Roger Waters has confirmed dates for his long-rumored full-album performances of Pink Floyd's "The Wall," announcing a 33-city North American outing to launch this fall.The trek, which gets underway September 15th in Toronto, will travel to most parts of the US and several Canadian cities during its three-month run, with multi-night stops in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
According to a press release, the 1979 concept album has previously been performed in its entirety only 31 times, most of them by Pink Floyd during the 1980-81 tour supporting the set, and again in 1990, when Waters performed it with an all-star cast to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
"This new production of 'The Wall' is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years," said Waters, who played his former band's 1973 classic "The Dark Side of the Moon" in full during his 2007-08 tour, in a press statement.
According to a 2008 interview with the Rocky Mountain News, the performer continues to work on his long-rumored next solo project, tentatively titled "Heartland," although a release date does not appear to be imminent. "I have a ton of songs I've written," Waters said. "I keep meaning to get around to going in the studio and making it into an album."
Waters' most recent rock solo album is 1992's "Amused to Death," although he released "Ca Ira," an opera in three acts based on the French Revolution, on Sony's classical-music label in 2005.
Roger Waters brings Pink Floyd's THE WALL Live Tour to the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on Saturday November 13, 2010.
