The Pink Wall

Couple of nights ago the boys and I went to the see the Pink Floyd Experience at the Enmore theatre in Sydney. All of us being rusted-on Pink Floyd fans (even Charlie who was born the same year as the last genuine Pink Floyd tour to Sydney) we were keen to check out this New Zealand PF tribute band.

The gig was billed as the most authentic PF band touring today so we forked out $65 each and hoped something pretty special. Well, at the end of the night, we reckon the show should have been billed as a Pink Floyd "The Wall" musical performed by a group of average musicians with a lot of extra theatre thrown in. Ok, there was indeed a wall, 124 cardboard boxes stacked across the stage as the show progressed, and there were some pretty spectacular lighting effects, but it didn't quite get there for us.

Fact is, The Wall only has about 3 decent tunes in the whole thing. Most of it is Roger Waters whinging about who stuffed him up during his life. So the show was mainly The Wall plus a couple of extra songs from Dark Side and of course, the almost obligatory Wish You Were Here anthem. Including interval of 20 minutes the Pink Floyd Experience runs to about 3 hours and frankly, we all reckoned we could have spent our time better doing something else. A Pink Floyd Experience ... I don't think so.

Now if you really want to see the definitive Pink Floyd tribute band then Shine On - The Pink Floyd Show is a must for any Pink Floyd purist. These guys perform rarely but we saw them at the Doyalson RSL back in August and trust me, close your eyes and you'd think it was the real thing.