Founded all the way back in 1988, The Australian Pink Floyd Show have developed a reputation not only as the world’s premier tribute to the mighty Pink Floyd, but for replicating even the finest nuances of their music. Tonight is their first of three back-to-back shows at the London Palladium.
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
London Palladium – 2 November 2025
Words: Kahmel Farahani
Photography: Manuela Langotsch
The Australian Pink Floyd Show usually build their setlists around particular anniversaries, and 2025 is a big one. It marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd’s timeless ode to absence and disconnection, built around some of the most iconic and recognisable music ever made.
Tonight’s show opens with the Wish You Were Here album played in order and, as the lights go down and those first guitar notes of Shine On You Crazy Diamond ring across the room, it is hard not feel the hairs on your arm stand up.
The music itself has been analysed in far greater depth and far more times than this simple review allows for, so it seems the real question is how close does The Australian Pink Floyd Show come to the real thing?
In short, the answer is they come closer than anything else is ever likely to.
The loving attention to detail in reproducing even the tiniest detail in Pink Floyd’s music is truly impressive. Whether it’s the solo of Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 or the final note of Goodbye Cruel World, the effect is like hearing the albums note for note in a live setting.
The band are all outstanding musicians, and the commitment to be faithful without sounding robotic or flat is genuinely impressive. 
The visual aspect of a Pink Floyd show is also present and accounted for. The circular screen behind the band is used for projection in an identical way to Pink Floyd and David Gilmour’s tours, with various videos to accompany the music.
The visuals are not the actual Floyd content, so no Gerald Scarf or exploding EMI LPs. Instead, we get a slightly on-the-nose, generic AI reproduction of the song’s lyrics.
Welcome To The Machine sees a Metropolis-like machine mouthing the words, while Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI – IX) has a generally pudgy and cheerful man dancing down the street, presumably a former band member dancing off down the road to madness.
The best visuals are actually the knowing, tongue-in-cheek ones that involve a pink kangaroo. During the television chatter intro that leads into Wish You Were Here, the BBC News reports are replaced by the Kangaroo channel surfing Australian pop culture moments from Crocodile Dundee to Kylie to Neighbors.
It is very clever and especially funny when the pink kangaroo is brought to life on stage during the climax of One Of These Days. 
The gig is split into two sets, with the second mixing up greatest hits from The Dark Side Of The Moon, later reunion era songs like Marooned and Coming Back To Life, and even a Syd Barret era song in Arnold Layne.
Ending with the rousing Run Like Hell before returning for the encore of Comfortably Numb, The Australian Pink Floyd Show take their well-earned bow and leave the stage.
If you are in any way, shape or form a fan of Pink Floyd, or just live music in general, then seeing The Australian Pink Floyd Show in the flesh should be on your to-do list.
