Posted May 10, 2010 by Floydian Slip
On top of the eight new Roger Waters shows we told you about this morning (“Eight shows added to “Wall” tour”), another four have now been added to his “Wall” tour in four venues:
Ticket for these shows go on sale tomorrow at 9 a.m., local time.
Posted May 10, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Eight shows were immediately added to Roger Water’s tour of “The Wall” once general tickets went on sale this morning:
Tickets are on sale of all of these additional venues.
Posted May 10, 2010 by Floydian Slip
General tickets for Roger Waters‘ tour of “The Wall” went on sale this morning at 10. If our experience buying tickets for his Montreal shows coming up Oct. 19-20 is any indicator, sales are brisk.
The first date sold out within 20 minutes, along with many sections for the second show.
What’s been your experience buying tickets? Post them as replies to this message.
Posted May 6, 2010 by Floydian Slip
In case you missed it, here’s streaming video — in two parts — of Roger Waters‘ appearance last night on the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” show.
Fallon begins by confessing he’s a huge fan, and then goes on to prove it with his nearly breathless interview in which he gets Waters to talk about Pink Floyd’s early days, Syd Barrett‘s infamous visit to the studio while the band was making “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” and Waters’ recent venture into Facebook.
Posted May 1, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters will be a guest on NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” this coming Wednesday, May 5.
Oddly, Waters will be a guest on the show, but not the musical guest, which will be The New Pornographers.
This is the first time in a long time, to our memory, any member of Floyd has sat down on a major network talk show. We hope it’s an indication of things to come as Waters ramps up for his North American/European tour of “The Wall,” which starts Sept. 15 in Toronto.
“Late Night” is broadcast at 12:35 a.m. Eastern time.
Posted April 24, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters has announced the band that will tour with him during his performances of “The Wall” later this year.
Drums:
Graham Broad
Guitars:
Dave Kilminster
G.E. Smith
Snowy White
Keyboards:
Jon Carin
Harry Waters
Lead vocals:
Robbie Wyckoff
Backing vocals:
Jon Joyce
Mark Lennon
Michael Lennon
Kipp Lennon
Smith, Wyckoff, and the Lennons (all cousins) are new to Waters’ lineup. Wyckoff will be singing lead vocals originally handled by David Gilmour.
Harry Waters is Roger’s son.
Posted April 13, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters’ 35-date North American tour of “The Wall” announced yesterday will continue to Europe.
The news is contained in what is practically a footnote to a story posted at cbsnews.com yesterday.
The North American leg of the tour begins in Toronto Sept. 15 and concludes in Anaheim, Calif., on Dec. 15.
CBS also says the tour is likely to be Waters’ last. “I’m not as young as I used to be. I’m not like B.B. King, or Muddy Waters,” he says in the story.
Posted April 12, 2010 by Floydian Slip
As expected, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters launched a new Web site at 2 p.m. EDT today, announcing his 35-date North American tour of “The Wall” coming this fall.
The site allows fans to register for the opportunity to purchase premium tickets for the upcoming tour.
Unfortunately, the registration application and other portions of the new site have behaved sporadically in the first hour since its debut, perhaps due to a heavy surge of visitors.
The site also includes an explanation of why Waters decided to revisit “The Wall” after 30 years.
“Thirty years ago when I wrote ‘The Wall’ I was a frightened young man,” he writes. “In the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with its concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion.”
Posted April 12, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters announced today he’ll tour Pink Floyd’s magnum opus “The Wall” in North America this fall.
The tour begins Sept. 15 in Toronto and concludes Dec. 13 in Anaheim, Calif.
Details of the tour are to be posted at the official Roger Waters Web site at 2 p.m. EDT. AOL’s Spinner site posted an exclusive story this morning.
Here’s the itinerary, so far:
(Addendum, April 20: Dates may change; visit the official Roger Waters site for current dates.)
Waters was quoted in stories at the time of the 30th anniversary of “The Wall” last November that he’d like to launch a tour of “The Wall.” Due to expense and staging complexities, Pink Floyd’s original tour in 1980/81 only played a handful of venues around the world.
Waters also performed “The Wall” with an all-star cast of more than 100 on July 21, 1990, at Germany’s Potzdamer Platz, site of the former Berlin Wall. Nearly a half-million people attended the show, which was a charity event for the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. That concert was turned into an album and concert video, “The Wall Live in Berlin.”
The last time Waters was out, he performed Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety.
Posted April 12, 2010 by Floydian Slip
We’re expecting an announcement of tour dates on the official Web site of Roger Waters in about five hours.
The site’s design, revamped in the last 24-48 hours, seems to indicate speculation the tour will be of Pink Floyd’s 1979 album “The Wall” is true.
Details and dates are supposed to be posted at 2 p.m. EDT.
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