We went to see Roger Waters play at the Media City Amphitheatre this evening. The "warm up" music was Neil Young on CD but as the scene setter a video plays on the back screen behind the stage showing an old fashioned radio with music playing, a burning cigarette and a glass of Scotch. A hand appears on the screen to change the radio station and the audience hears a whole range of music and reacts by boo-ing Abba, singing along to Vera Lynn's "We'll meet again". The first half of the show was a mixture of Pink Floyd classics and music from his solo career. In the second half he did the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon. Brilliant show: he's still got it! Water's lyrics often deal with alienation and madness and through it all is the vein of English eccentricity that runs through all the Floyd's music.
The show had it all, great music, pyrotechnics, satelites crashing, bubbles, songs that had the crowd waving their lighters in the air, political comment - we got our money's worth. Music on CD played as the crowd left after the show, there's no other rock musician in the world who would use George Formby's "When I'm cleaning windows"!
Rock trivia: One of Roger Water's backup singers is PP Arnold (still has a gorgeous voice) and Andy Fairweather-Lowe (Amen Corner) is on guitar/vocals in the band.
A clip from the Dubai show taken by Mansi5 is on YouTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=d11bwWdU4xU
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