Roger Waters The Wall Tour Documentary Premieres in Toronto

Roger Waterscelebrated his 71st birthday September 6th at the Toronto International Film Festival by attending the world premiere of his new documentary Roger Waters: The Wall. TIFF was the perfect venue for the former Pink Floydbassist to debut his film since The Wall Live tour actually began its run at Torontos Air Canada Centre on September 15, 2010, so Roger Waters: The Walls TIFF premiere was like coming full circle. Also, what better way to follow Bill Murray Daythan with a film that explores Waters epic tour from behind the Wall.

Longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich is credited with Sound in Roger Waters: The Wall, along with veteran sound mixer Adam Scrivener. The documentary runs for 133 minutes 12 minutes longer than the classic double-LPitself and was co-directed by Waters and Sean Evans, who was The Wall Tours creative director. Roger Waters: The Wall was filmed in three cities on two continents. So far, no release date has been announced for the documentary, but there will be two more Toronto screenings. Waters also revealed that his tour documentary could double as an anti-war, protest film.

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Following the premiere, and after an impromptu serenade of Happy Birthday by the crowd, Waters conducted a Q&A session with audience members and was asked why Pink Floyds The Wall is so enduring. I think people are sick and tired of being told that the most important thing in their life is commerce and the new this and the new that, Waters said according to the Toronto Sun. I think people are probably ready to go now, Well, all of that rhetoric lead us to lob bombs over the top of the wall, that divides society ecologically, economically, philosophically and politically, from all our fellow human beings. And we no longer want to be told by our political leaders that they are scum and that we are great.So that I believe that it may be were no longer interested in the us and them form of political philosophy that weve been fed on for the last couple of 1,000 years and that we may be ready to move into a new place. All that, plus Comfortably Numb is awesome.

I cant top that tour, Waters told Rolling Stone last November. First of all, you have to accept the fact that Im not going to live forever You just have to accept that when you do something as enormous as that tour. The hardest thing in the world is thinking of something to do, so going and doing it is a reward in itself.