A ramped up entertainment line-up features tribute bands from around the world - Hell's Belles (the world famous all-female AC/DC tribute band from USA), Hybrid Theoryz (Australian Linkin Park tribute band), The Perfect Strangers (Journey and Toto tribute band from India), and local tribute bands
Welcome To The Machine (Pink Floyd Tribute) and Peep Show (Guns and Roses Tribute); homegrown favourites like Supersonic, Lucky Strike, The Common People, Raw Earth as well as House and Techno maestros from Blackout Agency and female DJs from Altra Management.
The music itself is similarly self-referential: The instrumentation of "Smell the Roses" quotes from both "Have a Cigar" and "Dogs," the chord progression of "Deja Vu" borrows lightly from that of "Mother," and "Picture That" sounds like a conference call between "
Welcome to the Machine," "One of These Days," "Another Brick in the Wall," and "Shine On." Happily, Waters presents his latest offerings with enough conviction to make these Floydisms sound less like pandering gestures than confirmations that this old dog still has teeth.
DUSU has sought a ban on '
Welcome to the Machine' -- a play by SGTB Khalsa College's ' Ankur Group' -- for being " a fake drama on Hindu and Hinduism".
They ripped their way unsmilingly through Shine On You Crazy Diamond, while a vivid set-piece decrying manufactured music talent provided a lengthy visual backdrop for
Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar.
Welcome to the machine Housewives getting new washers in the 1950s "discovered" a free box of Tide inside.
"
Welcome to the Machine," by Pink Floyd: This one was suggested to us, and initially we balked.
Welcome to the machine we call our administration -- inherited from the British in 1960 by voski (shepherds) who rode donkeys on dirt tracks and now drive blue BMWs on motorways; who grew up in one-room mud and stone houses in the hills and now live in concrete palaces on the prairie; men (and several women) who grow ever fatter without doing their jobs, endlessly passing that buck called accountability until it evaporates in a mist of confusion.
Shine on You Crazy Diamond opened the show and church bells heralded the start of High Hopes before the contrasting industrial menace of
Welcome to the Machine.
It's good to hear Money, Another Brick In The Wall and
Welcome To The Machine rubbing shoulders with Southampton Dock and The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range.
Welcome to the machine; science, surveillance, and the culture of control.
Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control.
Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, And The Culture Of Control could have been considered under 'social issues' but its focus on the uses of science in controlling societies is too important to place elsewhere.