|
Statistics
We have 4 guests online
Visitors: 117454847
|
 WOW - it's now the 27th YEAR of Brain Damage, your Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Richard Wright and Roger Waters news resource!
Marking the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd's iconic 1975 album, a range of Wish You Were Here 50 celebratory editions: deluxe box set, blu-ray, 3LP set, 2CD set and coloured vinyl single LPs came out at the end of last year. Full details here. The LA 1975 concert, recorded by Mike Millard and remastered by Steven Wilson, came out as a standalone item on 4LP for Record Store Day, and 2CD across most of the world.
The stunningly restored and remixed Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII on Blu-ray, 2CD, 2LP, DVD, and digital was also released in 2025 - and is NOT to be missed. As is the 4K UltraHD edition out now!
Also last year, celebrating the concerts to coincide with David Gilmour's album, Luck and Strange, cinema/IMAX screenings, and a book, 2Blu-ray, 3DVD, 4LP, 2CD and deluxe box set options were also released and are getting very high praise.
The Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets 2024 Set The Controls tour revealed a band in even better form than the 2022/23 shows which managed to exceed everyone's hopes and expectations! Our sincerest hopes are that they continue, but in the meantime, there's their RSD release, and the earlier live recording from London's Roundhouse on Blu-ray, DVD/2CD, and 2LP which is really excellent.
Of course, Roger Waters read three extracts from his memoirs in October 2023 at the London Palladium, so it might not be too much longer before that is published...he's also working on his new album based around The Bar - we'll let you know as soon as we get all the info! Before all that though is the release of Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill Live In Prague on 4LP vinyl, Blu-ray, DVD, 2CD and digital which is out now.
HOW TO HELP THE SITE: If you want to contribute anything - such as concert reviews, articles or pictures - we'd love to hear from you; please email us. A sincere note of thanks to those who use our affiliate links to Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster.co.uk, Seetickets.com, Eventim UK, the various Amazon stores (as an Amazon Associate we earn commission from qualifying purchases); Apple Music; Zavvi.com; HMV.com; and to those kind souls who make a Paypal donation toward running costs.
All these give much-needed help with things such as site hosting fees, and we really appreciate it. We get no funding, so every penny/cent helps keep the site running. Thanks! Finally, we use cookies to enhance your experience - but we use these purely to remember the size and width settings if you change these. External links may have their own cookies. By staying on our website you agree to our use of cookies. VERY BEST WISHES
- your friends at Brain Damage
|
Home
|
Roger Waters - BBC interview today |
|
|
|
Written by Matt
|
|
Thursday, 12 January 2006 |
|
This morning, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters was interviewed on the BBC's HARDtalk Extra, in a fascinating 23 minute chat.
 |
 |
Roger Waters on the BBC's
HARDtalk Extra, 13th January 2006 |
The show is broadcast in many
countries on the BBC World TV channel, and is scheduled to air TODAY
(Friday 13th Jan) at 04:30; 08:30; 11.30; 15:30; 19:30 and 00:30 GMT.
It can also be seen in the UK and certain parts of Europe on BBC News
24, again today, at 23:30 GMT. For those who miss it, or cannot receive
either channel, the BBC aim to host every interview on their website
following broadcast - so keep an eye on the HARDtalk Extra site.
Interviewed by Gavin Estler at
Home House, in London, it found Roger in candid and entertaining form,
talking about the Live 8 reunion (and what the future might hold), his
opera Ca Ira (including the proposed productions in France and Poland),
and his future plans in music.
Of the reunion, and the initial
call to David Gilmour, he reiterated how easy it all was - even the
initial call itself (once he had David's telephone number from Geldof)!
He also didn't rule out doing it all again - either as a one-off, or as
"a last hurrah".
Talk then turned to Ca Ira. In
expansive mood, he even took the comments about Andrew Lloyd Webber in
good spirit. Naturally, Rome was mentioned, with a question from the
interviewer as to why Paris wasn't used for the premiere. He replied
that Paris are now very keen to stage a performance, mentioning the
Théâtre du Châtelet as the likely venue. Obviously, as we get more info
on that, we'll let you know!
Roger also talks of the proposed
performance of Ca Ira in Poland this July. He said: "The mayor, the
director of the opera, and a young director from Poznar in Poland, were
in Rome, and they are absolutely determined to do a REAL production
next summer - a fully staged production with costumes. They even claim
that they've got - I probably shouldn't be telling you this, because I
haven't checked it, but sod it! I'm so excited about it!
"They also say that in Poland
that there is a troup that is very like Cirque du Soleil, and THEY want
to be involved. So they are absolutely determined to realise the vision
that is appended to the libretto and the stage directions that I wrote.
I'm sure that they won't follow them entirely, because the director has
all sorts of ideas which I really liked (I had a meeting with him in
Rome).
"But the reason that they want to
do it next summer, is that it is the 50th anniversary of the Polish
uprising against the Russian occupation in Poland. And the guy's
listened to the thing, and not withstanding the fact that it is rooted
in the history of the French Revolution, he said that 'this is our
story, and so we want to do it!'
Finally, he is asked if he would
write another opera. Whilst not ruling it out altogether, he did say
that "unfortunately we don't live forever, and I feel that time is no
longer really on my side" and that he was hoping to finish off his two
rock albums - one about love, the other, political. He mentioned how he
had been struggling to get form and definition to both of these, and
how he's made lots of recordings with his band, some of which go back
as far as 1987, for these two albums.
Our thanks the Warren Loveridge and Farhad Mozafar for their help with this story.
|
|
Next 20 concerts:
-
15th Feb 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Columbus, GA
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
17th Feb 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Clearwater, FL
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
19th Feb 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Fort Myers, FL
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
20th Feb 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- St Augustine, FL
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
21st Feb 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
23rd Feb 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Orlando, FL
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
25th Feb 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Atlanta, GA
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
26th Feb 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Montgomery, AL
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
27th Feb 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Nashville, TN
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
28th Feb 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Huntsville, AL
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
2nd Mar 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Green Bay, WI
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
3rd Mar 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Minneapolis, MN
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
4th Mar 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Peoria, IL
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
6th Mar 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Chicago, IL
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
7th Mar 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Indianapolis, IN
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
9th Mar 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Louisville, KY
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
10th Mar 27
- A Surrogate Band
- London,
- England
- Buy Tix
-
10th Mar 27
- Roger Waters Legacy
- Knoxville, TN
- USA
- Buy Tix
-
11th Mar 27
- A Surrogate Band
- London,
- England
- Buy Tix
-
12th Mar 27
- A Surrogate Band
- London,
- England
- Buy Tix
|
