Waters will bring Wall to Wembley

Roger Waters will bring his The Wall show to Wembley Stadium on September 14 next year – and he vows the open-air performance will be bigger and better than his acclaimed arena version.

Since beginning the world tour in 2010 he’s played to over three million fans in 192 concerts. Earlier his year he delivered an outdoor performance in Quebec, with an 800-foot wall as the main prop.

He said at the time: “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do outdoors theatrically. If you don’t come there’s something fucking wrong with you.”

Now he’ll deliver 24 open-air shows across Europe, including the London date.

Waters says: “I’m extremely glad to be playing The Wall in Europe again. I’ve reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums – it’s really good. Even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the arena shows.

“The stadium show couldn’t have been done 40 years ago. We couldn’t have filled the space in a way that would have been emotionally, musically and theatrically satisfying. Technology has changed. Now we can.”

Waters reunited with surviving Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason at his London performance of The Wall in 2011. He recently confirmed he’s working on a new album, but says his ex-colleagues won’t be part of it.


Tickets for the Wembley show go on sale on November 21.

The Wall European Tour 2013

Jul 20: Werchter, Belgium
Jul 23: Poljud Stadium, Croatia
Jul 26: Euganeo Stadium, Padova, Italy
Jul 28: Olympic Stadium, Rome, Italy
Jul 31: TBA, Athens, Greece
Aug 3: ITU Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey
Aug 7: Synot Tip Stadium, Czech Republic
Aug 9: Commerzbank Arena, Frankfurt, Germany
Aug 11: Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark
Aug 14: Telenor Arena, Oslo, Norway
Aug 15: Telenor Arena, Oslo, Norway
Aug 17: Ullevi Stadium, Gothenberg, Sweden
Aug 20: Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw, Poland
Aug 23: Ernst-Happel Stadium, Vienna, Austria
Aug 25: Puskas Ferenc Stadium, Budapest, Hungary
Aug 28: Piata Constitutiei, Bucharest, Romania
Aug 30: Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia, Belgium
Sep 1: Usce Park, Belgrade, Serbia
Sep 4: Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany
Sep 6: Espritarena, Dusseldorf, Germany
Sep 8: Amsterdam Arena, Netherlands
Sep 11: Letzigrund Stadium, Zurich, Switzerland
Sep 14: Wembley Stadium, London, UK
Sep 18: Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland
Sep 21: Stade de France, Paris

source: classicrockmagazine.com

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Exclusive Stream: Pink Floyd, 'Young Lust' ('The Wall' Work In Progress Pt. 1)

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Pink Floyd's opus, The Wall, is now available in a special "Immersion" edition – 7 discs! – featuring video footage from the band's 1980 tour, a Behind The Wall documentary, a live recording of songs from the album and CDs of Roger Waters' original demos and the band's works-in-progress. Rolling Stone has an exclusive stream of the band demo of "Young Lust," one of the album's hardest rockers. The starker demo version emphasizes the song's funky bass line and a toned-down, almost relaxed vocal.

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Review: Pink Floyd's 'The Wall: Immersion Edition' takes a definitive dive

(Rolling Stones) -- There was agreement, at first. In the summer of 1978, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd's singer-bassist and primary songwriter, presented the other members with two sets of demos and a choice: Pick one for the next album.

The rest of the Floyd wisely voted for Waters' bleak, enraged observation on emotional exile and totalitarian celebrity, provisionally titled Bricks in the Wall. (The other demos became Waters' 1984 midlife-crisis opera, The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking.) It was also a disastrous decision.

The Floyd fell into eventually fatal throes of conflict and division on the way to the 1979 album's grim, towering splendor. Waters designed, and the band built, The Wall too well.

Immersion is a good way to characterize the grip and whirl of construction recounted on the two CDs of demos in this seven-disc box, which includes a previously released recording of the 1980-81 stage show. (An Experience edition has the original album and a single CD of demos.)

Excerpts of Waters' early sketches are sequenced into a stark vertigo of his contempt ("Mother") and despair ("Goodbye Cruel World") at birth. Later band demos -- "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" as a crisp funeral march instead of disco revolt; "The Doctor," a prototype of "Comfortably Numb" -- and discarded ideas like the plaintive "Teacher, Teacher" and the static blues "Sexual Revolution" prove development came slow if steady.

It is obvious, too, that Waters' authoritarian drive was not enough to get this job done. The crucial difference between Waters' initial notion of "Run Like Hell" -- slow, snarky bullying -- and the perversely gleaming menace of the final version is in David Gilmour's demo of jangling commandant's-strut guitar.

See the full article at RollingStone.com.


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