Pink Floyd orchestrated: The Dark Side like you’ve never heard it
Pink Floyd’s music spans psychedelic, progressive and space rock – soon to be celebrated with the full force of a symphony orchestra, a rock band, a choir and some powerhouse vocalists.
The music of Pink Floyd is pretty timeless, and it will be unleashed on an arena scale when ECLIPSE – Pink Floyd Orchestrated returns to Brisbane.
Sixty musician and singers will fill the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre with Pink Floyd’s monumental sound for one night only on September 25, as part of an Australasian tour.
Following its 2024 Brisbane performance at QPAC, ECLIPSE returns on an even larger canvas at the BCEC in a fusion of symphonic power, rock performance and visual spectacle.
The BCEC arena provides the scale to experience ECLIPSE as it was designed to be presented – with a full symphony orchestra, rock band, three powerhouse vocalists and a 20-voice youth choir combining to recreate the immense sound world of Pink Floyd.
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Featuring guitar legend Jack Jones alongside the Southern Cross Symphony, ECLIPSE recreates the detail, atmosphere and emotional power of Pink Floyd’s original recordings – from the hypnotic pulse of Time and the haunting beauty of Us and Them to the raw emotion of Wish You Were Here, the theatrical force of Another Brick in the Wall and the soaring grandeur of Comfortably Numb.
Co-producer and Southern Cross Symphony director Warwick Cheatle says the arena presentation will allow Brisbane audiences to experience the true physical scale of Pink Floyd’s music.
“Pink Floyd created music of enormous dimension – music that expands, surrounds you and takes you somewhere else,” says Cheatle. “The arena gives us the space to bring every element of that music together on a monumental scale.
“With 60 musicians and singers on stage, the sound rises from an entire orchestra, a rock band, three extraordinary vocalists and a youth choir. Add the lighting and visual presentation, and the result will be immense. This is not simply a band performing a collection of Pink Floyd songs. It is a complete arena concert experience that brings the scale, detail and emotional force of the original recordings to life.”
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The production name ECLIPSE comes from the closing track of Pink Floyd’s landmark album, The Dark Side of the Moon, a fitting title for a concert that explores the band’s extraordinary ability to combine sound, spectacle, philosophy and feeling.
The production features leading Australian performers including Jack Jones; vocalists Zkye Compson-Harris, Natalie Ermer and Emily Kelly; saxophonist Adam Page; guitarists and vocalists Cam Blokland and Dave Pagano; keyboardist and musical director Paul White; drummer Ben Todd; and bassist Warwick Cheatle.
Every guitar line, synthesiser texture, saxophone solo, vocal harmony and orchestral swell is delivered with precision, drama and emotional force. In the BCEC arena, those elements come together in a production created to be seen, heard and felt on a grand scale.
For Brisbane audiences, this is a rare opportunity to experience the music of Pink Floyd with the size, power and majesty it deserves.
ECLIPSE – Pink Floyd Orchestrated, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane, September 25, 7.30pm.
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