Almost to the day two years after it was supposed to happen (when Nick Mason was a callow youth of 76), the gig took place at the Forum. It was the same line up as 2019's gig with Nick, Lee Harris and Gary Kemp on guitar Dom Beeken on keyboards and Guy Pratt on bass.
This was a long gig with over two hours of music and featuring proper versions of the classic extended early Floyd songs with 'Atom Heart Mother' (topped and tailed by 'If'), 'Set the Controls' to finish the first half, 'Interstellar Overdrive' and 'Astronomy Domini' to start the second half and the final track before the encore the inimtable, ultra brilliant 'Echoes'. I struggle with the idea that anything can be better Floyd-wise than 'Set the Controls' but 'Echoes' surely is perfection.
In between they did a number of shorter Floyd songs featuring particularly a number of Syd Barrett compositions and also the other two classic tracks from 'Meddle'. In fact the first four songs were 'One of these Days', 'Arnold Layne' 'Fearless' and 'Obscured by Clouds'. What an amazing start.
The encore featured a couple of classics - 'Saucerful of Secrets' (Of course), 'See Emily Play' and finished with another song that could only be a Syd Berrett song 'Bike'.
The lights and videos were incidentally brilliant. What a great gig.
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