I heard he’s a racist and homophobe too. 🤡
The BDS crowd takes one in the chops.
Roger Waters has been nuts since “The Final Cut”
“alleged”?
He’s an a-hole
“If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.”
I’m sure if he had said bad things about Catholics, Lutherans, or white people in general he would have been allowed to perform, and any criticism would have been met with a shower of “it’s free speech” and “freedom of expression”.
The cancellation announcement cited Waters’
* boycott of Israel
* his comparisons of Israel to apartheid South Africa
* his declaration of his ties with the Islamist militant group Hamas
* his use of a pig-shaped balloon adorned with a Star of David on previous tours.
Sheesh... That’s quite a list he’s racked up there.
I don’t even like his music but if you’re going to cancel concerts because the band is offensive than there won’t be any more rock and/or rap shows (which is fine by me , but lots of people seem to enjoy them)
How cruel!
His views on Israel have been known for years.
This is about his stance on Ukraine.
While I dislike Roger’s politics I am generally against this sort of thing due to the artist’s politics. Of course Germany is a bit of a different situation due to their past.
He’s a hateful bitch. ‘Nuff said.
8 April 2022: BBC: Pink Floyd reunite for Ukraine protest song
by Mark Savage
Gilmour says the song is a show of “anger at a superpower invading a peaceful nation”...
Work on the song began a couple of weeks ago, when Gilmour was shown Khlyvnyuk’s Instagram feed. The singer had posted footage of himself in in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square, fully armed and ready to fight the Russian invasion...
The song carries special significance for Gilmour, as his daughter-in-law is the Ukrainian-born artist Janina Pedan.
He told the BBC she had inspired the artwork for the single, which contains the national flower of Ukraine, the sunflower.
“My daughter-in-law told us the story of a woman at the beginning of this conflict, giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers and that she hoped that sunflowers would sprout where they died.”
Gilmour said he found the “powerlessness of the West” in the face of Russian aggression “infuriating” but said he supported the ongoing sanctions against the country...
Asked how he felt about the UK government’s response to the crisis, he expressed frustration at the bureaucracy facing Ukrainian refugees who want to settle here.
“A lot of Europe is saying ‘welcome’ and our [government] is saying, ‘you need to get onto a computer and fill in forms’.
“My view would be to open the doors and sort of paperwork out later. But government doesn’t seem to be following that way of thinking.”...
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61037080
27 March 2022: Israel365News: BBC interviews Ukrainian soldier with Nazi symbol on uniform
The British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) interviewed a Ukrainian soldier donning an infamous Nazi symbol on his uniform without even mentioning the blatant hate symbol during the piece...
In 2014, it (BBC) reported on the role of neo-Nazis in the Donbas conflict and made a documentary about racism and anti-Semitism in the country...
According to Lower Class Magazine, a leftist German publication, the Azov battalion operates a quasi-underground outfit called the “Misanthropic Division.” They recruit heavily among the ranks of neo-Nazi youth in Germany, France, and Scandinavian countries. Foreign fighters are offered training with heavy weapons such as tanks. One former sniper for the Swedish army, Mikael Skillit, became a neo-Nazi volunteer for Azov.
https://www.israel365news.com/352272/bbc-interviews-ukrainian-soldier-with-nazi-symbol-on-uniform/
Former Pink Floyd rocker. He quit the band decades ago. Tried to take down the name Pink Floyd with him but lost the legal battle that ensued.
I saw an interview of him once when he said he and Pink Floyd were later playing in venues across the street from one another. His venue held 2,000 fans. The Pink Floyd venue held 20,000 fans.
I reject racism, but I think concerts that promote Satanism, blasphemy against God, and sexual perversion are worse.