Roger Waters was the musical visitor on Monday night time’s (June 21) episode of The Late Present with Stephen Colbert – watch him carry out a medley of songs under.
The previous Pink Floyd frontman appeared on the present backed by a full band, a pianist and a few backing singers. The medley included “The Happiest Days Of Our Lives”, “One other Brick In The Wall, Half 2” and “One other Brick In The Wall, Half 3” from Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall.
The efficiency comes forward of his This Is Not A Drill tour, which was initially set to start in 2020 however was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This Is Not A Drill is a groundbreaking new rock & roll/cinematic extravaganza, carried out within the spherical,” Waters wrote in an announcement (through Rolling Stone). “It’s a gorgeous indictment of the company dystopia by which all of us battle to outlive, and a name to motion to like, shield, and share our valuable and precarious planet house.
“The present features a dozen nice songs from Pink Floyd’s Golden Period alongside a number of new ones — phrases and music, identical author, identical coronary heart, identical soul, identical man. May very well be his final hurrah. Wow! My first farewell tour! Don’t miss it. Love, R.”
The tour kicks off in Pittsburgh on July 6, earlier than heading to cities like Toronto, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. It winds up in Mexico Metropolis on October 15.
Pink Floyd launched their first new music in a long time to assist the aid effort in Ukraine again in April.
The observe, titled “Hey, Hey, Rise Up”, encompasses a pattern of Andriy Khlyvnyuk, the singer of Ukrainian band Boombox, and is the band’s first unique music to be launched since their 1994 album The Division Bell. All proceeds from the track go to Ukraine Humanitarian Aid.
Discussing the brand new track in an announcement, David Gilmour mentioned: “We wish specific our help for Ukraine and in that manner, present that a lot of the world thinks that it’s completely unsuitable for a superpower to invade the unbiased democratic nation that Ukraine has turn into.”
