Roger Waters Plotting 2016 World Tour & Writing Memoir

Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters is currently recording a new album and will embark on a world tour next year as per his comments to Haaretz’s Gideon Levy. Waters recently returned to the stage for a set at Newport Folk which was his first live performance in two years. Roger’s last tour, The Wall, set the record for being the highest grossing tour for a solo musician.

Haaretz’s Levy spent 24 hours with Waters discussing many topics including the Middle East, a memoir Roger is working on and his tragic family history. Roger played Gideon a number of the new songs he’s written one of which is about January’s terrorist attack in Paris at the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Within the interview Waters revealed his plan to tour the world in 2016 and that he’s currently penning an autobiography.

The interviewer asked Roger Waters about the end of Pink Floyd. “People grow apart, you know. We were four different people – well, after Syd went crazy and then David joined the group, and then there were four of us – and we’re very different people. I made one friend in the group, who’s Nick Mason; I was never really that close to Rick Wright and David Gilmour, and we grew apart philosophically and politically – and even musically. And David and I started to really butt heads after ‘Dark Side of the Moon.’ There was a lot of this going on all the way through ‘Wish You Were Here,’ ‘Animals,’ ‘The Wall’ and ‘The Final Cut.’ So it became the only thing to do, for me to stop doing it.”

Waters said he barely got through his Live 8 reunion with the other members of Pink Floyd in 2005, “It absolutely reinforced the fact that, 23 years before [when they recorded ‘The Final Cut], I’d made absolutely the right decision not to have anything to do with them ever again.” Roger did reveal his most recent conversation with David Gilmour took place last year. What does he think about fans’ itch to see Waters reunite with Gilmour? “Well, I find that very understandable and also supremely irritating, because I’m not attached to it and I was in it. That’s what I did for a living for 20 years, but it was a living lie for the last few years. It was no longer a healthy working relationship.”

While Roger Waters did tell Levy he’s plotting a world tour for next year, the article doesn’t contain any other information about what’s in store. Head to Haaretz for more from Roger Waters including his take on the current situation in the Middle East.

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