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The Australian Pink Floyd Show
March 1st, 2009
Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


This was the second time I saw the Aussiefloyd live. The last time was in Nijmegen where they did The Best Of The Wall, now they were back in a bigger venue with the complete version of The Wall.
We (my dad and I) were sitting on row 1 right in front of Ian. So we had a great view of the stage.
At 8 PM exact the house lights went down and the tune of Outside The Wall started to play. In The Flesh? came suddenly and started with a blast. Awesome. Crystal clear sound coming from the stage. What a sound and what a light show! Simply awesome.

Some highlights from the first set:
- The guitar solo during Mother;
- The vocals during What Shall We Do Now?;
- The backing singers in very tight clothing during Young Lust. Especially Amy! Also, Steve’s voice during the Gilmour parts is a perfect fit!


The second part of The Wall has the more heavier songs in it, so I was pretty excited to hear them.
“Oi, I’ve got a little black book with me poems in!” someone shouted from the stage, the start of Nobody Home. The vocals were absolutely perfect. Ian slouched in a chair and even the Gomer Pyle series on the TV with the “Surprise, surprise, surprise” line fitted in perfectly!
And then, Comfortably Numb, also known as guitar solo heaven. That says it all, period.

Then the transformation of Pink to the fascist leader after The Show Must Go On with the second rendition of In The Flesh. Awesome. Great usage of the backdrop screen with the hammers and flags.

Waiting For The Worms is also one of my favourites. Pink did use his megaphone to shout his instructions to his followers. Great.

The Trial was hilarious. All the characters were played by the band (except for the Judge). Carl as the Teacher was really hilarious. He stood right in front of me shouting and throwing his stick around, awesome.

After Outside The Wall I saw some people leaving, but I knew there was still more to come. Another 40 minutes of greatest hits! Shine On was beautiful. The Great Gig was a perfect tribute to the late Richard Wright, his face was constantly faded in the background with the Water scene from the original The Dark Side Of The Moon footage. 
One Of These Days is such a powerful song with that great bass playing in the beginning and of course a piggy! It wasn’t a very nice pig, but it was a BIG pig! It was inflated at stage right and bouncing around during the end of the song.

After that Damian thanked us for coming and told us that they really enjoyed Amsterdam (and said that two of them enjoyed the delights of Amsterdam yesterday on their day off ) and that this was their last song. He didn't introduce all the band members. Is that usual on this tour?

Brain Damage and Eclipse finished us off. Again superb use of the screen with all the usual suspects.

All in all, superb show. Don’t miss them when they’re in town. We will probably never see David, Roger and Nick join again, but this is the best you can get!

Setlist:

The Wall

Encore:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-V
The Great Gig In The Sky
Wish You Were Here
One Of These Days
Brain Damage
Eclipse

Personnel

Ian Catell – vocals, bass
Steve Mac – guitar, vocals
Damian Darlington – guitar, vocals
Jason Sawford – keyboards
Paul Bonney – drums
Carl Brunsdon – percussion, guitar, bass, saxophones, vocals
Amy Smith – backing vocals
Ola Bienkowska – backing vocals
Jacquie Williams – backing vocals

Where's Colin? I think I saw on some Youtube vids that he was there in Poland, so I thought he would be there for the whole tour.

That's a fine review Rik, thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us and many thanks for a well written review.

A great review, thanks Rik.

Thanks Rik! Sounds like you had a blast! I wish I could have been there!!!

That is so cool that they had Gomer playing on the TV with the "surprise, surprise, surprise" line. That was a genius idea whoever thought that!

They had a pig for One Of These Days? What about Skippy? Are you sure it wasn't a big pink kangaroo? You probably thought it was a pig from where you were sitting, I'm sure you couldn't see it all being so close to the stage.

Yea, what happend to Colin? Anyone know?

I think Skippy must be away on holiday.
    Its the big pig with the red eyes that is being used on this tour.
It gets very excited during One of These Days,the band have had to tie a rope to his leg so that a man can hold him back and stop him from escaping