Roger Waters

Tickets on sale for Roger Waters 2022 tour

Posted April 8, 2021 by Floydian Slip

“This is Not a Drill,” the North American tour Roger Waters had announced before the pandemic hit in Spring 2020, has been rescheduled for ’22.

Tickets are on sale now for the 36 dates that begin in Pittsburgh July 6 and finish in Dallas Oct. 8.

In a statement, Waters calls this his “first farewell tour.”

“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,” he writes.

“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. Could be his last hurrah. Wow!”

These shows will be the first Roger has performed “in the round” with audience on all sides.

Tickets bought for 2020 will be valid for the new dates. Those ticket holders will receive an email with instructions.

Buy tickets now.

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Happy Birthday, Roger Waters

Posted September 6, 2020 by Floydian Slip

Happy Birthday, Roger Waters (b. Sept. 6, 1943)

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Ennio Morricone dead at 91

Posted July 6, 2020 by Floydian Slip

Italian composer Ennio Morricone has died in Rome. He was 91.

He scored more than 500 film soundtracks, including a number of “spaghetti Westerns” for director Sergio Leone such as “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964), “For a Few Dollars More” (1965) and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966).

In 1999, Morricone composed music for “The Legend of 1900,” including “Lost Boys Calling.” Roger Waters provided lyrics for the song and recorded it with guitar work by Eddie Van Halen.

Waters’s recording is included on the film soundtrack, and a demo version appears on his 2002 collection “Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Volume 1.”

Morricone succumbed to complications following a fall and broken leg he suffered last week.

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Release date set for Roger Waters Us + Them

Posted June 17, 2020 by Floydian Slip

“Roger Waters Us + Them,” a document of the Pink Floyd co-founder’s 2017-18 tour, will be released on Blu-ray, DVD, CD and vinyl by Sony Music Entertainment on Oct 2.

Already available for digital purchase and rental on 4K, HD and SD Digital from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the film and soundtrack’s physical release date was announced yesterday.

Us + Them, directed by Waters and Sean Evans, was filmed on tour in Amsterdam, and on location in the UK. Viewers on digital, Blu-Ray and DVD have access to new post-feature content including two additional concert songs not included in the original feature (“Comfortably Numb” and “Smell the Roses”) as well as “A Fleeting Glimpse,” a documentary-style short film featuring behind-the-scenes moments from the tour.

Stream the film now or pre-order the physical product here

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Digital release coming for “Roger Waters: Us + Them”

Posted May 22, 2020 by Floydian Slip

“Roger Waters: Us + Them,” the concert film of Waters’s 2017/18 live shows shown in theaters last October, will be released digitally June 16.

The film was directed by Waters and Sean Evans, and shot at concerts in Amsterdam and the U.K.

The digital release will come in 4K, HD and SD versions and will include two bonus tracks: “Comfortably Numb” from “The Wall”; and “Smell the Roses” from Waters’s “Is This the Life We Really Want?”

Release dates for the DVD and Blu-ray versions will be announced soon.

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Roger Waters calls for access to Pink Floyd social media

Posted May 19, 2020 by Floydian Slip

In a video posted to Facebook today, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters makes a case for equal access to the websites and social media accounts operated under the Floyd name.

During the 5-minute video, Waters thanks fans for their comments and enthusiasm for a new video of “Mother” he recorded Zoom-style with a number of backing musicians and posted online Sunday.

He explains none of his work outside of Pink Floyd, which he left in the mid-’80s, is promoted through the official Floyd channels online, since “David (Gilmour) thinks he owns it.”

Waters goes on to point out Gilmour has tied promotional efforts for his wife and writing partner Polly Samson‘s new novel to the band’s social media.

“This is wrong. We should rise up,” he says, “or just change the name of the band to Spinal Tap.”

Waters has postponed to 2021 his “This is Not a Drill” North American tour, which was originally scheduled to open July 8.

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Roger Waters announces Record Store Day release

Posted March 6, 2020 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters will release a 30th anniversary LP of “The Wall — Live in Berlin” for Record Store Day, Saturday, April 18.

The limited edition double album was cut at Abbey Road and will be pressed onto 180g clear colored vinyl in a quantity of 8,000.

The recording was made by Waters and a cast of more than 100 on July 21, 1990, at the site of the former Berlin Wall at Potzdamer Platz.

Yesterday, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets announced it will issue a 12″ single for Record Store Day. On Tuesday, Pink Floyd announced it’ll issue a limited edition, one-sided 45 of “Arnold Layne.” (See “Nick Mason announces Record Store Day release” and “Pink Floyd announces Record Store Day release.”)

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Roger Waters announces concert dates

Posted January 23, 2020 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder and long-time solo artist Roger Waters has announced 31 North American concert dates for 2020.

The tour opens July 8 in Pittsburgh and runs through Oct. 3 in Dallas.

The tour would seem to be called “This Is Not a Drill.” The image here, located on Waters’s website, suggests the concert will be performed “in the round.”

Tickets go on sale Jan. 31. Full schedule at rogerwaters.com.

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