Pink Floyd bass player and singer Roger Waters is to bring his ambitious staging of The Wall album to Dublin next year.
The Wall 2011 will be an updated version of the stage production that the band undertook in 1980, but only played 31 shows worldwide. The show was also the subject of a one-off in Berlin in 1990 to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The production at the O2 on May 23rd next year will involve one of the largest stages ever seen in Ireland. It will feature a massive wall that will be constructed and torn down as the show progresses. Waters said that he will be utilising modern technology to project many of the familiar images from the original Wall tour and the 1982 film of the same name, which starred Bob Geldof, but the music will be the same.
The show will also feature the celebrated work of illustrator Gerald Scarfe who designed the famous walking hammers motif for the tour and movie.
The Wall was originally partially inspired by the death of Waters's father in the second World War just five months after his son was born. Waters said he would be inviting people to post photographs of loved ones lost in conflict which will be projected on the face of the wall during the show.
Peter Aiken of Aiken Promotions said he hoped Waters would add a second show to his Irish dates. "This is going to stretch from one end of the O2 to the other. The wall is 260 feet wide and the O2 is 266 feet wide. This show could not happen without the O2 being built. We are delighted this is coming to Dublin."
Tickets will be priced from €59.80 to €86.20 and go on sale next Thursday from Ticketmaster.