Brit Floyd – Paying Tribute to 50 Years of WISH YOU WERE HERE, and More!

Brit Floyd performed at Lee’s Family Forum on Sunday, July 13, 2025, paying tribute to Pink Floyd’s WISH YOU WERE HERE album for its 50th anniversary.

Pink Floyd needs no introduction. The band has sold millions of records, with DARK SIDE OF THE MOON and THE WALL ranking among the most esteemed and beloved rock records of all time. Their progressive sound is something all its own, with surviving members of the band continuing to make music. Unsurprisingly, there have been many attempts to pay tribute to the music of Pink Floyd. Brit Floyd is one such band, currently touring the United States to perform the music of Pink Floyd, in particular to celebrate 50 years of one of the band’s most seminal albums, WISH YOU WERE HERE.

Lee’s Family Forum is the arena that replaced the former outdoor Henderson Pavilion; it was previously known as the Dollar Loan Center. This was only my second time attending a gig in this building, having previously seen Alice Cooper and Ace Frehley in 2022. Annoyingly, there is a charge to park in the parking lots, but other than that, this is a solid venue and a good place to catch a gig. I thought it would be a nice spot to see a Pink Floyd tribute stage show in.

To give a bit of background on myself, I love the music of Pink Floyd, but I wouldn’t say I’m an expert who knows every single deep cut from every single album. I’ve never seen any members of Pink Floyd live, or even a tribute band before. That said, I was thrilled and enthused to hear these songs done live by a tribute I’d heard nothing but good things about. The band is quite large, consisting of guitarists/vocalists, a bassist/vocalist, a multi-instrumentalist handling keyboards and additional drums, and even saxophone when needed, and a trio of additional female vocalists.

Obviously, this tour was meant to primarily pay tribute to the WISH YOU WERE HERE album, but with Pink Floyd’s big discography, there would clearly be more than just the tracks from that one album. What would the rest of the set consist of? Hits? Deep Cuts? A combination of all the above?

From the moment the lights went down, the crowd was enthused. The setup of the stage and background was quite elaborate, with well-planned lighting work, and even a video screen to show appropriate images, whether it was warlike imagery, pigs, an overbearing mother figure, and various flying machines, again depending on what the song in question required. An image of the famed DARK SIDE OF THE MOON album cover was even accompanied by lights across the crowd of the beam of white light and the refracted rainbow light, which got quite the reaction from the crowd. The spotlights were a bit aggressive at times, and I did get them in my eyes quite often from my floor seat, but was still wildly impressed by what the production offered. Even prior to the show starting, this screen showed old black-and-white footage of the band with founding member Syd Barrett, including the band being interviewed by Dick Clark.

The setlist was one of the finest aspects of the evening. Again, I make no claims to be a Pink Floyd expert who knows every single song and album, but the balanced combination of deep tracks and hits was one that impressed the die-hards as well as the more casual fans. Kicking off the show was “Learning to Fly” from 1987’s A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON, a fairly big radio hit, but further showing how diverse the setlist was, it was followed up by “High Hopes” from 1994’s underrated gem THE DIVISION BELL. Tracks like “Time” from DARK SIDE OF THE MOON got a great reception from the audience, as did cuts from THE WALL like “Mother” and “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.” One of the highlights of the first set for me was one of my favorite deeper tracks from the band’s discography, “Goodbye Blue Sky,” also from THE WALL. Throughout the night, the musicians proved themselves to be more than capable. The actual former members of Pink Floyd would’ve been proud.

Of course, as was previously mentioned, the tribute to WISH YOU WERE HERE was the focal point of the evening, being played after the intermission. It’s an album that only consists of five songs, but they’re among the five most beloved in their discography: Two suites of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” the title cut, “Welcome to the Machine,” and “Have a Cigar.” Some encores of the band’s biggest hits closed out the set in fine form. While there are admittedly a few more cuts I would liked to have heard (something from the early Syd Barrett era would’ve been a fun blast from the distant past), these guys and gals did a damn good job.

This was my first time seeing Brit Floyd paying tribute to one of rock’s most iconic bands, and I truly hope it isn’t the last. Will we see them paying tribute to the ANIMALS album’s 50-year anniversary a few years down the road? Whatever these guys have in store, if it comes to Vegas, I’ll be first in line to check it out. These guys do justice to Pink Floyd and then some. Absolute highest recommendations!