The Australian Pink Floyd Show - Live At Kinks Dock (2 DVDs)

The Australian Pink Floyd Show (aka TAPFS) are a tribute band of Pink Floyd. Formed 1988 in Adelaide, South Australia, their performances are styled after Pink Floyd shows and they perform international arena tours.
In 1993, the band flew from Australia to perform at the First International Pink Floyd Fan Convention at the Wembley Conference Centre, an event organised in conjunction with the Pink Floyd fanzine Brain Damage. The lineup consisted of five Adelaide musicians: Lee Smith, Grant Ross, Jason Sawford, Steve Mac and Colin Wilson. In January 1994 guitarist Lee Smith retired from the band and was replaced by Damian Darlington. In 1998 drummer Grant Ross also retired from the group and was replaced by Paul Bonney. Since 2002 the band has expanded to include female backing singers and a saxophone player. Additional musicians have also been recruited to enable the band to fulfill its demanding and ever-increasing worldwide tour schedule.
In 1994, David Gilmour attended an Australian Pink Floyd Show performance at The Fairfield Halls in Croydon. He subsequently invited the band to attend the end-of-tour, after-show party for The Division Bell tour at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London.
They are the only Pink Floyd tribute act to play for any Pink Floyd member. In 1996, TAPFS performed at David Gilmour's 50th birthday. They are the only Pink Floyd tribute act to have performed at the Royal Albert Hall, first performing there on 26 November 2001 and being joined with the choir from Islington Green School for a rendition of Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2, and again sold out the Royal Albert Hall in May 2007. Roger Waters is reported to have attended this performance.The show has also had associated with it people who have worked with Pink Floyd over the years, including Colin Norfield who has worked as a sound engineer for David Gilmour for both his solo work and on The Division Bell tour, and also the drummer Clive Brooks as a drum technician. Brooks was also a founding member of the English progressive rock band Egg and was the drummer for the British blues band The Groundhogs
In 1998, the band played at the Glastonbury Festival on the acoustic stage.
In 2004, the band performed The Dark Side of the Moon at the King's Dock, Liverpool, which was recorded and released as a DVD the same year. This was released as a 2-DVD set with the full concert on disc one and bonuses on disc two. Also in 2004, the band commenced a major tour of The United States, Canada, Germany and Italy, including a show in Switzerland. The Liverpool Pops DVD and more recently the performance at the Royal Albert Hall have been aired on public television in several of the United States on a number of occasions
In 2005, the band released a CD of live recordings of Animals and Wish You Were Here, again at the Liverpool Pops. In the same year the band undertook a two-week tour of South America consisting of dates in Mexico City, Buenos Aires and shows in Brazil. Also in 2005 a documentary about the group was shot at the Bell Center in Montreal, Quebec and broadcast in North America on the Discovery Channel in 2007.
In 2007, the band performed at several major European Music Festivals, including the Sweden Rock Festival, Malta Jazz Festival, Arrow Rock Festival, Rock Werchter and Festival do Sudoeste. A DVD of the band performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2007 was released later that year.
In September 2007, the group commenced its longest-ever continuous tour of the Americas, performing for the first time in Panama, Venezuela and Chile. In the same month a performance of the show in Buenos Aires was aired on Argentine national television as part of the Pepsi music festival.
February 2008 saw the group commence their "Best of The Wall" tour on a 5 week tour of Europe performing in Spain, Luxembourg, Poland, Norway and the Czech Republic for the first time and were later to play in Raanana, Israel in May of the same year.
The group performed at the Isle of Wight Festival for the first time in June 2008 , were the headline act of the last night of Guilfest 2008 and in August of the same year made their first appearance at the LokereseFesteen in Lokeren, Belgium.
TAPFS performed their first shows in Ukraine and Slovakia in September 2008.
A complete production of The Wall, which incorporates new animation by Bryan Kolupski, was performed for the first time by TAPFS for the 2008 U.S and Canadian tours. The production has continued throughout the 2009 European tour, which includes dates in the UK, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, France, Spain, Portugal, and for the first time, Belgrade, Serbia.
The summer of 2009 saw TAPFS perform for the first time in Austria at the Lovely Days Festival in Wiesen and the Castle Clam Classic Rock Festival in Klam.In the same month they were the closing act of the Bospop festival in the Netherlands.
The Australian Pink Floyd Show:
* Paul Bonney - drums
* Carl Brunsdon - saxophones, clarinet, bass, acoustic guitar, percussion
* Ian Cattell - bass guitar (outside Europe), vocals
* Damian Darlington - guitar, vocals
* Steve Mac - guitar, vocals
* Jason Sawford - keyboards
* Colin Wilson - bass guitar, vocals (Europe)
* Ola Bienkowska ( Aleksandra Bieńkowska )- backing vocals
* Emily Gervers - backing vocals
* Amy Smith - backing vocals
* Jacquie Williams - backing vocals
Additional Touring Members:
* Arran Ahmun - drums, North America 2008
* Bobby Harrison - guitar, North America 2008
* Rob Stringer - keyboards, North America 2008
* Jamie Humphries - guitar, North America 2006, 2007
* Bianca Antoinette - backing vocals, North America 2005, 2007
DVD1:
Speak To Me (Mason) 2:28
Breathe (Gilmour/Waters/Wright) 2:46
On The Run (Gilmour/Waters) 3:32
Time (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) 6:57
The Great Gig In The Sky (Wright/Torry) 4:30
Money (Waters) 6:35
Us And Them (Wright/Waters) 7:43
Any Colour You Like (Gilmour/Wright/Mason) 3:24
Brain Damage (Waters) 3:50
Eclipse (Waters) 2:19
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-V (Waters/Gilmour/Wright) 14:17
Welcome To The Machine (Waters) 7:09
High Hopes (Gilmour/Samson) 8:33
Sorrow (Gilmour) 11:07
The Fletcher Memorial Home (Waters) 4:22
Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Waters/Wright/Gilmour/Mason) 9:29
Keep Talking (Gilmour/Wright/Samson) 7:20
One Of These Days (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) 6:30
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives (Waters) 2:16
Another Brick In The Wall Part II (Waters)6:38
Run Like Hell (Gilmour/Waters) 8:27
Wish You Were Here (Gilmour/Waters) 6:56
Comfortably Numb (Gilmour/Waters) 11:08
DVD2:
Documentary
Interviews
Artwork
Animation
Bootlegs
Photography