{"id":6931,"date":"2015-11-14T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T21:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2015-11-14T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T21:47:56","slug":"roger-waters-new-album-coming-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2015\/11\/roger-waters-new-album-coming-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters: New album coming in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/roger_waters.jpg\"><\/a><strong>Roger Waters<\/strong> has told <strong>Digital Spy<\/strong> he&#8217;ll release a new studio album in 2016 and follow it with a tour.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s said he&#8217;s working on a &#8220;radio play&#8221; about a boy and his grandfather in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"float-with-ad\">&#8220;I&#8217;m in the middle of making it now,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It addresses this basic question: Why are we killing the children?<\/p>\n<p class=\"float-with-ad\">&#8220;There&#8217;s two characters in it: a grandfather and a grandchild and they together try to find answers to this question, by wandering around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"float-with-ad\">Some of the songs were written by Waters as many as 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>As for the tour, Waters says he&#8217;s looking to perform a &#8220;full arena tour,&#8221; partly to generate revenue lost to piracy. &#8220;Particularly now that you can&#8217;t own a record \u2014 people just steal it the minute it&#8217;s out. They steal it and that&#8217;s the end of it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only way to make a few quid would be to go out on the road and get bums on seat, because they can&#8217;t steal that!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Waters has told Digital Spy he&#8217;ll release a new studio album in 2016 and follow it with a tour. He&#8217;s said he&#8217;s working on a &#8220;radio play&#8221; about a boy and his grandfather in Northern Ireland. &#8220;I&#8217;m in the middle of making it now,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It addresses this basic question: Why are we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-personnel","category-recordings","category-roger-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6932,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions\/6932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}