Music fans - proper music fans as we consider ourselves - do not like covers bands.

We have a widespread snobbery and disdain for those musicians - however accomplished they may be - who dare to enjoy playing other artists' songs, especially those with the cheek to make a living out of them.

But such an opinion is difficult to marry with the fact The Australian Pink Floyd - a tribute act to a band which attracts some of the most nit-picking of admirers - have enjoyed prolonged and unprecedented success around the world.