After a 4-year hiatus from the road, Roger Waters’ “This Is Not A Drill” 2022 North American tour finally landed in Toronto last night at Scotiabank Arena on July 8th. This tour features Waters performing “in the round” on a customized stage with a massive intersecting video feature that was truly impressive. Before the show, people were photographing this darkened stage structure like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, as an occasional glitch of intermittent noise echoed throughout the venue, sounding like a winged insect landing on a microphone. Originally scheduled to begin at 8 pm, Waters eventually took the stage at 8:45 pm, giving patrons extra time to enter the venue. The nationwide Rogers data outage experienced throughout the day cast doubt on whether the concert would even ...
