Roger Waters presents Corbynism the Musical, and, unlike its source material, it is still going. On the 81st night of his tour, This is Not a Drill, there are two demonstrations outside the O2 arena. The first is to Free Julian Assange. A small group holds a cardboard cut-out of Assange (the real Assange is in Belmarsh), here to thank Rogers for his support. The second waves Israeli flags and shouts, “Roger’s a Racist!” and it is better attended, mostly by hecklers. And why not? It has more drama: as Rogers will say later, “It’s theatre, darling!”
This is Not a Drill just left Germany, where there were attempts to ban it. In Frankfurt, he played the venue where Jews were imprisoned after the Kristallnacht riots and in Poland his shows were cancelled. These cries have snowballed: the US government and Keir Starmer have pointed out Waters’s antisemitism. “Sixty fucking years [of making music] and they’re trying to cancel me, and it hurts,” he says later.
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