Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Denies Reports Saying He Cancelled Poland Concerts After War Comments

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters lambasted several papers for misreporting that he chose to cancel shows in Krakow, Poland as part of his European tour.

Waters has taken some heat for comments he made about the Ukrainian invasion.

Waters posted a screed to Facebook directed towards journalists from The Guardian and Krakow’s local paper Gazeta Krakowska saying the calls for a cancellation came not from him or his team, but from a Krakow town councilor.

The venue, Tauron Arena Kraków, canceled the shows this past weekend.

He said that councilor Łukasz Wantuch, “threatened to hold a meeting asking the council to declare me ‘Persona non grata’ 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.”

The musician also wrote in a public rebuttal he shared to the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska more thoughts about this theory.

“What I am suggesting is that the only sane course is for all sides, and I say all sides, not both sides, because this is clearly a proxy war that involves the USA, so all sides need to agree to an unconditional ceasefire and the beginning of talks,” Waters said.

Zelenska had taken issue with statements Waters made about the actions of Ukrainian nationalists that set Ukraine “on the path to this disastrous war.”

He also said in his letter to Zelenska, “You were so close to a ceasefire. I smell interference from Washington. I’m prepared to be wrong of course, but in my experience it smells like fish and it looks fishy.”