the-wall

Roger Waters made a documentary of recent 'The Wall' tour, playing benefit in the Hamptons w/ Rufus Wainwright & more

still from ‘Roger Waters: The Wall’
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In a life that is nothing short of a cornucopia of self-designed regrets, two of my most robust regrets are not ponying up the admittedly exorbitant cash money to catch Roger Waters when he toured “The Wall” back in 2010 and 2012. I had friends all over the country emailing me saying “Dude, bro, you have to see this concert. Even the cheap seats are amazing. The staggering scale of this thing makes your seat assignment almost arbitrary. Dude.” But I, one of Roger Waters’ biggest fans, passed. And for that, I am forever regretful.

Luckily for deadbeats like me, Roger Waters and the tour’s creative director Sean Evans have teamed up and produced a live concert film called “Roger Waters: The Wall” and it will be premiering at the Toronto Film Festival on September 6. The film was shot over the course of several tour dates and this live footage will be intercut with other dramatic and autobiographical footage including Waters’ recent journey to see the grave of his grandfather, who was killed in WWI, and a trip to Italy to visit a WWII monument near the Anzio beaches on which his father’s name is inscribed. Although it probably won’t come close to the experience of seeing the tour (which grossed nearly a half a billion dollars) in person, it is sure to be a striking document of one of the most ambitious tours ever undertaken. Details on a worldwide release or a DVD/BluRay/Streaming release are unclear at the moment, but you can be sure that if it’ll make money it’ll be done.

In other Roger Waters news with a more local and aristocratic flavor, Roger Waters will be among a handful of performers set to delight dozens of 1%ers (the non biker kind) this Saturday (8/30) in the Hamptons at the Perfect Earth Project’s Second Biennial Family Picnic and Concert. In addition to part-time Hamptons resident Roger Waters, other performers include Rufus Wainwright, GE Smith (SNL), The Persuasions, Teddy Thompson, and more. Tickets range from $250 to $10,000. Proceeds benefit PEP, an organization that “promotes toxin-free lawns and landscapes to protect human health and the environment.” If that’s not some bored rich person’s idea of activism, I don’t know what is. Maybe Roger’ll play “Empty Spaces.”