Brit Floyd to commemorate 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd album during tour stop in Colorado Springs
Pigs will fly, as the old saying goes, before feuding musicians Roger Waters and David Gilmour reunite to make a new Pink Floyd album. Then again, it’s worth pointing out that pigs HAVE flown — and will continue to do so — as long as Brit Floyd keeps up its nearly 25-year career playing note-by-note renditions of the band’s music to sold-out shows around the world.
“We do have quite a large inflatable pig that makes an appearance when there’s room for him,” Brit Floyd founder and bandleader Damian Darlington said. “Not every stage has the room available to inflate it. But when we can get it in there, it certainly makes an appearance.”
Either way, Brit Floyd audiences can count on high production values and a career-spanning catalog of its predecessor’s songs, including a complete performance of a single album that changes from tour to tour.
Brit Floyd’s tour rolls into Colorado Springs on Friday with a show at Pikes Peak Center. The band is commemorating the 50th anniversary of “Wish You Were Here,” an album that included the epic 26-minute-track “Shine on You Crazy Diamond.” Divided into nine movements, the song was reportedly inspired by the 1968 health-related departure of original singer-songwriter Syd Barrett.
“The song ‘Wish You Were Here’ touches on that as well,” Darlington said. “In fact, the whole of the album is, to a certain degree, about the absence of Syd Barrett, either directly or indirectly.”
Over the course of its career, Brit Floyd has performed nearly all of the songs from the band’s post-Barrett era. And with shows that typically clock in at two and a half hours, there’s time to play a full album as well as a dozen additional songs.
“There are still one or two songs that I would love to play,” the bandleader said. “But not many, because we’ve already played the vast majority of them over the years.”
Thousands of shows later, the bandleader has never grown tired of the music.
“There’s just so much going on, so much variety in their music, and that’s what makes it such fun for ourselves,” he said. “But at the core of it, there is something recognizable, all the way through, that is Pink Floyd. You still know it’s Pink Floyd pretty much from beginning to end.”






