Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has cancelled live shows deliberate in Poland amid outrage over his stance on Russia’s conflict towards Ukraine, Polish media reported on Saturday.
An official with the Tauron Area in Kraków, the place the musician was scheduled to carry out two live shows in April 2023, stated they'd now not happen.
“Roger Waters’ supervisor determined to withdraw – with out giving any purpose,” Łukasz Pytko, from Tauron Area Kraków, stated in feedback reported by Polish media retailers.
The web site for Waters’ This Is Not a Drill live performance tour didn't listing the Kraków live shows beforehand scheduled for 21 and 22 April.
Metropolis councillors in Kraków had been anticipated to vote subsequent week on a proposal to call Waters as a persona non grata, expressing “indignation” over the musician’s stance on the conflict in Ukraine.
Waters wrote an open letter to the Ukrainian first girl, Olena Zelenska, early this month by which he blamed “excessive nationalists” in Ukraine for having “set your nation on the trail to this disastrous conflict”.
The 79-year-old additionally criticised the west for supplying Ukraine with weapons, blaming Washington, particularly. Waters has additionally condemned Nato, accusing it of frightening Russia.
It's not the primary time that the British songwriter has expressed his views on worldwide politics.
In 2019, he criticised a Stay Assist-style live performance to lift funds for humanitarian help for Venezuela, claiming it's a US-backed effort to tarnish the socialist authorities.
The present within the Colombian border metropolis of Cúcuta aimed to lift hundreds of thousands of dollars to offer meals and medication for Venezuelans struggling widespread shortages.
The row got here as Venezuelan safety forces had been accused of executing dozens of individuals and arbitrarily detaining lots of of others in a marketing campaign to punish individuals who protested towards President Nicolás Maduro.
In 2018 throughout a live performance in Brazil earlier than presidential elections, Waters spoke out towards the rightwing candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who's at the moment president.
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