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A RIGHT CARRY ON WITH ROG
Jolly good show, Julian Marszalek, for calling out Rogers Waters in the live review in Prog 142: a man not frightened to say what many were thinking.
Having attended the Manchester show, the music was great, especially the firepower of Dogs. But I can’t help thinking how much was often childish, churlish and naïve: the Gilmour omissions, the onslaught of sloganeering and the thought that Roger seems to have turned into the old man in the supermarket who complains in a stage whisper, but within earshot of the staff, about the cost of a loaf. The trick seemed to be to switch off between songs and try to take with a pinch of salt or filter out the assorted propaganda that was hard to ignore on the huge screens.
I didn’t go to the bar, but did leave before the encore to miss the crowds.
Mike Ainscoe, via email
BUT STILL WORTH THE TICKET
I felt compelled to highlight how different people’s perceptions and opinions can differ, as highlighted between the two reviews of Roger Waters’This Is Not A Drill tour printed in your mag.
The first from his concert last August [Prog 133] was so positive and put across so well that it made me buy a ticket for his show in Birmingham this May.
The second review from June [Prog 142] was more negative and the reviewer thought it would have been best to have stayed in the bar! That would have made me not buy a ticket.