On Saturday 16th December, I went to Club 85 in Hitchin to see The Floyd Effect. Readers with outstanding memories may recall that I wrote a review about the band back in December 2015 too.
To save repeating myself, you can read the previous post and this one will focus on the differences …
To be frank though, there weren’t many, I went to the gig with the same people and watched the same band perform much the same set. Even Gordon’s (the keyboardist) gags were familiar; the gig was equally long (three hours) and equally brilliant; Tiffany the backing vocalist’s wailing was superb; Peter Gill took some more great photos and I had a damn good night out ... again. Etcetera, etcetera.
The ticket was a bit more expensive, I, most probably, wore a different outfit and I had less of a hangover the next day, but those facts are not much to inspire a blog post!
The inspiration-catalyst in this instance was a thought thread that I had during the evening – drug inspired only as far as a few bottles of Trooper ale.
The Floyd Effect reproduces some amazingly intricate music with precision, skill and panache. It is a credit to the group that it can deliver something that I/you’d genuinely struggle to fault. The band is tight and the musicians very capable/experienced.
I found myself reflecting that the skill needed to reproduce the Pink Floyd sound was one thing but the creativity to write all the stuff in the first place (and deliver it with fewer band members) was something even more incredible. The point that I am working my way around to is this – The Floyd Effect’s effect was to make the original Pink Floyd feel great all over again. And that’s a good thing. So rather than this tribute act being a parasitic, exploitative kind of influence, this band is more symbiotic, it actually adds some value to the host. I found myself looking forward to playing my old Pink Floyd CDs all over again.
In my earlier post I reflected that The Floyd Effect was effectively Floyd. In this one, my observation is that if you ever need to appreciate just how brilliant the original band was, go and see this tribute. That feels like high praise to me.
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To save repeating myself, you can read the previous post and this one will focus on the differences …
To be frank though, there weren’t many, I went to the gig with the same people and watched the same band perform much the same set. Even Gordon’s (the keyboardist) gags were familiar; the gig was equally long (three hours) and equally brilliant; Tiffany the backing vocalist’s wailing was superb; Peter Gill took some more great photos and I had a damn good night out ... again. Etcetera, etcetera.
The ticket was a bit more expensive, I, most probably, wore a different outfit and I had less of a hangover the next day, but those facts are not much to inspire a blog post!
The inspiration-catalyst in this instance was a thought thread that I had during the evening – drug inspired only as far as a few bottles of Trooper ale.
The Floyd Effect reproduces some amazingly intricate music with precision, skill and panache. It is a credit to the group that it can deliver something that I/you’d genuinely struggle to fault. The band is tight and the musicians very capable/experienced.
I found myself reflecting that the skill needed to reproduce the Pink Floyd sound was one thing but the creativity to write all the stuff in the first place (and deliver it with fewer band members) was something even more incredible. The point that I am working my way around to is this – The Floyd Effect’s effect was to make the original Pink Floyd feel great all over again. And that’s a good thing. So rather than this tribute act being a parasitic, exploitative kind of influence, this band is more symbiotic, it actually adds some value to the host. I found myself looking forward to playing my old Pink Floyd CDs all over again.
In my earlier post I reflected that The Floyd Effect was effectively Floyd. In this one, my observation is that if you ever need to appreciate just how brilliant the original band was, go and see this tribute. That feels like high praise to me.
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