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Steamboat Springs — Sons of Nothing will open for themselves Saturday night at Mahogany Ridge Brewery and Grill.

The band will start the evening with original music from its "Clarity" CD released this summer. Then, the band members will return to the stage as a Pink Floyd tribute band.

"We really do treat ourselves as an opening band and don't use much stage time," bass player Thom Bowers said. "We get out of the way for the headliner that people came to see."

The band's "FloydShow" will use a new format this weekend. The setlist will be the top 10 Pink Floyd song requests from Steamboat Springs residents, as compiled from a KFMU and JACK FM promotion.

Pink Floyd's discography includes 14 albums, and although Sons of Nothing doesn't know how to play every Floyd song, its members have a strategy.

"I'm hoping to play the percentages and hoping they will be all the hits," Bowers said. "We do a lot of (Pink Floyd's) obscure material, so I hope their tastes are in line with ours."

To stay true to Pink Floyd, Sons of Nothing will incorporate theatrical, lighting and video effects into the performance.

"We have an A/V geek friend of the band who designs a lot of the stuff," Bowers said. "And we use a lot of the same film Floyd used and make a lot of films that use computer effects as well."

The band will bring its homemade air-cannon to the show to shoot stuffed animals into the crowd. The blasts will coincide with songs from Pink Floyd's "Animals" album.

"It's the low-budget way, because we don't have a 500-foot helium pig we can fly over the crowd," Bowers said, referring to Pink Floyd's famous concert props.

Bowers said Sons of Nothing's Pink Floyd performance fills a void while also honoring the band's favorite group.

"My generation and younger never had a chance to see the band live," he said. "One of the main reasons we have chosen Floyd is that it seemed appropriate, with the band not existing in that form anymore."