I thought, you know what? Maybe I’ll go back on the road. Hang on, you realised that you enjoyed playing live almost 35 years into your career? “I’m serious! I think that was the great turning point. It’s about 6,000 people, and I walked up and felt this whoosh of what you could only describe as love from the audience. Don Henley asked me to do a charity gig in Los Angeles. “It never really dawned on me until, I think, 1999. “Well, over the years, I’ve come to realise how lucky I am that people like what I’ve done and are happy when I walk into the room and start playing my songs,” he says.
#ROGER WATERS MN TV#
On his website, amid stuff about his support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, you can find video of Roger Waters cheerfully taking part in a TV cookery show, a state of affairs that would once have seemed no more likely than Roger Waters being appointed archbishop of Canterbury. It takes the form of a story about a foreign journalist who attempted to kick off a recent interview with the words: “A friend of mine wanted to ask you if Pink Floyd would be re-forming.” Waters is reputed to have responded: “Tell your friend to fuck off.”īut his ongoing disappointment at the Guardian’s 25-year-old picture caption notwithstanding, Waters at 72 positively radiates health and contentment. Indeed, before I meet him, I receive what I think is a tacit warning from his publicist about one line of questioning. He is ever watchful for a slight, real or imagined, such as suggesting that he wasn’t the band’s main creative genius after the departure of the late Syd Barrett in 1968, or that his subsequent solo career may have failed to match that of his former bandmates. Always the most uncomfortable of rock stars – it is hard to think of anyone who made heavier weather of being a vastly successful musician than Waters did once Pink Floyd went stratospheric in the 1970s – he is also, legend has it, far more prickly and defensive than you might expect someone who’s sold more than 250m albums to be. This is, of course, precisely the kind of thing Roger Waters is supposed to do in interviews. And I thought, ‘Fuck you, that paper is never coming through my letterbox again.’”
#ROGER WATERS MN FULL#
When I did The Wall in Berlin in 1990” – a record-breaking charity performance – “ they printed a big picture, half a page, no article, and underneath it said something like ‘Last night, Pink Floyd played their record The Wall in Berlin and the sound was terrible.’ Full stop. “You know why I don’t read the Grauniad any more?” he asks, narrowing his eyes. Jul 23 – Detroit, MI Little Caesars ArenaĪug 02 – Cincinnati, OH Heritage Bank CenterĪug 05 – Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo CenterĪug 06 – Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo CenterĪug 10 – Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena **Īug 13 – Belmont Park, Long Island, NY UBS ArenaĪug 16 – Washington, D.C.I ’m asking Roger Waters a question about his new film – the fourth and most successful attempt to bring Pink Floyd’s 1979 concept album The Wall to the big screen – when he suddenly interrupts me. Wow! My first farewell tour! Don’t miss it. “The show includes a dozen great songs from Pink Floyd’s Golden Era alongside several new ones - words and music, same writer, same heart, same soul, same man. “It is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive, and a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious and precarious planet home.
“This Is Not A Drill is a groundbreaking new rock & roll/cinematic extravaganza, performed in the round,” writes Waters in a statement.
#ROGER WATERS MN SERIES#
The 2022 series was originally set to take place in 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic. The series – which opens July 6 in Pittsburgh, PA – now includes newly-announced shows in Columbus, OH, Glendale, AZ and Austin, TX.Ī number of presales start Wednesday, March 23 at 10:00 am local time, with general public tickets on sale Friday, March 25 at 10:00am local time. Roger Waters has expanded his This Is Not A Drill North American tour with the addition of three new concert dates.
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