Roger Waters Extends 2011 The Wall Tour & Ticket Details
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
Due to unprecedented demand for tickets for Roger Waters, an extra show at London’s 02 Arena and two more shows at Manchester’s Evening News Arena have been added to the The Wall Tour. The extra London show will go ahead on May 18th and the two extra Manchester shows will go ahead on June 28th and June 29th.
Roger Waters, founder member of Pink Floyd, is set to bring his ground-breaking masterpiece, The Wall, to Europe in 2011. 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, it is already one of the hottest tickets of the decade.
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 - thus allowing yet another generation to be inspired by the grandeur of the breathtaking visual and aural spectacle.
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.
“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.”
Boasting Roger Waters classic songs including 'Comfortably Numb', 'Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2', 'Mother', 'Run Like Hell' and 'Young Lust', The Wall resonated with millions of fans around the world to become one of the biggest albums ever recorded. Hugely successful upon its release, The Wall was the best-selling album of 1980 in the United States, where it remains in the top five best-selling albums of all time.
11th The O2 Arena, London
12th The O2 Arena, London
14th The O2 Arena, London
15th The O2 Arena, London
17th The O2 Arena, London
18th The O2 Arena, London – EXTRA DATE ADDED
20th Manchester MEN Arena, Manchester
21st Manchester MEN Arena, Manchester
June 2011
28th Manchester MEN Arena, Manchester - EXTRA DATE ADDED
29th Manchester MEN Arena, Manchester - EXTRA DATE ADDED
Tickets for the Roger Waters' extra shows are onsale from 9am on Friday 17th September.
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