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Just got pre-sale links for three new Roger Waters shows next year...

Manchester MEN, Tuesday 28th & Wednesday 29th June 2011.

His last date before that is the 24th of June.

As I'm sure you're all aware (you'd better be!) Glastonbury 2011 takes place Wednesday 22nd - Sunday 26th June.

Now I don't personally think it will happen (due to him performing The Wall), but y'know, someone had to start the speculation about a Glastonbury-shaped hole! ;)

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Just got pre-sale links for three new Roger Waters shows next year...

Manchester MEN, Tuesday 28th & Wednesday 29th June 2011.

His last date before that is the 24th of June.

As I'm sure you're all aware (you'd better be!) Glastonbury 2011 takes place Wednesday 22nd - Sunday 26th June.

Now I don't personally think it will happen (due to him performing The Wall), but y'know, someone had to start the speculation about a Glastonbury-shaped hole! ;)

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It would have to be the Sunday headliner wouldn't it? I looked through his schedule and he seems to always take at least 2 days to swap countries. But he never does that over a weekend, unless he's played a Saturday somewhere. The 24th is the Friday. I am no doubt reading far too much into this...

It could also be he's got a hole there because he's going to announce more dates once the current ones sell out.

I'm seeing him in the O2 so not that fussed anyway :P

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From his Facebook page..

'Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until one day he made one final entreaty. I quote "If you do 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I'll come and do 'C. Numb' on one of your Wall shows". Well! You could have knocked me down with a feather. How f**king cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an offer. I couldn't, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so explaining that I would probably be shite, but if he didn't mind I didn't, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was f**king great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.'

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=144577855556673

Still very unlikely and wild speculation, but that's what these off months are for :)

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^ what in the blue blazes is he talking about?

How would any sort of Walters/Gilmore pink partnership be anything less than superb. It'd be fantastic, and would make them a golden goat load of money. The only thing that's kept them apart is their egos, and so now it looks like they might have put all the shit behind them.... how can this not happen?

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If there is a sort of full Waters/Gilmour collaboration that would make sense of ME's quote "You won't believe who we've got!", wouldn't it? We'd all "believe" he'd got U2 or Oldplay or Radiodead but we might have to pinch ourselves if he'd, sort of, got Pink Floyd. No point in getting too excited because normally ME over-hypes everything but, every now and then, 2 + 2 does equal 4.

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Efestivals / Neil - regarding the Roger Waters slot in 2002, I thought you had argued in the past that he was actually the real headliner, or some such? My memory is going a bit, but I do recall something like that going on?

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"End of story. Or possibly beginning".

You teasing c**t Waters.

We've had the discussion here before, but I still stand by my belief that the Wall is one of their poorer albums of that era Floyd. Well, that and the Final Cut. Just too moany and bitchy and wailing for me. Some great individual tracks, but both left me cold. I much prefer Meddle, Animals, DSOTM to those two.

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Efestivals / Neil - regarding the Roger Waters slot in 2002, I thought you had argued in the past that he was actually the real headliner, or some such? My memory is going a bit, but I do recall something like that going on?

No, it wasn't quite that.

At the time, I knew that both Waters and Rod Stewart were playing the Sunday. I presumed that Waters would play last and so listed the rumours in that way. Stewart's manager complained to Glasto about it, saying that if Glasto didn't get it changed Rod would pull out (damn, that was a lost opportunity :P:lol:). So Glasto asked me to change things, and I did.

At that time (I'm not entirely sure if it's the same now) Glastonbury didn't put "headliner" in anyone's contract (unless they demanded it, diva-like ... I can't be sure now, but Rod might have demanded it), and they didn't automatically regard the act that played last as being the headliner (as an example: Skunk Anansie).

So in the eyes of some at Glastonbury, it was Waters who was the headliner and not Stewart.

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If there is a sort of full Waters/Gilmour collaboration that would make sense of ME's quote "You won't believe who we've got!", wouldn't it? We'd all "believe" he'd got U2 or Oldplay or Radiodead but we might have to pinch ourselves if he'd, sort of, got Pink Floyd. No point in getting too excited because normally ME over-hypes everything but, every now and then, 2 + 2 does equal 4.

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No, it wasn't quite that.

At the time, I knew that both Waters and Rod Stewart were playing the Sunday. I presumed that Waters would play last and so listed the rumours in that way. Stewart's manager complained to Glasto about it, saying that if Glasto didn't get it changed Rod would pull out (damn, that was a lost opportunity :P:lol:). So Glasto asked me to change things, and I did.

At that time (I'm not entirely sure if it's the same now) Glastonbury didn't put "headliner" in anyone's contract (unless they demanded it, diva-like ... I can't be sure now, but Rod might have demanded it), and they didn't automatically regard the act that played last as being the headliner (as an example: Skunk Anansie).

So in the eyes of some at Glastonbury, it was Waters who was the headliner and not Stewart.

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