What do you do if a band as brilliant as Pink Floyd long ago chose not to flog themselves on the tour circuit?

You could sit at home and listen to their CDs, and very good listening they are, too.

Or you could catch one of the many Floyd tribute bands out there.

Is that a bit sad? Not if you were at the Brighton Centre on Friday night.

The Australian Pink Floyd Show is probably the best tribute band of any kind on the planet at the moment.

And the standing ovation after the band ripped into encore Run Like Hell, accompanied by a giant stage creature, proved how good they are.

It was a night of soaring guitar solos, choppy riffs and wrenching saxophone wails.

The band said very little between numbers. In fact, the first words uttered were to tell the admiring audience that they were playing the last number before the interval.

But that mattered little because the musicianship was pure magic.

The crowd didn’t really rock until the last few numbers. They didn’t need to. They were Comfortably Numbed by the sheer quality of the sounds this superb band produced.