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Roger Waters is set to re-visit Pink Floyd's The Wall on a tour to mark its 30th anniversary.

The former Pink Floyd bassist will perform the piece in it's entirety for the first time in over 20 years, taking it throughout Europe with 26 dates announced today, and also hinting this could be his last major tour.

The original The Wall tour was a logistically complex and hugely expensive undertaking, however advancements in technology and new concert arenas are said to have made such a spectacle more road-friendly, and with months of planning completed, Waters is happy the original inventive aural and visual experience and theatrics it is renowned for can be recreated, "Projection systems now are completely different from what they were then, which means that I would be able to project over the entire 240-foot expanse of the wall ... which we couldn't do in those days," says Roger.

"Thirty years ago when I wrote The Wall, I was a frightened young man," he recalls. "In the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with its concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, whatever! All these issues and 'isms are driven by the same fears that drove my young life."

Boasting Pink Floyd classics, Comfortably Numb, Mother, Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2, Run Like Hell and Young Lust, The Wall resonated with millions and was a huge success upon its release in 1980.

Based around the themes of alienation and transformation, the live performance of it begins with the band visible, as the show progresses they are slowly obscured by a wall built brick-by-brick dividing them and the audience onto which visuals are projected. Pointing out that it's by no means a historical piece Waters highlighted the parallels within the show, which he last performed to mark the dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1990. "When we first did it, we were after the end of the Vietnam War, and we're right now in the middle of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, so there's a very powerful anti-war message in The Wall. There was then and there still is now," he notes.

Explaining that original illustrator Gerald Scarfe is again involved in creating new art, puppetry and inflatable objects for the stage show, he is also using his new website to ask for relatives of soldiers killed in these conflicts to submit photographs of their loved ones to be used in the piece, illustrating how each victim becomes a brick in a larger metaphorical wall, "This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years," he adds.

Ticket information and further details for each show are available from Roger Waters' website.

TOUR DATES BELOW VIDEO

Beginning in March 2011, the tour will take in major European cities, with the following dates announced today:

ROGER WATERS - THE WALL LIVE, EUROPE 2011

MARCH
MON 21 PORTUGAL LISBON ATLANTICO PAVILION
FRI 25 SPAIN MADRID SPORTS PALACE
TUE 29 SPAIN BARCELONA ST JORDI

APRIL
FRI 1 ITALY MILAN FORUM
SAT 2 ITALY MILAN FORUM
FRI 8 NETHERLANDS ARNHEM GELREDOME
TUE 12 HUNGARY BUDAPEST SPORTS ARENA
FRI 15 CZECH REPUBLIC PRAGUE O2 ARENA
MON 18 POLAND LODZ HALA ARENA
SAT 23 RUSSIA MOSCOW OLYMPISKI
MON 25 RUSSIA ST PETERSBURG SKK ARENA
SAT 30 NORWAY OSLO TELENOR

MAY
WED 4 SWEDEN STOCKHOLM GLOBE
SAT 7 DENMARK COPENHAGEN PARKEN
WED 11 UK LONDON O2 ARENA
THUR 12 UK LONDON O2 ARENA
TUE 17 UK LONDON O2 ARENA
FRID 20 UK MANCHESTER MEN ARENA
SAT 21 UK MANCHESTER MEN ARENA
MON 23 IRELAND DUBLIN O2 ARENA
FRI 27 BELGIUM ANTWERP SPORTS PALACE
MON 30 FRANCE PARIS BERCY

JUNE
FRI 3 GERMANY MANNHEIM SAP ARENA
MON 6 SWITZERLAND ZURICH HALLENSTADION
FRI 10 GERMANY HAMBURG COLORLINE ARENA
WED 15 GERMANY BERLIN O2 ARENA
SAT 18 GERMANY DUSSELDORF ESPRIT ARENA

He will also be preforming The Wall in Helsinki, Finland with further details being announced on August 30, 2010.

12:00 PM | 27/05/2010