As a member of a band who once played a gig in the ruins of Pompeii, Pink Floyd singer/bassist and chief songwriter Roger Waters has clearly learned a thing or two about big shows over the years.

Or maybe it says more about the limitations of younger bands' creativity when a man of pensionable age can come up with an audio-visual experience that is jaw-dropping and ear-popping even from 200 rows back.

The epic Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun featured vintage film of Syd Barrett's Floyd, Fletcher Memorial Home visualised the world's leaders incarcerated in a crumbling mental asylum, while Perfect Sense and Sheep were accompanied by a giant spaceman and a pig flying above us.

But that was just the supporting feature. If ever there was a record that demanded to be performed in a wide open space, it was Dark Side Of The Moon, and the sonic maelstroms accompanying Time and Any Colour You Like swirled around us in unnerving surroundsound like they were about to crash down on our heads.

Then Carol Kenyon threatened to shatter glasses with the famous vocal solo from The Great Gig In The Sky, and Eclipse sounded like the place was about to lift off into space. How to follow that? From the sublime to the ridiculous, as an encore featured 10,000 welleducated, affluent Londoners singing "We don't need no education."

Hippy nonsense, of course. But genius entertainment.