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The English rock band Pink Floyd is popular all over the world and is considered a cult by rock fans. The musicians have made countless performances and sold over 300 million records. And, of course, they aroused a great desire among fans to sing their songs and play them in the company of like-minded people.
The musicians from Brit Floyd perform the songs of their idols and try to completely recreate the atmosphere and lighting effects exactly as at the concerts of their idols. Sincere devotion to Pink Floyd's music and musical talent have made them one of the highest quality and most famous tribute bands in the world.
Last year, many fans of Pink Floyd's music enjoyed watching The Australian Pink Floyd Show, another high-quality tribute band. That event proved that the interest in the band's music is still colossal. Implement booking tickets for Brit Floyd and admire the concert, as close as possible to the atmosphere of the performances and sound of the legendary band.
Brit Floyd concert in Moscow. The space of the hall, high-quality technical equipment and good acoustics will allow you to experience vivid sensations and emotions from what you see.
An obsession with Pink Floyd's music in original and new sound
The director of all musical numbers, as well as part-time guitarist and vocalist is Dimian Darrlington - a very devoted fan of Pink Floyd. Last year, he and his group of musicians visited Russia for the first time. On the eve of his debut in a new country, he spoke in one of his interviews. that he and his team know literally every little thing and every detail of all Pink Floyd songs, so fans can safely purchase tickets toBrit Floyd and don't be afraid to be disappointed.
This year the grand show will once again combine the latest elements of sound, music and video, consisting of animation and various kinds of 3D projections.
For three hours, guests who come to this concert will be able to enjoy a live performance of all the best Pink Floyd hits from the group's five known albums. The Brit Floyd group managed to perform with stunning success in the USA, and in England itself, in Liverpool, the team gathered more than five hundred thousand Pink Floyd fans and those who wanted to hear the team's famous hits in a new sound.
The example of this group shows that imitation does not always mean plagiarism, but, on the contrary, can breathe a new soul into the original and elevate cult music to a whole new level. Concert tickets Brit Floyd guarantee an unforgettable experience for all fans of classic rock.
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For all fans of the legendary art-rock band Pink Floyd, an incredible concert will be a real gift Brit Floyd Show. This unique incredible program has already managed to pleasantly surprise and delight all those for whom the British band has become a model of a new style, conceptual ideas in the field of transferring music and turning it into real art. The art of unique, close to surreal images, unforgettable shows with powerful visual special effects. For its time - the bright 70s - Pink Floyd's music introduced a completely new approach not only to the musical, but also to the text component, as well as to the very creation of a concert show.
Having been born in the late sixties, the group lasted until 2014. During her creative activity, the army of fans managed to grow exponentially. The composition of the group changed several times. Initially, the line-up consisted of five talented young creative musicians. The ideological leader and inspirer was Syd Barrett, who set the main direction for the group's unique style that had begun to form - an appeal to the unconscious beginning of the human soul, a drawing of the hidden, which becomes visible through musical accompaniment.
Later, with the departure of Barrett, the leadership of the group alternately passed from David Gilmour and Roger Watters. Strong, charismatic, they brought the group's style to perfection and created albums that entered the golden fund of world musical culture. The albums "The Wall", "Animals", "White Albom", "The Dark side of the moon" became real masterpieces. The musicians raised problematic topics that were not customary to talk about openly, thereby emphasizing their independence from public opinion, their desire to talk about what worries them frankly and sincerely.
Today, the band's fans have a unique opportunity to listen live to the most famous hits in the band's history. This is made possible thanks to an amazing project - a tribute show Brit Floyd Show. The musicians of this project, created by the talented guitarist and singer Damien Darlington, perform musical compositions in the same stage setting, with the same visual effects that were used by the legendary Pink Floyd musicians. Buy Brit Floyd Show tickets can be found on our website.
This text should have appeared on the site a year ago. Then I was lucky to win two tickets to a Brit Floyd concert with a Meet&Greet package on the Polish site naszemiasto.pl, meet the band's musicians, visit the soundcheck and even interview Damian Darlington (Damian Darlington) the band's musical director, guitarist and vocalist in one person . It was he who created Brit Floyd in 2011, having played before that for 17 years in The Australian Pink Floyd Show.
The interview was completely unplanned. I just hoped to introduce myself, convey gratitude for the performances in Russia from our readers and learn, perhaps, about plans for the future. I also did not want to ask questions, the answers to which can be read on the official website of the group.
However, Damian was kind enough to invite me to the aftershow and we talked for more than twenty minutes about various things.
I'm afraid that I couldn't ask important questions that would help to understand the essence of tribute bands: what are the driving motives of the musicians participating in them, do they want to create something of their own, create, and not copy? But I confess: Brit Floyd changed my somewhat skeptical attitude towards tributes, which developed after the first visit to the Australian Pink Floyd Show concert. Not only because the Brit Floyd show was much more memorable, impressed and dispelled the last doubts about the expediency of the existence of tributes. But the attitude of the musicians to their difficult work, to the fans, the undoubted love and respect for Pink Floyd made me see the tributes in a new light. At a time when it is difficult to wait for live versions of your favorite compositions personally from members of Pink Floyd, we, nevertheless, have the opportunity to hear live the careful performance of almost the entire catalog of the group by musicians who love their job, have been working for more than a year, "fan" for quality and performance level.
So, fast forward to November 3, 2015. Krakow, ICE concert center. A group of people gather at the entrance who got the opportunity to visit the soundcheck. The organizers issue tickets, escort everyone to the hall. We sit down in an empty hall, the band comes out and performs Hey You and Us and Them. After meeting in the foyer, photographing, timid conversations and signing autographs.
Next meeting: concert. Here are some photos.
Ola Bienkowska, a backing vocalist originally from Poland, gathered special audience sympathy, she even spoke to the audience in Polish. Ian Cattell impressed with his vocals, especially in The Final Cut, and artistry.
End of the concert. Musicians signing autographs in the lobby.
Behind the scenes, everything is modest. There are drinks: beer, water, wine. Most of all, Ola Bienkowska is happy - she is in her native Poland, her friends came to visit her. I'm visibly worried. Damian Darlington tells me not to be nervous, but he looks very tired, takes a can of Polish beer and sits down at the table. We start a conversation.
- Many of our visitors have visited your past concerts in Russia and were delighted with them. Did you like the performances in Moscow and St. Petersburg?
Yes, very, very strongly. Especially in St. Petersburg. Not that there was something wrong in Moscow, but the performance in St. Petersburg was better.
- This time you did not perform in Kyiv for some reason.
Yes, we haven't played there for two years, since 2013. You know, obviously, with all the events that have taken place in Ukraine over the past two years: there is not much money in the country, promoters do not want to take risks and organize concerts there ... We are dependent on local organizers. They're afraid to take risks and think they can't sell tickets and all that. So we can't go.
- I was at the concert of The Australian Pink Floyd Show in Kyiv...
- In 2008.
Ok. Well, I was there, I played that show.
- There is a difference between your shows.
Yes, mine is better! That's the main difference (laughs).
- I agree. Personally, I liked Brit Floyd better with a more classic interpretation of Pink Floyd. Do you prefer the original versions, the way they sound on the band's records?
Sometimes yes, but not always. I decide whether we should try to sound like the original record, the original album, or sometimes I would prefer a live version, like in Pulse or Delicate Sound of Thunder. Or even solo versions, like Waters, for example. The version of Set The Controls that we played is more like how Roger Waters plays it, for example. So I make the decisions, and in a way it's my own preference and where I think we'll be more successful. Those versions in which we, as a group of musicians, will show ourselves best as performers.
Do you personally like the concerts of Waters or Gilmour more?
They are very different. I think Gilmour's concerts are more intimate than Roger Waters' concerts. They are more relaxed.
Roger Waters still focuses on huge spectacular productions. The Wall were visually incredible shows. I saw his show a couple of times when he drove Dark Side in 2007, I saw that show twice. Again, it was much more spectacular.
The only time I saw David Gilmour solo was a month ago in London. I saw him with Pink Floyd in 1988, 1994 and on Live 8 when he played with Roger Waters. And those shows were also more relaxed, more intimate. I think David Gilmour puts out an album, then goes on stage with his friends it seems like it's all about fun for him.
- Did you like Gilmour's album Rattle That Lock?
Yes, I liked it. It's not my favorite, but it has great moments. Of his solo albums, I think I liked On an Island more. But it's great that he's still releasing albums. He will be 70 next year. This is something to celebrate: David Gilmour is still releasing albums in 2015!
Speaking of celebrations: you performed at David's 50th birthday.
Yes, yes. A long time ago, of course. It was from the Australian Pink Floyd show, in its early days.
The first year I played with the Australian Pink Floyd show was 1994. Pink Floyd was still on the Pulse tour. We played a show in London in September of that year and David Gilmour came to see the show. We didn't know he was there, it was a surprise, and then he showed up backstage after the concert, knocked on the door: David Gilmour is here. It was an amazing surprise! Also, he invited us to Earls Court for the end of The Division Bell tour, and we went there and had a great time and everything.
Two years later, we got a call. It was his wife, Polly Samson, who asked if we would be interested in playing on his 50th birthday. So it was her idea.
- So it was a surprise for him?
Initially, yes, but I think that the day before he found out that we were going to play.
What is your favorite Pink Floyd album?
I think The Wall: it was my "introduction" to Pink Floyd. It was the first one I heard at the age of 13. So it's stuck in my favorites. Then I heard Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here. I love all these albums too. There is another album that I have a special connection with, and that is The Final Cut. It was the newest album Pink Floyd had released when I first became a fan. I was 14 when it came out. It was exciting the release of the new album.
- Like The Endless River for us.
I think The Final Cut is much more exciting than The Endless River! (laughs)
- You don't like The Endless River? (during the break at the concert, just the first part of The Endless River approx. Zuli sounded)
I like it, I really like it. I think it's very cleverly made. But it's not really a Pink Floyd album in the classic sense. It's more instrumental. This is a good chillout album. This is an album of the sort that you can just turn it on and listen to it. It's not an album that has a lot of things that are suitable for playing live on stage.
- But you played.
We played Louder Than Words. This is the only track with lyrics. But the rest of the stuff... it's instrumental, it's ambient. So it's not a very good live album.
- What song do you like to play the most? The most difficult (challenging)?
The hardest stuff like Dogs, Echoes long epics, they test abilities. Quite often the early stuff is difficult to play when you find out that when they made this music they were still learning how to be musicians themselves. It is difficult to successfully perform this kind of musical naivety, if you know what I mean.
- However, you performed See Emily Play. Is it because you want to cover the whole story of Pink Floyd or just because you like this thing?
I think it's important to represent the entire era, because without some periods, there would be no Pink Floyd. That part of who they were and who they became as a group. Syd Barrett wrote these early things. It is important to present them. We can't include everything in the set: Pink Floyd songs are quite long and people want to hear Dark Side, The Wall, WYWH, maybe The Division Bell and something like that, but we still try to play something from early.
- What are your plans for the future? Do you want to change something in the program? Maybe you're thinking of playing something from the early one as a complete suite?
When it comes to playing the whole album, there are certain rules in connection with the Pink Floyd albums: if we want to play the whole album, we have to get permission to do so. This applies not only to us or the Australian Pink Floyd Show, but to anyone who wants to do it. So we're doing the way we did today half of the album. The first half of Dark Side and the second half of The Wall. I think it's good to mix albums and we've done it in the past: a little bit of Dark Side, Animals, WYWH, The Wall, The Division Bell I think that's good. Because I think some Pink Floyd stuff doesn't make sense if you don't play what comes before it and what comes after it in the original. How we played Have a Cigar and Wish You Were Here today we played them exactly like on the album, it flows one after the other.
- Yes, it was a great moment.
And I think it's good to do that, and not cut the songs one by one, mixing them in different ways.
- What do you think about when David Gilmour or Roger Waters perform things very differently and not in the way you are used to?
Of course, sometimes I really like how they perform certain things. Set the Controls is an example of a thing where I really like the way Waters played it. The same goes for Welcome to the Machine. I really like the way Roger Waters played it on In the Flesh. The sound was more powerful than the original. There are definitely versions that I think would sound better live the way David Gilmour and Roger Waters play them. echoes, for example. I love the way David Gilmour performed it. When we play Echoes, we take some elements from the way David Gilmour played it.
- Do you need some video permissions for the screen, can you use the original versions?
The only original Pink Floyd video was Louder than Words. And yet we are allowed to change it. Everything else is a recreation. Obviously with Wish You Were Here we have a Pink Floyd video, we have pictures. There is Arnold Layne. And here are the animations of The Wall, they are all recreated by Bryan (Bryan Kolupski) this guy he is now looking at his phone. Even if you think these are original Pink Floyd animations, they are not: we are recreating them.
- Yes, I noticed that these are not Pinkflood animations. Is the reason for this legislative restrictions?
No, we weren't specifically banned from using the original videos. We just decided to recreate the video ourselves. The same goes for sound effects. In fact, during the show there are only a few sounds that we took from Pink Floyd. But most of the effects are recreated as closely as possible.
- Do you listen to Pink Floyd music at home just to relax?
It's not that I don't like doing it because of what I'm doing. You inevitably find yourself picking out some pieces instead of just listening for enjoyment. You start to analyze: "whoa, whoa, stop, we're playing this guitar like that, it's wrong." Listening becomes a technical exercise. Unfortunately! But it's unavoidable given what I've been doing and for how long over twenty years now.
- Is it hard work for you? You play shows in every city every day.
Of course, touring is hard work. Like every profession in life, and this is undoubtedly a profession. But there are pros and cons. Endless travel, life on suitcases gets tiresome, and of course you sacrifice things that concern your family because you are away from home so often. These are the cons. The bright side is to play this wonderful music, to gather an audience in the halls that love what you do.
Thanks Damian for the interview, sorry it's getting late and I have to go home, leaving through the back of the concert hall and the vans getting ready to go into the fog of Krakow smog. The musicians will have to travel by bus to Prague, where a new concert is scheduled for the next day.
In the end, Damian Darlington said that Brit Floyd will come to Russia in 2016 with a new program. The tour announced two Russian concerts: one in Moscow and one in St. Petersburg. In addition to the main hits of Pink Floyd, the set list contains compositions from the first part of the album A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, as well as Poles Apart, One of These Days and Echoes!
Upcoming performance dates:
November 1 Berlin, Germany
November 2 Stuttgart, Germany
November 4 Milan, Italy
5 November Padua, Italy
6 November Basel, Switzerland
7 November Florence, Italy
8 November Linz, Austria
November 10 Split, Croatia
November 11 Zagreb, Croatia
November 12 Ostrava, Czech Republic
November 15 Zabrze, Poland
November 16 Warsaw, Poland
November 17 Riga, Latvia
November 18 Kaunas, Lithuania
November 20 Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia
22 November Helsinki, Finland
November 24 Ice Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
November 27 Palace of Sports, Minsk, Belarus
