Roger Waters

Families were easy to spot, the hereditary transmission of the Pink Floyd bug leaving little room for doubt.

More than 50,000 Roger Waters fans came to Plenitude Arena across Friday and Saturday evening to see the former Pink Floyd frontman present his new show, Us+Them. An event billed as spectacular, both visually and sonically.

A passion that is passed down

In the lead-up to the concerts, Roger Waters and Pink Floyd t-shirts were everywhere. As with most giants of music, multiple generations crossed paths and came together around a shared passion. One generation had passed the flame to the next for this deeply affecting music and singular world that leaves no one untouched.

After filing into the arena and taking in the sheer scale of the room and the stage, an impatient crowd pressed towards the front. Roger Waters did not keep them waiting. True to form, there was no support act. The show opened with an immersive video on a screen roughly 60 metres wide, a genuine technical feat. Sound and image combined to pull the audience into a sensory journey that would last over two hours.

Une entrée en matière magistrale

Roger Waters then appeared and launched into Breathe, the opening track from The Dark Side of the Moon, one of Pink Floyd’s all-time classics. And so began a concert that would leave no one indifferent. The evening was filled with remarkable moments, including an encounter between Roger Waters and a group of children from the Île-de-France region, who joined him on stage with infectious energy, dancing and singing along to the worldwide anthem Another Brick in the Wall.

Roger Waters took the audience back through the greatest milestones of Pink Floyd, the band he helped lead. He performed the most celebrated tracks from The Dark Side of the Moon, the group’s most iconic album. In a spellbinding atmosphere, the artist and his band worked through Time and Us and Them, their arrangements drawing the crowd in further with every bar. A genuine pleasure to listen to. The sound was crisp, full and flawlessly delivered.

Cutting-edge set design

Roger Waters had plenty of surprises in store. The stage reconfigured mid-show as new elements came into view: a giant inflatable pig floated overhead, and the screens filled with the four chimneys of Battersea Power Station in London, immortalised on the cover of Animals. Visually, it was stunning. The finale held its own surprises too, a balloon evoking the shape of the moon drifting out over the crowd while a 3D pyramid referencing the Dark Side of the Moon artwork rose at the foot of the stage. The show closed in style with a collision of lights and pyrotechnics. The audience got exactly what they came for, and then some.

The arena once again unveiled a new configuration, this time a stadium-style stage set-up paired with a vast screen covering the entire back of the stage at close to 60 metres wide. Our teams worked around the clock to install the lighting rigs and sound system that made full audience immersion possible. Plenitude Arena is proud to have brought this show to its audiences, and we look forward to sharing many more exceptional events with you soon.