5/18/2023 0 Comments Roger waters ageThere is stuff going on here that is fundamentally important to all of our lives. And, by the way, with all due respect to the Weeknd or Drake or any of them, I am far, far, far more important than any of them will ever be, however many billions of streams they’ve got. I’m not trying to make a personal attack. Good, I’m glad to hear that, and I look forward to reading this in the pages of your newspaper. I didn’t cover your show, but I did put in for an interview with you before the concerts and it wasn’t granted. Speaking for The Globe, I can tell you that we don’t do as many concert reviews as we used to. Would it not have been possible to review his show one night and my show another night? I have no idea what or who the Weeknd is, because I don’t listen to much music. I was assigned to cover the Weeknd’s concert at Rogers Centre.īut the Weeknd was cancelled. I hate to get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, but your concert wasn’t the biggest in town that night. What I’d like to know, what I’d like you to ponder on, and maybe ask your readers, is if they have any theories as to why that may be? What’s interesting about you being here with me now is that none of the newspapers in Toronto sent anybody to review my shows. They were always trying to drag me back from my natural instinct, which is to tell the truth. And, also, I say it more coherently and clearly now than I did then, because now I’m not constrained by the rock group that I was with then. What’s your relationship with audiences today?Īudiences are far more attentive to what I have to say now than they were then. I think that’s more open to scrutiny than it was in 1977, when I famously spat on some poor bloke in the audience in Montreal. You’ve been to the show and seen what I have to say in The Happiest Days of Our Lives and Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 and Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3, about how restrained we are by what the government and the ruling class want us to believe. Maybe it’s just that I’ve woken up a bit. How do you account for the change in your relationship with audiences? I attended one of your concerts last week in Toronto, where you basked in the crowd’s applause. The British rock legend and former Pink Floyd front man talked to The Globe and Mail via Zoom about hope, his complete ignorance of the Weeknd and being literally spitting mad.įorty-five years ago at a concert in Montreal you spat on a concertgoer, an incident that led to you writing an album, The Wall, about the alienation between artists and fans. Roger Waters, 78, is currently touring North America with his This is Not a Drill arena show, a politically charged spectacle presented in the round.
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