Entertainment
22 October, 2024
‘Signs of Life’ for Pink Floyd fanatics
A VISUALLY stunning and musically complex journey through Pink Floyd in the 80s is coming to the Cairns Performing Arts Centre by the talented tribute band Echoes of Pink Floyd with their Signs of Life tour this October.
In a deep exploration of the ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ album and the subsequent live tour album ‘The Delicate Sound of Thunder’, Echoes of Pink Floyd will pay homage to this concert experience, bringing back those heady years of 1988, with the best songs from the Delicate Sound of Thunder tour lovingly reproduced for fans of all ages and backgrounds on Sunday, October 27 at CPAC. This is the band’s first time in Cairns and the show has already sold out.
“Signs of Life is about celebrating Pink Floyd’s ‘Delicate Sound of Thunder’ live album along with their 1988 Australian tour which was the last time that Pink Floyd visited Australia,” said the band’s frontman Matt Goodluck.
“In this tour we’re playing a lot of the material that Pink Floyd did back in the 80s, which we haven’t really done before, so a lot of those songs come from ‘The Momentary Lapse of Reason’ album and we play the whole album live along with many of the band’s classic hits from the 70s.
“Picking Pink Floyd’s 80s material is very different to what we’ve done before. That’s been quite defining for this tour and it has resonated quite well with audiences across the country because a lot of people did go and see Pink Floyd live back in 1988 so to them it brings back a lot of memories.
“It’s great to hear what people’s memories are from that time and sharing that with people has been very special.”
Mr Goodluck said they were eager to play some of the deeper cuts of the 1987 album to a sold out crowd in Cairns.
“We’re excited to perform some of the most obscure tracks out of ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ like ‘Yet another movie’, ‘Sorrow’ as well as the intro piece ‘Signs of Life’ which is an atmospheric piece that opens the album,” he said.
“I always love playing the older songs as well which always go down very well with fans, like ‘Another brick in the wall Pt 2’, ‘Wish you were here’, ‘Time’, ‘Money’.”
