Roger Waters scraps gigs amid Ukraine war backlash

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters cancelled concerts planned in the country amid outrage over his stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine, Polish media reported on Saturday.

An official at the Tauron Arena in Kraków, where the musician was scheduled to perform two concerts in April 2023, said they would no longer take place.

Waters wrote an open letter to the Ukrainian first lady, Olena Zelenska, early this month in which he blamed “extreme nationalists” in Ukraine for having “set your country on the path to this disastrous war”.