6/7/2023 0 Comments Roger waters the wall![]() To be honest, this all sounds a bit un-Roger Waters as well. The guy who owned the club came bursting into the dressing room shouting ‘Boys that was brilliant, have a bottle of champagne.’ and we were like ‘Why? It didn’t seem like it to us!’ and he said ‘They didn’t try and kill you!’… It was very un-Irish.” We did a gig there in 1967 or 1968, and it was awful. ![]() Not like in the old days when we used to play this little old place in Cork, I can’t remember what it was called, and you played on a stage eight feet high so the audience couldn’t get at you (laughs). ![]() Luckily the backroom boys managed to get it sorted out and we could finish the show. Where we happily playing along and then the whole thing went pffft and there was nothing. “It was a cold and rainy day and we blew the power out. “I remember this gig in Cork on the last tour, in a circus tent,” continues Waters, responding to a request from a member of the Irish press for further memories he has of performing in the Emerald Isle. Perceived the domain of the foreign press, replete with the obligatory “Do you have a message for the people of ” request, or the tabloid press who have little more than a cursory interest in the subject matter, the wheels of the great music PR industry work outside such showboats for most of the major music titles that fill the newsagent’s shelves. The nature of the press conference is not something UK journalists treat with a great deal of enthusiasm (a bit like the musicians that have to hold them if truth be told). Today, in the middle of a whirl of PR people, tour promoters and TV cameras, a select group of European media are to be told that as of March 21, at Lisbon’s Pavilhão Atlantico, Waters and his touring band (announced in news last issue) will also take the grandiose spectacular that is The Wall on a tour of Europe, reaching the UK in May 2011. A US leg has already been announced and starts in September of this year. Prog is sat at a press conference amid the grandeur of London’s Mandarin Hotel, whilst Waters announces the European leg of his latest live venture, taking 1979’s celebrated The Wall album back out on the road. Roger Waters is on something of a comedic roll.
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