But Roger Waters‘ Coachella set was livened up by one tiny thing – the moment when his giant inflatable pig broke free and blew off. Blew off into the desert. Get your minds out of the gutter. Cuh!

And the escape of Roger Waters’ big pig has been the talk of the town ever since, with extensive discussions in the press and monetary rewards being offered to whoever recovered it first. Anything, in fact, to take people’s minds off the fact that they’d just basically exchanged $270 for a week of agonising lower back pain and an eighth of a day spent listening to an old posho bleat on about Southampton.

This is just a theory, but we’re starting to think that Coachella organisers don’t want people to go to their little festival. Every year they try to scare everyone away, either by hiring an old lady to dance around in a leotard or persuading a bunch of angry boys to scream abuse at everyone, and this year they must have thought they’d stumbled across the holy grail of audience repellents – Roger Waters from Pink Floyd.

Because, honestly, if we wanted to listen to an old man go over his past achievements word for word in brain-numbing detail for the millionth time surrounded by drooling medicated fartheads, we’d go and visit our Grandpa in the nursing home. And we don’t like doing that because it reminds us that we’ll die one day.

However, Roger Waters was performing Dark Side Of The Moon in full at Coachella, so he drew a huge crowd of people eager to discover what an album they’ve already played to death sounds like when they have to jam themselves in between a bunch of hippies who’ve curled elastic bands into their beards and listen to them bleat on about how deep it is for Roger Waters to turn some green lights on during a song called Money because money is, like, green. And being pretty sure they’re suffering from the early stages of heatstroke. Man.

Anyway, long story short, Roger Waters did the old inflatable pig trick during his set, but it accidentally blew away and some people got sad until they found it in the desert later. And apparently that’s news now. The Telegraph reports:

A huge inflatable pig bearing the word “Obama” which went missing in the California desert after it was released into the sky during a music festival has been found. The pig, which disappeared following a show by Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters at the Coachella music festival on Sunday. was found by two families on their driveways in La Quinta, California. They will split the $10,000 (£5,090) reward offered by the festival, according to the BBC.

Apparently, as well as telling the residents of California to vote for Barack Obama almost three months after they had the ability to do so, the giant pig also “displayed the words ‘Don’t be led to the slaughter’ and a cartoon of Uncle Sam holding two bloody cleavers. The other side read ‘Fear builds walls.” See? You can take the hippy out of the sixties, but you can’t stop him being an insufferable overbearing dick.

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Pink Floyd’s flying ‘Obama’ pig found – Telegraph

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