Best and Worst Tribute Bands You've Seen

[Cotty]

Anyone seen UK Pink Floyd Experience?
They are playing near me next year £30 ish a ticket
https://trafalgartickets.com/churchill-theatre-bro...

[GMuk]

Cotty said:

Anyone seen UK Pink Floyd Experience?
They are playing near me next year £30 ish a ticket
https://trafalgartickets.com/churchill-theatre-bro...

Saw them at the Beck Theatre in 2019. Thought they were really good. Show not on the same scale as the Aussie Pink Floyd, but very decent.

[Nethybridge]

The Sound of Bruce Springsteen are a top combo.

If nowt else it's a boon for out of work musos, there are 100s of bands out there, all getting
gigs.

[StevieBee]

I'm not sure if you'd call them a Tribute band as such but The Hamsters do Jimi Hendrix and ZZTop exceptionally well.

I'm sure it was Radio X where they were going through Tribute Band Names. Some of them are genius / hilarious. Those I can remember

Bike and Turn a Corner
Pete Loaf
Jeff Leopard
Earth, Wind for Hire

[popegregory]

Nethybridge said:

The Sound of Bruce Springsteen are a top combo.

Yes, I enjoyed these guys

[Ronstein]

Chris-m39vz said:

Hi,

Anyone seen any Genesis tribute bands? I've seen The Musical Box twice- very good indeed, and seemingly endorsed by Peter Gabriel.

Also seen The Book of Genesis a couple of times. Less slick and polished but good musicians and a certain charm. Until they changed lead singer- to a blonde haired guy who didn't know the lyrics and had to read them from a crib sheet as he sang! Met Anthony Phillips at one of their gigs though (Genesis's original lead guitarist).

But then saw Steve Hackett live, after seeing the real thing I gave up on the Genesis tribute acts.

I was disappointed with The Musical Box, and Steve Hackett does Genesis material sensationally well. Another huge Aussie Floyd fan here. It's the full Pink Floyd experience, including a substantial amount of Pink Floyd's visual gear (including the round screen) and crew.

[Johnspex]

StevieBee said:

I'm not sure if you'd call them a Tribute band as such but The Hamsters do Jimi Hendrix and ZZTop exceptionally well.

I'm sure it was Radio X where they were going through Tribute Band Names. Some of them are genius / hilarious. Those I can remember

Bike and Turn a Corner
Pete Loaf
Jeff Leopard
Earth, Wind for Hire



Very much afraid it's *did* not *do*..
We saw them at Ruislip on the final tour. When they walked into the audience, like they did at every gig, Slim walked past my wife and said " Go on girl, shake it" . He'd have stopped dead in his tracks if she had.

[Ronstein]

Saw Aussie Floyd at Reading yesterday, and they're even better than ever. New keyboard player who absolutely nailed Rick Wright's playing and the light show is the best its ever been.

[brownspeed]

Ronstein said:

I was disappointed with The Musical Box, and Steve Hackett does Genesis material sensationally well. Another huge Aussie Floyd fan here. It's the full Pink Floyd experience, including a substantial amount of Pink Floyd's visual gear (including the round screen) and crew.

I've seen musical box on several occasions -each time was a recreation of a different album tour from back in the day. I thought each was brilliant (I never saw Genesis in Gabriel era)
Have seen Aussie floyd- again were great every time. These are both bands that the original bands go to watch
Also saw Hackett a few years ago, probably not quite as good as tMB!
Going to see Mama tonight. will keep you posted

[smn159]

Ronstein said:

Saw Aussie Floyd at Reading yesterday, and they're even better than ever. New keyboard player who absolutely nailed Rick Wright's playing and the light show is the best its ever been.

Excellent - I have tickets to see them in Milton Keynes soon

[alpertonian]

Another vote for Elvana. Sheer entertainment and great musicians as well.

[Dashnine]

Saw Queen Extravaganza a couple of times when Marc Martel was singing with them, he sounds just like Freddie Mercury, has a similar facial features and was used by Queen when dubbing Rami Malek in the Bohemian Rhapsody film scenes where they didn’t have the real Mercury sound. Check out his audition and other YouTube vids, incredible likeness.

Queen Extravaganza were put together by Roger Taylor (the Queen drummer) as he hated Queen Tribute acts who wore curly black wigs and a yellow jacket and sounded nothing like Queen. Close your eyes at the two gigs I went to (they make no attempt to look like Queen), and the sound is unbelievable, they have all the Queen backstage sound setup too.

Martel now has his own Queen tribute band, but we have tickets for the new Extravaganza line up in February, looking forward to seeing how good they are.

[cooky73]

Bravado - Tribute to Rush

StillMarillion

Guns2Roses

[Scotty2]

I can recommend "We Are Not Devo" for being a brilliant DEVO tribute act.
The proper suits - some times with a costume change- and even a left handed bass player.
Fantastic selection of the first three albums and some of the obscure stuff too.

https://wearenotdevo.wordpress.com/


I might even have been tempted to do my own Jocko Homo tribute...

[Cotty]

The ELO Experience, Rumours of Fleetwood Mac and UK Pink Floyd Experience will all be playing at Churchill theatre Bromley next year. Not sure which to go to.

https://trafalgartickets.com/churchill-theatre-bro...

[Pieman68]

There's a band does the round of the pubs up this way

Styckleback

They're not a bad band but if you're going for a pun on another band name, surely you'd try to avoid one as bad as Nickelback

[Johnspex]

Off topic, but what is supposed to be so bad about Nickelback?
I'd rather listen to them than the God-awful ELO or Queen.

[brownspeed]

the Red Shoes; a Kate Bush tribute act who operate on a similar level to a secondary school talent evening. So laughably awful that we left after about 40 minutes.

[Pebbles167]

UK Green Day tribute band called Green Haze

Although only a mild Green Day fan, I've seen Green Haze twice now, once as a support act and another on their own tour, both times they were brilliant and everyone had a great time.

Would recommend to anyone, except people who don't like Green Day of course.

[ibisti]

I've seen Dirty DC numerous times now and they are fantastic. Was very sceptical at first but they deliver in spades. Their main singer is a "Brian" but they now regularly fly in a "Bon" from another Californian tribute DC band. They do double headers with both with either singer performing their songs.

https://youtu.be/8Ii82-kMU0E?feature=shared