Roger Waters has declared that he is considering performing Pink Floyd’s 1979 opus The Wall at the site of Donald Trump’s planned wall.
Waters was speaking at Pink Floyd, Their Mortal Remains, a London exhibition of memorabilia from throughout the band’s 50+ year career.
He explained how the album is “very relevant now with Mr. Trump and all of this talk of building walls and creating as much enmity as possible between races and religions”, noting “how detrimental building walls can be on a personal level, but also on broader levels.”
“There will first need to be an awakening against these far-right policies. The sewers are engorged by greedy and powerful men as I speak to you”, he continued.
“Music is a legitimate place to express protest, musicians have an absolute right, a duty, to open their mouths to speak out.”
This won’t be the first time Waters has made such a gesture. He performed the album in Berlin in 1990 to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
