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Roger Waters at Rogers Centre - A Return to TO - 

I went to see the Wall return Saturday, June 23. This time at the Rogers Centre vs. the Air Canada Centre. I wondered what differences you might get at the two locations and, sure enough, Torontonians got a taste of The Wall stadium show variety. A much larger wall to be sure.

Waters seemed even more relaxed than 19 months ago. If he continues this way, he won't be recognisable as the same man who spat on a fan in Montreal - the incident that began this whole Wall adventure. Waters said as much with a: I'm…Read more

Victoria Day Updates  

Just a few odds and ends to talk about as we near the end of May.  

@thewhiners and @thewhinesband
We've been tweeting a lot more recently.  Decided in April to start RT-ing whiner references as well - even if they weren't about us.  Made some new friends this way. Of course we had the recent Canadian election and did some on the fly tweets during the debates which was quite fun and gave a real sense of being in the moment as others were watching/tweeting too.

Whiners and Losers
We've been calling album #2…Read more

The Wall simply too good to ignore  

I attended all three Wall shows in Toronto and, even a week later, the music is still escalating through my veins.  I can't get it out of my head really.  The entire presentation was stunning from the visuals on down to the actual construction of the Wall in the arena.  You knew it would be happening but to see it was something else!

I tweeted through the entire first show - knowing I would see it again made it easier to tweet actually since it does take your attention away from the show to do that. You…Read more