The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking: Roger Waters 2013 European Tour Dates Announced

2012/11/10

Roger Waters 2013 European Tour Dates Announced

Roger Waters is set to return to Europe in 2013 to perform at least 20 more renditions of The Wall tour. Further concerts will be announced shortly so make sure you get our Free Newsletter for further details.

Many of the shows will be on a grand scale being outdoor open-air stadium performances as have been done in the Americas on the last leg of the 2012 tour.

For these large open air stadiums, Roger Waters has re-designed and scaled up The Wall show to create the ultimate stadium event, bringing The Wall experience even closer to fans wherever they are sitting and making the production even more encompassing in large venues.

Roger Waters says, “I’m extremely glad to be playing The Wall in Europe again. It’s going to be a lot of fun for all of us. I’ve reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums. It’s really good. Even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the Arena shows. I’ve had to rethink the whole thing about stadiums. This wide wall stadium show couldn’t have been done 40 years ago. We couldn’t have filled the space in a way that would have been emotionally, musically and theatrically satisfying. Technology has changed. Now we can.”

Roger Waters 2013 Tour Dates

JULY 2013

2013-07-20 - Roger Waters - Werchter Festival Site - Werchter – Belgium

2013-07-23 - Roger Waters - Stadion Poljud - Split – Croatia

2013-07-26 - Roger Waters - Stadio Euganeo - Padua – Italy

2013-07-28 - Roger Waters - Stadio Olimpico - Rome – Italy

August 2013

2013-08-07 - Roger Waters - Synot Tip Arena - Prague – Czech Republic

2013-08-09 - Roger Waters - Commerzbank Arena - Frankfurt – Germany

2013-08-11 - Roger Waters - Parken (Copenhagen) - Copenhagen – Denmark

2013-08-14 - Roger Waters - Telenor - Oslo – Norway

2013-08-15 - Roger Waters - Telenor - Oslo – Norway

2013-08-17 - Roger Waters - Ullevi Stadium - Gothenburg – Sweden

2013-08-20 - Roger Waters - Stadion Narodowy - Warsaw – Poland

2013-08-23 - Roger Waters - Donauinsel - Vienna – Austria

2013-08-25 - Roger Waters - Puskás Ferenc Stadium - Budapest – Hungary

2013-08-28 - Roger Waters - Piata Constitutiei - Bucharest – Romania

2013-08-30 - Roger Waters - Vasil Levski Stadium - Sofia – Bulgaria

September 2013

2013-09-01 - Roger Waters - Usce Park - Belgrade – Serbia

2013-09-04 - Roger Waters - Olympiastadion - Berlin – Germany

2013-09-06 - Roger Waters - Esprit Arena - Dusseldorf – Germany

2013-09-08 - Roger Waters - Amsterdam Arena - Amsterdam – Netherlands

2013-09-18 - Roger Waters - Aviva Stadium (Dublin) - Dublin – Ireland

From rogerwaterstours.com

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George Roger Waters

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter and conceptual leader. The band subsequently achieved worldwide success in the 1970s with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. Although Waters' primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar, he also experimented with synthesisers and tape loops and played rhythm guitars in recordings and in concerts. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal battle with the remaining members over their future use of the group's name and material. The dispute was settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with Pink Floyd again. It is estimated that as of 2010, the group have sold over 200 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States.

Waters' solo career includes three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987) and Amused to Death (1992). In 1986, he contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the animated movie When the Wind Blows based on the Raymond Briggs' book of the same name. In 1990, he staged one of the largest and most elaborate rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance. In 1996, he was inducted into the US and the UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999 and played The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for his world tours of 2006–2008. In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto based on the early French Revolution. On 2 July 2005, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason, Richard Wright and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event; it was the group's first appearance with Waters in 24 years.

In 2010, he began The Wall Live, a worldwide tour that features a complete performance of The Wall. During this tour, at The O2 Arena in London on 12 May 2011, Gilmour and Mason once again appeared with Waters, Gilmour performing "Comfortably Numb", and Gilmour and Mason joining Waters for "Outside the Wall".

He has been married four times and has three children. In 2004 he became engaged to actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning; the duo married in 2012.