Roger Waters expresses relief that ‘Salvini is gone’ and brand Boris Johnson as a dangerous sociopath
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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters brought his “US + THEM” concert movie to the Venice Film Festival on Friday, transporting audiences to one of his live performances.
The movie shows the British rocker on stage in Amsterdam in 2017, a stop during his “US + THEM” worldwide tour, playing Pink Floyd songs as well as material from his last album “Is This the Life We Really Want?” Behind him, a series of videos address issues including conflict, the migrant crisis, civil rights and politics.
The film was screened out of competition at the festival, where Waters told Reuters its main message was “just love and peace”. “We live in very very dangerous times and maybe in some small way this show … is a kind of warning really, to say this is absurd what we’re allowing to happen,” he said in an interview.
Roger Waters was reported by TgCom expressing relief in view of the fact that ‘Salvini is gone now’. He also spoke about the UK current political crisis, and branded British prime minister Boris Johnson a dangerous “sociopath” yesterday.
He alsosaid that like Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, Johnson and Trump had embarked on “a wilful quest to destroy this beautiful planet on which we live.
Waters co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965, and became the British rock band’s principal songwriter. The group was known for its experimental music, and enjoyed a global following with albums such as “Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Wall”.
