The Lord Thy Rog - The Wall tour in the UK

[HippyDave]

I'm guessing I'm not the only one giddy with excitement about this...

UK dates:

May 11, 2011 O2 Arena, London, UK
May 12, 2011 O2 Arena, London, UK
May 17, 2011 O2 Arena, London, UK
May 20, 2011 MEN Arena, Manchester, UK
May 21, 2011 MEN Arena, Manchester, UK

A full list of tour dates can be seen at http://tour.rogerwaters.com/tour/. Tickets appear to be around the £60/£75 mark (those are the Manchester prices, it'll probably be a bit more for London). There's also some vague talk that this could be Rog's last tour...

So who's going where? With tickets that expensive I'm probably only going to manage one show, which is likely to be the last MEN show (since it's on a Saturday).

The Wall! Live! Finally I get to see one of my favourite albums of all time - the album that spawned the song responsible for me becoming a Floyd fan in the first place - 'In The Flesh'!

[WiteWulf]

Count me in! Me and the GF almost certainly gonna be heading up to Manc for the Saturday night show, too. The Boy will be 2 by then so we might just be able to palm him off on the grandparents for the night with any luck.

[Ollie]

Got my links for presales for two of the London dates Bloody hell, though, 84 quid, including £9 of booking fees and service charges - when did entertainment get so expensive?

Wish it was somewhere less big and impersonal than the O2, as well. There's an irony to that, given why Rog wrote The Wall in the first place.

[HippyDave]

Got my links for presales for two of the London dates Bloody hell, though, 84 quid, including £9 of booking fees and service charges - when did entertainment get so expensive?

Tell me about it: I've just sorted our tickets for the MEN, and sure enough they worked out about the same - making them the most expensive tickets I've ever bought and likely will ever buy. Still... it's Rog, innit?

So, who's going to Manchester?

Wish it was somewhere less big and impersonal than the O2, as well. There's an irony to that, given why Rog wrote The Wall in the first place.

There is that. Still, I can't imagine many smaller venues would be happy about you building a 240-foot wall in them...

[PVB]

Got my links for presales for two of the London dates Bloody hell, though, 84 quid, including £9 of booking fees and service charges - when did entertainment get so expensive?

Wish it was somewhere less big and impersonal than the O2, as well. There's an irony to that, given why Rog wrote The Wall in the first place.

When I saw him in 2008 I paid extra for a seat in the front block at the O2 and got a few extra bits of merchandise too:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15456611@N ... 136091060/

[HippyDave]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15456611@N ... 136091060/

Hey, nice photies. Great ones of the pig, complete with porcine graffiti...

Inevitably, I couldn't just leave it at Manchester - I've got tickets for the O2 on the 14th now, too. Well, it's Mrs HippyDave's birthday, and she jumped at the chance. I'm a lucky man...

Right. Off to eBay now to flog some of my internal organs so I can pay for all of this...

[WiteWulf]

Just got our tickets sorted for the Saturday night at Manchester, birthday present from the GF :-)

I is a happy bunny...

[HippyDave]

Our tickets for that same show (Saturday, MEN Arena) just turned up in the mail...

[HippyDave]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/181370

[WiteWulf]

I can almost smell the whores at the O2 warming up their cheque books to make sure it happens there...

[HippyDave]

Am energetically polishing OH's mandolin for later. Not sure if this is traditionally role of roadie or groupie.

Looks like Dave Gilmour's guest appearance is happening tonight!

[WiteWulf]

"polishing [his] mandolin", eh?

So *that's* what those arty types call it....

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In other news, getting proper excited about next Saturday night at MEN, now

[Ollie]

Looks like Dave Gilmour's guest appearance is happening tonight!

Arse. I was hoping for Saturday.

[WiteWulf]

All at once makes me smile just to see it but a little sad that I won't see it myself in Manc next week (probably).

[HippyDave]

Well, Saturday's show at the O2 was just made of awesome.

I've seen Floyd and The Lord Thy Rog before several times before, but whilst those were mind-blowing gigs, I don't remember getting quite as emotionally caught up in them as I did this time. I'm sure waiting for 30 years to be able to go and see The Wall played live had something to do with it, but it was more than just that: the more overt political/humanitarian angle Rog has worked into it all this time gives the whole thing added dimensions and a lot of it is incredibly moving. I won't post specifics (even behind spoilers!) so as not to spoil the surprises, of which there are quite a few. But you'll be blown away; you'll laugh, you'll cheer, you'll cry, you'll wish it would never end.

If you've been on the fence about going, or have the chance to go - take it. GO. The tickets are fairly expensive, but they are worth every penny.

Best live show I've ever seen? Quite possibly. I'm still in bits over here, to be honest.

Can't wait for Manchester on Saturday so I get to do it all over again!