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2013/02/26

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters named third highest-paid music star by Billboard

THE rock star earned £14m thanks to playing stadium concerts, putting him behind only Madonna and Bruce Springsteen, according to the music trade magazine.

FORMER Pink Floyd star Roger Waters is among the three highest paid music stars in the world in the past year, behind Madonna and Bruce Springsteen.

The 69-year-old musician has raked in around £14 million on the back of his The Wall live shows around the world, in which he has staged Floyd's 1979 album.

Waters began touring the album in 2010 and has moved on from arena venues to play stadium concerts around the world, with more than 70 shows in 2012. He resumes the tour this summer with at least 25 dates in Europe.

Madonna is the top earner of the year, taking almost £23 million mainly on the back of her MDNA Tour, while Springsteen drew £22 million.

Coldplay were ranked ninth in the magazine's annual calculation with takings of more than £11 million.

Concerts accounted for roughly 70 per cent of the totals for the top 40 artists

Oscar-winning star Adele is reckoned to have generated earnings of around £9 million through her colossal album sales.

The figures were calculated by US music trade magazine Billboard.

From www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Roger Waters Tour Manchester, England Concert Announced

The Roger Waters Tour 2013 now has an additional night in the UK at the MEN Arena in Manchester.

The concert will be performed on 16th September 2013 which is two days after the Wembley concert in London meaning the UK now has two out of the 26 European concert dates for Roger Waters!

Tickets will be on sale on 1st March 2013 which is Friday. Link to ticketmaster.co.uk

The European Tour now has 26 concert dates announced so far and this is the final leg of the concert for The Wall Tour.

The Wall Tour, which started in 2010, is currently set to end on 21st September 2013 in France so, if you want to see this amazing show, then you had best think about getting some tickets!

From www.rogerwaterstours.com

2013/02/21

Pollstar Awards

The Pollstar Awards ceremony and party was held at the Club Nokia in Los Angeles on February 7, 2013.

Pollstar Awards - Roger Waters Acceptance Video for Most Creative Stage Production

Pollstar Awards - Roger Waters Acceptance Video for Major Tour of the Year

Roger Waters Tickets for Wembley

The Wall at Wembley Stadium, London, is going to be one of the most spectacular experiences this millenium and there are still tickets left and hotels to be booked!

Make sure you don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to see an amazing live show in London! There is so much terrible music out there these days that it is good to be able to watch some older music being performed with all the latest technological advances in sound and vision technology being used!

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From Neptune Pink Floyd Newsletter, by Keith Jordan

Roger Waters Tour 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

2013-07-31 - Roger Waters - TBC - Athens - Greece

2013-08-04 - Roger Waters - ITU Stadium - Istanbul - Turkey

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 - Ernst-Happel Stadium - 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

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

2013-09-11 - Roger Waters - Letzigrund Stadium - Zurich - Switzerland

2013-09-14 - Roger Waters - Wembley Stadium - London - England

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

2013-09-21 - Roger Waters - Stade de France - Paris - France

2013/02/15

Roger Waters' Ca Ira returns to Brazil

The Theatro Municipal de São Paulo will be host to the latest performances of the opera by Roger Waters, Ca Ira. First performed live to much acclaim in Rome, Italy, in November 2005, it has subsequently had further live performances in countries as diverse as Poland, The Netherlands, and Brazil, who last hosted it in 2008 (a report, with various photographs and video clips, can be seen here). Lika Geribello, the executive producer of those performances, is also producing the new ones alongside Cristiane Rossetto. The shows will take place at the world-renowned venue on May 2nd, 4th, 7th and 9th, 2013.
With musical direction and conducting by Rick Wentworth (who also co-produced the album with Roger), will be vocal performances from Lina Mendes, Gabriella Pace, Keila Moraes, Marcos Paulo, Giovanni Tristacci, David Marcondes, Leonardo Neiva, Eduardo Amir and Leonardo Pace. There will also be a children's chorus, and the Coral Lirico do Theatro providing the main chorus line.
More information should be appearing shortly on the venue's official website which will also have a link/further information regarding tickets for these four shows.

Written by Matt
Sunday, 10 February 2013
From www.brain-damage.co.uk

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.