Mar 072012
 
Roger Waters and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Roger Waters and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Roger Waters is performing The Wall Live in Argentina tonight at River Plate Football Stadium in Buenos Aires for an amazing 9 consecutive nights! Fans in Argentina are certainly in for a treat watching The Wall Live tour as it is a magnificent show and certainly a lot more than just music! It is a visual treat and an experience!

No doubt most fans in Argentina would have by now been tempted to watch a video or see a picture of The Wall Live show. The Roger Waters tour has been rumbling on since 2010 when it kicked off in Canada on 15th September 2010 at Air Canada Center, Toronto, Ontario. No pictures of video or written accounts can prepare the mind for the show which has to be seen live and experienced to appreciate the true value of it! Your humble narrator got to watch the show at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England. I hope the talk from Roger Waters of bringing the tour back to Europe either in late 2012 or 2013 comes to fruition.

Let’s hope that Roger Waters is not having equipment shipped to Argentina via the Falkland Islands as Cristina Fernandez de Kercher will have the ships turned around! Anyhow, the dockers are currently on strike in Argentina so, hopefully, the equipment went by land in scores of shipping containers to avoid such a situation!

Roger Waters and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Roger Waters and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Roger Waters today met the Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kercher for a 40 minute meeting in which it was reported the issue of the Falkland Islands was not brought up. Roger did, however, mention the case of a British soldier that died during the war and was buried as an NN in the islands. He handed Fernández de Kirchner a card with the soldier’s mother’s name and contact information, with the hopes that the Argentine team of forensic anthropology, which is dedicated to find and identify bodies of those kidnapped and killed during the last military dictatorship can do the same for the soldier.

After Argentina, Roger is off to Brazil on 25th March then to Mexico on 27th April after a good month off. Perhaps he will have a honeymoon in that nice month long rest as he, of course, recently got married to his long-term partner Laurie Durning.

See Roger Waters Tour 2012 Dates for the rest of the tour.

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Mar 042012
 
Roger Waters Chile 2012-03-03

Roger Waters, Santiago, Chile 2012-03-03

With thanks to Pablo Díaz, you can see lots of excellent photographs of Roger Waters performing The Wall Live at Estadio Nacional. The stage has been widened significantly in order to stretch it right across the football stadium as you can see in the photo to the right. The last couple of years has seen a narrower wall being used in the shows in the arenas. As there are not any arenas in Chile, Roger Waters had the choice of playing at the football stadium or a local club! He chose the stadium. It looks amazing being that big across the stadium don’t you think?

Roger and the band will now have a few days off before performing the amazing 9 nights in Argentina at River Plate Football Stadium in Buenos Aires. Prior to these 9 concerts, Roger has performed three times in Argentina. He played 7th March 2002 (coincidentally the first date of his 2012 concert too), and twice in 2007 on 17th and 18th March, which he is also playing this year. I do not know the significance of that.

Anyway, if you have any photos that you would like to share or any concerts on The Wall tour (or from any time in Pink Floyd’s history), then please do get in touch.

Roger Waters Tour 2012

Here are the rest of the Roger Waters Tour 2012 dates left for March and April 2012. He will then be off to the USA after Argentina, Brazil then Mexico much to the excitement of fans in those regions.

2012-03-07 – Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-09 – Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-10 – Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-12 – Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-14 – Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-15 – Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-17 – Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-18 – Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-20 – Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-25 – Roger Waters – Estádio Beira Rio – Porto Alegre – Brazil
2012-03-29 – Roger Waters – Estadio Olimpico – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
2012-03-31 – Roger Waters – Estádio do Morumbi – Sao Paulo – Brazil
2012-04-01 – Roger Waters – Estádio do Morumbi – Sao Paulo – Brazil
2012-04-27 – Roger Waters – Foro De Sol – Mexico City – Mexico (Tickets)
2012-04-28 – Roger Waters – Foro De Sol – Mexico City – Mexico (Tickets)

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Feb 232012
 
Roger Waters at Rod Laver Arena 2012-02-07

Roger Waters at Rod Laver Arena 2012-02-07

Roger Waters will be performing his final night down under tonight at the Vector Arena in Auckland, New Zealand. The Wall Tour has been received well by Australians and New Zealanders down under with lots of positive press coverage and fan reactions on Roger Waters The Wall Tour 2012.

You can view photos from Roger Waters Tour in 2012. Share some with us if you have some!

Roger and his touring band (which includes his son Harry Waters) will then have a nice week off to rest and engage in recreation of their choosing, although I am sure they find time on the tour to get some fun things done. They are travelling the world afterall, so it would be rude not to!

Just to recall, here are the concerts that Roger Waters played in Australia and New Zealand in 2012!

Jan 2012

2012-01-27 – Roger Waters – Burswood Dome – Perth – Australia
2012-01-28 – Roger Waters – Burswood Dome – Perth – Australia

Feb 2012

2012-02-01 – Roger Waters – Entertainment Centre (Brisbane) – Brisbane – Australia
2012-02-02 – Roger Waters – Entertainment Centre (Brisbane) – Brisbane – Australia
2012-02-04 – Roger Waters – Entertainment Centre (Brisbane) – Brisbane – Australia
2012-02-07 – Roger Waters – Rod Laver Arena – Melbourne – Australia
2012-02-08 – Roger Waters – Rod Laver Arena – Melbourne – Australia
2012-02-10 – Roger Waters – Rod Laver Arena – Melbourne – Australia
2012-02-11 – Roger Waters – Rod Laver Arena – Melbourne – Australia
2012-02-14 – Roger Waters – Acer Arena – Sydney – Australia
2012-02-15 – Roger Waters – Acer Arena – Sydney – Australia
2012-02-18 – Roger Waters – Vector Arena – Auckland – New Zealand
2012-02-20 – Roger Waters – Vector Arena – Auckland – New Zealand
2012-02-22 – Roger Waters – Vector Arena – Auckland – New Zealand
2012-02-23 – Roger Waters – Vector Arena – Auckland – New Zealand

As I was saying, the band will now have a week off to do whatever whilst the giant wall and containers full of equipment are shipped over to the South Americas to Chile ready to kick the award winning tour off again in Santiago, Chile. He will be there for two consecutive nights at the National Stadium.

Amazing Run….

After the couple of nights in Chile, the amazine run of 9 consecutive nights in Argentina will begin which is unprecedented on the tour! 9 nights!! Some of the previously announced concerts on the tour had to be rescheduled as the promoter of the Argentina nights kept putting on night after night as they just kept selling out in no time at all! Should be an amazing time in Argentina, those fans are mental! In a good way!

March will then be completed with 3 nights in Brazil and the fourth night in Brazil is the first in April 2012. Here are the Roger Waters Tour 2012 dates for your records…

March 2012

2012-03-02Roger Waters – Estadio Nacional – Santiago – Chile
2012-03-03Roger Waters – Estadio Nacional – Santiago – Chile
2012-03-07Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-09Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-10Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-12Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-14Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-15Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-17Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-18Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-20Roger Waters – River Plate Football Stadium – Buenos Aires – Argentina
2012-03-25Roger Waters – Estádio Beira Rio – Porto Alegre – Brazil
2012-03-29Roger Waters – Estadio Olimpico – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
2012-03-31Roger Waters – Estádio do Morumbi – Sao Paulo – Brazil

April 2012

2012-04-01Roger Waters – Estádio do Morumbi – Sao Paulo – Brazil
2012-04-27Roger Waters – Foro De Sol – Mexico City – Mexico
2012-04-28Roger Waters – Foro De Sol – Mexico City – Mexico

Roger Waters USA Tour Dates 2012

May 2012

2012-05-01Roger Waters – Toyota Center (Houston) – Houston, Texas – USA
2012-05-03Roger Waters – University of Texas (Frank Erwin Center) – Austin, Texas – USA
2012-05-05Roger Waters – BOK Center – Tulsa, Oklahoma – USA
2012-05-07Roger Waters – Pepsi Center (Denver) – Denver, Colorado – USA
2012-05-11Roger Waters – AT&T Park – San Francisco, California – USA
2012-05-13Roger Waters – Valley View Casino Center – San Diego, California – USA
2012-05-15Roger Waters – US Airways Center (Phoenix) – Phoenix, Arizona – USA
2012-05-19Roger Waters – Memorial Coliseum – Los Angeles, California – USA
2012-05-22Roger Waters – Rose Garden Arena – Portland, Oregon – USA
2012-05-24Roger Waters – Key Arena – Seattle, Washington – USA
2012-05-26Roger Waters – BC Place – Vancouver, British Columbia – Canada
2012-05-28Roger Waters – Rexall Place (Edmonton) – Edmonton, Alberta – Canada
2012-05-29Roger Waters – Rexall Place (Edmonton) – Edmonton, Alberta – Canada
2012-05-31Roger Waters – MTS Centre (Winnipeg) – Winnipeg, Manitoba – Canada

June 2012

2012-06-01Roger Waters – MTS Centre (Winnipeg) – Winnipeg, Manitoba – Canada
2012-06-03Roger Waters – Xcel Energy Center (St Paul) – St Paul (Minnesota) – USA
2012-06-05Roger Waters – Joe Louis Arena – Detroit, Michigan – USA
2012-06-06Roger Waters – Van Andel Arena – Grand Rapids (Michigan) – USA
2012-06-08Roger Waters – Wrigley Field (Chicago) – Chicago, Illinois – USA
2012-06-10Roger Waters – KFC Yum Center – Louisville (Kentucky) – USA
2012-06-11Roger Waters – Conseco Fieldhouse – Indianapolis, Indiana – USA
2012-06-13Roger Waters – Philips Arena (Atlanta) – Atlanta, Georgia – USA
2012-06-15Roger Waters – Bank Atlantic Center (Fort Lauderdale) – Sunrise, Florida – USA
2012-06-16Roger Waters – Amway Center – Orlando (Florida) – USA
2012-06-19Roger Waters – Bridgestone Arena – Nashville (Tennessee) – USA
2012-06-21Roger Waters – HSBC Arena (Buffalo) – Buffalo (New York) – USA
2012-06-23Roger Waters – Rogers Centre (Toronto) – Toronto (Ontario) – Canada
2012-06-25Roger Waters – Scotiabank Place (Ottawa) – Ontario – Canada
2012-06-26Roger Waters – Bell Centre (Montreal) – Montreal (Quebec) – Canada
2012-06-28Roger Waters – Times Union Center – Albany (New York) – USA
2012-06-29Roger Waters – XL Center (Hartford) – Hartford (Connecticut) – USA

July 2012

2012-07-01Roger Waters – Fenway Park (Boston) – Boston, Massachussets – USA
2012-07-03Roger Waters – Consol Energy Center (Pittsburg) – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – USA
2012-07-06Roger Waters – Yankee Stadium – Bronx (New York) – USA
2012-07-07Roger Waters – Yankee Stadium – Bronx (New York) – USA
2012-07-09Roger Waters – RBC Center (Raleigh) – Raleigh (North Carolina) – USA
2012-07-10Roger Waters – Time Warner Cable Arena – Charlotte (North Carolina) – USA
2012-07-12Roger Waters – Verizon Center (Washington) – Washington, District of Columbia – USA
2012-07-14Roger Waters – Citizens Bank Park – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – USA

Roger Waters Europe 2012/2013

Roger Waters recently said in an interview that he was considering performing in Europe again in 2013 given that promoters are probably very keen for him to do so! I know I would like to see him performing again in England in 2013! Given that August 2012 and onwards has not had any concerts announced, it is of course possible that he will commence more touring in 2012. But, then again, perhaps he would like to spend some more time with his new wife Laurie Durning whom he married last month in a private ceremony which was very low key with less than 10 guests!

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