There has been a lot of speculation and discussion regarding Roger planning to change his band for the upcoming tour,
Entitled Us & Them the new tour kicks off on the 26th May at the Mo Sprint Center, Kansas City, the tour is based loosely around Rogers career with Pink Floyd and as a solo artist, We cannot confirm how much material will be from his career as a solo artist but with a new album Is This The Life We Really Want? coming to our shelves on the 2nd June we can assume a fair portion will be from this long anticipated release.

Those who followed Wednesdays “Time Talks” Conversation with Roger and Jon Pareles will have seen that it has been confirmed the touring band has indeed had a drastic change and we will no longer see some familiar faces we have been acustomed to over the years.

Joey Waronker
An American drummer and music producer. He is best known as a regular session musician of both Beck and R.E.M., and as member of the experimental rock bands Atoms for Peace and Ultraísta.

Gus Seyffert
An American bass and guitar player. He is best known for his work with American rock band The Black Keys.

Jonathan Wilson
is an American Guitarist and record producer based in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. He has an exensive reseme of work including proudcer credits with a familar floydian face Roy Harper

Drew Erickson
A producer and keyboard player from Denton, TX, Known for his work with the band The Colors.

Jess Wolfe & Holly Laessig
Jess and Holly are both known primarily for their work with Lucius, a four piece indie pop band from Brooklyn, New York.The band has two studio albums to date and was named  one of the best live acts in 2015.

The familiar faces include Ian Ritchie (Saxophone), Jon Carin (Keyboards/Guitars/Vocals/Lapsteel), Dave Kilminster (Lead Guitar)

 

[fbvideo link=”https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/videos/10151154097529999/” width=”800″ height=”800″ onlyvideo=”1″]On Wednesday evening, New York Times music critic John Pareles and Roger Waters were joined by an audience of 350 for a live interview as part of The New York Times’ TimesTalks series at New York City’s Florence Gould Hall. The interview spanned discussions about the scale Pink Floyd brought to rock music, Waters’ upcoming new album, American politics, and many other topics.

A video of the whole interview can be seen above.

Video above : The new lead single “Smell The Roses” released online on the 21st April.

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Roger Waters : Is This The Life We Really Want?

Track Listing

1. “When We Were Young” 1:38
2. “Déjà Vu” 4:27
3. “The Last Refugee” 4:12
4. “Picture That” 6:47
5. “Broken Bones” 4:57
6. “Is This The Life We Really Want?” 5:55
7. “Bird In A Gale” 5:31
8. “The Most Beautiful Girl” 6:09
9. “Smell The Roses” 5:15
10. “Wait For Her” 4:56
11. “Oceans Apart” 1:07
12. “Part Of Me Died” 3:12

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Roger Waters has announced that he’ll release his first studio album in 25 years in June.
Titled Is This The Life We Really Want?, it will launch on June 2 via Columbia Records. It’ll be the former Pink Floyd member’s first studio album since 1992’s Amused To Death.

A statement reads: “Roger Waters’ last studio album Amused To Death was a prescient study of popular culture, exploring the power of television in the era of the First Gulf War.“

The long-awaited follow-up, 2017’s Is This The Life We Really Want?, is an unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times.“Waters’ forthcoming LP serves as a natural successor to classic Pink Floyd albums such as Animals and The Wall.”

The album was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and includes 12 new musical compositions and studio performances from Waters.Joining Waters and Godrich on the record are Gus Seyffert, Jonathan Wilson, Joey Waronker, Roger Manning, Lee Pardini, Lucius, Jessica Wolfe and Holly Proctor.

The album will be releases in a double 180-gram vinyl LP in a gatefold jacket and a four-panel soft pack CD. All album formats, physical and digital, are now available to pre-order via Amazon and Itunes.

While we cannot confirm the band lineup for Roger’s upcoming Us & Them tour we can confirm the personnel for the album.

• Roger Waters – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar
• Nigel Godrich – keyboards, guitar, sound collages, arrangements
• Gus Seyffert – guitar, keyboards, bass guitar
• Jonathon Wilson – guitar, keyboards
• Roger Manning – keyboards
• Lee Padroni – keyboards
• Joey Waronker – drums
• Jessica Wolfe – vocals
• Holly Proctor – vocals
• Lucius – vocals

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Known for his work with MusiCorps Wounded Warrior band in the past, Roger has teamed up with Soundwaves Art Foundation to sell some exclusive art / prints to help support the MusiCorps foundation.

The MusiCorps foundation was formed in response to the crisis of returning service members injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, MusiCorps is a conservatory-level music rehabilitation program that helps wounded warriors play music and recover their lives. It has been praised by the Wall Street Journal as “revolutionary,” is pioneering in the field of adaptive music, and has helped countless wounded warriors learn or relearn how to play an instrument as a core part of their rehabilitation.

The MusiCorps Wounded Warrior Band, the performance component of MusiCorps, is made up of injured veterans who became musicians through MusiCorps. The band has wowed millions of people with powerful performances that speak to the talent and resilience of its members.

Up for sale to raise funds for the foundation is “Another Brick In The Wall” (Parts I, II, & III), Which are taken from The Wall, Pink Floyd’s 11th studio album, which was released in 1979 and is regarded as one of the greatest of all time. With estimated sales of over 23 million copies it has the third highest US sales for an album. Roger Waters has signed three originals and 33 prints from each song to support the work of MusiCorps,which has been helping injured veterans in their recovery through the power of music.

A new species of shrimp has been named after Pink Floyd thanks to a pact between prog rock-loving scientists.The synalpheus pinkfloydi uses its large pink claw to create a noise so loud it can kill small fish. The team behind the discovery vowed years ago if it ever found a new pink shrimp it would “honour” the rockers.

Sammy De Grave, head of research at Oxford University Museum of National History, said he has been a fan of the band since he was a teenager. He has previous for naming crustaceans after rock legends, having already named a species of shrimp after Rolling Stones front man, Mick Jagger – Elephantis jaggerai.

He said: “I have been listening to Floyd since The Wall was released in 1979, when I was 14 years old, The description of this new species of pistol shrimp was the perfect opportunity to finally give a nod to my favourite band. We are all Pink Floyd fans, and we always said if we would find a pink one, a new species of pink shrimp, we would name it after Pink Floyd.”