Average age - 110 dB

The wife & I went to see "The Spirit Of Pink Floyd" last Friday at the Winter Gardens in Margate. Now, I'm not reviewing the "gig" - although they did start off a little, um, slow and eventually got going after the interval. I noticed however that the average age of the audience was about 50 and if you could make a cloth out of all the blokes' hair you might just about scrape together a hankie. No, it was the comments from the chaps behind after the band did "Hey You" post-interval.

"Well, they finally got one right then..."

I got little worried when the guy beside me - who "went for a spliff" at the break - said after then next rendition "This ish my favourite shong from the best album ever". I smiled politely, I had no idea what the song was or indeed from what album, "yeah, the best ever" I agreed. Fortunately the "I luff you" and arm-around-the-shoulders didn't happen.

After the show and everyone was shouting at one another - "I'M JUST GOING TO THE LOO", "YES, 10 O'CLOCK", "WHAT?", "AT THE CAR!" - It dawned on me why most people of my generation are deaf.

On the way out we noticed a bunch of CD's on a table. "HOW MUCH ARE THEY PLEASE?", someone asked, "£5 sir" came the reply.

My wife looked at me a little puzzled.

"Why pay a fiver for a tribute band when we've got the originals at home?"

"Pardon?"

The real one.

Yes, indeed.

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