A rather unexpected visit to my favourite tribute band last week. My girlfriend and I went on holiday and due to some personal stuff we had to stay not too far away from home. So as we were driving to the town of Leuven, Belgium, I saw "Tienen" posted on a motorway sign. After a few minutes it finally rang a bell, Aussiefloyd was playing there tonight! My girlfriend had never seen them before and she was curious what it was like. She was like: "If you go all the way to Poland to see a tribute band it must be something!". They played at the Suikerrock Festival in downtown Tienen, a lovely old city with a large market square where the main stage was at. We arrived just in time to see the Golden Earring take the stage. One of the world's oldest rock bands (founded in 1961) definitely are worth a visit. After that the Aussies took the stage. I've seen them once before on a festival and that wasn't a good show so I was curious how they would do it this time.
The set was a greatest hits one and quite short, only 75 minutes. They played really good and the sound quality was one of the best I've heard on a festival.
Some new video material during Shine On, the album cover of A Momentary Lapse Of Reason featured during the first guitar solo and a scene in an alley with a guy with a hoodie during the organ solo. It all fitted very well.
No mirrorball during Comfy, and I was very pleased with that. They used the same effect as I've seen in Katowice, the whole stage covered in smoke and Damian lighted in yellow. After that the used lights to imitate the mirrorball, I can't really explain it but it looks very nice.
So a good night out, and my girlfriend enjoyed it too!
Setlist
Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
Learning To Fly
High Hopes
Time
The Great Gig In The Sky
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
Wish You Were Here
One Of These Days
Comfortably Numb
Run Like Hell
Line up:
Steve, Jason, Colin, Damian, Paul, Ian, Carl, Ola, Jacquie and Emily
