Nick Mason has assembled a top band to play the early Pink Floyd repertoire, going all the way back to the Syd Barrett era. Needless to say, the setlist is a fan's dream.
One Of These Days opened the show in bombastic fashion, and for the next two-plus hours the band played all of the early classics (Astronomy Domine, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, See Emily Play) as well as some more obscure tracks like The Nile Song from the More Soundtrack or Vegetable Man. But the pièce de résistance was undoubtedly the rendition of Echoes, clocking in at nearly 25 minutes.
The band, of course, is top notch and features Guy Pratt, who had been handling bass duties in Pink Floyd as well as David Gilmour's band, as well as Gary Kemp from Spandau Ballet. And of course Nick Mason brings the legitimacy and authenticity to the whole project: these compositions need to be heard, they need to be played and in the absence of the "genuine" Pink Floyd, these players are the right people to bring them to the audience.
An absolutely wonderful concert, complete with light show and projections, a real psychedelic experience probably not unlike being at a Pink Floyd concert in the late sixties or early seventies, performed by a fantastic band celebrating a peerless catalogue.
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