Us + Them Tour

"Us + Them" redirects here. For the Pink Floyd song, see Us and Them (song). For other uses, see Us and Them (disambiguation).

The Us + Them Tour was a concert tour by rock musician Roger Waters. The tour visited the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and countries in Europe and Latin America, showcasing songs from Waters' career with Pink Floyd and his 2017 album Is This the Life We Really Want? It opened on 26 May 2017 in Kansas City, United States^[1][2] and ended on 9 December 2018 in Monterrey, Mexico.

Us + Them Tour

Tour by Roger Waters
Promotional poster for the tour
Location	Central America Europe North America Oceania South America
Associated album	Is This the Life We Really Want?
Start date	21 May 2017
End date	9 December 2018
Legs	5
No. of shows	157
Box office	US $261,784,386
Roger Waters concert chronology

Background

In mid-October 2016, Waters announced that he would return to North America in 2017 with a pioneering new tour named "Us + Them", stating: "We are going to take a new show on the road, the content is very secret. It'll be a mixture of stuff from my long career, stuff from my years with Pink Floyd, some new things. Probably 75% of it will be old material and 25% will be new, but it will be all connected by a general theme. It will be a cool show, I promise you. It'll be spectacular like all my shows have been." The tour is named after the track "Us and Them", from Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.^[1][2]

Personnel

The touring band saying good night on 24 January 2018 in New Zealand

• Roger Waters – lead vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar on "Welcome to the Machine" and "Picture That"
• Dave Kilminster – acoustic and electric guitars, talk box, backing vocals
• Jon Carin – piano, keyboards, programming, lap steel guitar, acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
• Gus Seyffert – acoustic and electric guitars, bass, backing vocals
• Jonathan Wilson – acoustic and electric guitars, lead and backing vocals
• Drew Erickson – piano, keyboards, Hammond organ (withdrew from tour before Newark date, due to injury)^[3]
• Bo Koster – piano, keyboards, Hammond organ (replaced an injured Erickson, from Newark date onwards)^[4][5][6]
• Ian Ritchie – saxophone, bass
• Joey Waronker – drums, percussion
• Jess Wolfe – backing vocals, percussion, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Mother"
• Holly Laessig – backing vocals, percussion, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Mother"

Set list

The following set list was obtained from the concert held on September 12, 2017 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.^[7] It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

Set 1 "Speak to Me" "Breathe" "One of These Days" "Time / "Breathe" (Reprise) "The Great Gig in the Sky" "Welcome to the Machine" "When We Were Young" "Déjà Vu" "The Last Refugee" "Picture That" "Wish You Were Here" "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3"

Set 2 "Dogs" "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" "Money" "Us and Them" "Smell the Roses" "Brain Damage" "Eclipse" Encore "Vera" "Bring the Boys Back Home" "Comfortably Numb"

Notes

The following songs were performed during the tour, with each song noted the city and date it was performed:

• "Vera" / "Bring the Boys Back Home" (medley) (all shows until 11 August 2017; Oslo, 14 August 2018; Stockholm, 18 August 2018)
• "Mother" (Nashville, 13 August 2017; Boston, 27 & 28 September 2017; Québec, 6 & 7 October 2017; Ottawa, 10 October 2017; Toronto, 13 October 2017; Montreal, 16, 17 & 18 October 2017; Winnipeg, 22 October 2017; Vancouver, 28 October 2017; Auckland, 24 & 26 January 2018; Dunedin, 30 January 2018; Sydney, 2 & 3 February 2018; Melbourne, 10, 11 & 13 February 2018; Adelaide, 16 February 2018; Bologna, 21, 24 & 25 April 2018; Budapest, 2 May 2018; Zagreb, 6 May 2018; Lyon, 9 May 2018; Antwerp, 11 May 2018; Rome, 14 July 2018; Kraków, 3 August 2018; São Paulo, 9 & 10 November 2018; Brasília, 13 October 2018; Rio de Janeiro, 24 October 2018; San José, 24 November 2018)
• "Wait for Her" / "Oceans Apart" / "Part of Me Died" (medley) (Vancouver, 29 October 2017; Perth, 20 February 2018; Bologna, 22 April 2018; Prague, 28 April 2018; Antwerp, 12 May 2018; Lisbon, 20 May 2018; Amsterdam, 18 June 2018; Glasgow, 29 June 2018; Gdańsk, 5 August 2018)
• "Danny Boy" (Dublin, 26 & 27 June 2018)
• "Broken Bones" (Copenhagen, 10 August 2018; Oslo, 15 August 2018; Helsinki, 21 August 2018; Bogotá, 21 November 2018)
• "The Bravery of Being Out of Range" (Riga, 24 August 2018; Kaunas, 26 August 2018; St. Petersburg, 29 August 2018; Moscow, 31 August 2018)
• "Two Suns in the Sunset" (Salvador, 17 October 2018; Belo Horizonte, 21 October 2018; Montevideo, 3 November 2018; Lima, 17 November 2018)
• "The Gunner's Dream" (Santiago, 14 November 2018)

Reception

As of July 2017, the Us + Them Tour, which had cost $4 million to produce, had grossed over $25 million in North America and ranked 19th in highest grossing shows in North America for that year.^[8] The tour has been highly praised for its setlist, which is heavy on songs from Waters' tenure in Pink Floyd, along with its visuals and technology.

Anti-Donald Trump imagery from the tour

One portion of the show features extensive anti-Donald Trump imagery, which led some attendees to boo or even walk out of the show.^[9] Waters responded to the anti-Trump critics by saying, "I find it slightly surprising that anybody could have been listening to my songs for 50 years without understanding", and said to those critics if they didn't like what he was doing, "Go see Katy Perry or watch the Kardashians. I don't care." Waters also said that due to his anti-Trump images that he lost sponsors such as American Express, who refused to have their company associated with his shows in the U.S., although they are still sponsoring the tour in Canada, according to Waters.^[10] In Brazil, Waters similarly attacked then presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro and was repeatedly booed by crowds on all shows.^[11] Some imagery mentioned "neo-fascism is on the rise", and also cited multiple other politicians such as Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen.^[12]

Waters also was met with some backlash, boycotts and even attempts to cancel his show by some lawmakers^[13] in various cities due to his anti-Israel boycott which some felt was anti-semitic. Prior to his performances in Washington, D.C., the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington produced a video criticizing Waters' support of BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement that compares the country's treatment of Palestinians to apartheid.^[14] In October 2016, Waters lost $4 million in sponsorship after American Express refused to fund the tour due to his anti-Israel rhetoric at a previous festival sponsored by the financial company.^[15] In November 2016, Citibank joined American Express in cutting ties to Waters.^[16]

Movie and live album

The Amsterdam shows of 18 – 23 June 2018 at the Ziggo Dome were filmed for Roger Waters: Us + Them. The movie was premiered at Venice Film Festival in 2019. A live album with the songs from the movie was released on 2 October 2020.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Gross
North America[17][18]
21 May 2017[a]	East Rutherford	United States	Meadowlands Arena	—	—
26 May 2017	Kansas City		Sprint Center	12,077 / 12,077	$1,412,641
28 May 2017	Louisville		KFC Yum! Center	11,760 / 11,760	$1,336,338
30 May 2017	St. Louis		Scottrade Center	11,682 / 11,682	$1,083,554
1 June 2017	Tulsa		BOK Center	10,031 / 10,031	$1,059,057
3 June 2017	Denver		Pepsi Center	22,731 / 22,731	$2,619,769
4 June 2017
7 June 2017	San Jose		SAP Center	12,230 / 12,230	$1,977,011
10 June 2017	Oakland		Oracle Arena	12,665 / 12,665	$1,708,813
12 June 2017	Sacramento		Golden 1 Center	12,980 / 12,980	$1,635,413
14 June 2017	Glendale		Gila River Arena	11,682 / 11,682	$1,422,541
16 June 2017	Las Vegas		T-Mobile Arena	12,601 / 12,601	$1,767,456
20 June 2017	Los Angeles		Staples Center	38,003 / 38,003[b]	$5,613,448[b]
21 June 2017
24 June 2017	Tacoma		Tacoma Dome	18,073 / 18,073	$2,337,871
25 June 2017	Portland		Moda Center	11,547 / 11,547	$1,223,572
27 June 2017	Los Angeles		Staples Center	[b]	[b]
1 July 2017	San Antonio		AT&T Center	11,170 / 12,000	$1,168,987
3 July 2017	Dallas		American Airlines Center	13,002 / 13,002	$1,930,195
6 July 2017	Houston		Toyota Center	9,413 / 10,500	$1,296,710
8 July 2017	New Orleans		Smoothie King Center	11,397 / 11,397	$1,179,322
11 July 2017	Tampa		Amalie Arena	12,750 / 12,750	$1,552,781
13 July 2017	Miami		American Airlines Arena	12,742 / 12,742	$1,597,676
16 July 2017	Duluth		Infinite Energy Arena	9,458 / 9,458	$1,320,554
18 July 2017	Greensboro		Greensboro Coliseum	12,632 / 12,632	$1,316,674
20 July 2017	Columbus		Nationwide Arena	13,198 / 13,198	$1,615,737
22 July 2017	Chicago		United Center	32,414 / 36,000[c]	$4,162,170[c]
23 July 2017
26 July 2017	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center	12,875 / 12,875	$1,755,448
28 July 2017	Chicago		United Center	[c]	[c]
29 July 2017	Milwaukee		BMO Harris Bradley Center	12,039 / 12,500	$1,298,257
2 August 2017	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills	12,138 / 12,138	$1,330,313
4 August 2017	Washington, D.C.		Verizon Center	20,022 / 22,000	$2,650,410
5 August 2017
8 August 2017	Philadelphia		Wells Fargo Center	34,589 / 36,000	$4,165,354
9 August 2017
11 August 2017
13 August 2017	Nashville		Bridgestone Arena	12,515 / 12,515	$1,393,041
7 September 2017	Newark		Prudential Center	12,064 / 12,064	$1,810,911
9 September 2017	Buffalo		KeyBank Center	10,634 / 13,183	$1,148,574
11 September 2017	Brooklyn		Barclays Center	21,018 / 25,048	$2,779,735
12 September 2017
15 September 2017	Uniondale		Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum	18,137 / 20,765	$2,280,573
16 September 2017
19 September 2017	Pittsburgh		PPG Paints Arena	10,772 / 12,701	$1,208,751
21 September 2017	Cleveland		Quicken Loans Arena	11,458 / 13,104	$1,275,858
23 September 2017	Albany		Times Union Center	11,017 / 11,017	$1,217,536
24 September 2017	Hartford		XL Center	7,783 / 10,014	$810,988
27 September 2017	Boston		TD Garden	24,094 / 24,094	$3,331,153
28 September 2017
2 October 2017	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre	40,061 / 40,061[d]	$4,640,310[d]
3 October 2017
6 October 2017	Quebec City		Videotron Centre	25,105 / 25,105	$2,966,180
7 October 2017
10 October 2017	Ottawa		Canadian Tire Centre	11,365 / 12,478	$1,148,110
13 October 2017	Toronto		Air Canada Centre	[d]	[d]
16 October 2017	Montreal		Bell Centre	34,983 / 38,143	$3,813,280
17 October 2017
19 October 2017
22 October 2017	Winnipeg		Bell MTS Place	11,152 / 12,682	$1,182,730
24 October 2017	Edmonton		Rogers Place	19,347 / 23,440	$1,973,130
25 October 2017
28 October 2017	Vancouver		Rogers Arena	25,520 / 27,312	$2,927,440
29 October 2017
Oceania[20]
24 January 2018[21]	Auckland	New Zealand	Spark Arena	14,744 / 17,580	$1,605,066
26 January 2018
30 January 2018[22]	Dunedin		Forsyth Barr Stadium	12,790 / 14,836	$1,211,553
2 February 2018	Sydney	Australia	Qudos Bank Arena	16,608 / 16,716	$2,145,500
3 February 2018
6 February 2018	Brisbane		Brisbane Entertainment Centre	12,927 / 16,444	$1,476,330
7 February 2018
10 February 2018	Melbourne		Rod Laver Arena	25,824 / 29,727	$3,203,621
11 February 2018
13 February 2018 [23]
16 February 2018	Adelaide		Adelaide Entertainment Centre	7,202 / 7,765	$904,922
20 February 2018	Perth		Perth Arena	12,624 / 12,707	$1,546,760
Europe[24]
13 April 2018	Barcelona	Spain	Palau Sant Jordi	26,070 / 30,258	$2,339,029
14 April 2018
17 April 2018	Milan	Italy	Mediolanum Forum	19,094 / 19,094	$2,124,221
18 April 2018
21 April 2018	Bologna		Unipol Arena	48,400 / 64,844	$4,379,175
22 April 2018
24 April 2018
25 April 2018
27 April 2018	Prague	Czech Republic	O2 Arena	30,764 / 30,764	$2,770,112
28 April 2018
2 May 2018	Budapest	Hungary	Budapest Sports Arena	13,332 / 13,380	$1,072,031
4 May 2018	Sofia	Bulgaria	Arena Armeec	13,564 / 14,750	$856,600
6 May 2018	Zagreb	Croatia	Arena Zagreb	14,471 / 15,705	$925,312
9 May 2018	Lyon	France	Halle Tony Garnier	13,788 / 13,788	$1,147,029
11 May 2018	Antwerp	Belgium	Sportpaleis	25,929 / 29,602	$2,694,928
12 May 2018
14 May 2018	Hamburg	Germany	Barclaycard Arena	10,652 / 11,696	$1,218,910
16 May 2018	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle	9,758 / 9,852	$1,277,703
20 May 2018	Lisbon	Portugal	Altice Arena	32,068 / 32,068	$2,563,839
21 May 2018
24 May 2018	Madrid	Spain	WiZink Center	28,402 / 32,722	$2,835,089
25 May 2018
28 May 2018	Zürich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion	16,942 / 19,000	$2,806,270
29 May 2018
1 June 2018	Berlin	Germany	Mercedes-Benz Arena	23,059 / 23,059	$2,483,560
2 June 2018
4 June 2018	Mannheim		SAP Arena	9,239 / 9,361	$1,084,250
8 June 2018	Nanterre	France	U Arena	45,639 / 56,540	$4,281,563
9 June 2018
11 June 2018	Cologne	Germany	Lanxess Arena	13,530 / 13,555	$1,508,170
13 June 2018	Munich		Olympiahalle	10,711 / 10,751	$1,284,431
16 June 2018	Lille	France	Stade Pierre-Mauroy	23,649 / 27,137	$1,903,451
18 June 2018[e]	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Ziggo Dome	56,524 / 58,620	$5,146,945
19 June 2018[e]
22 June 2018[e]
23 June 2018[e]
26 June 2018	Dublin	Ireland	3Arena	15,226 / 16,506	$1,885,287
27 June 2018
29 June 2018	Glasgow	Scotland	SSE Hydro	19,678 / 20,042	$2,404,309
30 June 2018
2 July 2018	Liverpool	England	Echo Arena Liverpool	9,103 / 9,192	$1,097,010
3 July 2018	Manchester		Manchester Arena	11,478 / 13,697	$1,361,650
6 July 2018[f]	London		Hyde Park	—	—
7 July 2018	Birmingham		Arena Birmingham	11,319 / 11,391	$1,358,340
11 July 2018	Lucca	Italy	Lucca City Walls	18,680 / 23,000	$2,111,898
14 July 2018	Rome		Circus Maximus	30,710 / 33,800	$3,003,301
3 August 2018	Kraków	Poland	Tauron Arena Kraków	16,937 / 17,054	$1,390,587
5 August 2018	Gdańsk		Ergo Arena	12,092 / 12,293	$1,009,888
7 August 2018	Herning	Denmark	Jyske Bank Boxen	10,040 / 10,444	$1,350,013
10 August 2018	Copenhagen		Royal Arena	23,512 / 24,270	$3,217,551
11 August 2018
14 August 2018	Oslo	Norway	Telenor Arena	33,596 / 38,808	$3,712,435
15 August 2018
18 August 2018	Stockholm	Sweden	Friends Arena	19,043 / 19,238	$1,782,758
21 August 2018	Helsinki	Finland	Hartwall Arena	10,632 / 10,632	$1,094,232
24 August 2018	Riga	Latvia	Arēna Rīga	8,151 / 8,336	$1,082,662
26 August 2018	Kaunas	Lithuania	Žalgiris Arena	10,622 / 11,077	$931,553
29 August 2018	St. Petersburg	Russia	SKK Peterburgskiy	13,047 / 18,708	$1,061,555
31 August 2018	Moscow		SK Olimpiyskiy	23,045 / 25,027	$2,161,790
Latin America
9 October 2018	São Paulo	Brazil	Allianz Parque	81,545 / 86,860	$6,542,670
10 October 2018
13 October 2018	Brasília		Estádio Mané Garrincha	50,478 / 55,342	$3,142,130
17 October 2018	Salvador		Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova	28,477 / 54,493	$1,410,590
21 October 2018	Belo Horizonte		Mineirão	49,709 / 50,987	$3,690,650
24 October 2018	Rio de Janeiro		Maracanã Stadium	43,727 / 63,843	$2,412,970
27 October 2018	Curitiba		Estádio Couto Pereira	41,833 / 42,325	$3,106,950
30 October 2018	Porto Alegre		Estádio Beira-Rio	40,297 / 46,989	$3,814,250
3 November 2018	Montevideo	Uruguay	Estadio Centenario	40,103 / 47,500	$3,038,885
6 November 2018	La Plata	Argentina	Estadio Ciudad de La Plata	80,693 / 89,252	$5,318,280
10 November 2018
14 November 2018	Santiago	Chile	Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos	52,624 / 52,624	$5,020,763
17 November 2018[g]	Lima	Peru	Estadio Monumental "U"	21,830 / 28,000	$2,204,038
21 November 2018	Bogotá	Colombia	Estadio El Campín	29,682 / 32,789	$3,212,948
24 November 2018	San José	Costa Rica	Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica	46,111 / 47,101	$3,285,421
28 November 2018	Mexico City	Mexico	Palacio de los Deportes	42,654 / 43,191	$4,264,174
29 November 2018
1 December 2018
4 December 2018	Guadalajara		VFG Arena	25,123 / 26,062	$2,745,495
5 December 2018
8 December 2018	Monterrey		Monterrey Arena	16,996 / 19,084	$1,618,985
9 December 2018
Total				2,312,023 / 2,533,258 (91.2%)	$261,784,386

Notes

1. Production rehearsal.^[19]
2. The score data is combined from the shows held at the Staples Center from 20, 21 & 27 June 2017 respectively.
3. The score data is combined from the shows held at the United Center from 22, 23 & 28 July 2017 respectively.
4. The score data is combined from the shows held at the Air Canada Centre from 2, 3 & 13 October 2017 respectively.
5. This show was filmed for the Roger Waters: Us + Them film.
6. The concert on 6 July 2018 at Hyde Park in London was part of the British Summer Time.
7. The show on 17 November 2018 in Lima was originally scheduled in the National Stadium but it was moved to the Monumental Stadium for unknown reasons.