Roger Waters' film of the 2010-13 Wall tour to premiere next month

Posted by: Kevin-W on 19 August 2014

At the Toronto International Film Festival (details here). Will hopefully get an international cinema release.

 

Blu-Ray and DVD elease in 2015. I think we can be fairly sure the sound quality/mix will be better than that heard on "Celebration Day"

 

 

Posted on: 19 August 2014 by Steve J

One would hope so Kevin. 

Posted on: 20 August 2014 by John3

At last. I beginning to think I might be dead before this saw the light of day. Now how about releasing the film of the DSOTM tour also.

Posted on: 20 August 2014 by Kevin-W
Originally Posted by John3:

At last. Now how about releasing the film of the DSOTM tour also.

John

 

Apparently Roger Waters has lost interest in that one (code-named "Snuggle"), but you never know...

 

The other good news for 2015 is that the Alan Parker-shot reels of film of the Wall live in 1980/81 that were discovered after [PF manager] Steve O'Rourke died, and which have been described as "exquisite" have been edited, and [Floyd engineer] James Guthrie has done the soundtrack, so they might see the light of day too...

Posted on: 20 August 2014 by John3
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:
Originally Posted by John3:

At last. Now how about releasing the film of the DSOTM tour also.

John

 

Apparently Roger Waters has lost interest in that one (code-named "Snuggle"), but you never know...

 

The other good news for 2015 is that the Alan Parker-shot reels of film of the Wall live in 1980/81 that were discovered after [PF manager] Steve O'Rourke died, and which have been described as "exquisite" have been edited, and [Floyd engineer] James Guthrie has done the soundtrack, so they might see the light of day too...

I thought they had messed up the filming of 80/81 shows but if not that would be fantastic news.

Posted on: 20 August 2014 by Kevin-W
Originally Posted by John3:
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:
Originally Posted by John3:

At last. Now how about releasing the film of the DSOTM tour also.

John

 

Apparently Roger Waters has lost interest in that one (code-named "Snuggle"), but you never know...

 

The other good news for 2015 is that the Alan Parker-shot reels of film of the Wall live in 1980/81 that were discovered after [PF manager] Steve O'Rourke died, and which have been described as "exquisite" have been edited, and [Floyd engineer] James Guthrie has done the soundtrack, so they might see the light of day too...

I thought they had messed up the filming of 80/81 shows but if not that would be fantastic news.

Apparently not. In the Immersion box of "The Wall" there's a minute or so clip of this footage and it looks really good.

 

Posted on: 21 August 2014 by digger628

I hear Roger Waters will be attending both screenings of the film at the Toronto Film Festival and will be doing Q&A sessions.

Posted on: 24 August 2014 by Premmyboy

Fantastic avatar Kevin-W. StationToStation Tour Wembley Empire Pool May 1976 my first concert.

The Duke was the man.

 

Prem.

Posted on: 24 August 2014 by Kevin-W
Originally Posted by Premmyboy:

Fantastic avatar Kevin-W. StationToStation Tour Wembley Empire Pool May 1976 my first concert.

The Duke was the man.

 

Prem.

Thanks Prem. Lucky you! What did you think of it? For me, the Think White Duke was the coolest of all Bowie's personae. I would loved to have seen the STS ("Isolar") tour - every recording I have from that era is superb, and STS is my fave Bowie LP outside of "Low".

Posted on: 25 August 2014 by Premmyboy

To be honest Kevin it blew my mind. I was a big Bowie fan but too young to see the Ziggy era. He had disappeared to the States and this was his sort of homecoming. I was beyond excited. It was so damn loud my ears were ringing hours afterwards. I have seen hundreds of gigs since but never a better one. I agree with you about Station to Station probably my favourite Bowie album as well although I love Hunky Dory, Low & Heroes also.

I saw pretty much every Bowie tour after that but nothing came close even when he played the whole Low album at Royal Festival Hall which was also pretty special.

 

Prem.

Posted on: 25 August 2014 by Kevin-W
Originally Posted by Premmyboy:

 

I saw pretty much every Bowie tour after that but nothing came close even when he played the whole Low album at Royal Festival Hall which was also pretty special.

 

Prem.

I was at that RFH gig too Prem - best I've ever seen Bowie. The fact that I was dead centre, second row (just a couple of seats down from Eno) helped.

 

By fr the worst was Glass Spider at Wembley Stadium - walked out of that one.

Posted on: 25 August 2014 by Tony2011
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:
Originally Posted by Premmyboy:

 

I saw pretty much every Bowie tour after that but nothing came close even when he played the whole Low album at Royal Festival Hall which was also pretty special.

 

Prem.

I was at that RFH gig too Prem - best I've ever seen Bowie. The fact that I was dead centre, second row (just a couple of seats down from Eno) helped.

 

By fr the worst was Glass Spider at Wembley Stadium - walked out of that one.


Off topic, Kev. I did not to to the GS concert but still have the VHS left by my ex many moons ago. Truly OTT and  I read somewhere he was overworked and highly stressed and even admitted it was not his finest hour. Not even Alomar's guitar solos were enough to save the show.

 

Posted on: 26 August 2014 by Premmyboy
Wow 2nd row!! Now I am jealous!! I was in the balcony somewhere!!
 
Glass spider Tour was pants. Totally agree.
 
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:
Originally Posted by Premmyboy:

 

I saw pretty much every Bowie tour after that but nothing came close even when he played the whole Low album at Royal Festival Hall which was also pretty special.

 

Prem.

I was at that RFH gig too Prem - best I've ever seen Bowie. The fact that I was dead centre, second row (just a couple of seats down from Eno) helped.

 

By fr the worst was Glass Spider at Wembley Stadium - walked out of that one.

 

Posted on: 07 September 2014 by Kevin-W

There's a report on the film here:

 

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Posted on: 07 September 2014 by digger628

Always nice to read a review from a dispassionate source. 

Posted on: 08 September 2014 by Kevin-W
Originally Posted by digger628:

Always nice to read a review from a dispassionate source. 

I thought this was amusing:

 

This review of Roger Waters The Wall Movie is not from a professional movie critic so I wont be able to throw mind numbing analogies or metaphors.

 

Instead, the writer goes on at mind-numbing length, in an incredibly dull way, without actually telling us very much.

 

 

Posted on: 09 September 2014 by Steve2

I too was at that Wembley Concert when the Thin White Duke strutted on to the stage.  Stand out concert.

 

Those were the days or was that by someone else........