Roger Waters to bring 'The Wall' to UK in 2011

Easy Livin wrote: Not wishing to be a wet blanket, but yet again the perception of an artist is that gigs in London and Manchester consitute a "UK" tour.

I absolutely agree with you, Bob - both are a long trek for me in West Wales, and expensive at that, especially as the tickets are not exactly going to be cheap. There are plenty of venues around the whole of the UK where this show could be performed.

I'll probably end up going, if only to compare it to the originals I saw in Earls Court, but it will be under a slight sense of protest.

The Wall is my least favorite Pink Floyd album, yet I saw it live in 1980 and will be going to see Mr. Rogers perform it in Denver this November. I guess that says a lot about my tolerance for bad music! 

I'm going to the concert in Kansas City

It's funny how only the pigs and the dogs can afford to go to his gigs.

According to Planet Rock:

Roger Waters has announced a handful of shows in London and Manchester as part of his Wall Live world tour – it will be the first time in 20 years that the Wall has been performed in Europe. Roger Waters’ The Wall will trek through over 25 European cities in 2011 to mark the 30th anniversary of the album’s release and Roger has hinted that this could mark his final big tour. Rogers band on this world tour is: Dave Kilminster (Guitar), Snowy White (Guitar), G. E. Smith (Guitar), Jon Carin (Keyboards), Harry Waters (Keyboards), Graham Broad (Drums), Robbie Wyckoff, Jon Joyce (Backing Vocals), Michael Lennon (Backing Vocals), Mark Lennon (Backing Vocals), Kipp Lennon (Backing Vocals). To date The Wall has been performed by its creator just 31 times live, including Pink Floyd's 1980-81 tour in support of the album. Roger Waters resurrected the show in July 1990 with one of the largest concerts ever held to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. That event attracted nearly half a million fans to the Potsdamer Platz while millions more around the world watched the extravaganza on television. "Projection systems now are completely different from what they were then, which means that I would be able to project over the entire 240-foot expanse of the wall ... which we couldn't do in those days," says Roger. "When we first did it, we were after the end of the Vietnam War, and we're right now in the middle of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, so there's a very powerful anti-war message in The Wall. There was then and there still is now. "This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years," he adds. Here are the UK dates for The Wall Live MAY 2011 Wednesday 11 - The O2 Arena, London Thursday 12 - The O2 Arena, London Tuesday 17 - The O2 Arena, London Friday 20 - Manchester MEN Arena Saturday 21 - Manchester MEN Arena

Tickets not on sale yet, but I'd predict you may start to save lots.

If reasonable though, I'll be there!