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WORLD TOUR 1994
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - NOVEMBER 30 1993
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After a lapse of five years, Pink Floyd touchdown with a new album,
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ground-breaking show and a substantial European Tour, taking in more
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than 29 shows in 18 countries commencing in July 1994.
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Pink Floyd make no use of video, concentrating on an array of
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extraordinary special effects, using both the stage and the audience
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itself. Key visual aspects of the show were conceived by the band,
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Production Designer Mark Fisher and Marc Brickman. Mark Fisher is
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renowned for his remarkable set designs, including such epics as Pink
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Floyd's "The Wall", the Stones Steel Wheels set and tours for U2, Tina
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Turner, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, George Michael and Simply Red.
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Marc Brickman, the show's director and Lightning Designer, has credits
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which include Bruce Springsteen, the Nelson Mandela tribute concert,
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the Barcelona Olympics and Arnold Schwarzeneggar's movie The Running
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Man. Along with the band he has devised an extraordinary light show,
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including lasers which have been banned in certain parts of the world
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because they are reputedly strong enough to split the atom! David
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Gilmour comments, "Everyone involved in the creation of the show meets
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up on a weekly basis to design and create the show in 'brainstroming
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sessions' to produce what we hope will be the ultimate live
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spectacle."
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It is a massive production and the stage is one of the largest and
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most complex ever devised. A number of identical stages will be built
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for use in alternative cities, leap-frogging around the continent
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courtesy of a massive fleet of ground transportation. The stage takes
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48 trucks of steel, 3 days and 120 men to erect.
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The last time Pink Floyd, who incidentally will be rehearsing in the
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world's biggest aircraft hangar, came into our orbit was the 1987/89
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"Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour", which lasted 19 months, and played
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200 shows to 5.5 million people. The tour voyaged around Europe,
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including Russia and the legendary free show floating on a barge in
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the Venice lagoon. Pink Floyd have sold a total of 140 million records
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worldwide including the third best seller of all time at 28 million
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copies, "The Dark Side of the Moon", which at over 700 weeks in the
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Billboard charts, is the longest running US chart album ever.
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Pink Floyd have set the controls for the heart of the 21st Century.
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For further information please contact Alan Edwards or Liam McCoy at
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Poole Edwards 071 436 3633
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THE EUROPEAN TOUR - 1994
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July 22 Lisbon Stadium Alvalade
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27 Barcelona Olympic Stadium
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30 Paris Chateau De Chantilly
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August 2 Cologne Mungersdorfer Stadium
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4 Munich Olympic Stadium
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6 Basel St. Jakob Football Stadium
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9 Montpelier Amphitheatre Du Chateau De Grammont
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11 Bordeaux Esplanade Des Quinconces
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13 Hockenheim Hockenheim Ring
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19 Vienna Weiner Neustaft Airfield
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21 Berlin Maifeld
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23 Hannover Neidersachsenstadion
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25 Copenhagen Parken
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27 Gothenburg Ullevi
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29 Oslo Valle Hovin
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September 1 Helsinki Olympic Stadium
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4 Rotterdam Feyenoord
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7 Prague Strahov Stadium
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9 Strasbourg Stade De La Meinau
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11 Lyon Stade Du Gerland
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13 Turin Stadio Delle Alpi
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15 Udine Stadio Friuli
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17 Modena Festa Nazionale Del Unita
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20 Rome Ippodromo Tor Di Valle
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There will be further shows in Germany and Spain, and Pink Floyd will
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also play in Belgium, Greece, Turkey, and Israel. Full Details TBA.
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The UK shows will be announced in the new years.
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