A Roger Waters something more angry if it fits with the world than usual, highlighting the ideological background of his songbook, finally poetic and colossal, giving us an offering of that music that wants to go beyond music. The message printed on the screens just as the concert was about to begin warned us: please file over to the bar if it is “of those who love Pink Floyd but can’t stand Roger’s politicking”.
It is too much to assume that the 17,000 spectators who filled Sant Jordi this Tuesday they agreed to the letter of Waters’ total amendments to the system, but who cares? The Brit ruled, sporting a stringy voice, with his high-tech rock and brain-shaking poetry; it sounded thunderous and kid gloved: that takeoff with a ‘Comfortably numb’ in a sleepwalking version, against a background of skyscrapers in ruins.
floating screens
if the last time amazed us with that translucent horizontal screenon this occasion he wanted to get a little closer to all of us from a stage placed in the center of the track, with 360º vision, and long screens arranged in the shape of a cross floating above his head and those of his ten companions. Among them, the guitarists-singers Jonathan Wilson and Dave Kilminster, in the Trembling Mission to Occupy the Void by David Gilmour.
The sense of community is a central idea of the tour’This is not a drill’and that’s what it’s aboutThe bar‘, a new song (heartfelt ballad on the piano) with which he wanted to make Sant Jordi a canteen in which to “talk without fear”. A wedge in the ‘greatest hits’ that was from ‘Another brick in the wall, Part 2’, pointing to the education systemto ‘Wish you were here’, around the relics of Syd Barrett, on the way to the twin ‘Shine on your crazy diamond’, whose sax solo nailed the virtuoso Seamus Blake.
war criminals
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And yes, the accusatory, pamphleteering Waters, summoning us to the final judgment of Humanity when evoking the Iranian martyr Mahsa Amini and listing the “war criminals”, who turned out to be the last american presidents, all of them: from Reagan to Biden, passing through Obama and Trump. Concert with two parts; the first culminated with a flying sheep to illustrate the angry quote from the album ‘Animals’ (1977).
‘in the flesh‘ opened the second ‘set’ with Waters military high command dress, denouncing totalitarianism and licking their lips with its aesthetics. But the heart of the concert was in the trip to the mental unhealthiness of ‘The dark side of the moon’, citing all of us in the darkest depth of our soul and whispering to us the question: who are the crazy ones, those who are locked up or all of us, upset by the nature of this cruel world? Waters’ powerful music He hypnotized us again without the need to meditate on the answer.