Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has cancelled concerts planned in Poland due to the outrage over Russia's war against Ukraine, Polish media reported on Saturday.
An official at the Tauron Arena in Krakow, where the musician was scheduled to perform two concerts in April 2023, said they would no longer take place.
The manager of Roger Waters decided to withdraw without giving any reason, said Lukasz Pytko, from Tauron Arena Krakow, in comments made by Polish media outlets.
The Krakow concerts that were originally scheduled for 21 and 22 April were not listed on the website for Waters This Is Not a Drill concert tour.
The proposal to name Waters as a persona non grata was expected to be voted by Krakow councillors next week, expressing indignation over the musician's stance on the war in Ukraine.
Waters wrote an open letter to Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska early this month, in which he blamed extreme nationalists in Ukraine for setting the country on the path to this disastrous war. 79-year-old also criticised Washington, in particular. Waters accused Nato of provoking Russia.
The British songwriter has expressed his views on international politics before, and this is not the first time that he has done so.
In 2019, he criticised Live Aid-style concert to raise funds for humanitarian aid for Venezuela, saying it was a US-backed effort to tarnish the socialist government.
The show in the Colombian border city of C cuta aimed to raise millions of dollars to provide food and medicine to Venezuelans who are currently suffering from widespread shortages.
The row came when Venezuelan security forces were accused of executing dozens of people and arbitrarily detaining hundreds of others in a campaign to punish people who protested against President Nicolas Maduro.
In 2018 during a concert in Brazil before the presidential elections, Waters spoke out against the rightwing candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who is currently president.