![]() His band hit all the familiar notes for anyone who ever listened to a classic rock radio station. He was surrounded by nine musicians, including two soulful female backup singers and an occasional saxophonist to solo on a couple of Dark Side of the Moon tracks. At 78 years of age, the black-clad singer could still create phenomenal sounds. Maybe they figured his revolutionary stance was a schtick? After all, he was charging hundreds of dollars a head to hear him voice his protests inside a venue named after a cryptocurrency exchange.īut the obvious reason no one fucked off to the bar was that the music Waters was making was simply too damn good. In this outrage society, I would have thought some in attendance would balk at Waters' stances. Explosions via drone, police brutality, and newspaper headlines proclaiming that billionaires are 27 percent richer than before the pandemic flashed on the screen while a giant pig helicoptered around the venue with the words "fuck the poor" written on its side. Throughout his two hours onstage in Miami (the concert included a 30-minute intermission), Waters employed intense visuals to demonstrate all that's wrong with the world. ![]() And many of those songs were angry rants about the greed and violence of the ruling class. During his nearly two-decade tenure with the pivotal British psychedelic band he cofounded, Waters composed some of the most powerful songs of the rock 'n' roll era. ROGER WATERS CONCERT 2021 FREENo matter who you vote for in 2022, if you're at a Roger Waters concert of your own free will and you understand the English language, you must have at one point railed against the powers that be. Those intense words - war criminal - stayed on the screen as every president after Reagan, including Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, got that tag too. They probably felt silly when the words "war criminal" appeared under Reagan's face. Second, if you love Pink Floyd but can't stand Roger Waters' politics, you should "fuck off to the bar right now."Ī few songs in, during "The Bravery of Being Out of Range," plenty of people cheered Ronald Reagan as a clip of the former president bragged about how exceptional America was. A giant screen parked in the center of FTX Arena flashed some instructions. Copyright(c) 2022 house lights went down Tuesday night precisely at 8:30 p.m. Music News Service distributed by Frankly Media. tour dates will go on sale on September 30. Wow! My first farewell tour! Don’t miss it,” he added. “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, the same man. Talking about the “This Is Not A Drill” Tour, Waters said in a statement, “This Is Not A Drill is a groundbreaking new rock and roll/cinematic extravaganza, performed in the round, 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.” ![]() ![]() The European dates are scheduled to begin in Portuguese capital Lisbon on March 17. Next year, he will fly across the Atlantic to Europe. The former Pink Floyd frontman will kick off the dates at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham on May 31, 2023, followed by performances at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on June 2 and London’s The O2 on June 6. arena dates for his farewell tour, titled the “This Is Not A Drill” Tour. Roger Waters has announced three new U.K. ![]()
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