A Scottish Pink Floyd tribute act is looking forward to playing Carlisle for the first time next month.

Mac Floyd will play The Brickyard on July 19 this year, providing over two hours of classic Pink Floyd music live.

Spanning the entire discography, the act will aim to recreate the sounds as accurately as possible without the use of a backing track, and will incorporate the visual aspect of the live shows that Pink Floyd is known to have used.

Fronted by Billy Forbes, lead vocals and rhythm guitar, the band has been around since 1998, but he joined two years later.

A Floyd fan since the age of 14, he explained that progressive rock formed part of his teenage years, adding that the Roger Waters era is one which he is fondest of.

But each show has at least one track from each album, he said, from 1967’s Piper At The Gates Of Dawn all the way up to the last offering Endless River in 2014.

While not a band that has seen much high-level headlining abroad, Mr Forbes said something he enjoys and always aims to do is playing the gigs back home, and every year they do the Belladrum Festival in Inverness.

This is the band’s first time in Carlisle, and they will also play a show in Dumfries the night before.

Mr Forbes said the band is hoping to welcome a diverse crowd due to Pink Floyd’s sound ‘spanning the years’.

“We get grandparents with their grandchildren – there’s a lot of really young people into Floyd, it’s that kind of music.”

On one of the most difficult questions to answer for any hardcore fan, Mr Forbes said of his favourite Floyd song: “One that I always love performing is Welcome to the Machine.

“Even when I first bought the album (Wish You Were Here) in ‘75, that one always stood out to me for some reason, it just grabbed me, the album is great, but that song has something about it.”

Performing will be himself, Allister Weir on bass and backing vocals, Sam McCullouch on lead guitar, Craig Brown on drums, Roy McLaren on keys, Derek Clark on sax, keys, and vocals, and backing singers Frances Murphy and Jane Clelland.

Tickets, which cost £22, are available by clicking here.