Роджер Уотерс / Roger Waters

WATERS DEFENDS OPERA

Former PINK FLOYD star ROGER WATERS is preparing to defend his new opera CA IRA (THERE IS HOPE), because he fears rock fans will brand it "pretentious".

The COMFORTABLY NUMB musician has been writing the English language version of the opera, which centres around the history of the French Revolution, for nearly eight years and is terrified both critics and fans will disapprove of his move from rock to opera.

Waters, 61, is praying for a warm reception when he performs a live premiere of the three-act musical in Rome, Italy, in November (05).

He says, "The knives are bound to come out. People defend their own little islands of culture with great panache.

"I'd much rather people just accept that it's a genuine piece of work. It's not in any way pretentious.

"I'm really looking forward to Rome, and seeing what the vibe is in the room."

The double CD hits shelves later this month (SEP05).

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Спасибо, я такую ещё не видел!;)

Роджер Уотерс был замечен на благотворительной вечеринке

27 августа 2005 года в нью-йоркском районе Ист-Хэмптон прошло благотворительное мероприятие Yele Haiti Haitian Relief Benefit, организованное движением Yele для помощи Гаити. Движение Yele было создано с целью поддержки Гаити и других слаборазвитых стран хип-хоп исполнителем Уайклефом Жаном (Wyclef Jean), уроженцем Гаити. Вечер прошел в особняке, хозяевами которого являются Кэри Вудз (Cary Woods) и Андреа Керзнер (Andrea Kerzner). Было продано 200 билетов по $1000 за штуку. Организаторами мероприятия стали Анджелина Джоли (Angelina Jolie), Мерил Стрип (Meryl Streep), Эмилия и Пепе Фэнждул (Emilia and Pepe Fanjul), Лори и Джон Сайкс (Laurie and John Sykes). После коктейлей и обеда состоялось выступление Уайклифа Жана и Норы Джонс (Norah Jones).

Среди гостей был замечен и Роджер Уотерс. Неизвестно, был ли он со своей невестой Лори Дернинг (Laurie Durning) или один. Фотографам удалось запечатлеть Роджера сначала в одиночестве с бокалом вина, а затем с бокалом и с Софи Даль (Sophie Dahl), внучкой детского писателя Роальда Даля (Roald Dahl), моделью и писательницей. На обоих снимках у Роджера очень хорошее настроение. Среди гостей также были Джон Бон Джови (Jon Bon Jovi), финансист Стивен Швартцман (Stephen Schwartzman), известный онколог Артур Альтшуль (Arthur Altschul) и Крис Тэйлор (Chris Taylor), помощник Рональда Перельмана (Ronald Perelman) по связям с общественностью. Всего для помощи Гаити было собрано более $100000.

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Источник: Pink-Floyd.ru

Роджер с Софи Даль

"We have had one or two people who would have left Britain anyway
but Roger is the first to quit because of the hunting ban."

The Sunday Times - Britain
September 04, 2005

Rock star quits UK over hunting ban
Maurice Chittenden

::nobreak::THE rock musician Roger Waters, who fronted the reformed Pink Floyd at this summer’s Live 8 concert, has become the first celebrity to leave Britain in protest at the ban on hunting.
He has gone to live in America “in disgust” at what he says is an unfair attack by Tony Blair’s government on Britain’s countryside community.



Waters never swapped Pink Floyd for hunting pinks but he is a keen shooting and fishing man. He supported the Countryside Alliance’s rearguard action against the ban with a benefit concert at the Albert Hall.

He has now packed his shooting sticks and fishing rods and moved to the Hamptons, the millionaires’ playground in New York state.

Waters, who unveils his new work, Ca Ira, an opera about the French revolution, in Rome in November, said last week: “To slap down a perfectly gentle, fair-minded and honest yeoman-like minority in that way was just disgusting. It is also bloody stupid.”

He believes it could be “the thin end of a very thick wedge” and that shooting could be the next target for animal rights campaigners.

The musician, 61 this week, still has a £1m riverside home in Hampshire and a £6m house in London that is also the office for his musical enterprises. His main home is now a waterside mansion in the Hamptons where his neighbours include Sean Combs, the rap mogul now known as Diddy.

Waters’s daughter India, a model who lives in New York city, is a frequent visitor and he has already ordered rods from President George W Bush’s favourite angling shop, to catch giant tuna.

Waters, whose wealth was valued at £78m in this year’s Sunday Times Rich List, said: “I’ve become disenchanted with the political and philosophical atmosphere in England. It’s so mealy mouthed. I’m lucky enough to have the freedom to live where I want because I’ve made a few quid. The anti-hunting bill was enough for me to leave England.”

The musician, who is interviewed in today’s Culture section, added: “I did what I could. I did a concert and one or two articles, but it made me feel ashamed to be English.

“I was in Hyde Park for both the Countryside Alliance marches. There were hundreds of thousands of us there. Good, honest English people. That’s one of the most divisive pieces of legislation we’ve ever had in Britain.”

The Countryside Alliance hailed Waters as the first person to carry out his threat to leave Britain. At the height of the hunting debate several prominent hunt supporters said they would consider leaving if the bill became law.

The Prince of Wales, who hunted with the Beaufort Hunt along with princes William and Harry, is reported to have told a government minister at a private gathering that if the ban went through he might as well leave the country and spend the rest of his life skiing. Others said they would move their hunting activities to Ireland.

An alliance spokeswoman said: “We have had one or two people who would have left Britain anyway but Roger is the first to quit because of the hunting ban.”

Waters said in one interview: “Some of us are gatherers and some of us are hunters. I’m a hunter. I need the mud of a river oozing between my toes.”

His views were formed at an early stage when his grandparents used to drive him to see foxhunts. In more recent years he went regularly to Boxing Day meets near his Hampshire home until they were halted because of anti-hunt protesters.

The bass player and vocalist, who was one of the founding members of Pink Floyd 40 years ago, was also a member of a “shooting supergroup” that included Eric Clapton, the guitarist, and Stevie Winwood, the former Traffic singer who is the son of a gamekeeper.

The trio have regularly shot at Stanage Castle in the Welsh Marches, home of Jonathan Coltman-Rogers, high sheriff of Powys. Lord Heseltine, the Conservative former deputy prime minister, is another regular gun there.

An insider said: “Roger is not a son of the countryside but Stevie has authentic country qualifications. When these lot turn up in their plus fours, they out-country-gent the country gentlemen.”



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"I wrote an e-mail to Dave afterwards, ‘How extraordinary to be so warmly feted by a press that’s always been so unpleasant and negative in the past’."

The Times - Britain
September 04, 2005

Roger Waters Interview: Talking Liberties
Paul Sexton

September 04, 2005


About opera Ca Ira, the anti-hunting bill and that Pink Floyd reunion.

Roger Waters tells Paul Sexton about his French revolution opera, Ca Ira, the anti-hunting bill and that Pink Floyd reunion
I am riding the Hampton Jitney, the coach that takes the seriously rich of New York to their breathtakingly upmarket homes in the resort of the Hamptons. In Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw says it’s “just like the bus to summer camp. Only instead of singing songs, everyone ignores each other and talks on their cellphones”. The woman in the seat in front is perusing Forbes magazine. That certainly fits my imagined profile of the residents of the millionaires’ playground where I am heading to meet Roger Waters.
That is not the famously moody Roger Waters, but the one who has been seen out lately, barely recognised by even his most devout fans. The one who spent Pink Floyd’s unimaginable reunion at Live 8 grinning his head off and putting his arms around his erstwhile nemesis, David Gilmour. The one now presenting himself as an operatic composer.



Before Hyde Park, Waters was in danger of being remembered less as the trenchant visionary of Pink Floyd’s most famous songs than as the sore, sour loser who went into a 20-year sulk after leaving the group in 1983. But I learnt on a previous meeting with him to cast out first impressions. Waters’s brooding lack of effusiveness is often mistaken for studied arrogance. To borrow a Spike Milligan phrase, people take an instant dislike to him to save time. But five years ago, during an interview at his pile in Hampshire, Waters’s initial reticence was gradually upgraded to beneficence and an invitation to his studio, where he played me work then in progress: the opera he has now completed, Ca Ira.

This time, I am paying a house call in the afterglow of his former band’s lauded reconvening, and on the completion of a work with which he has wrestled since 1989. A sign in the driveway of the waterside mansion doesn’t quite say “tradesmen’s entrance”, but it directs visitors to the back door, where a bijou sports car sits in the garage. Waters eventually appears from the tennis court. “There you are,” he says, with no hint of a smile. He will be 61 this week, and appears radiantly healthy. Even his sweat looks elegant.

After a shower, he re-emerges in black T-shirt and jeans, a glass of white wine in hand, to direct us onto the porch. The water glistens in the late-afternoon sun and a rabbit gambols across the lawn. Waters lives in the Hamptons because, basically, he can — and because he had simply had enough of England.

“Jack [his son] lives in London, so I go back every three weeks or so to see him,” he says. “But I’ve become disenchanted with the political and philosophical atmosphere in England. It’s so mealy-mouthed. I’m lucky enough to have the freedom to live where I want because I’ve made a few quid. The anti-hunting bill was enough for me to leave England.

“I did what I could, I did a concert and one or two articles, but it made me feel ashamed to be English. I was in Hyde Park for both the Countryside Alliance marches. There were hundreds of thousands of us there,” he goes on, his voice growing louder. “Good, honest English people. That’s one of the most divisive pieces of legislation we’ve ever had in Great Britain. It was disgusting.” I think of suggesting that he forms a supergroup with Otis Ferry, but I am a long way from home to be chucked out.

Ca Ira is Waters’s characteristically grand-scale illustration of the French revolution, a three-act opera on two CDs, in which the bass-baritone Bryn Terfel plays three roles, including Louis Capet, the King of France. The soprano Ying Huang appears as Marie Antoinette and the American tenor Paul Groves and the Senegalese star Ismael Lo also take part. Waters says he knew little about the subject before the French songwriter Etienne Roda-Gil brought him a libretto 16 years ago.

It was another eight years before he committed to an English translation of the piece, which is proudly at the accessible end of the operatic scale, with titles such as I Want to Be King and France in Disarray. There is also a young choir, and you half expect them to say, at any moment, that they don’t need no “educayshun”.

He is sanguine about the potential media reaction. “The knives are bound to come out,” he says. “People defend their own little islands of culture with great panache. I’d much rather people just accept that it’s a genuine piece of work. It’s not in any way pretentious. I’m really looking forward to Rome, and seeing what the vibe is in the room.”

Waters is referring to the live performance of Ca Ira he is planning in Italy in November, which he hopes may lead to a series of concerts in America next spring. “I’ll use Nadine Roda-Gil’s drawings and paintings, and probably bits of old movies as well. It could be good fun. There are a few memorable tunes — actually, more than a few. There’s a lot of melody, so hopefully it’ll strike a chord somewhere.”

Waters is a stimulating and informed conversationalist, as you might expect of someone whose mother was a political activist in Cambridge, and he segues from the operatic endeavour to the present day. “If you look upon the France of that time as a microcosm of what’s going on globally now, the parallels are extraordinarily powerful. There, they had God, then the king, who had divine right, directly connected to God, then under him the clergy and the nobility, then everybody else.

That’s a little bit like the situation we have right now. You could get specific and narrow it down, so you’ve got the Bush administration and the neocons and their acolytes, and a sort of western middle class who’ve got TV sets, which is a very small percentage of the world, then there’s everyone else and they’ve got f*** all.

“At the end of the opera, I say, ‘Abide by the constitution.’ But we can’t bring ourselves to implement the American constitution, which is a fantastic document. I wonder whether it’ll ever happen,” he muses. “Or do you think the neocons will win? I’d be prepared to give up my gas-guzzler. Well, one of them, anyway.”

For all the rapid dispersal of attention to Live 8’s Make Poverty History campaign in the wake of the London bombings, Waters is still proud of his part in what the July 2 shows helped achieve. “It made [political leaders] make the right noises before the G8 summit, and it made them make the right decisions. I think Geldof truly had an effect, and I take my hat off to him for doing it.”

Waters has nixed all conjecture of a Floyd tour, but tells me in amiable detail about the lead-up to the reunion. Geldof first asked Gilmour, but got a no, so then approached the drummer, Nick Mason — by everyone’s account the affable one, and always Waters’s closest ally in the group. Mason e-mailed Waters, who talked to Geldof and then, in a moment of entente cordiale to rival the end of the cold war, called Gilmour and had “a very cordial conversation”. Twenty-four hours later, Gilmour called Waters and said: “Okay, let’s do it.”

The preparation for the concert, says Waters, was “like freewheeling downhill with no hands. Easy, but tinged with the exhilaration of potential disaster”. After the dress rehearsal, he and his fiancée, Laurie, went to dinner with Gilmour, his wife, Polly, and Mason and his wife, Nettie. Such socialising was an achievement to shame the UN.



Several weeks later, Waters is still glowing at the memories. So much so that, even amid the denials, and even with Gilmour making a solo album, one wonders if that was the final performance by Pink Floyd. “It was moving,” says Waters of the quartet’s rapprochement in front of hundreds of millions. “I wrote an e-mail to Dave afterwards. I’d just seen a bunch of press cuttings, and I think I said, ‘How extraordinary to be so warmly feted by a press that’s always been so unpleasant and negative in the past.’

“I put, ‘Maybe they now see us a bit like the Queen Mum. We can be revered because we can’t possibly threaten anybody, wandering around with our bandaged legs.’

“People obviously love the work, so to be able to see the four of us, who were together when that bit of the work was done, obviously moved a lot of people. It was great to bask in the warmth of that affection.”



Ca Ira is released by Sony BMG on September 26


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5 September 2005
FLOYD: NO TO £136M FINAL TOUR
By Cameron Robertson
PINK Floyd turned down £136million to reunite for one last tour, ex-band member Roger Waters has revealed.

If the group had accepted, it would have been the equivalent of £1 for every album they had sold in their 38-year career.

The band, famous for hits such as Another Brick In The Wall, last played together at the Hyde Park Live8 concert in July.

It was the first time they had performed since 1981 when Waters left after a falling-out with other band members.

But the singer-songwriter has not ruled out another one-off concert for a special occasion.

In an interview for Word magazine, Waters admitted he "really loved" playing together again.


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He said: "I hope we do it again. If some other opportunity arose, I could even imagine us doing Dark Side of the Moon again - if there was a special occasion.


"It would be good to hear it again."

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06.09.05 Pink Floyd воссоединятся еще раз в память о Джоне Пиле?
Почти год назад из жизни ушел Джон Пил (John Peel), знаменитый британский радиоведущий. И сейчас Radio One готовит серию передач о нем, а многие британские музыканты решили поработать вместе, чтобы отдать дань уважения этому легендарному человеку. Они запишут диск, который выйдет 13 октября, в первую годовщину со дня смерти Джона. Шотландская группа El Presidente записала кавер-версию песни группы Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)” по просьбе сына Джона Пила, Уилльяма (William). Вокалист El Presidente Данте Гиззи (Dante Gizzi) сообщил в интервью, что был очень удивлен этой просьбой, и что очень волнительно работать над проектом, в котором участвуют такие звезды как R.E.M., сэр Элтон Джон (Sir Elton John), Роберт Плант (Robert Plant) и Pink Floyd.

Пока неизвестно, каков будет вклад Pink Floyd. Ходят слухи, что группа запишет новую композицию.

На этом фоне очень многообещающе выглядят слова Роджера Уотерса из его интервью в октябрьском номере журнала Word о возможности повторного воссоединения Pink Floyd: «Я надеюсь, мы сделаем это снова. Если опять появится возможность, я могу даже представить, что мы снова исполним “Dark Side Of The Moon” – знаете, только если будет особый случай. Было бы здорово услышать ее снова.» В других интервью Роджер уже говорил, что ему очень понравилось выступление на Live 8. Гилмор также остался доволен, но сказал, что даже за 250 миллионов долларов группа не отправится в тур.

По материалам: The Sunday Mail и Independent

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НУ ЧТО - ВЫПЬЕМ ЗА ДЕНЬ ЕГО РОЖДЕНИЯ!

62 Года Джорджу Роджеру Уотерсу как никак!

Вот, чтоб покрупнее было!



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Гордый ПрофЕль!=)

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Вот Так То!