{"id":2446426,"date":"2019-07-17T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859888"},"modified":"2019-07-17T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:00:01","slug":"see-roger-waters-plea-for-world-unity-in-new-us-them-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-roger-waters-plea-for-world-unity-in-new-us-them-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"See Roger Waters Plea for World Unity in New \u2018Us + Them\u2019 Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roger Waters<\/a> will bring his stunning Us + Them tour to cinemas around the world this fall with special screenings. A 30-second teaser for the film, also titled Us + Them<\/em>, focuses on the overwhelming imagery of the tour \u2013 change falls for \u201cMoney\u201d and children wear \u201cResist\u201d T-shirts during \u201cAnother Brick in the Wall Part 2\u201d \u2013 as well as Waters commanding a giant crowd in Amsterdam. \u201cAll of the love that\u2019s in this room needs to spread over the rest of this fragile planet,\u201d Waters says in voiceover over more scenes of him and his band playing.<\/p>\n

Waters co-directed the film with his longtime videographer Sean Evans, with screenings taking place on October 2nd and October 6th. Tickets are available now through the film\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so looking forward to the launch of the movie in October,\u201d Waters said in a statement. \u201cUs + Them<\/em> is not standard rock & roll fare, some in the audience may \u2018yee haaaa!!!\u2019 Which is OK, but many will weep. That is what I hope for. Us + Them<\/em> is a call to action. Homo Sapiens stand at a crossroads: We can either pool our love, develop our capacity to empathize with others, and act collectively for the good of our planet, or we can remain \u2018Comfortably Numb,\u2019 and continue, like blind lemmings, on our current omnicidal death march towards extinction. Us + Them<\/em> is a vote for love and life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waters told Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> in 2017 that he named the tour after the Pink Floyd<\/a> hit because of a question that was raised in its lyrics. \u201cThere\u2019s a line that goes, \u2018With, without\/And who will deny that\u2019s what the fighting\u2019s all about?’\u201d he said. \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. \u2026 There is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are others whom we can legitimately make war upon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> reviewed the London Hyde Park edition of the tour last year. \u201cFor more than a year, Waters has been on less of a \u2018rock tour\u2019 and more of a campaign for civility and humanity,\u201d the magazine wrote. \u201cHe\u2019s dubbed the run \u2018Us + Them,\u2019 after his former band\u2019s song about divisiveness, but the theme of tonight\u2019s show was about unity through resistance. Waters and his band spent around two-and-a-half hours (including a 20-minute, opinion-filled intermission) skewering Donald Trump, highlighting recent injustices around the world and proselytizing people to come together to a soundtrack of Pink Floyd classics and songs from his solo career. It worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roger Waters will bring his stunning Us + Them tour to cinemas around the world this fall with special screenings. A 30-second teaser for the film, also titled Us + Them, focuses on the overwhelming imagery of the tour \u2013 change falls for \u201cMoney\u201d and children wear \u201cResist\u201d T-shirts during \u201cAnother Brick in the Wall […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446426","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 17:04:10","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}