Seconded, Mr Rhombus ~ WHAT a show. As The Guardian Guide quipped, "it's good to put some bummer in your summer".
"Set the Controls..." was a real highlight for me as was "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", and it was great to hear "Perfect Sense" getting a workout, very loud & very proud!
"Leaving Beirut", although rather heavy handed with its message was presented with an animated comic book strip based on Waters' experiences of being taken in and offered food and lodging from a selfless Arab family when he was 17.
The back projections were amazing ~ in true prog style, an astronaut on wires "floated" in front of constellations at one point! The uber-loud surround sound was fantastic especially for all the Dark Side of the Moon voices and sound effects.
Crowd at Roger Waters
Texas was a very poor choice of support, and they played during the last 20mins of the England match, which was suicide! Spiteri thought the footy fans were booing the band (not Portugal surely?) and started hurling insults "f**king neanderthal men" etc. Most of the fans were behaving well ~ a curious blend of footy nutters and Floyd hippies
But when the game was over, it seems someone threw a shoe at Spiteri ~ she stopped the band playing and hurled more insults and abuse at the crowd before finishing the song. Okay, not cool that someone threw something at her, but she could've been more professional about it. Or maybe the band should've waited until after the match and played a shorter set. Or maybe not played at all
Neil Young's "The Damage Done" boomed out before Waters' set which seemed to soothe the footy fans and made me chortle re: Spiteri's outbursts.
The Who was great last night as well, although i preferred the Waters show. A shame that Primal Scream were relegated to the 2nd stage, inside a tent designed to hold about 500 people... 'cos no-one wanted to see Razorlight on the main stage that's for sure
The Who have been recording & 3 of these new tracks went down well as part of the main set ~ the rest of course were classics including an acoustic "Quadrophenia sea shanty" interlude from Townsend as he put it (Drowning i think) & a stonking Tommy encore. My fave was "Won't Get Fooled Again" ~ just brilliant. Hope i can still rock like that when i'm in my 60s...
(The) Moon did appear at The Who show...
(sorry!)
Oh dear...
