Roger Waters has also shared a new video ‘The Happiest Days Of Our Lives/Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2/Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3’, recorded at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome in 2018, to accompany the release. UPDATE: Us + Them is now available on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. “ Bummer,” Roger Waters shared of the decision earlier this year, “ but if it saves one life, it’s worth it.” Waters’ forthcoming This Is Not A Drill tour is currently postponed until 2021. On May 20, Roger Waters criticized former bandmate David Gilmour for not allowing him to promote the release via Pink Floyd’s official website. The film’s release has not been without controversy. Us + Them, both film and concert, ends with a spoken-word plea for justice for ‘our brothers and sisters in Palestine’ who, in Waters’ telling, live under Israel’s deeply repressive apartheid regime.” “ It’s a notion that he’s taken to controversial extremes in recent years having repeatedly and unrepentantly stepped on the age’s geopolitical third rail: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Filmed in Amsterdam on the European leg of his 2017 2018 Us + Them tour which saw Waters perform to over two million people worldwide, the film features. “ Replacing the “and” with a plus sign makes the point that if humanity is going to survive the only way forward is together,” Variety‘s Mark Keizer wrote in their review of the film last year. The tour took its title from Pink Floyd classic ‘ Us and Them‘, The digital version of the movie will include two tracks unheard in the cinematic release last October,’Comfortably Numb’ and solo Waters track ‘Smell the Roses’. True to Waters’ word, the sets arrived heavy with Floyd era classics including numbers form The Wall, Wish You Were Here, The Dark Side of the Moon and Animals. ![]() Probably 75% of it will be old material and 25% will be new, but it will be all connected by a general theme.” “ It’ll be a mixture of stuff from my long career,” Roger Waters shared prior to the tour, “ stuff from my years with Pink Floyd, some new things. With production values matching Pink Floyd at their zenith, Waters’ concerts featured multiple flying pigs, an enormous Wall, a nine-piece backing band, and a 94-foot wide LED screen. Stuart Heaney, Video Crew Chief, “This is a fantastic show to work on but of course a special thanks to the hard working video team - Peter Tiling, Gabriel Linford & Kevin Perry on Projection, Dave Rogers as Engineer, Al Wright & Gareth Manicom on LED, Mark Hughes on Polecam and a guest appearance from Mark Cruikshank as FOH Camera for New Zealand.Roger Waters’ Us + Them concert film will premiere digitally June 16.ĭirected by Sam Evans the film documents the former Pink Floyd‘s creative visionary’s 20 world tour.ġ56 dates in length, Waters’ extensive Us + Them tour is said to have grossed $261.8 million. ![]() An FOH camera with XJ100 lens, pit camera with HJ22 and Polecam with a UP 3G Block camera on track, handheld camera with HJ14 lens and a pair of Agile ARC360 robo cams provided all the shots required, and were processed by the Photon servers to apply visual effects. Universal Pixels built a bespoke PPU & Engineering solution, around the S-A-M Kula 2M/E Switcher and Vega routing, to provide HDSDI fibre conversion for the projectors, and cut the cameras to the various screen surfaces. A full custom fibre distribution system complemented this and robust networking provided by VYV.ĭriving both the LED & Projection are 10 VYV Photon servers operated by Ellie Clement, who has her work cut-out keeping dozens of tracking cameras operational to track both performers & set elements. This surface was covered by 16 Panasonic RZ31 units, and a further 5 Panasonic RZ21 units to provide infills on the Battersea Power Station Chimneys. ![]() The show design incorporated a 3 sided 47m long moving projection surface running down the centre of the arena over the audience, produced by Tait Towers. The backdrop to the stage area was a brand new 28.5m x 12m Infiled ER5 led screen in 23 touring frames with Brompton processing & SmartPDU power distribution.
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