Us + Them Tour
| Tour by Roger Waters | |
| Associated album | Is This the Life We Really Want? |
|---|---|
| Start date | 26 May 2017 |
| End date | 29 October 2017 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 61 |
| Roger Waters concert chronology | |
The Us + Them Tour is a North American concert tour by Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd. The tour will visit the United States and Canada, showcasing songs from Waters' career both with Pink Floyd and as a solo artist. It opened on 26 May 2017 in Kansas City, MO and will end on 28 October 2017 in Vancouver, BC.[1][2]
Background
In mid-October 2016, Waters announced that he would return to North America in 2017 with a pioneering new tour named "Us + Them", stating: "We are going to take a new show on the road, the content is very secret. It'll be a mixture of stuff from my long career, stuff from my years with Pink Floyd, some new things. Probably 75% of it will be old material and 25% will be new, but it will be all connected by a general theme. It will be a cool show, I promise you. It'll be spectacular like all my shows have been." The tour is named after the track "Us and Them," from Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.[1][2] It also got it's name from Barack Obama's speech on immigration reforms, saying nationalism shouldn't be established on an "us and them" basis.[3][nb 1]
Set list
Based on dress rehearsal at Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ on May 21, 2017[4]
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Set 1
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Set 2
Encore
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Tour dates
| Date | City | Country | Venue | Attendance | Box Office | ||
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| North America[5] | |||||||
| 21 May 2017[nb 2] | East Rutherford | United States | Meadowlands Arena | — | — | ||
| 26 May 2017 | Kansas City | Sprint Center | 12,077 / 12,077 | $1,412,641 | |||
| 28 May 2017 | Louisville | KFC Yum! Center | 11,760 / 11,760 | $1,336,338 | |||
| 30 May 2017 | St. Louis | Scottrade Center | 11,682 / 11,682 | $1,083,554 | |||
| 1 June 2017 | Tulsa | BOK Center | 10,031 / 10,031 | $1,059,057 | |||
| 3 June 2017 | Denver | Pepsi Center | 22,731 / 22,731 | $2,619,769 | |||
| 4 June 2017 | |||||||
| 7 June 2017 | San Jose | SAP Center | 12,230 / 12,230 | $1,977,011 | |||
| 10 June 2017 | Oakland | Oracle Arena | 12,665 / 12,665 | $1,708,813 | |||
| 12 June 2017 | Sacramento | Golden 1 Center | 12,980 / 12,980 | $1,635,413 | |||
| 14 June 2017 | Glendale | Gila River Arena | 11,682 / 11,682 | $1,422,541 | |||
| 16 June 2017 | Las Vegas | T-Mobile Arena | 12,601 / 12,601 | $1,767,456 | |||
| 20 June 2017 | Los Angeles | Staples Center | 38,003 / 38,003 | $5,613,448 | |||
| 21 June 2017 | |||||||
| 24 June 2017 | Tacoma | Tacoma Dome | 18,073 / 18,073 | $2,337,871 | |||
| 25 June 2017 | Portland | Moda Center | 11,547 / 11,547 | $1,223,572 | |||
| 27 June 2017 | Los Angeles | Staples Center | — | — | |||
| 1 July 2017 | San Antonio | AT&T Center | — | — | |||
| 3 July 2017 | Dallas | American Airlines Center | — | — | |||
| 6 July 2017 | Houston | Toyota Center | — | — | |||
| 8 July 2017 | New Orleans | Smoothie King Center | — | — | |||
| 11 July 2017 | Tampa | Amalie Arena | — | — | |||
| 13 July 2017 | Miami | American Airlines Arena | — | — | |||
| 16 July 2017 | Duluth | Infinite Energy Arena | — | — | |||
| 18 July 2017 | Greensboro | Greensboro Coliseum Complex | — | — | |||
| 20 July 2017 | Columbus | Nationwide Arena | — | — | |||
| 22 July 2017 | Chicago | United Center | — | — | |||
| 23 July 2017 | |||||||
| 26 July 2017 | St. Paul | Xcel Energy Center | — | — | |||
| 28 July 2017 | Chicago | United Center | — | — | |||
| 29 July 2017 | Milwaukee | BMO Harris Bradley Center | — | — | |||
| 2 August 2017 | Auburn Hills | The Palace of Auburn Hills | — | — | |||
| 4 August 2017 | Washington, D.C. | Verizon Center | — | — | |||
| 5 August 2017 | |||||||
| 8 August 2017 | Philadelphia | Wells Fargo Center | — | — | |||
| 9 August 2017 | |||||||
| 11 August 2017 | |||||||
| 13 August 2017 | Nashville | Bridgestone Arena | — | — | |||
| 7 September 2017 | Newark | Prudential Center | — | — | |||
| 9 September 2017 | Buffalo | KeyBank Center | — | — | |||
| 11 September 2017 | Brooklyn | Barclays Center | — | — | |||
| 12 September 2017 | |||||||
| 15 September 2017 | Uniondale | Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum | — | — | |||
| 16 September 2017 | |||||||
| 19 September 2017 | Pittsburgh | PPG Paints Arena | — | — | |||
| 21 September 2017 | Cleveland | Quicken Loans Arena | — | — | |||
| 23 September 2017 | Albany | Times Union Center | — | — | |||
| 24 September 2017 | Hartford | XL Center | — | — | |||
| 27 September 2017 | Boston | TD Garden | — | — | |||
| 28 September 2017 | |||||||
| 2 October 2017 | Toronto | Canada | Air Canada Centre | — | — | ||
| 3 October 2017 | |||||||
| 6 October 2017 | Quebec City | Videotron Centre | — | — | |||
| 7 October 2017 | |||||||
| 10 October 2017 | Ottawa | Canadian Tire Centre | — | — | |||
| 13 October 2017 | Toronto | Air Canada Centre | — | — | |||
| 16 October 2017 | Montreal | Bell Centre | — | — | |||
| 17 October 2017 | |||||||
| 22 October 2017 | Winnipeg | MTS Centre | — | — | |||
| 24 October 2017 | Edmonton | Rogers Place | — | — | |||
| 28 October 2017 | Vancouver | Rogers Arena | — | — | |||
| 29 October 2017 | |||||||
| TOTAL | 198,062 / 198,062 (100%) | $25,197,484 | |||||
Tour band
- Roger Waters – bass, lead vocals, guitars
- Dave Kilminster - guitars, bass, talk box, backing vocals
- Gus Seyffert – guitars, bass, keyboards, backing vocals
- Jonathan Wilson - guitars, keyboards, lead and backing vocals
- Drew Erickson - piano, keyboards, Hammond organ
- Jon Carin - piano, keyboards, programming, lap steel guitar, guitars, backing vocals
- Ian Ritchie - saxophone, additional bass
- Joey Waronker - drums, percussion
- Jess Wolfe - lead and backing vocals, percussion
- Holly Laessig - lead and backing vocals, percussion
Notes
- ^ Excerpt from that speech: "...there are few things that are more important to us as a society than who gets to come here and call our country home, who gets the privilege of becoming a citizen of the United States of America. That's a big deal. When we talk about that in the abstract, it's easy sometimes for the discussion to take on a feeling of us versus them. And when that happens, a lot of folks forget that most of us used to be them."
- ^ Dress rehearsal.[6]
References
- ^ a b Hilton, Robin (13 October 2016), "Roger Waters Announces 'Us And Them' Live Tour", npr.org, retrieved 24 October 2016
- ^ a b Cohen, Sandy (13 October 2016), "Roger Waters announces 2017 North American 'Us + Them' tour", washingtonpost.com, retrieved 24 October 2016
- ^ Grow, Kory (23 February 2017). "Pink Floyd's Roger Waters on Fighting Trump With Tour, Album". Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Roger Waters Setlist at Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford". setlist.fm. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ^ "Roger Waters – Us + Them". roger-waters.com. October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
- ^ "Roger Waters Presents Dress Rehearsal For Us + Them Tour (by Scott Bernstein)". jambase.com. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
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