Don't miss: Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters brings The Wall to Bucharest

In less than three weeks, Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters will bring the mega-production The Wall to Bucharest, arguably the most eagerly-awaited show of the year, which The New York Post coined as “The best show ever made. Period.”

The date of the show is August 28 and the venue is Constitutiei Square, the only location capable of hosting such an ample production.

Tickets are still available on the www.myticket.ro website or in the Diverta and Muzica stores, the Mihai Eminescu book store and the Sala Palatului boox office. Ticket prices range between RON 135 and RON 950. However, the Golden Ring sector has been sold out since March. Standing tickets for Lawn B and Lawn A cost RON 135 and RON 180, respectively. Seated tickets cost RON 585 and RON 950.

“I’m extremely glad to be playing The Wall in Europe again. It’s going to be a lot of fun for all of us. I’ve reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums. It’s really good. Even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the Arena shows. I’ve had to rethink the whole thing about stadiums. This wide wall stadium show couldn’t have been done 40 years ago. We couldn’t have filled the space in a way that would have been emotionally, musically and theatrically satisfying. Technology has changed. Now we can,” said Waters.

The Wall is Pink Floyd’s 11th album- one of the most influential albums in the history of rock and one of the most illustrative examples of the band’s genius work, being accompanied by an avant-garde animated musical film. The Wall features as protagonist singer and activist Bob Geldof as Pink, the depressive desolate artist whose plunges in and out of reality provide the material for the film.

After Pink Floyd dissolved, Waters was the only member who re-edited the show: the first time it happened it was on July 21, 1990 as a celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in front of over 200,000 people.

The Wall abounds in innuendos to the personal lives of Pink Floyd members. Pink, just like Roger Waters, longs for a father figure, his dad having died in war. In the grips of insanity, he also shaves his eyebrows and bodily hair, just like Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett (who passed away in July 2006), who turned up during a recording session with shaved eyebrows and hair.

“30 years ago when I wrote The Wall, I was a frightened young man. Well not that young, I was 36 years old. It took me a long time to get over my fears. Anyway, in the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with its concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns.: nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, Whatever! All these issues and ‘isms are driven by the same fears that drove my young life,” says Waters.

The second series of The Wall concerts in Europe programmed for 2013 will include 18 locations in open air, among which Bucharest.

What lies behind the wall?

“RELIGION provides A WALL between US and the reality of OUR lives. Also, there is a WALL between: RICH and POOR, NORTH and SOUTH, THE OLD and NEW WORLDS and THE THIRD WORLD. It is A WALL of FEAR and GREED. There is enough of everything in THE WORLD for us all to have enough to eat, to be warm and dry and to have a colour TV and a car. WE are taught to FEAR that if WE share what WE have with THEM, WE won’t have anything left for US. WE also FEAR that THEY may try to take what WE have away from US, so WE spend WAY more than THEY would need to feed, house, clothe, and EDUCATE THEMSELVES, on weapons to prevent THEM from taking what WE have away from US. There is another WALL between US and the reality of OUR lives. This WALL is called THE MEDIA. This WALL is a tool that is used to divert US from inconvenient truths. Perhaps I should stop now, before I alienate anybody,” says Waters on his website wall.

Pictures courtesy of Emag!c Entertainment

Otilia Haraga

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