{"id":487866,"date":"2019-07-10T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=857507"},"modified":"2019-07-10T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:23:21","slug":"roger-waters-blockbuster-us-them-concert-film-to-hit-cinemas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/roger-waters-blockbuster-us-them-concert-film-to-hit-cinemas\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters\u2019 Blockbuster \u2018Us + Them\u2019 Concert Film to Hit Cinemas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roger Waters<\/a>\u2019 Us + Them trek was a blockbuster tour de force that visited several countries over the course of two years. He played dozens of Pink Floyd<\/a> hits, bisected audiences with a replica of the Battersea Power Station on the cover of Animals<\/em> and wowed them with lasers and a drone-operated moon that was all dark side. Now he\u2019s planning on bringing the production to cinemas with a new concert film, also titled Us + Them<\/em>. It will get special screenings<\/a> in movie theaters around the world on October 2nd and 6th. Tickets will go on sale on July 17th.<\/p>\n

Waters\u2019 longtime videographer Sean Evans co-directed the picture with Waters at the tour\u2019s four-night stop in Amsterdam last year. Evans and Waters previously co-directed a 2014 concert film of Waters\u2019 The Wall<\/em> tour.<\/p>\n

Waters explained why he named the tour Us + Them in a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThe show takes its title from a song on Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>, because in that song, there\u2019s a line that goes, \u2018With, without\/And who will deny that\u2019s what the fighting\u2019s all about?’\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve realized in the last few years that the interesting thing about that lyric that I wrote in 1973 is that the answer to the question would be, \u2018Almost everyone.\u2019 Almost everybody thinks that the fight is about ideology. Everybody will tell you, \u2018Well the fighting is all about the Middle East.\u2019 \u2018Well, it\u2019s about Muslims starting jihad.\u2019 \u2018It\u2019s about terrorism.\u2019 \u2018It\u2019s about this or that.\u2019 And no, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s about money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> reviewed the tour\u2019s stop at London\u2019s Hyde Park last year, when the musicians played for some 65,000 fans. At the show, he included imagery that emasculated Donald Trump and encouraged the audience to resist everything from Mark Zuckerberg to neo-fascism. \u201cWaters isn\u2019t afraid of hiding his agenda,\u201d Rolling Stone<\/em> wrote. \u201cRight before the evening\u2019s final song, \u2018Comfortably Numb,\u2019 he came out with a Palestinian keffiyeh <\/em>and put it around his neck. \u2026 [He] wore the keffiyeh<\/em> draped around his neck until the end of the song, and he\u2019d periodically stretch his arms out in a Christ-like pose, a look that was all the more impressive when fireworks exploded from behind the stage for the finale. \u2026 If his goal was to create something that felt like more than a rock concert in a park, then Waters is a champion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roger Waters\u2019 Us + Them trek was a blockbuster tour de force that visited several countries over the course of two years. He played dozens of Pink Floyd hits, bisected audiences with a replica of the Battersea Power Station on the cover of Animals and wowed them with lasers and a drone-operated moon that was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 10:24:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}