Pink Floyd founder member Roger Waters is to take the band’s classic 1979 album ‘The Wall‘ back out on the road for the first time in over thirty years, after many parts of the world were denied seeing the live show first time around due to the huge cost and itenary which restricted the band to only four cities: Los Angeles, New York, Dortmund and London, between 1980 and 1981.
Now Waters wants to tour the album in over thirty cities around Europe, including dates in Dublin, Manchester and London. “Thirty years ago when I wrote ‘The Wall‘, I was a frightened young man,” Waters remarked today. “In the intervening years it has 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.”
Waters returned to the stage with Pink Floyd at the 2005 Live 8 event in London, and his new touring band is expected to include his son Harry on keys. The European dates are set to begin in Portugal on March 21st, 2011.
