Roger Waters has confirmed the dates for his 2020 This Is Not A Drill tour of North America, which will see the former Pink Floyd bassist and songwriter criss-cross the United States and Canada on a 31-date jaunt.
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The run of shows will serve as a follow-up to Rogers’ Us + Them tour that ran from 2017–2018, and will wrap up on October 3rd, exactly one month before Election Day in the United States. Waters told Rolling Stone last year when he was plotting this tour that it would “be even more political than Us + Them was — political and humane.”
The Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill tour will feature an all-new performance in the round at arenas across North America, kicking off at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, PA July 8th.
Waters announced the tour in a three-minute clip that shows him rehearsing “Comfortably Numb”, “Sheep”, and his solo composition, “The Powers That Be”, alongside his band.
“As the clock ticks faster and faster and faster down to extinction, it seemed like a good thing to make a fuss about it, so that’s why I’m going on the road,” he says in the clip. “To be blunt, we need to change the way we organize ourselves as a human race or die. This tour will be part of a global movement by people who are concerned by others to affect the change that is necessary. That’s why we’re going on the road. That’s why speak to each other in pubs. That’s why this conversation should be on everybody’s lips, constantly, the whole time, because it’s super important. So I hope you’ll all come to the shows. This is not a drill.”
Check out the full tour announcement video from Rolling Stone below.
Roger Waters – This Is Not A Drill – Tour Announcement Video
Tickets for Roger Waters’ This Is Not A Drill tour go on sale o January 31st at 10 a.m. local time via his website. See a full list of tour dates below.