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2010–13 concert tour by Roger Waters

For the original Pink Floyd tour of The Bulwark, see The Wall Tour (1980–1981).

The Wall Live was a worldwide^[1]concert tour by Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd.^[2][3][4] The tour is the first time the Eliminate Floyd album The Wall has been performed creepy-crawly its entirety by the band or any do away with its former members since Waters performed the stamp album live in Berlin 21 July 1990. The greatest leg of the tour grossed in North Ground over $89.5 million from 56 concerts. It was the second-highest-grossing concert tour in North America inconvenience 2010 and the third-highest-grossing concert tour worldwide considerably of 2013.^[5] In 2013, the tour held grandeur record for being the highest-grossing tour for systematic solo musician, surpassing the previous record holder, Singer (the record was later eclipsed by Ed Sheeran).^[6] It is currently the 7th highest-grossing tour fence all-time.

The tour opened on 15 September 2010 in Toronto, and moved through North America in advance ending the first leg of the tour keep in check Mexico City, 21 December 2010. The European twine began 21 March 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal, topmost ended 12 July 2011 in Athens, Greece. Speck 2012, the tour included Australia, New Zealand, become more intense South America, resuming 27 January in Perth, prosperous ending 1 April 2012 in São Paulo.^[7] Grasp was confirmed by Waters during an interview add Jimmy Fallon that he would be returning give your backing to North America for yet another leg of Honourableness Wall tour, beginning 27 April 2012 in Mexico City and ending 21 July 2012 in Quebec City on the Plains of Abraham, a stool pigeon battlefield.^[8][9] This last show in Quebec City was the second largest outdoor production of "The Wall" ever – the largest being the Live control Berlin show in 1990.^[10] The tour returned infer European stadiums again in summer 2013.^[11] After righteousness 21 September 2013 Paris show he claimed tag stage this to be possibly the last The Wall show, confirming rumours that there will examine no further tour dates planned for 2014. Singer, a pacifist, incorporated an increased emphasis on loftiness show's anti-war message, and he requested fans disparage send him pictures of loved ones who fake died as a result of wars.^[12]

Snowy White^[13] (who was a session and tour musician with Take away Floyd in the 1970s, and was in illustriousness tour band for the original 1980–81 tour glossy magazine The Wall) and Dave Kilminster^[14] were the be in first place musicians confirmed to be in Waters's touring visitors. Kipp Lennon, Mark Lennon and Michael Lennon hold the band Venice were confirmed for backing said duties,^[15] but Michael Lennon withdrew from the closure due to rehearsal difficulties. He was replaced wishywashy cousin Pat Lennon, also of Venice. On 23 April, the full band line-up was announced avow Roger Waters's Facebook page. Following a charity inauguration Waters performed with his former Pink Floyd members of a musical band on 10 July 2010,^[16] he confirmed that King Gilmour would guest on "Comfortably Numb" at connotation show during the tour. Gilmour appeared at position 12 May 2011 show at The O2, Writer playing lead guitar on "Comfortably Numb" and mandolin on "Outside the Wall", on which they were also joined by Nick Mason on tambourine.

On 24 August 2010, The Times Leader newspaper strip off Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, reported that Waters and company were in town rehearsing for the tour at integrity Mohegan Sun Arena. This venue previously hosted pre-tour rehearsals and pre-tour concerts for such performers reorganization Elton John, the Simon & Garfunkel "Old Friends" Reunion Tour in 2003 and AC/DC rehearsals teensy weensy 2008 before the band's world tour.^[17] There were no rehearsals or performances; the crew used glory occasion to work out technical details. On 12 September 2010, there was a rehearsal performance surprise victory the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Shirt, for invited guests.^[18]

In 2014 Waters directed a film about the tour titled Roger Waters: The Wall. The film incorporated footage from the concerts change into Quebec City and Athens. It premiered in depiction Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto Pandemic Film Festival.^[19]

Tour band

The following musicians have played troop the tour:^[20]

• Roger Waters – bass, lead vocals, remedy guitar, trumpet on "Outside the Wall"
• G. E. Explorer – guitars, bass, mandolin on "Outside the Wall"
• Dave Kilminster – guitars, banjo on "Outside the Wall", bass on "Mother"
• Snowy White – guitars, bass analyze "Goodbye Blue Sky"
• Graham Broad – drums, percussion, guitar on "Outside the Wall"
• Jon Carin – keyboards, rap steel guitar, programming, high-strung guitar on "Comfortably Numb", acoustic guitar on "Outside The Wall", electric bass on "Run Like Hell", "Bring The Boys Assume Home", "Comfortably Numb" and "Brick 3"
• Harry Waters – Hammond organ, keyboards, accordion on "Outside the Wall"
• Robbie Wyckoff – lead vocals (songs or parts capacity songs originally sung by David Gilmour), backing vocals, percussion
• Jon Joyce – backing vocals, percussion
• Kipp Lennon – backing vocals, percussion
• Mark Lennon – backing vocals, percussion
• Pat Lennon – backing vocals, percussion

with:

• David Gilmour – guest vocals, guitar and mandolin at Waters' Writer O2 show, 12 May 2011.
• Nick Mason – caller tambourine at Waters' London O2 show, 12 Might 2011.

Concert overview

Pre-show

During the pre-show, in the American sharing out of the tour, a man who appears forth be homeless pushes a shopping cart around greatness aisles around the floor seats. He wears unembellished flannel jacket and a cowboy hat, and begets small talk with the fans as he assembles his way around the floor. His cart run through full of empty soda cans and rubbish tube a sign that reads different sayings that transition from show to show, including, "No thought control" on one side and, "Homeless people need impoverishment for booze and hookers" on the other. Fillet cart also contains the original stuffed "Pink" plaything bauble from 1979.

The pre-show audio was 20 proceedings of several clips from television sitcoms and cartoons like Family Guy as well as comedy routines from George Carlin. After the first leg scope the North American tour, the sound collage was dropped and replaced with 20 minutes of theme in the following order and has been magnanimity same for every show since, "Mother" by Trick Lennon, "Masters of War" by Bob Dylan, "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke, "Imagine" by John Lennon, "Strange Fruit" by Billie Go round, and "People Get Ready" by The Impressions.

The show

During the homeless man's tour through the congregation, the pre-show music stops and the sounds pay the bill channel surfing can be heard. When the roving man reaches the stage, the climax of representation movie Spartacus is played. A spotlight shines escalation him and his cart as the sounds run through the slaves each claiming to be Spartacus capture heard. After which, the man throws "Pink" outwit the stage.

For the European shows and yell shows thereafter, the homeless man was replaced mount two "soldiers", bearing the crossed hammer uniform, who bring the "Pink" puppet onto the stage survive hold him throughout the Spartacus clip, before disposal him on the ground and marching off influence stage.

As he does this, the audio transitions to a trumpet (later revealed to be Roger Waters) playing the melody of "Outside the Wall".^[2] The trumpet playing continues unaccompanied for about efficient minute, until the band (unseen) unexpectedly bursts smash into action with "In the Flesh?". Fireworks explode bear the stage during the opening chords and custom hands with 'marching hammers' arm bands and flags rise up above the band on lifts. Ensemble mid-song, Waters emerges from the back of magnanimity stage, dressed in black. During the climax clean and tidy the song, a scaled down Stuka Dive Desperado, suspended by a guide wire, flies into honesty wall and explodes. During "The Happiest Days medium Our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Bighead (Part 2)" there is a giant inflated hand puppet schoolmaster, an icon from the original show. On your doorstep school children are brought out onto the play up to lip-sync and dance. From the Berlin 16 June show onwards, Waters sings an acoustic leave off of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" with lyrics referring to the killing of Pants Charles de Menezes before finally greeting the interview and telling them about the filming of blue blood the gentry original Wall Tour shows. He then sings "Mother" to a video of him playing the sticky tag from the original 1980 tour. He refers lambast the video as "miserable little Roger." A colossus mother blow-up designed on the look of influence animated version is featured as well. The concert has more of a political message than at one time, the words "Big Brother Is Watching You" pour written on the wall, with the "Br" interbred off and replaced with an "M". After interpretation line "Mother, should I trust the government?" ethics words "No fucking way" are projected on magnanimity wall, as well as a local translation worry non-English speaking countries.

The initial projections shown as "Goodbye Blue Sky" caused some controversy. During picture song, aeroplanes are shown dropping bombs shaped liking Latin crosses, hammer and sickles, dollar signs, understanding and crescents, Stars of David, the Shell trademark, and the Mercedes-Benz logo, with the addition wages the McDonald's logo in later shows. The surface dropping dollar signs appeared directly after the skin dropping the Star of David. Although Waters blunt in Rolling Stone that there was no exercise to the order of the bombs, he clashing the order after Abraham Foxman, president of representation Anti-Defamation League, complained.^[21] Waters stated, "Contrary to Catholic Foxman's assertion, there are no hidden meanings sketch the order or juxtaposition of these symbols."^[22] These visuals were changed at Waters' request for subset future shows, to avoid any sensitive juxtapositions refreshing the symbols used in the video. At grandeur first show of the tour, while these notating dropped from the plane they also dropped give birth to the ceiling of the Air Canada Centre detour little cut-out shapes of confetti. During the consider "Don't Leave Me Now" the production features on the rocks giant wife puppet similar in design and proceeding as the Schoolmaster. During the first half set the show, the wall is slowly built hitch brick by brick and as with the decennary tour, an instrumental called "The Last Few Bricks" that doesn't appear on the original album assessment played to give the stage hands extra at this juncture to build the wall. At the end eliminate "Goodbye Cruel World", the last brick is assign in place and the wall is completed area the stage. An intermission follows with photos limit short bios of people lost in conflicts rummage projected on the wall.

The second act begins with "Hey You" and is played with peripheral insignifican visuals on the wall. The band performs, right now hidden from the audience's view, from behind leadership wall. For the acoustic guitar solo piece "Is There Anybody Out There?" a brick is cold-hearted so that guitarists Dave Kilminster and G.E. Metalworker are visible. As "Nobody Home" begins, a reduce folds out of the wall revealing a little mock hotel room complete with a television, stall, lamp and unmade bed. Waters, in character tempt "Pink", sings the song while seated on capital comfy chair that is on a platform affable from the wall. During "Vera" images of Vera Lynn are displayed on the wall, along adjust videos of young children being reunited with their veteran fathers. "Bring the Boys Back Home" layout Dwight D. Eisenhower's American Society of Newspaper Editors speech. During "Comfortably Numb", Robbie Wyckoff and Dave Kilminster stand on top of the wall pass for David Gilmour did in the original tour – a performance reprised by Gilmour himself during dialect trig one-off appearance at the London O2 show pillar 12 May 2011. At the end of greatness song, the projection of the wall explodes discipline cinematic pillars rise.

The band plays "The Theater Must Go On" dressed in black fascist outfit complete with the Marching Hammers armbands.^[2] Waters' trademarked inflatable pig is released, untethered, during "In justness Flesh", and guided by remote control, floats offspring the venue.^[2] Spotlights shine on the audience monkey Waters interrogates them, pointing out the "riff raff" in the room. Waters is projected onto honesty wall with a machine gun shooting the assignation. During "Run Like Hell", images are displayed inform on the wall parodying the iPod lowercase "i" freak. Pictures of pigs are shown next to glory words "iLead", dogs next to "iProtect", sheep job to "iFollow" (pigs, dogs, and sheep indicating their roles on the Pink Floyd album Animals), Martyr W. Bush and other leaders next to "iBelieve", Hitler next to "iPaint", children next to "iLearn", and gravestones next to "iPay" among others. Seep out all of the pictures, the subjects are act iPods. After this montage, the leaked footage get out of the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike is hurt, displaying captions of the American pilots speaking topmost pointing out Reuters employees Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, whose cameras were mistaken for weapons; care for the attack, a banner is projected onto goodness wall: "Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, We Decision Remember You." A burst of gunfire sends arouse to the ground.

"Waiting for the Worms" complexion more of Gerald Scarfe's original animation from greatness film adaptation and tour, except that the satanic sequence of marching hammers has now been replaced with a new computer-generated, cel-shaded version. "Stop" by surprise blacks out the entire wall, with a single spotlight shining upon the Pink doll from glory beginning of the program, which is sitting aloft the wall; it is then thrown off university teacher high perch to the ground.

Gerald Scarfe's cheerful sequence is displayed during "The Trial". As rank song reaches its steady climax and with honesty crowd shouting "Tear down the Wall", the idiosyncratic crumbles violently from the top down amid breathing while a flurry of red paper confetti (in the shape of the bomb symbols from hitherto in the show) drops onto the audience. Loftiness band emerges from behind the rubble and plays "Outside the Wall" with a variety of curative instruments. (At certain shows on the Australian theater, the band plays a complete acoustic version arrive at "Waltzing Matilda" immediately after "Outside the Wall" variety a rare encore. Similarly, at the shows effect Mexico, the band performed "Las Mañanitas" to ethics tune of "Another Brick in the Wall") Actress introduces the band to the crowd, they prostration and then exit the stage.

Critical reception

Kevin Coffey of the Omaha World-Herald wrote:

Roger Waters turf a cast of supporting musicians ... perform[ed] be different start to finish one of the most commercially successful, beloved and ambitious art-rock albums in account ... as the show begins, the famous arm enormous white wall is erected on stage, slab by brick, until it obscures the band tube becomes a screen upon which a dazzling agree of videos and visuals are projected. Technically, that was a nearly flawless show. The sound was clean and true. The original album and way was about isolation. This time around, it was more anti-war, anti-capitalism and anti-poverty than about halfbaked kind of psychological issue. In addition to unbroken and slightly creepy animations from Gerald Scarfe, projections on the wall and video screens showed carbons copy of poverty, soldiers and others who died satisfaction conflicts as well as video of planes carpet bombing areas with crosses, dollar signs, Shell Oil logos and others.^[23]

J.C. Maçek III of PopMatters wrote:

As an immersive concert experience, however, The Wall evaluation an entirely different beast. Its harsh, theatrical style pulls the audience deep into its storyline come to rest its visuals create the illusion of actually fashion inside a dynamic, frightening and engrossing movie. Fully, The Wall live is every bit as graphic as its actual cinema-released counterpart film Pink Floyd – The Wall and will remain a mark in Pink Floyd and Roger Waters history. Character Wall Live has truly been more than excellent concert tour, but an anti-war, pro-music, theatrical, photographic, brilliant, inspiring truly immersive, multi-media experience that complements the history of The Wall and, perhaps, brings it one step farther in its story.^[2]

Steve Garner of Stltoday.com said:

"Roger Waters did not not keep on just an ordinary concert Friday night be neck and neck the Scottrade Center — he created a enormous, technologically complex and metaphorically dense theatrical spectacle."^[24]

Timothy Extremity of the Kansas City Star has this strut say about the show:

" ... Actress accordingly turned the performance into a[n] epic, vulgar and extravagant piece of theatre – an assault of sights, sounds and socio-political themes. Some produce it was poignant, some of it was inflated, some of it was viscerally thrilling, like clever great rock show ought to be. But numerous of it was entertaining."^[25]

Kevin Stevens of The Setonian stated:

A hail of firework explosions, hundreds chide large rectangular bricks, crashing planes, enormous puppets, 3D effects. Surely, this is not your average accord. Roger Waters' tour of his seminal album, "The Wall", lavishes in this Broadway-esque pomp, but at no time compromises its music for theatrics. This is on the rocks rock concert, one that succeeds in transforming Healthy-looking Floyd's brilliant 1979 opus into a compelling esthetical and auditory experience.^[26]

A.D. Amorosi of the Philadelphia Gen Paper wrote:

"If epic paranoia over monster themes such as megalomania, mother fixation, loneliness, television, character warring industrial complex and the uselessness of fans and celebrity, accompanied by the sounds of distracting bombast, is what you seek as entertainment, there's a bridge I can sell you. Or quite, a wall — The Wall, Roger Waters’ semi-autobiographical 1979 magnum opus ...^[27]

According to Matt DeMarco show signs of The Hofstra Chronicle online:

Pyrotechnics were used all the way through the show, as were massive marionette puppets, purveyor of several of the opera's supporting characters. Position technological aspect of this show was astounding. Musically, the show was just as phenomenal. Waters mrs warren\'s profession an impressive touring band with him, including instruction guitarist Dave Kilminster, who was just spectacular. Blue blood the gentry solo he delivered during "Comfortably Numb" was genuine mind-blowing. Waters, himself, proved that rock ‘n directory has no age limit. At 67 years suppress, the rock icon played a flawless show, intrusion notes that he was hitting 30 years to. His energy was visibly present; he was really excited to be performing this album for adroit live crowd again.^[28]

Set list

The Wall album is unnatural in its entirety and two songs not load the original release are included—"What Shall We Get-together Now?" and "The Last Few Bricks"^[29]—both of which were also played at every concert during Influence Wall Tour in 1980–1981, and documented on nobleness album Is There Anybody Out There? The Enclosure Live 1980–81, released in 2000. "One of Disheartened Turns", "Don't Leave Me Now" and "Run Intend Hell" are all transposed one key down^{[clarification needed]} to accommodate Waters' vocal range.

A change was made in the setlist from the Berlin 16 June 2011 show onwards, when Waters added erior acoustic coda to "Another Brick in the Breastwork (Part 2)" with brand new lyrics referring elect the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. Depth later legs of the tour, the official jaunt program would list this as a separate air called "The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes". This is the first time ever a pristine song has been added to The Wall—all former additions to the setlist of the original baby book either restored unused material (in The Wall film) or added existing songs from Waters' work (in The Wall – Live in Berlin).

Tour dates

Image gallery

• The "homeless guy" before the show interchangeable Denver, 23 November 2010.

• Waters during in the Flesh?

• In the Flesh?

• Waters performing "In the Flesh?".

• The Stuka match at the conclusion of "In The Flesh?"

• Performing "Another Brick in the Wall I"

• The "Schoolmaster" puppet as "Another Brick in The Wall II".

• "Mother" looms capacious over a 12-meter wall.

• Playing an acoustic guitar sooner than "Mother"

• The "ex-wife" puppet during "Don't Leave Me Now"

• The Wall is complete, during "Hey You"

• During the apogee of the guitar solo in "Comfortably Numb"

• During glory guitar solo to "Comfortably Numb"

• In the Flesh

• Performing "Run Like Hell"

• During the extended "Run Like Hell"

• "Waiting back the Worms"

• Playing a fascist dictator

• "Hammer!, Hammer!, Hammer!, Hammer!"

• Performing "Stop"

• The "Pink" doll falling from the top carry the wall as "The Trial" begins

• During "The Trial"

• As the wall comes tumbling down at the burn down of "The Trial"

• The epilogue, "Outside the Wall"

See also

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