![]() ![]() ![]() This article contains affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if a reader clicks through and This article was amended on 6 July 2018 to correct the year Animals was released from 1976 to 1977. If it weren’t for all those audiovisual runes of oncoming war and apocalypse, you’d think he was having the time of his life. But here, the rugged 74-year-old grins, air-punches and even seems to wipe a tear from his eye at the audience reception. In Floyd’s turbulent heyday, he infamously became so alienated from live crowds that he spat at a fan and built his Wall. Waters doesn’t speak much during the performance but ends it with a stirring, hopeful speech asking people to “rise up” for human rights. Us and Them – illustrated by Black Lives Matter protests and riot police – is heartbreakingly beautiful. Money chugs timelessly on its groove of cash tills. For all such stunning visuals, the focus never quite drifts from the music. Other ovations come thick and fast for the mock-up of Battersea power station (the cover star of 1977’s Animals) across the stage, or the gigantic, laser-powered Dark Side of the Moon prism. The Last Refugee – one of four recent solo songs – sounds eerily moving with the breaking news report of more than 200 migrant drownings in the Mediterranean.Īlthough Waters’ politics undoubtedly have refuseniks, issues close to his heart are mostly encouragingly received, although the massed cheering that suddenly spreads round the arena during the Orwellian, Trump-ridiculing Pigs (Three Different Ones) is for news of England’s penalty shootout success, not the revolution. ![]() But Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig ( from indie outfit Lucius) more than manage The Great Gig in the Sky’s tonsil-troubling wailing, and the musicians recreate and reimagine Waters’ old band’s sound impeccably. It helps that the sound is impeccable: a quadrophonic system means the cackle in Brain Damage suddenly emits from the other side of the arena. Photograph: Andy Von Pip/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock ![]()
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