Pink Floyd Fans Walk Out of Roger Waters Show as Musician Reads From His Laptop, Tells Bizarre Stories About His Pets

Embattled musician Roger Waters enraged Pink Floyd fans during Sunday's show at the London Palladium. Waters had been booked to perform the live premiere of his album Dark Side of the Moon Redux, but many attendees walked out before any songs were sung.

It was Waters' first of two shows at the Palladium, with another show on Monday evening. The musician arrived 15 minutes late for his scheduled performance. Instead of launching into the hits, Waters began reading off of his laptop passages from his yet-to-be-published memoir, Dark Side of the Moon: Memoirs of a Lanky Prick.

“One story involved a duck that came to live in the family home,” said Will Hodgkinson, music critic for The Times. “Another began promisingly as a memory of Floyd’s original leader, Syd Barrett, but revealed nothing more than that Barrett wrote a lot of songs and had an innocent air about him.”

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According to The Daily Mail, the duck story lasted upwards of 20 minutes and segued into Waters reading errant notes about his other pets, once again from his laptop.

Neil McCormick, a music critic at The Telegraph, wrote that the entire show “had an unrehearsed air, with a tension exacerbated by Waters’ school masterly demeanor, as he sternly brooked no interruption.”

“Fuck off,” Waters screamed at fans when heckled over his unexpected setlist. At this point, many headed for the exits.

Later, as those in the audience privately wondered if what they were seeing was real, Rogers admonished them: "If you want to tell stories, tell them in your own time to your own audience in your own fucking theater. By the way, if you can show constraint and stop shouting again."

However, coverage from Brain Damage, which describes itself as a “Pink Floyd news resource,” was largely glowing and confirmed the evening went off as planned. The shows were always to be broken into two halves, with each lasting 50 minutes. The first was referred to as “Other Stuff” in show bills, while the second was titled “Dark Side of the Moon Redux,” which makes it pretty clear that the first half would be … other stuff.

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It’s unclear how many in the audience were aware of the schedule, but from witness accounts the addition of an unannounced, 20-minute film at the top of the concert portion didn’t help matters much.

We’ll see if Waters will have adjusted his act after reviews from Monday’s show drop.