattell assumed the role of the main character in "The Wall" story, rock star "Pink" whose hard life has pushed him to metaaphorically building a wall inside his mind, making himself isolated from the outside world.

After performing "The Wall" from start to finish, Aussie Floyd finished the night with an encore of greatest hits including "Learning to Fly" and the first parts of "Shine on Your Crazy Diamond." At the end of the song, images flashed of the late Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright who died earlier this year.

Based on the wildly enthusiastic response of many fans in the audience Thursday, it's safe to safe to say many people are already looking forward to next year's fall tour and the return of The Aussie Floyd Show.

A great read! I like seeing these reviews from the US tour. Sadly we don't get as many folks here on the forum from the US (yet) and we would like to see more. So if you are from the US or Canada, please write a review and tell us how it was for you!
Bob

Bob, I've been thinking the said same thing.  We get more postings about the upcoming European tour or the future get-together in Poland than we do from the thousands of North Americans currently enjoying a TAPFS tour.  The Aussies are hitting American cities with millions of people in them, yet we get very posters and reviews.

I'd like to see more, but then again- I'm biased!!!

We're not likely to get many either. Unfortunately, Google has started localising it's searches, and UK based sites fall down the rankings in the US. For the search "Australian Pink Floyd" we are #2 in the UK and in the top 10 in most European countries but we are now ranked about #240 in the US. I've contacted them to say that our content is just as relevant in the US, but they don't take any notice.

We would either have to get a load of US sites linking to us or go to the expense of getting a US based mirror server.

Fun gig.  Been eagerly anticipating Salt Lake's turn on the tour and it was well worth the wait. Had a group of long time friends with me down on row 13 dead center in the middle floor section.

The encore consisted of

SOYCD (parts 1-5)
Great Gig in the Sky
WYWH
Learning to Fly
One of These Days  (they brought out the Pig which they often use in Pigs 3 different ones and which was used during this song on the Pulse tour)
Brain Damage/Eclipse  (In this highly Republic state, the image of Bush was heavily booed and the image of Obama was cheered) 

Great review!!  Thanks for whetting our appetites. 

I was in Salt Lake City a few years back and I can just imagine the atmosphere in a place like this. 

I must admit, I didn't know this site and forum existed until very recently and I live in Dorset!!    It was only thanks to Great Gig that I signed on.

Is there any way a small flyer could be produced publicising this site for distribution at concerts?  Perhaps it could be downloaded by forum members to print off and leave in strategic locations at the various venues?  Maybe even the merchandise people would allow us to leave a stack on their stand?  ???

Or would this just be far fetched?  :