York College students perform ‘Dark Side of the Moon’

National Diploma Music Technology students and other guest students studying Musical Theatre and A Level Music at York College rose to the challenge and performed ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, the classic album by Pink Floyd at the college’s Alan Ayckbourn Theatre. The performance, involving imagery projection by Media students, was a progressive rock journey, re-living the heady days of 1973, with classic tracks such as "Money", "Time" and "Us and Them".

Said Rob Parker, music tutor at York College says: “This iconic soundtrack is rarely performed. When the album was released it had quite an impact. It was one of the biggest selling albums of all time, being in the album charts for 740 weeks. When I told the students that we were going to perform this they were very excited because they already knew the soundtrack from their parent’s record collection. They certainly recognise the iconic status of the album and they did a fantastic job performing the tracks.”

Press Release: 28/01/09