In October 2023, Roger Waters took to the London Palladium’s stage to perform his Redux version of Pink Floyd’s epochal, career-defining album The Dark Side Of The Moon. He’s become an increasingly outspoken and controversial figure, and many Floyd fans have looked on with dismay as they feel he threatens to trash his former band’s reputation by association. Similarly, his re-recording of TDSOTM has been received by some as just a button-pushing exercise in his ongoing battle with David Gilmour.
And yet this Redux version is far from an act of cultural vandalism. It may be self-indulgent in places – a man at odds with the world augmenting a sacred text with additional spoken words – but it’s an interesting and often affecting take.
