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Gigs & Festivals
Roger Waters tackles The Wall, Flaming Lips go Dark
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 13 April 2010
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has announced that he is taking a new live production of his former band’s album ‘The Wall’ on tour, starting with a show at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre in September, to mark the album’s 30th anniversary. He will then make his way around the US until the end of the year, though it’s not clear if there are plans to tour worldwide once these shows are completed.
The performances will feature the album played in full by Waters and a full band, with “state-of-the-art” stage production. Waters explains: “This new production is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocence lost in the intervening years”.
In sort of related news, The Flaming Lips have announced that their version of Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’, previously only available as an iTunes exclusive, will be released on vinyl this Saturday as part of Record Store Day’s catalogue of exclusive releases. And if you were just wondering how Floyd fans feel about Roger Waters playing ‘The Wall’ without the rest of the band, just imagine the kind of abuse The Flaming Lips have been getting over their ‘Dark Side’ cover. The band’s Wayne Coyne says he doesn’t mind, though.
Coyne told WENN: “The only people who seem to come at you with ‘how dare you touch this music?’ sort of attitude are the old school Pink Floyd fans. There are these mean-spirited ‘how dare you touch Pink Floyd, you guys suck’ sort of blogs. I love that controversy and welcome any enemies who want to try and stop us, because, any time people attack you, people want to come to your rescue. If you’ve never been attacked, you never know what affection and what love and what loyalty you have in your fans”.
Speaking to the website Mother Jones, he added: I don’t want to get too esoteric about it, but I always liked the idea that a punk-rock freaky group would do ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’, which is about death and self-rebirth. … So when we had our chance, I thought, let’s put this primitive punk-rock spin on it. I don’t know if all of it seems punk rock or primitive. But for some of it, there’s definitely a different sort of mood to the songs”.
