{"id":1657156,"date":"2022-09-25T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T13:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657156"},"modified":"2022-09-25T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T13:50:47","slug":"polish-venue-cancels-roger-waters-gigs-after-ukraine-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/polish-venue-cancels-roger-waters-gigs-after-ukraine-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish venue cancels Roger Waters gigs after Ukraine comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolish-venue-cancels-roger-waters-gigs-after-ukraine-comments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657156&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>WARSAW (Reuters) \u2013     Concerts by Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters were cancelled by a venue in the Polish city of Krakow, organisers said on Sunday, after the artist\u2019s comments on the war in Ukraine caused a storm of criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Waters had been due to appear in Krakow next April, but Polish media reports about an open letter he wrote to Ukraine\u2019s first lady Olena Zelenska urging her to ask her husband to choose \u201ca different route\u201d and criticising the West for supplying Ukraine with arms provoked a fierce backlash.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cLive Nation Polska and Tauron Arena Krakow have cancelled Roger Waters\u2019 concert,\u201d organisers said in a statement on the venue\u2019s website. They did not elaborate on the reason for the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, state-run news agency PAP reported that a spokesperson for the Tauron Arena had said that Walters\u2019 management had cancelled the concert without giving a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Poland counts itself among Kyiv\u2019s staunchest allies, and public support for the Ukrainian cause is very high.<\/p>\n<p>Local councillors in Krakow had been due to vote on a resolution declaring Waters \u2018Persona non grata\u2019 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, Waters said that it was not true that he or his management had cancelled the concerts and criticised local councillor Lukasz Wantuch over the vote to declare him unwelcome in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLukasz Wantuch has threatened to hold a meeting asking the council to declare me \u2018Persona non grata\u2019 because of my public efforts to encourage all involved in the disastrous war in Ukraine, especially the governments of the USA and Russia, to work towards a negotiated peace,\u201d Waters wrote in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Mr Lukasz Wantuch achieves his aim, and my forthcoming concerts in Krakow are cancelled, it will be a sad loss for me, because I have been looking forward to sharing my message of love with the people of Poland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wantuch said in a Facebook post on Sunday morning that he was in Ukraine and would comment on Waters\u2019 statement in the evening.    <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Alan Charlish; Editing by Susan Fenton)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/polish-venue-cancels-roger\/attachment\/file-photo-former-rock-band-pink-floyd-musician-roger-waters\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8O052-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8O052-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW (Reuters) \u2013 Concerts by Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters were cancelled by a venue in the Polish city of Krakow, organisers said on Sunday, after the artist\u2019s comments on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}