aBOUT Wish You Were Here
WISH YOU WERE HERE celebrates its 30-year tradition as America's largest and most authentic Pink Floyd stage production, combining Sight and Sound to capture the mood, emotions, and intensity of the Floydian theatrical concert experience - in a spectacular tribute of music, performers, lighting, video, lasers and inflatables - all performed 100% live with no backing tracks. The band is one of the longest continually-performing Pink Floyd tribute acts in the world, with an unparalleled history of sold-out concerts, record-breaking festival events and celebrated theater productions throughout Midwest America.
WISH YOU WERE HERE performs Pink Floyd of all eras at every show, while focusing on the authentic musical and visual presentation of Pink Floyd’s Classic Years of 1970-1981 - with lighting, vintage videos, sound effects and flying inflatables from that era, while also recreating the psychedelic visuals from the Syd Barrett years and a spectacular new laser light show from The Division Bell era. The band presents the crowd favorites that all rock fans recognize, interspersed with the show-stoppers that appease even the most ardent Floyd fanatics.
The show utilizes a veteran 10-piece musical ensemble featuring 7 vocalists including 2 female vocalists, and a Floydian stage production - sound effects and vintage videos on a large circle screen, flying inflatables, theatrical vignettes with props, and a sensational light show with moving lasers, rolling fog and state-of-the-art intelligent lighting - all produced by experienced industry professionals with a fan's obsession for detail.
Formed in 1987 under the moniker of ‘Harvest Pink Floyd Revue’ as the first professional American Pink Floyd tribute band, and evolving in 1995 as WISH YOU WERE HERE, its core members have been at the forefront of the modern tribute band movement. The band has gained international recognition, in books such as The Rough Guide To Pink Floyd, for its detailed recreations of Pink Floyd’s greatest albums and tours, performing the 1973 Dark Side Of The Moon show on the same stage at Blossom Music Center in 2006, the 1972 tour show at Akron Civic Theatre - also on the same stage, 8 times - and the 1977 Animals tour show at the Nautica Pavilion in Cleveland in July 2005. In 2008 the band staged the most elaborate production of The Wall ever performed by an American Pink Floyd tribute act, at TimeWarner Cable Amphitheater and theaters in Ohio.
WISH YOU WERE HERE performs Pink Floyd of all eras at every show, while focusing on the authentic musical and visual presentation of Pink Floyd’s Classic Years of 1970-1981 - with lighting, vintage videos, sound effects and flying inflatables from that era, while also recreating the psychedelic visuals from the Syd Barrett years and a spectacular new laser light show from The Division Bell era. The band presents the crowd favorites that all rock fans recognize, interspersed with the show-stoppers that appease even the most ardent Floyd fanatics.
The show utilizes a veteran 10-piece musical ensemble featuring 7 vocalists including 2 female vocalists, and a Floydian stage production - sound effects and vintage videos on a large circle screen, flying inflatables, theatrical vignettes with props, and a sensational light show with moving lasers, rolling fog and state-of-the-art intelligent lighting - all produced by experienced industry professionals with a fan's obsession for detail.
Formed in 1987 under the moniker of ‘Harvest Pink Floyd Revue’ as the first professional American Pink Floyd tribute band, and evolving in 1995 as WISH YOU WERE HERE, its core members have been at the forefront of the modern tribute band movement. The band has gained international recognition, in books such as The Rough Guide To Pink Floyd, for its detailed recreations of Pink Floyd’s greatest albums and tours, performing the 1973 Dark Side Of The Moon show on the same stage at Blossom Music Center in 2006, the 1972 tour show at Akron Civic Theatre - also on the same stage, 8 times - and the 1977 Animals tour show at the Nautica Pavilion in Cleveland in July 2005. In 2008 the band staged the most elaborate production of The Wall ever performed by an American Pink Floyd tribute act, at TimeWarner Cable Amphitheater and theaters in Ohio.
- Based in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame city - Cleveland, Ohio - WISH YOU WERE HERE is the only Pink Floyd tribute band in the world to utilize a giant inflatable pig precisely modeled after the one used for the ‘Animals’ album cover shoot at Battersea Station, as well as a giant inflatable Teacher from The Wall.
- WISH YOU WERE HERE holds the ‘sell-out and attendance record’ for tribute acts at the HOUSE OF BLUES in Cleveland (cap. 1,300), performing 11 sold-out and 28 SRO shows there from 2005-20219, and also holds the ‘sell-out and attendance record’ for over 30 sellouts from 1996-2004 at the now-defunct Odeon Concert Club (1,000 cap). The band currently plays to SRO crowds at its home venue of world-famous Cleveland Agora (2,000 cap.).
- WISH YOU WERE HERE has set attendance records at Lorain’s Rockin’ On The River (3 times over 10,000+), multiple years at Warren Community Amphitheater (5,000+) and Cuyahoga County Fair (3,000+), and the inaugural season of Akron's Lock 3 Live Amphitheater (3,000+). These Northeast Ohio crowds have voted WISH YOU WERE HERE as both "Best Live Act" and "Best Tribute/Cover Band" for multiple years in the Scene Magazine Music Awards.
- In May of 2002, the band was chosen by Clear Channel Entertainment to headline the national FAKEFEST TOUR, which played to thousands of fans at outdoor sheds in 6 major markets across the Midwest, including Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh. Over 5,000 people saw the band's 2008 Florida tour, with enthusiastic crowds at the Delray Beach Garlic Festival and the Space Coast Convention Center.
- WISH YOU WERE HERE has also performed to capacity crowds in Columbus OH (Kemba Live & The Newport), Carmel IN (Allies Solutions Center), Loong Island NY (Tilles Center), Lima Oh (Ritz Theatre), Mansfield OH (Renaissance Theatre), Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Canton OH (Palace Theatre), Cincinnati OH (MegaCorp Pavilion & Bogart's), Kalamazoo MI (State Theatre), Louisville KY, and throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, & New York at colleges, festivals and events.
- Shows often include entire album performances, such as "Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were Here", or "Animals", and the band has also staged unplugged and quadraphonic sound shows. WISH YOU WERE HERE has performed the Floydian masterpiece "The Wall" at theaters in the Midwest, including in 2008 staging the most elaborate and authentic production of "The Wall" ever produced by an American Pink Floyd tribute act, which included the building (and tearing down) of a giant wall which spanned the width of the stage, set pieces, a children's choir, inflatables, and costumed characters.
The Sight and Sound of Pink Floyd, indeed!
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