Pink Floyd fans left unimpressed after Roger Waters ‘tells audience to f** off’ during ‘awkward’ London show. (Come for Dark Side of Moon and he reads emails for 60 minutes)

Evening Standard via Yahoo ^ | 10/9/23 | Tina Campbell

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

The veteran musician, 80, headlined the 2,286-capacity venue with the evening billed as a chance to hear the entirety of his recently released album, Dark Side Of The Moon Redux, which is a reimagining of the band’s iconic Dark Side Of The Moon, which recently turned 50.

However according to several disgruntled audience members, he spent an hour reading from his unpublished autobiography instead of singing and even told them to “f*** off” when they complained.

Waters is said to have read out pages of notes about his pets, including a duck called Donald, which he discussed for 20 minutes, leaving onlookers stunned.

He said: “If you want to tell stories tell them in your own time to your own audience in your own f***ing theatre. By the way, if you can show constraint and stop shouting again.”

Waters went on to impersonate the likes of Bruce Forsyth and Max Bygraves, in an attempt to deliver some stand-up comedy.

One fan claimed on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that they were thrown out just after the interval for saying that the gig had been “s**t” so far and said that his phone had been “confiscated” - although another said they were just put in pouches for the duration of the concert.

They said: “£500 to hear a load of old waffle and slung out after the interval. Not good.”

Other people also took to X to vent their frustration, writing: “I am sorry to say but tonight’s concert was such a let down. The actual songs were great but the self-indulgent c**p was interminable and finishing over 1 hour later than timetabled is inexcusable.’

“But 60mins of music over two and a half hours is barely a concert. The rambling nonsense ruined a wonderful last 50mins.”

[dangus]

LOVE Gilmour, but it’s kinda sad how many lightyears away from being able to sing Run Like Hell he is. Also, I am SO disillusioned! I mistook the solo from 4:38 to 5:11 as being a guitar solo.

[dfwgator]

I mean come on, the guy’s about 80.

[dangus]

How strange it is to consider the Echoes performance in Pompeii from 1971(ish) to the 2016 concert. In 1971, Floyd was an experimental band playing in an archeological dig with no backup players, no crazy sound equipment, no fans... In 2016, Pompeii looked like an Olympic Stadium, and Pink Floyd was giving an insanely well-produced, anthem-filled song to a hundred-thousands screaming fans!

(By the way, I like Echoes, but I HATE the Pompeii version. It’s like they’re playing the notes, but can’t create the sound.)

[dangus]

I know... that’s what’s so sad!

[dangus]

>> (Come for Dark Side of Moon and he reads emails for 60 minutes) <<

Could’ve been worse. He could’ve performed The Final Cut.

[dfwgator]

PF was set to do what would eventually become “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking”.

Then came The Falklands War, and of course Roger just had to drop that to attack Thatcher again. She was one of the “Pigs” on Pigs (Three Different Ones).

[SunkenCiv]

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[dangus]

By “PF,” you mean Roger Waters. Wright was already out, Gilmour was already fuming at his lack of involvement in the creative process. The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking was also terrible.

[libertylover]

That’s David Gilmour, not David Gilmore. :-)

Ah ha! My bad!