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This Is Not a Drill
Tour by Roger Waters
Location
  • North America
  • Europe
  • South America
Start date6 July 2022
End date9 December 2023
Legs3
No. of shows
  • 44 in North America
  • 40 in Europe
  • 15 in South America
  • 99 in total
Roger Waters concert chronology

This Is Not a Drill is the seventh concert tour by English songwriter Roger Waters. The tour, originally scheduled to take place between July and October 2020, was suspended after the COVID-19 pandemic advance, and rescheduled to take place in 2022. It began at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, United States, on 6 July 2022, and is scheduled to end at the Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa of Quito, Ecuador, on 9 December 2023. Waters first talked about a new live spectacle following his Us + Them Tour on a Rolling Stone interview in September 2019. In 2021, he called the show his "first farewell tour".

Background

In 2017, Waters released his fourth solo album Is This the Life We Really Want?, conceived as a radio play about a man and his granddaughter investigating why children are being killed in other parts of the world.[1] Waters described the play as "part magic carpet ride, part political rant, part anguish".[2]

To promote the album, Waters embarked on the Us + Them Tour, visiting North America, Oceania, Europe, and Latin America between May 2017 and December 2018. A portion of the show featured extensive anti-Donald Trump imagery during the performance of Pink Floyd songs,[3] which led some attendees to boo or even walk out of the show.[4] Waters responded to the pro-Trump critics by saying, "I find it slightly surprising that anybody could have been listening to my songs for 50 years without understanding", and said to those critics if they didn't like politics in music to "go see Katy Perry or watch the Kardashians. I don't care."[5]

The tour was chronicled in a film, Roger Waters: Us + Them, recorded at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, and released in September 2019. In an interview promoting the film, Waters talked to Rolling Stone about his plans for the future, where he first mentioned the main concept for a following tour:

It will be even more political than Us + Them was — political and humane. We were listening to songs and looking at set lists today. We were talking about, what should we call it? I shouldn't be giving this away, but I don't give a shit because it will probably all change, but imagine the iconic helicopter that normally comes before “Happiest Days” and “Brick 2” — that noise that we all know and love — and imagine a megaphone, somebody abused this device before, I know — but, “This is not a drill.” I thought that could be a good title for the show: This Is Not a Drill. The ruling class is killing us.[6]

In the same interview, Waters stated the tour would only visit arenas, with no concerts held in outdoor venues, and it would visit cities in United States, Canada, "and maybe three gigs in Mexico City. And that’s all. I can’t go off around the world, and I don’t really want to either".

Development

During concerts, Waters makes use of the Pink Floyd pigs from the cover of Animals, which he has used on most of his tours.

In January 2020, Waters officially announced the tour, named This Is Not a Drill. "This tour will be part of a global movement by people who are concerned by others to affect the change that is necessary", said Waters in a video announcing the tour. "That’s why we’re going on the road. That’s why speak to each other in pubs. That’s why this conversation should be on everybody’s lips, constantly, the whole time, because it’s super important. So I hope you’ll all come to the shows."[3] The show sees him performing in a 360° stage for the first time. Originally, the final show in the United States was due to take place on 3 October 2020, exactly one month before the 2020 presidential election.[3]

On 27 March 2020, Waters posted a statement on his website and social media, announcing the postponement of the tour to the following year due to the coronavirus pandemic outbreak, declaring that the situation was a "Bummer, but if it saves one life, it’s worth it".[7][8][9][10] In April 2021, tour dates in Canada and United States were announced to take place in 2022,[11] while the concerts in Mexico were announced later in June.[12] In a statement, it was specified that the show "includes a dozen great songs from Pink Floyd’s Golden Era alongside several new ones — words and music, same writer, same heart, same soul, same man". Waters has called This Is Not a Drill his "first farewell tour".[11] In November 2021, a new show in Monterrey, Mexico, was announced, followed by three new shows in the United States announced later in March 2022. Concerts in North America took place between July and October 2022.[citation needed]

Rehearsals for the tour began around 13 June 2022 in Southampton, with the first full rehearsal taking place on 16 June.[13] Sean Evans, Waters' tour creative director, reprises his role for this tour, creating all visuals and stage design. To promote the tour, Waters and his band made an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on 21 June, and performed a medley of songs from The Wall.[14]

At the beginning of every concert, a voiceover described by journalist James Ball as "a plummy British announcer" requests audience members to turn off their cell phones, and to "fuck off to the bar" if they like Pink Floyd but "can’t stand Roger’s politics".[15] Waters debuted a new song at the show, titled "The Bar", which was written during lockdown.[16]

In September 2022, contrary to what Waters expressed previously, the first concerts in Europe were officially announced on his website and social media. Concerts took place between March and June 2023.[17] In May 2023, Waters announced concerts in stadiums in South America to take place between October and December 2023. These concerts don't feature the 360° stage from previous legs, but a traditional stage instead.[18][19][20][21][22]

In addition to the aforementioned stage change, the South American leg saw other differences in the theatrics of the show itself. "Comfortably Numb" includes Waters pacing back and forth in the front of the stage screens to sing, while wearing an all white Doctor's robe.[23]

During "In The Flesh", where Waters used to come out dressed as the character Pink from The Wall, Waters' now gets rolled out on stage in a white wheelchair, dressed in an all white straight jacket. He appears frail and weak until he is "injected" with a syringe and peaks up in time to sing.[24]

Controversies

Pulling of ads by the MLB

In February 2020, following the showing of advertisements for the tour on some Major League Baseball platforms, Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith criticised MLB's decision to showing the ads and sponsor the tour. The organisation wrote a letter to commissioner Rob Manfred, where they stated Waters’ views on Israel "far exceed the boundaries of civil discourse".[25] As a result of this, the league decided to pull advertising for the tour in all its platforms and cut any ties to Waters.[26] Waters has supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories since 2011.[27]

The Weeknd comments

In July 2022, during an interview with The Globe and Mail, Waters questioned the journalist about the lack of coverage of the first of his two shows in Toronto, Canada. When replied that the date coincided with the opening show of the Weeknd's After Hours til Dawn Tour (which was ultimately postponed) and that his "wasn’t the biggest in town that night", Waters declared not to know who the Weeknd is, and questioned why his concert was not reviewed on the following night. He continued by saying his statement was not "a personal attack", adding "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. There is stuff going on here that is fundamentally important to all of our lives". Rolling Stone commented on the controversy that "it is unclear by which metric Waters measures importance".[28][29][30][31]

Stance on Russo-Ukrainian War

In September 2022, Waters wrote an open letter to Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska in response to her interview in Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. In the letter, Waters criticised the country's stance in the Russo-Ukrainian War, blaming the West and Washington particularly for supplying Ukraine with weapons and "extreme nationalists" for having "set your country on the path to this disastrous war", while calling for an end to the conflict.[32][33][34] After Zelenska replied with a tweet, Waters posted a second letter calling for an end of the armed conflict, and the start of negotiations.[35]

In reaction to the letters, Tauron Arena in Kraków, Poland, stated that the concerts in the venue, which were to be held on 21 and 22 April 2023, would no longer take place, with an official saying "Roger Waters' manager decided to withdraw... without giving any reason".[36][37][38] Waters was also declared persona non grata in the city after a proposal from Łukasz Wantuch, a member of the Kraków City Council.[39] Waters posted an open letter in his social media stating that the decision to cancel was not his and that, if the cancellation was confirmed, "it will be a sad loss for me, because I have been looking forward to sharing my message of love with the people of Poland", and that Wantuch's "draconian censoring of my work will deny them the opportunity to make up their own minds".[40]

Waters' name appears on Myrotvorets, a controversial website that maintains a list of people it deems enemies of Ukraine. Critics, including Waters, describe Myrotvorets as a "kill list".[41][15]

Attempts to cancel German concerts

In 2023, due to Waters' comments, German cities announced plans to cancel shows, which were unsuccessful. In February, the Frankfurt city council released a statement announcing the cancellation of the concert in the city, to take place on 28 May at the Festhalle, calling Waters "one of the world’s most well-known antisemites".[42] A coalition of parties in Munich's city council also filed a motion for Waters’ concert at the city's Olympiahalle on 21 May to be cancelled, and a similar motion was tabled in Cologne in February, with management of the Lanxess Arena claiming "there is currently no legal basis for an extraordinary termination" of Waters’ concert there.[43] Munich mayor Dieter Reiter said in March that it's "unspeakable" that Waters should appear in city, and so close to the site of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, however, he declared that "we do not currently see any legally secure possibility... to reverse the decision already made". The city planned shows of solidarity promoting tolerance on the same day as the show, and called for public boycott instead.[44]

Waters threatened legal action against both cities,[43] and the concerts remained on his website.[45] On 3 April, he confirmed in his website the filling of a suit in Frankfurt, stating "I’m coming, bringing my message of love and peace to all my brothers and sisters".[46] On 24 April, the court ruled in Waters' favour and lifted the ban.[47] During his first concert in Berlin on 17 May, Waters reacted through a pre-recorded message in the screen, stating "A court in Frankfurt has ruled that I am not an anti-Semite. Excellent. Just to be clear, I condemn anti-Semitism unreservedly".[48] Online and at later shows during the tour a statement was projected before the show saying:

"My recent performance in Berlin has attracted bad faith attacks from those who want to smear and silence me because they disagree with my political views and moral principles.

The elements of my performance that have been questioned are quite clearly a statement in opposition to fascism injustice, and bigotry in all its forms. Attempts to portray those elements as something disingenuous are politically motivated. The depiction of an unhinged fascist demagogue has been a feature of my shows since Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' in 1980.

I have spent my entire life speaking out against authoritarianism and oppression wherever I see it. When I was a child after the war, the name Anne Frank was often spoken in our house, she became a permanent reminder for what happens when fascism is left unchecked. My parent fought the Nazis in World War II, with my father paying the ultimate price.

Regardless of the consequences of the attacks against me, I will continue to condemn injustice and all those who perpetrate it.

— Roger Waters, [49][50][51]

Setlist

The following set list was obtained from the concert held on 6 July 2022 at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.[52]

Notes

  • During some concerts, part VIII of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was replaced with part V.
  • During the concerts in Paris on 4 May 2023, and in Hamburg on 7 May 2023, Waters performed "Broken Bones".
  • During the concert in Prague on 25 May 2023, Waters performed an excerpt of "Stop".
  • During the concerts in Frankfurt on 28 May 2023, and in Birmingham on 31 May 2023, "In The Flesh" was performed with Waters not dressed as Pink from The Wall, and didn't include the mock machine-gun firing.
  • The South American leg saw Waters opt for a "He's Gone Mad" theme during "In The Flesh", where he came out wheeled in a straight jacket instead of his characteristic "Pink" character garb.[53]

Recordings and broadcasts

The tour debuted a new stripped down "haunting organ and vocals version" [54] of "Comfortably Numb" as the show's opener every night. The recording was released on 17 November 2022, titled "Comfortaby Numb 2022", as the lead single from his album The Lockdown Sessions.[55]

In April 2023, Waters announced that his concert at the O2 Arena in Prague on 25 May would be a cinema event. The film Roger Waters: This Is Not a Drill was directed by long-time collaborator Sean Evans, and broadcast live in more than 1,500 cinemas across more than 50 countries. Tickets were released on 25 April.[56]

Boxscore data

The concerts in the United States and Canada ranked #31 on Billboards Boxscore Charts, grossing $66,330,771. Those shows sold 519,362 tickets.[57]

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, attendance and gross[58][59]
Date City Country Venue Attendance Gross
North America[a][11][60][61][62]
6 July 2022 Pittsburgh United States PPG Paints Arena 10,447 / 15,479 $1,073,335
8 July 2022 Toronto Canada Scotiabank Arena 28,754 / 33,748 $3,193,049
9 July 2022
12 July 2022 Boston United States TD Garden 15,679 / 15,679 $2,515,971
15 July 2022 Montreal Canada Bell Centre 18,893 / 19,433 $2,268,886
17 July 2022 Quebec City Videotron Centre 15,135 / 17,972 $1,423,818
20 July 2022 Albany United States MVP Arena 9,513 / 12,472 $966,516
23 July 2022 Detroit Little Caesars Arena 11,486 / 16,389 $1,398,525
26 July 2022 Chicago United Center 14,707 / 16,644 $2,153,151
28 July 2022 Milwaukee Fiserv Forum 11,025 / 13,705 $1,428,420
30 July 2022 Minneapolis Target Center 10,913 / 16,165 $1,382,461
2 August 2022 Cincinnati Heritage Bank Center 10,716 / 15,021 $1,206,615
5 August 2022 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 25,864 / 32,394 $3,074,885
6 August 2022
10 August 2022 Columbus Nationwide Arena 7,955 / 16,814 $902,920
13 August 2022 Elmont UBS Arena 10,056 / 11,500 $928,566
16 August 2022 Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena 11,322 / 15,757 $1,685,710
18 August 2022 Raleigh PNC Arena 10,106 / 15,252 $1,269,918
20 August 2022 Atlanta State Farm Arena 11,676 / 14,445 $1,308,458
23 August 2022 Miami FTX Arena 13,225 / 17,139 $1,722,142
25 August 2022 Orlando Amway Center 12,424 / 15,742 $1,642,724
27 August 2022 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 10,600 / 14,588 $1,329,482
30 August 2022 New York City Madison Square Garden 29,314 / 34,082 $4,327,748
31 August 2022
3 September 2022 Kansas City T-Mobile Center 11,316 / 15,463 $1,308,795
6 September 2022 Denver Ball Arena 15,372 / 16,034 $2,003,945
8 September 2022 Salt Lake City Vivint Arena 11,686 / 13,983 $1,450,457
10 September 2022 Portland Moda Center 14,252 / 16,434 $1,706,704
13 September 2022 Edmonton Canada Rogers Place 11,527 / 15,706 $1,114,840
15 September 2022 Vancouver Rogers Arena 16,105 / 16,105 $1,955,650
17 September 2022 Tacoma United States Tacoma Dome 14,951 / 18,365 $1,997,075
20 September 2022 Sacramento Golden 1 Center 11,455 / 14,479 $1,386,609
23 September 2022 San Francisco Chase Center 26,362 / 30,625 $3,724,860
24 September 2022
27 September 2022 Los Angeles Crypto.com Arena 30,044 / 30,044 $4,680,308
28 September 2022
1 October 2022 Las Vegas T-Mobile Arena 15,161 / 17,460 $1,665,199
3 October 2022 Glendale Desert Diamond Arena 9,029 / 13,918 $1,080,686
6 October 2022 Austin Moody Center 12,728 / 12,728 $1,541,375
8 October 2022 Dallas American Airlines Center 15,832 / 16,569 $2,410,363
11 October 2022 Monterrey Mexico Arena Monterrey 17,000 / 17,000 $993,675
14 October 2022 Mexico City Palacio de los Deportes 43,764 / 43,764 $3,488,706
15 October 2022
Europe[17]
17 March 2023 Lisbon Portugal Altice Arena — —
18 March 2023
21 March 2023 Barcelona Spain Palau Sant Jordi — —
23 March 2023 Madrid WiZink Center — —
24 March 2023
27 March 2023 Milan Italy Mediolanum Forum — —
28 March 2023
31 March 2023
1 April 2023
4 April 2023 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome — —
6 April 2023
7 April 2023
11 April 2023 Oslo Norway Telenor Arena — —
12 April 2023
15 April 2023 Stockholm Sweden Tele2 Arena — —
17 April 2023 Copenhagen Denmark Royal Arena — —
18 April 2023
21 April 2023 Bologna Italy Unipol Arena — —
23 April 2023 Budapest Hungary MVM Dome — —
25 April 2023 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion — —
28 April 2023 Bologna Italy Unipol Arena — —
29 April 2023
3 May 2023 Paris France Accor Arena — —
4 May 2023
7 May 2023 Hamburg Germany Barclays Arena — —
9 May 2023 Cologne Lanxess Arena — —
12 May 2023 Lille France Stade Pierre-Mauroy — —
14 May 2023 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis — —
17 May 2023 Berlin Germany Mercedes-Benz Arena — —
18 May 2023
21 May 2023 Munich Olympiahalle — —
24 May 2023 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena — —
25 May 2023
28 May 2023 Frankfurt Germany Festhalle — —
31 May 2023 Birmingham England Utilita Arena — —
2 June 2023 Glasgow Scotland OVO Hydro — —
3 June 2023
6 June 2023 London England The O2 Arena — —
7 June 2023
10 June 2023 Manchester AO Arena — —
Latin America
24 October 2023 Brasília Brazil Arena BRB Mané Garrincha — —
28 October 2023 Rio de Janeiro Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos — —
1 November 2023 Porto Alegre Arena do Grêmio — —
4 November 2023 Curitiba Arena da Baixada — —
8 November 2023 Belo Horizonte Mineirão Stadium — —
11 November 2023 São Paulo Allianz Parque — —
12 November 2023
17 November 2023 Montevideo Uruguay Estadio Centenario — —
21 November 2023 Buenos Aires Argentina Estadio River Plate — —
22 November 2023
25 November 2023 Santiago Chile Estadio Monumental — —
26 November 2023
29 November 2023 Lima Peru National Stadium — —
2 December 2023 San José Costa Rica Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica — —
5 December 2023 Bogotá Colombia Coliseo Live — —
9 December 2023 Quito Ecuador Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa — —
Total — —

Cancelled shows

List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation
Date City Country Venue Reason
21 April 2023 Kraków Poland Tauron Arena Cancelled due to stance on Russo-Ukrainian War[36][37][38][40]
22 April 2023

Personnel

Tour band
Notes
  • The touring band was confirmed on their appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in June.[14]
  • Producer and saxophonist Ian Ritchie confirmed that while he was intended to be part of the tour, he had to step down during rehearsals due to health issues.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ The leg was originally scheduled to take place in 2020, but was postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]

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