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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Roger Waters to play southern California festival - Reuters