Progressive Rock
AEG Presents and Icon Live have announced “Roger Waters Presents Legacy — A Pink Floyd Show”, a production directed by Roger Waters and played by a ten-piece band led by his son Harry Waters. The tour starts on 15 February 2027 and will visit more than a hundred cities in North America and Europe. Tickets for the American leg go on sale on 2 October; of the European dates, the announcement only says they are coming.
The set is limited to four records, which the announcement places between 1971 and 1979: “The Dark Side of the Moon”, “Wish You Were Here”, “Animals” and “The Wall”. Harry Waters, who plays Hammond B3 organ and piano and sings, is the musical director and shaped the arc of the evening with drummer Graham Broad. On how it will sound, he says: “We are going to authentically recreate the albums as close to note-for-note as we possibly can.”
The voice for the parts his father sang was found through an open call online. Harry Waters says he listened to more than three thousand submissions before settling on Clifton David Broadbridge, a Canadian based in Nashville, who passed the in-person audition on a day off from Harry’s tour with Primus.
His child’s voice is on “Goodbye Blue Sky”, from “The Wall”, and he spent more than fifteen years playing his father’s tours, including “The Dark Side of the Moon”, “The Wall” and Desert Trip in 2016. Waters, who co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 and left in 1985, has his say: “Harry has assembled a terrific band, and I can’t wait for fans around the world to see the special show we’ve created together.” The show runs more than two hours.
Text by Guillem Cardós