Phil Floyd started with a concert, a saxophone, and a lot of tribute bands — this is how it came together.
Performs live on stage playing a range of saxophones and a variety of keyboards — "capturing the soul of Pink Floyd's music, re-imagining it through expressive saxophone performances that recreate the band's iconic guitar solos."
From the production desk at the rear of the venue, Kati controls the sound mix, lighting, lasers, cameras and projections — "adding the sparkle to the show," and turning a musical performance into a fully immersive light show.
Pink Floyd was the thread that first connected Phil and Kati — their first date was a Roger Waters concert in Manchester in 2007. They held hands for the first time during Comfortably Numb, and it's been "their song" ever since.
Phil's musical journey started much earlier, at age seven, with a piano accordion — performing alongside his sister on clarinet, mainly in retirement homes. As a teenager he learned piano, and at sixteen took a job as a church organist despite never having played a church organ before. Then, as he puts it, "life got in the way."
The saxophone stayed on his wish list until his 50th birthday, when Kati bought him a tenor saxophone. He taught himself from YouTube, and three years later Kati gave him professional lessons with a teacher in York. When Covid hit in 2020, mastering the saxophone became Phil's lockdown project.
Together, Phil and Kati played what they jokingly called "Pink Floyd Tribute Bingo" — travelling the UK to see as many tribute bands as they could find.
The turning point came in 2023, at a Candlelight Pink Floyd concert performed by a string quartet at The Ghillie Dhu in Edinburgh. Hearing Pink Floyd reinterpreted on different instruments, rather than recreated note-for-note, planted the idea of a show led by saxophone and piano.
Phil's first arrangement was The Great Gig in the Sky on alto saxophone, followed by the guitar solo from Comfortably Numb. From there, the show grew around Dick Parry's saxophone legacy on Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Us and Them, and Money — songs that, in Phil's words, are "non-negotiable parts of the Phil Floyd show."
The visual side of the show has its own origin: Phil's love of lighting comes from years running mobile discos, which led him to learn DMX lighting control and MIDI integration himself. In 2025, Kati "officially promoted herself to Lighting Director," taking full control of the lighting and laser show.
With thanks to Pedro Eleuterio (Brazil), for help creating Yamaha styles for the Genos 2, and to Jamie Anderson, who supported Phil's transition into becoming a semi-professional saxophonist.
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