After all he has no talent left to entertain us he has to get political. All in all, a magnificent, moving show by a great performer and his band. "Thats why were going on the road. Backing vocals (girls) were too loud and were not blended in very well as was the sax player. Taken from last . Drums were no where to be heard in the mix. Watch fan footage here. [38], Waters explains, "Before lockdown I had been working on a demo of a new version of Comfortably Numb as an opener to our new show 'This Is Not A Drill'. News about the multi-artist, multi-day extravaganzas. Totally. Im a little older than you maybe a bit more left than you but I hear you. You can see photos, the full set list and fan-shot videos of the show below. Caveat if youre not aligned with Rogers politics, best stay home and listen to Floyd albums. . So the debate of Roger and David goes on, but not going to get into that. BTW, Waters isnt the singer that Gilmour is but he was perfectly fine and the guitar player sang a few. Roger Waters' superpower is the ability to open difficult conversations through his music, and he knows it. Waters continued his activist awareness with passionate performances of Deja Vu and the pointed Is This the Life We Really Want?, Watch Roger Waters Perform 'Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 + Part 3'. I know Syd and Roger started the band and Rogers lyrical and music writing was great. He pulls no punches. "Run Like Hell"14. I could have saved it for something else. Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame as seen on his 2022 "This Is Not a Drill' tour. I think Waters is trying to de-emphasize the watch the band play thing over the total experience. Mind blowing. As to Phantom, fuck that. And we could barely walk for the massive crowds. We want to hear it. I have had an original rock band and have written lyrics that caused my atheist drummer to force his thoughts and insults on me. "The Bravery of Being Out of Range"7. Definitely could do a show without "Numb" the film he put out from the last tour doesn't include it and his solo tours in '84'87 didn't either IIRC? 30 Years Ago Roger Waters Played "The Wall - Live in Berlin" Jul 21, 2020. July 7, 2022 | 11:59am ET. Midway through his 23-song, two-hour-plus concert, Waters noted there were only patches of attendees up in the Nationwide Arena nosebleed sections. Promising a show that is "more political" than his recent acclaimed "US + Them" Tour yet also "political and humane," the new tour will be . August 5 Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center October 1 Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena Elliot Striganuk. Very Very disappointed. Photo, Ros O'Gorman. It was so fucking crowded in the theater area that the cab could not drop us near the theater. The crowd itself was annoyed and you could tell by the applause or no applause of the crowd. "This tour will be part of a global movement by people who are concerned by others to affect the change that is necessary", said Waters in a video announcing the tour. Shop online for Roger Waters merchandise, t-shirts, clothing, apparel, posters and accessories. With one triumphant wave goodbye from the man himself, the camera cut off and the house lights went up. August 20 Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena Leave being current to the new bands. This Is Not a Drill is the seventh concert tour by English songwriter Roger Waters.The tour, originally scheduled to take place between July and October 2020, was suspended after the COVID-19 pandemic advance, and rescheduled to take place in 2022. Roger Waters: Us + Them Tour: October 3: October 4: Halsey: Hopeless Fountain Kingdom World Tour: October 13 Roger Waters: Us + Them Tour: October 14 . Promising a show that is "more political" than his recent acclaimed "US + Them" Tour yet also "political and humane," the new tour will be . After a two year Covid delay we finally showed up at the Orlando, FL show on 8/25/22. I thought three performers in particular that deserved mention, the keyboardist, and the two ladies singing backing vocals. August 31 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden Waters included two new songs - "The Bar" during set 1 and "Is This The Life We Really Want" - the title track from his 2017 album, during set 2. Dont miss it. Even from an early age any of the lyrics that I could put together that Waters wrote I thought , Hey heres a guy that must have gone through some stuff at an early age that is causing him to be historical and vengeful. During Wish You Were Here, a typed story appeared on the enormous screens, detailing a memory of Waters and his old friend and former bandmate, Syd Barrett. We sat behind the stage in what we thought would be great seats, only to see maybe three verses sung by Roger on our side. The screen was used repeatedly for excellent dramatic (and political) effect, displaying short films, disturbing animation and archival footage of his first band. Projection 101. Waters first talked about a new live spectacle following his Us + Them Tour on a Rolling Stone interview in September 2019. And as I said, worth the two-year wait for all involved. Its antagonistic. After wrappingup the concert with Two Suns in the Sunset (Waters ode to the Doomsday Clock from Pink Floyds The Final Cut LP) and a reprise of The Bar segueing into Outside the Wall, Waters and band said farewell and played themselves offstage as a video crew followed them into their dressing room, projecting the exit onscreen in real time. I expected it from an atheist anyway. July 28 Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum Instrument. If I did not spend the money I did for tickets I would have told him to FUCK OFF and gone to a bar somewhere else. TerraTenebrosa I can hardly disagree thar hes self-indulgent but I still thought it was a hell of a show. I will say that while I agree with most of his politics, I would hate to spend good money and find out that the artist was going to, say, applaud Trump all night. And if you ask Roger Waters the creative who wrote through the pained anguish within Wish You Were Here, penned the Orwellian tribute of Animals, and developed the landmark introspective concept album The Wall theres plenty to be upset about. [13] Sean Evans, Waters' tour creative director, reprises his role for this tour, creating all visuals and stage design. Get the Roger Waters Setlist of the concert at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN, USA on August 27, 2022 from the This Is Not a Drill Tour and other Roger Waters Setlists for free on setlist.fm! ukasz Wantuch, "Leave Them Kids ALone! The post Roger Waters Debuts This Is Not a Drill Tour with Stunning Visuals, Scathing Commentary: Review, Photos, and Setlist appeared first on Consequence. Floor vs first tier up, with This is not a drill, which is the better choice? The opener, Pink Floyds Comfortably Numb, was reimagined as a dark funeral dirge backed by a city wasteland thats long been lost and forgotten. The O2, London, United Kingdom More Info . "Brain Damage"20. Concerts will take place between March and June 2023. Concerts in North America took place between July and October 2022. That said, Springsteen tix go on sale next week and I will have a decision to make. Rene Geyer, one of Australia's greatest voices, has died at age 69. He met his future Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason and Richard Wright while studying . Close to 900 bucks for two tickets on the Floor of the TD Garden. Run Like Hell (from Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1979) I might as well have been in the bathroom. As the lights dimmed in Pittsburgh's PPG Paints Arena for the first show of Roger Waters ' "This Is Not A Drill Tour" (get tickets here ), the former Pink Floyd member and his team made two requests: 1. On March 27, 2020, Waters posted a statement on his website and social media, announcing the postponement of the tour to the following year due to the coronavirus pandemic outbreak, declaring that the situation was a "Bummer, but if it saves one life, its worth it". When replied that the date coincided with the opening show of the Weeknd's After Hours til Dawn Tour (which was ultimately postponed) and that his "wasnt the biggest in town that night", Waters declared not to know who the Weeknd is, and questioned why his concert was not reviewed on the following night. JaviRom Get Roger Waters setlists - view them, share them, discuss them with other Roger Waters fans for free on setlist.fm! [7][8][9][10] In April 2021, tour dates in Canada and United States were announced to take place in 2022,[11] while the concerts in Mexico were announced later in June. And Waters was visibly moved, almost to tears. Mexicanfloyd His father was killed during World War II. Waters says peace but I couldnt help but think that he probably wished he had real bullets in that machine gun. By Ryan Dillon. If I had wandered into a conservative convention with music Id be pissed. Its those projections that take the This Is Not A Drill show from good to great, allowing viewers to step deeper than ever into the psyche of the primary songwriting force from Pink Floyds golden age. This is not anything more than a political rally. share setlist Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd song) Play Video; The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Pink Floyd song) T-Shirts + Long-Sleeves. But it didnt really seem to matter as frankly you spend most of your time looking at the screens. September 10 Portland, OR @ Moda Center The show was at the TD Garden in Boston where we (my son and I) saw The Who a few months ago. A great, unique tune in so many ways. Soulsfrik Waters may be a little older, and he might need a little more time to catch his breath between songs, but hes still fighting against the same institutions and deep-rooted issues hes railed against since the 1970s. Yes, I with 3 friends made a collective decision and walked out shortly after the intermission. He continued by saying his statement was not "a personal attack", adding "with all due respect to the Weeknd or Drake or any of them, I am far, far, far more important than any of them will ever be, however many billions of streams theyve got. September 15 Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena He also mumbles words about a drill and it has the same agonizing effect. I saw a few KAOS shows and a Pros and Cons showno Numb. The second half of this epic kicked off with In the Flesh and Run Like Hell from The Wall then a couple of Roger tunes and then Money. We laughed about this one later when we ran into some friends of my son at the merch table. Waters grew up in a family with a coal miner father and school teacher mother, both of whom were devout left-wing activists. Maybe theres something wrong with me, but I have to say not my idea of a good time. Im really glad Waters did Sheep (from Animals.) Run Like Hell ended with Roger firing a machine gun (with blanks, of course) into the crowd. Waters' "This Is Not a Drill" tour arrived two years following a planned but . After a 20-minute intermission, the second half was very similar to the first, but with a few exceptions: The lighting was more complex, the famous pig floated around for a couple of songs, and Waters briefly donned a long leather jacket and red armband for two songs off The Wall. Who would like to spend the night watching all the things wrong with the world set to music. A detente of sorts was reached in 2005 when the original members of Pink Floyd reunited for the humanitarian Live Eight . srlechuza I guess I never dove in deep enough to realize his political stance or that he is so aggressive. MORE EUROPEAN THIS IS NOT A DRILL DATES ANNOUNCED:Mar 17 - Lisbon, Portugal - Altice ArenaMar 21 - Barcelona, Spain - Palau St JordiMar 23 - Madrid, Spain - . There are many images of people whose rights have been stripped, he put pictures of Reagan and Trump on the screen and stamped them as War Criminals and with Biden said, Just getting started., The screen rolled off a series of Fuck this and Fuck that messages and showed previously classified leaked atrocities. The show also featured the. Roger Waters played Rod Laver Arena Melbourne on Saturday 10 February 2018. Understandable. Which reminds me, I meant to add that to the post. Wish I could help but I doubt if Roger reads my blog. Average setlist for tour: This Is Not a Drill. "Comfortably Numb"2. I pitched it a whole step down, in A Minor, to make it darker and arranged it with no solos, except over the outro, where there is a heartrendingly beautiful vocal solo from one of our new sisters Shanay Johnson. September 27 Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center The show concluded on a much softer note. The ever-interesting and unpredictable Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters was in the steel city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last night (July 6) to kick off his "This Is Not A Drill" Tour at PPG Paints Arena. I still do! edgargonzalez serranoen Cats doesnt appeal to me at all. Roger Waters will embark on what hes cheekily teasing as his first farewell tour, officially dubbed This Is Not a Drill, next summer. 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 commandeered guitarist Jonathan Wilson to sing the classic Money so he could put his bass on and get in the trenches with the rest of his backing band. Show all. album. Other than The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, which I heard back in the 80s and wasnt very impressed with, I havent listened to any other Roger Waters solo album. Could be his last hurrah. Donning a full-length leather duster and aviator sunglasses (and flanked by a faux security detail), Waters delivered a scathing take on Pink Floyds In the Flesh, ramming home the rock-star-as-fascist-despot role with great aplomb. He was born on September 6, 1943 in Great Bookham, England. Promising a show that is "more political" than his recent acclaimed "US + Them" Tour yet also "political and humane," the new tour will . Lambarri "Money"17. terco99 Proving once again that best art does and should make us think and sometimes change minds. Two Suns in the Sunset (from Pink Floyd, The Final Cut, 1983) Us and Them (from Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973) "Sheep"12. They were dropped years ago when it became clear that they were trumped up to try and extradite him to Sweden, a country that would then extradite him to the US to face espionage charges. I have one more Big Artist to see this month and thats all I got. Even before taking the stage, he beat critics to . Pink Floyd. Roger Waters: This Is Not a Drill: July 9 July 21 Rage Against the Machine: Public Service Announcement Tour: July 23 July 27 Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia Tour: July 28 Roger Waters keert in april 2023 terug naar de Ziggo Dome als onderdeel van zijn This Is Not A Drill tour! Last time I was there was about 4 years ago and it was kinda crazy then even in April. The "drill" was the sound of a weakly aligned politician. I wondered if that would happen in future shows or if it would get cut as being too much. octaviohr5 August 16 Washington, D.C. @ Capital One Arena The show includes a dozen great songs from Pink Floyds Golden Era alongside several new ones words and music, same writer, same heart, same soul, same man. Money (Pink Floyd) Us and Them (Pink Floyd) Any Colour You Like (Pink Floyd) Brain Damage (Pink Floyd) Eclipse (Pink Floyd) Two Suns in the Sunset (Pink Floyd) The Bar (Reprise), Roger Waters Debuts This Is Not a Drill Tour with Stunning Visuals, Scathing Commentary: Review, Photos, and Setlist Pat Schober, Kid Rock, Who Swears He's Not Homophobic, Posts Homophobic Fourth of July Meme, Ricky Martin Slapped with Restraining Order in Puerto Rico, Guns N Roses Joined by Carrie Underwood for "Sweet Child O' Mine" & "Paradise City": Watch, Beyonc Reveals Cover Art for Renaissance, Nicki Minaj Takes Aim at Kanye West at Essence Fest: "We Don't Fuck with Clowns! "Us & Them"18. While the scathing lyrics of The Powers That Be rang through the arena, the projections showed clips of police brutality while listing off many of the most internationally reported minority deaths in recent few years, including Pittsburghs Antwon Rose, Jr., the 17-year-old fatally shot by police in 2018. Waters held the sneak preview for fans at Bryce Jordan Center . [1] Waters described the play as "part magic carpet ride, part political rant, part anguish". SebastianER Op de setlist van deze tour staan twintig klassiekers van zowel Pink Floyd als Roger Waters, waaronder 'Us & Them', 'Comfortably Numb', 'Wish You Were Here' en 'Is This The Life We Really Want?'. "Eclipse"21. I think Waters should give fair warning in advance. PITTSBURGH Roger Waters came out swinging Wednesday, at his big and bold tour opening show in Pittsburgh. But Waters did not need to deny his past or come off cloying. The Powers That Be (from Radio K.A.O.S., 1987) Honestly, I was blown away. Create Playlist. 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