2022 has been a good year for live music so far. Virtually everybody is touring and I’ve been able to catch a great deal of the shows that I’ve wanted to attend. There have been some outstanding shows this year and although they are playing covers; last night’s was the best so far. Brit Floyd, the all-star cast that relentlessly tours, keeps the timeless music of Pink Floyd alive in concert form. As they seemingly do each summer, they visited Kemba Live in Columbus last night, and played another concert for the ages. The authenticity of their sound and image is second to none.

Getting to catch live versions of some of the greatest music ever created is always a blast. I was thankfully able to coordinate with one of my longest friends to go with me and take in the show. Pink Floyd’s music never ceases to hit me with a new message, whenever I go through one of my several Floyd binges each year. The tunes never seem to sound dated, although with each passing year it becomes more and more apparent that I can relate to them differently. In particular, the following from this Dark Side of the Moon classic.

“Time”

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I’d something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell

Brit Floyd Set List Columbus, Ohio 7/27/2022

1. Cluster One (1994)
2. Learning To Fly (1987)
3. High Hopes (1994)
4. Welcome To The Machine (1975)
5. A New Machine, Part 1 (1987)
6. Terminal Frost (1987)
7. Time (Breathe reprise) (1973)
8. The Great Gig In The Sky (1973)
9. Poles Apart (1994)
10. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) (1979)
11. One Of These Days (1971)
12. Echoes (1971)
13. The Final Cut (1983)
14. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (1967)
15. Money (1973)
16. Wish You Were Here (1975)
17. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) (1975)
18. Comfortably Numb (1979)
19. One Slip (1987) *Encore*
20. Run Like Hell (1979) *Encore*