Sometimes a musical happening will occur that will leave you spellbound for years to come, and other times a dull old man will play a bunch of overplayed decades-old songs that only idiot students think are deep.
Roger Waters from Pink Floyd has just been announced as the headliner of this year's Coachella festival, and he's going to play Dark Side Of The Moon all the way through.
So, you know, guess which category that's going to fall into.
The Coachella festival prides itself on its array of showstopping, bank-breaking headliners, whether it's convincing Madonna to play her first-ever festival or somehow getting Rage Against The Machine to reform. But this year? This year Coachella has something incredibly special up its sleeve.
Well, something special if you're a wizened old hippy who enjoys muttering things like "you kids these days, you don't know what real music is" or a teenager who thinks that calling a song Time and putting the sound of some clocks in it is, like, a really profound statement – that's right, former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters is going to perform Dark Side Of The Moon in its entirety! On the kazoo!
OK, maybe not on the kazoo, but Roger Waters is still going to do the whole Dark Side Of The Moon thing at Coachella in April. It'll be the first thing of note that Roger Waters has done since Pink Floyd reformed for Live 8 and instantly helped to stop global warming, or save the whales or end poverty or get Bob Geldof on the telly a bit more or whatever the hell Live 8 was supposed to be about.
But now everyone wants to know how Roger Waters will go about covering Dark Side Of The Moon without the aid of the other Pink Floyd members. Will it be a traditional replaying of the album, or will it be like when Roger Waters played Glastonbury in 2002 and basically just stood around making his guitar fart through a billion speakers all over the site at once?
But, hey, if watching a 64-year-old man play a bunch of wanky, overlong, 35-year-old songs in a field doesn't fill you with joy – if you want a bit of zip and pizazz in tour music – the Coachella has still got plenty for you. As well as Roger Waters, Coachella will also play host to The Verve, Portishead, Jack Johnson and My Morning Jacket.
So even if you're not a fan of tedious 35-year-old prog, you can always go and see tedious 10-year-old prog, tedious 14-year-old vaguely electronic prog, one tedious man with an acoustic guitar mumbling about sunsets or a tedious echoey hippy singing Neil Young cover versions.
See? Something for everyone.
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Guy Martin Webb says
Stuart,
I apparently missed your last sold out concert, as well as your previous million selling albums… Pray tell, when was the last time that you critiqued a concert prior to its performance, and declared anything that wasn’t written three months from now and performed by black trench-coat wearing, pierced everything, Goth worshiping, “No one ever wrote, or sang, or played ANYTHING important if it isn’t new…?
Coachella is just a desert venue that allows anyone to play and allows the crowd to decide whether the music is meaningful. Take your tattoo’s and make-up, and juice harps, and trite meanderings and set sail on a fuel soaked raft down the Gangis River.
Join the camel humpers who believe that it is “My Allah or no God at all…” Crawl back into your Port-A-Potty and take a big byte.
Gilbert Wham says
What the fuck? Are you for real? Did you know your not technically allowed to be a hippy and a fuckwitted redneck at the same time?
Si says
“But now everyone wants to know how Roger Waters will go about covering Dark Side Of The Moon without the aid of the other Pink Floyd members. Will it be a traditional replaying of the album, or will it be like when Roger Waters played Glastonbury in 2002 and basically just stood around making his guitar fart through a billion speakers all over the site at once?”
It will be like he has done in the USA in 2006 and 2007 !!! hes done the show over 35 times in the last 2 years in the USA!!!
ed says
who gives a toss about Roger Waters or that crap album anyway? Go if you like, but i can think of a million better things to be doing with my time and money than standing in the desert drinking over priced water watching that dude play those boring songs. Pink Floyd maxed out around obscured by clouds, after that was the typical long, drawn out decade-long guitar solos the world could do without. why not donate your coachella money to charity instead of paying for mr. waters’ deli tray?
michael says
It’s fine. Let Stuart talk and rant and rave and hock up all the bullshit he wants. It’s obvious Mommy didn’t coddle him enough and now he’s angry. Great way to express it, attacking the elderly and huge global artists. I’ll wait for the day your idea of musical genius gets old and is still performing, then I’ll write a closed-minded review like yours about your favorite band and we’ll see who likes it…Or wait, your idea of musical genius probably won’t be able to be playing and touring like Roger is at 64. Recognize greatness and be humble, kid…
p.s.
I bet he wears Floyd t-shirts.