Fifty years almost to the month that Pink Floyd first played Earls Court, the Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill tour arrived at London’s O2 Arena, the 20,000-seat venue that effectively replaced the old exhibition centre, 13 miles to the west. A hall of this size is meat and drink to Waters, who now plays those venues with the ease of Sinatra in Vegas; he embodies the space with a showmanship that there wasn’t even a fleeting glimpse of in 1973.
While not exactly ladding it up the way Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt do with Floyd’s legacy in Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets, Waters is now showman provocateur, stalking the stage like an senior preening rock god, dressed in black with arms aloft to take his praise. His…
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