Roger Waters Hits Again After Poland Concert events Canceled Over Ukraine Feedback – Deadline

A live performance venue in Kraków, Poland has canceled two upcoming exhibits by onetime Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters following latest feedback the singer-songwriter made in regards to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

Reside Nation Polska and Tauron Area Kraków introduced the choice Saturday on Twitter, with Waters later calling out media studies that stated it was he who axed the dates, which had been set for April 2023 as a part of the European leg of his “This Is Not A Drill” tour. That tour is subsequent scheduled to hit Los Angeles’ Crypto Area this Tuesday and Wednesday.

HEY! ŁUKASZ WANTUCH, “LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE!”

Correction Roger Waters didn’t cancel Krakow Gigs.

To Nadeem Badshah at @guardiannews
And Anna Piatkowska at @gaz_krakowska

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— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) September 25, 2022

On Fb, Waters stated a Kraków city official urged in a neighborhood paper to boycott Waters’ exhibits and “threatened to carry a gathering asking the council to declare me ‘Persona non grata’ due to my public efforts to encourage all concerned within the disastrous conflict in Ukraine, particularly the governments of the USA and Russia, to work in direction of a negotiated peace, moderately than escalate issues in direction of a bitter finish that could possibly be nuclear conflict and the tip of all life on this planet.”

He added: “If Mr Łukasz Wantuch achieves his intention, and my forthcoming live shows in Krakow are cancelled, will probably be a tragic loss for me, as a result of I’ve been wanting ahead to sharing my message of affection with the folks of Poland, one thing I’ve been doing on many excursions over a profession that has lasted in extra of fifty years.”

Waters took to Fb on September 5 with an “open letter” to Olena Zelenska, the spouse of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Titled “Did you alternate a stroll on half within the conflict for a lead position in a cage?” in a reference to Pink Floyd’s basic track “Want You Had been Right here,” it urges that the West cease supplying arms to Ukraine or else danger an extended battle, saying “Throwing gas, within the type of armaments, into a hearth battle, has by no means labored to shorten a conflict up to now, and it gained’t work now.”