An extra show has been added at London's 02 Arena on Wednesday 18th May and two more shows on 28th and 29th June at Manchester's Evening News Arena.
Roger Waters, founder member of Pink Floyd, is set to bring his groundbreaking masterpiece, The Wall, to these shores next summer. This is the first time The Wall has been performed in over 20 years and with Roger hinting this could mark his final big tour.
Previously the show was simply too large to contemplate a tour, but new arenas and advances in touring technology have solved that dilemma. Now, after 18 months of meticulous planning, Waters has updated the look and feel of the show to ensure it matches the astonishing theatrical extravaganza that The Wall's live incarnation became so legendary for.
The first half of the show sees the band playing and the wall being built and the second half is played behind the wall. Waters has developed dynamic new video graphics and visual images to illustrate the story and the songs, using an 8,000 sq ft wall as a huge screen.
The show features all the Roger Waters scale grandeur and special effects such as original Gerald Scarfe imagery and crashing aeroplane, quadraphonic sound, pyrotechnics, spot pods, gigantic inflatable puppets, projection, video mapping and many elaborate effects. Waters' band on this world tour is: Snowy White (Guitar), Dave Kilminster (Guitar), GE Smith (Guitar & Bass), Jon Carin (Keyboards), Harry Waters (Hammond Organ), Graham Broad (Drums), Robbie Wyckoff (Vocals), Jon Joyce, Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon and Kipp Lennon (Backing Vocals).
"Thirty years ago when I wrote The Wall, I was a frightened young man," Waters recalls. "In the intervening years it 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, whatever! All these issues and 'isms are driven by the same fears that drove my young life."
More important to Waters than the theatrics is The Wall's political and social commentary and he is planning to use the construction of the wall to honour soldiers who have lost their lives in battle. The rogerwaters.com website is running an appeal to relatives of those lost in war to submit photographs which Waters will project on The Wall during the show so that each victim becomes, in effect, another brick.
"When we first did it, we were after the end of the Vietnam War, and we're right now in the middle of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, so there's a very powerful anti-war message in The Wall. There was then and there still is now," he notes.
"This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years," Waters adds.
The full Roger Water UK tour dates are now as follows:
Wed 11 May The O2 Arena, London - SOLD OUT
Thu 12 May The O2 Arena, London - SOLD OUT
Sat 14 May The O2 Arena, London - SOLD OUT
Sun 15 May The O2 Arena, London
Tue 17 May The O2 Arena, London
Wed 18 May The O2 Arena, London - EXTRA DATE
Fri 20 May Manchester MEN Arena - SOLD OUT
Sat 21 May Manchester MEN Arena - SOLD OUT
Tue 28 June Manchester MEN Arena - EXTRA DATE
Wed 29 June Manchester MEN Arena - EXTRA DATE
Tickets for the extra dates will go on sale at 9am this Friday, 17th September priced at £75 and £60, and eGigs will have links to buy them then.
article by: Scott Williams
published: 14/09/2010 14:54
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