Roger Waters will be heading out on an all new, full-out tour spectacular in 2017, as he embarks on his Us + Them Tour across the U.S. and Canada, which brings him to Chicago for two dates, July 22-23.
Tickets, $55-$250, for the United Center shows in Chicago will go on sale at 10 a.m. Oct 21 at aeglive.com
In a statement announcing the tour, Waters said: “We are going to take a new show on the road, the content is very secret. It’ll be a mixture of stuff from my long career, stuff from my years with Pink Floyd, some new things. Probably 75 percent of it will be old material and 25 percent will be new, but it will be all connected by a general theme. It will be a cool show, I promise you. It’ll be spectacular like all my shows have been.”
In an interview on Billboard.com, Waters explains the name of the tour (which comes from the “Us and Them” cut from the iconic Pink Floyd album “Dark Side of the Moon”:
The new show’s going to be called ‘Us + Them’ because it’s really specifically about the line from this 1973 song ‘Us and Them’ that goes ‘With, without/And who’ll deny that’s what the fighting’s all about.’ Because the main message that I have to propagate, if I can, is embodied in the (concept) that the idea of perpetual war, which has been embraced by the neocons particularly in the United States of America, is an entirely wrong way for the human race to live… There’s a different way of organizing the human race that is better than this way. This way is driven by the greed of the few.
Rogers most recently performed last weekend at the Desert Trip music festival, along with other icons of pop/rock including Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan.
Here are the dates of the tour so far:
May-26 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
May-28 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
May-30 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
Jun-1 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
Jun-3 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
Jun-7 San Jose, CA SAP Center at San Jose
Jun-12 Sacramento, CA Golden 1 Center
Jun-14 Phoenix, AZ Gila River Arena
Jun-16 Las Vegas, NV T-Mobile Arena
Jun-20 Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center
Jun-21 Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center
Jun-24 Seattle, WA Tacoma Dome
Jul-3 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Jul-6 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Jul-11 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena
Jul-13 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
Jul-16 Atlanta, GA Infinite Energy Arena
Jul-18 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
Jul-20 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
Jul-22 Chicago, IL United Center
Jul-23 Chicago, IL United Center
Jul-26 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
Aug-2 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
Aug-4 Washington, DC Verizon Center
Aug-8 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Aug-9 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Sep-7 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
Sep-11 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
Sep-12 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
Sep 15 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
Sep-19 Pittsburgh, PA PPG Paints Arena
Sept-27 Boston, MA TD Garden
Sep-28 Boston, MA TD Garden
Oct-2 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Oct-3 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Oct-6 Quebec City, QC Videotron Centre
Oct-10 Ottawa, ON Canadian Tire Centre
Oct-16 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Oct-24 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place
Oct-28 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
