Roger Waters at PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh PA, July 6th 2022

00:24:18 Set 1 Intro
00:25:10 Comfortably Numb
00:33:32 The Happiest Days of Our Lives
00:35:09 Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
00:37:23 Another Brick in the Wall Part 3
00:39:12 The Powers That Be
00:44:21 The Bravery of Being out of Range
00:54:28 The Bar
00:59:37 Have a Cigar
01:05:00 Wish You Were Here
01:10:10 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-8)
01:19:12 Sheep

01:32:20 Set 2 Intro
01:33:29 In the Flesh
01:37:20 Run Like Hell
01:43:11 Déjà Vu
01:49:56 Is This the Life We Really Want?
01:55:38 Money
02:01:58 Us and Them
02:09:34 Any Colour You Like
02:12:59 Brain Damage
02:16:46 Eclipse
02:24:15 Two Suns in the Sunset
02:30:57 The Bar (reprise)
02:35:28 Outside the Wall

Band:

Roger Waters — Bass, vocals
Dave Kilminster — Guitar
Jonathan Wilson — Guitar
Joey Waronker — Drums
Gus Seyffert — Guitar, Bass
Jon Carin — Keyboards, Guitar
Robert Walter — Organ
Seamus Blake — Saxophone
Amanda Belair — Backing vocals
Shanay Johnson — Backing vocals

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Recorded in Philadelphia at the Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia on August 4th, 2022.

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Сегодня 79 лет со дня рождения Ричарда Райта.

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World Unite for Ukraine™ announces global concert event featuring Pink Floyd, Janina Pedan, Al Di Meola and other international artists, performers, actors, athletes and celebrities from Europe, Israel, US, Canada and Ukraine to stream on June 16 July 14, 2022 (8 pm EDT).

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Fittingly, his first show since closing Us + Them in December 2018 in Monterrey, Mexico, began at 8:20 Wednesday night at Pittsburgh Plate Glass Paints Arena with an announcement noting, in part, “If you’re one of those ‘I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Roger’s politics people,’ you might do well to fuck off to the bar right now.”

The music then kicked off in bold fashion, underplaying a Floyd classic often reserved for the encore.

Waters, unseen, launched “Comfortably Numb,” greeting the crowd with the ominous “Hello. Is there anybody in there?” amid claps of thunder. The heavy talk-sing carried on, and on, like a Gregorian chant through the entire song, accompanied by a sickly green video of people queued up in stillness on the long screen above the stage.

The drone was broken by a female voice coming in with a shrill howl. The famous solo? Skipped!

Sixteen years ago today Roger Keith 'Syd' Barrett passed away.

Pink Floyd are to release two physical versions of their newly recorded music, Hey Hey Rise Up.

The single, which was initially released digitally in April in support of the people of Ukraine and was Number 1 in 27 countries, will be available on 7" and CD single. Both formats will also feature a newly reworked version of A Great Day for Freedom taken from the band's 1994 album, The Division Bell. The single will be available on 15 July (excluding Japan – released on 3 August – and USA, Canada, Australia and Mexico – released on 21 October).

For this limited edition release, David Gilmour has reworked A Great Day for Freedom using the original tapes which feature Nick Mason on drums and Richard Wright on keyboards, along with backing vocals from Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine and Durga McBroom. The track was composed by Gilmour with lyrics by himself and Polly Samson. Speaking about the song in 1994, Gilmour said, "There was a wonderful moment of optimism when the Berlin wall came down – the release of Eastern Europe from the non-democratic side of the socialist system. But what they have now doesn't seem to be much better. Again, I'm fairly pessimistic about it all. I sort of wish and live in hope, but I tend to think that history moves at a much slower pace than we think it does. I feel that real change takes a long, long time".

Talking about the inspiration for Hey Hey Rise Up Gilmour commented, "Any war, but particularly a war that is started by a world superpower against an independent democratic nation, has got to raise enormous anger and frustration in one. As I said before, I have a small connection there; my daughter-in-law is from Ukraine. And the band Boombox are Ukrainian people that I already knew, not well, but from some time ago. It's an enormously difficult, frustrating, and anger-making thing that one human being could have the power to go into another independent democratic nation and set about killing the population. It's just obscene to an extent that is just beyond my belief".

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Ahead of his US and Canadian tour, which starts July 6th in Pittsburgh, Roger Waters has announced that he will be appearing on the US television programme, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

The late night satirical show is broadcast nightly from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater on New York City's Broadway, and features guests being interviewed and performing. Roger will be appearing at some point on the show airing on Tuesday 21st June, from 11:35pm EST/10:35pm CST.

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert is broadcast on the CBS television channel live, on demand and via streaming (in the US, of course), but much of the show is made available on the show's website, their social media and on YouTube for those outside the US to watch as well.

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Update June 22nd:
"The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick in the Wall Pts. 2 & 3"

This audiophile favourite — and a brisk seller since its Analogue Productions 33 1/3 reissue in 2015 — is back with an upgrade. Now a 45 RPM 4LP 200-gram set, the remastered audio completed by long-time Roger Waters / Pink Floyd collaborator and co-producer James Guthrie is chillingly detailed — every cricket chirp and dog bark on this distinctive album has even more sonic intensity and dimension. An unblinking look at an entertainment-obsessed society, Amused to Death addresses issues that have only grown in complexity and urgency over the past three decades. With Amused to Death, Roger Waters sounded the alarm about a society increasingly — and unthinkingly — in thrall to its television screens. Thirty years later, it still speaks to our present moment in ways that could scarcely have been anticipated three decades ago. In 2022, television is just one option in an endless array of distractions available to us anytime, anywhere, courtesy of our laptops, tablets and smartphones. With eyes glued to our screens, the dilemmas and injustices of the real world can easily recede from view.

Released: September 2nd, 2022
Catalogue Number: AAPP 468761-45

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		Set 1: One of These Days Arnold Layne Fearless Obscured by Clouds / When You're In Candy and a Currant Bun Vegetable Man If / Atom Heart Mother Medley / If (Reprise) Remember a Day Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun		Den Atelier, Luxembourg
		Set 2: Interstellar Overdrive Astronomy Domine The Nile Song Burning Bridges Childhood's End Lucifer Sam Echoes Encore: See Emily Play A Saucerful of Secrets Bike

Saucerful of Secrets:

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Radio K.A.O.S. The Story

Benny is a Welsh coal miner. He is a radio ham. He is 23 years old, married to Molly. They have a son, young Ben, age 4, and a new baby. They look after Benny's twin brother Billy, who is apparently a vegetable. The mine is closed by the market forces. The Male Voice Choir stops singing, the village is dying.
One night Benny takes Billy on a pub crawl. Drunk in a brightly-lit shopping mall, Benny vents his anger on a shop window full of multiple TV images of Margaret Thatcher's mocking condescension. In defiance, he steals a cordless 'phone. Later that night, Benny cavorts dangerously on the parapet of a motorway footbridge, in theatrical protest of the tabloid press. That same night, a cab driver is killed by a concrete block dropped off a similar bridge. The police come to question Benny; he hides the cordless 'phone under the cushion of Billy's wheelchair.
Billy is different, he can receive radio waves directly without the aid of a tuner; he explores the cordless 'phone, recognizing its radioness.
Benny is sent to prison. Billy feels as if half of him has been cut off. He misses Benny's nightly conversations with radio hams in foreign parts. Molly, unable to cope, sends Billy to stay with his Great Uncle David, who had emigrated to the USA during the war. Much as Billy likes Uncle David and the sunshine and all the new radio in LA, he cannot adjust to the cultural upheaval and the loss of Benny, who for him is 'home'.
Uncle David, now an old man, is haunted by having worked on the Manhattan project during World War II, designing the Atom Bomb, and seeks to atone. He also is a radio ham; he often talks to other hams about the Black Hills of his youth, the Male Voice Choir, about home. He is saddened by the use of telecommunication to trivialise important issues, the soap opera of state. However, Live Aid has decynicised him to an extent. Billy listens to David and hears the truth the old man speaks.
Billy experiments with his cordless 'phone, he learns to make calls. He accesses computers and speech synthesizers, he learns to speak.
Billy makes contact with Jim a DJ at Radio KAOS, a renegade rock station fighting a lone rear guard action against format radio. Billy and Jim become radio friends. Reagan and Thatcher bomb Lybia. Billy perceives this as an act of political "entertainment" fireworks to focus attention away from problems at "home".
Billy has developed his expertise with the cordless 'phone to the point where he can now control the most powerful computers in the world. He plans an "entertainment" of his own. He simulates nuclear attack everywhere, but de-activates the military capability of "the powers that be" to retaliate.
In extremes perceptions change. Panic, comedy, compassion. In a SAC bunker a soldier in a white cravat turns a key to launch the counter attack. Nothing happens; impotently he kicks the console, hurting his foot. He watches the approaching blips on the radar screen. As impact approaches, he thinks of his wife and kids, he puts his fingers in his ears.
Silence. White out. Black out. Lights out. It didn't happen, we're still alive. Billy has drained the earth of power to create his illusion.
All over the dark side of the earth, candles are lit. In the pub in Billy's home village in Wales one man starts to sing; the other men join in.
The tide is turning.
Billy is home.

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"...same writer, same heart, same soul, same man: could be his last hurrah. Don’t miss it."

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So you think you can tell
  heaven from hell,
   blue skies from pain
    Can you tell a green field
     from a cold steel rail,
      a smile from a veil —
       Do you think you can tell?

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The UK musicians’ magazine Total Guitar has just announced their July 2002 issue, which is largely dedicated to the guitar work of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.

Total Guitar Editors:

«This month we trace David Gilmour’s evolution as a guitarist via – from 1969’s

through


















to this year's
.
We’re joined by a host of guitarists – Kirk Hammett, Matt Bellamy, Derek Trucks, and many more – who couldn’t wait to talk about their favourite Floyd songs and tell us how they’ve been influenced by Gilmour’s playing. We also gain insight into the guitarist’s creative process in an exclusive interview with Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin, and Gilmour’s story of his life in the band is told in his own words. And if all this has you fired up ready to plug your guitar in and play, you'll find a huge eight-page lesson on Gilmour’s style.»

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Roger Waters

Is this the life we really want?

The concept of an average guy is patently absurd
There’s too much differential in the herd
Just look at Bush and Cheney, then look at you and me
It’s like comparing Shakespeare to reality TV

Is this the life we really want?
Being murdered by these clowns
Our children crushed in rubble
Are we deafened by the sound
Of media mouths all moving in apparent unity
Spewing out the mantra of the free

Free to plan the near land safe in their bomb-proof layers
Free to send our sons to war, our sons of course not theirs
Free to burn and pillage, to fill the family vault
Free to claim it’s dog-eat-dog and really not their fault

Fear drives the mills of modern man
Fear keeps us all in line
Fear of all those foreigners
Fear of all their crimes

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♬ Breathe (In the Air) — Pink Floyd

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