| Brit Floyd - The Pink Floyd Tribute Show | |
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Brit Floyd at the O2 Arena, London, 2011 |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Liverpool, UK |
| Genres | Rock, Progressive rock |
| Years active | 2011 |
| Associated acts | Pink Floyd |
| Website | www.britfloyd.com/ |
Brit Floyd is a UK based Pink Floyd tribute band formed in 2010 by Chas Cole, Managing Director of CMP Entertainment, and Damian Darlington, the band's Musical Director.[1] Brit Floyd has toured in the UK and several European countries. The stage presentation, comprising an elaborate light show, projections and inflatables, is loosely based on Pink Floyd's 1994 The Division Bell Tour, often referred to as the "Pulse" tour after the title of the album and DVD of the tour.[2]
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Brit Floyd was born out of a split in The Australian Pink Floyd Show (TAPFS) in 2010.[3]The split was the outcome of a dispute that some TAPFS directors had with CMP. Three of the four owners of TAPFS appointed new management, resulting in their former management company, CMP Entertainment, together with Damian Darlington, the fourth partner in TAPFS, forming a new band, The British Pink Floyd Show. The name was later shortened to Brit Floyd.
Brit Floyd consists of musicians who have all performed with TAPFS, either worldwide or just in North America. All except two members of Brit Floyd played on TAPFS's North American tour in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Damian Darlington is the only musician to have performed in every TAPFS show worldwide from January 1994 through to November 2010, including a performance in March 1996 with TAPFS for David Gilmour[4] at his 50th birthday party in London.
Brit Floyd's first performance was on 22 January 2011 at the Echo Arena, Liverpool, UK to an audience of 6,000 people.[5] The show was filmed for a DVD, which was made available to attendees of the subsequent tour and on request to the band's website.[6] Venues played on the UK tour included London's Royal Albert Hall and O2 Arena. In July the band played at the Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix at Silverstone.[7] Festivals played in 2011 include The Isle of Wight[8] and Glastonbury.[9]
Damian Darlington: Musical Director, guitar, lapsteel and vocals
Arran Ahmun: Drums
Rick Benbow: Keyboards
Ola Bienkowska: Vocals
Carl Brunsdon: Saxophones, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion, keyboards, clarinet
Ian Cattell: Bass guitar, vocals
Bobby Harrison: Guitar, vocals
Emily Jollands: Vocals
Amy Smith: Vocals
Rob Stringer: Keyboards, vocals
Jacquie Williams: Vocals
Other key personnel:
Gareth Darlington: Sound designer and front of house engineer
Bryan Kolupski: Animation, graphics, video and photography
Management:
Chas Cole, CMP Entertainment
Several of the members of Brit Floyd, together with other musicians, also tour from time to time as The Classic Rock Show, a concert covering tracks from the top selling albums of the 1970s and 1980s, by artists such as Dire Straits and The Who.[13]