Roger Waters confuses viewers in London with passages from his autobiography

On Sunday (October 8th) Roger Waters performed in front of around 2,000 spectators at the London Palladium – it was the first of two concerts in the theater. The visitors certainly imagined the show differently, because instead of filling the evening with well-known Pink Floyd songs, the musician is said to have used the first hour for extravagant speeches and an irritating reading.

With the release of “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux”, which contains reworked versions of Pink Floyd’s popular songs and was released to mark the album’s 50th anniversary, it made sense to design the setlist accordingly. In fact, Waters also played the entire album as well as the songs “The Bar” and “Mother.” However, critics reported that the first hour of the set consisted only of the latter two songs. The musician preferred to use the time with the audience to complain about Julian Assange and read several excerpts from his as yet unpublished memoirs from a laptop.

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“One story was about a duck that lived in the family house,” the newspaper said “The Times“. “Another began promisingly as a remembrance of Floyd’s original leader, Syd Barrett, but revealed nothing more than that Barrett wrote many songs and had an innocent charisma.”

The one-man show was not well received by some in the audience, which in turn is said to have led to Roger Waters reprimanding those who were disruptive. A critic also noted that the unpleasant atmosphere in the theater was “aggravated by Waters’ schoolmasterly attitude,” as he did not tolerate any interruptions “Telegraph”. “Perhaps he got carried away with the theatrical environment, doing bad Bruce Forsyth and Max Bygraves impersonations. It was awkward, awkward and very un-rock’n’roll. A master of stadiums and arenas who played the storyteller in a theater was simply a fish out of water.”

The second show will take place today (October 9th) – it is unclear whether Roger Waters has planned a mix of music and reading for this too.