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Roger Waters considering performing The Wall on US Mexico border
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 21 February 2017
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has said he may perform his former band’s 1979 album ‘The Wall’ on the US-Mexico border in protest against Donald Trump – and particularly, of course, the US President’s plans to build a wall along that border.
Speaking to AFP, Water says that 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”.
“There will first need to be an awakening against these far right policies”, he adds. “The sewers are engorged by greedy and powerful men as I speak to you. Music is a legitimate place to express protest, musicians have an absolute right, a duty, to open their mouths to speak out”.
This is not the first time that Waters has spoken out against Trump. On inauguration day, he posted a video to Facebook of a performance in Mexico City from the previous September, which features anti-Trump videos behind the stage:
