I loved hearing David's backstage story! Further to what somebody asked, the Dublin show on October 6th was also outdoors - the venue was Croke Park, and it was GREAT! Angeline
The review, Sorry for the late review: I was at the Dublin gig in Croke Park, Ireland and yes it was outdoors with 80,000+ fans. The sound was just awesome. I saw Sting and 2 old guys sing and play some Police songs. That's it, really! To say that I was disappointed was an understatement. I was standing in the "Gold Circle" area, which was right in front of the stage and could almost touch them. Fiction Plane came out and blasted our ear drums off. Brilliant sound and great energy. Fronted by a young Sting with hair. The Police came out to a huge, and I mean huge reception, the place just went bananas. Usual set list. Sting was skinny in his black leotard. Andy came out on his walker. Stewart came out and didn't even look at the crowd. They played a few songs and Sting did his usual walking from side of one stage to another mumbling some shit to himself. A few songs in, Sting spoke to the crowd just before they played DSSCTM about when he wrote it when he was living in Ireland. That was the only thing said by any of the of 3 them for the whole concert!! No joking about, no interplay. Nothing. This is what disappointed the most. Andy looked like he was about to have a stroke, the whole way through the gig but was brilliant anyway Stewart just blew me away. His facial expressions are just comical. He was flawless that night. Sting was Sting. To me, it was a Sting concert with the 2 others from The Police. Another disappointment. The best song by far on the night, for me, was their version of Wrapped Around Your Finger. This belonged to Stewart. I dunno, maybe it was just me - I had been expecting so much more. As a life long Police and mainly a Sting fan .... the concert was good. Not excellent as I thought it was going to me. Don't kill me for this .... I went to George Michael's concert in August in Dublin, and it was UNBELIEVABLE and was THE best concert this year BY FAR! Jason in Ireland
Saw Roger Hodgson a couple of weeks ago at Rama. Way way better than any police or Sting show (excluding Aug 11, 96). Roger actually cracks jokes, talks to the crowd, unscripted. Not slagging the Police. It's just they don't put on a show. They simply perform. -----Original Message----- From: police-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:police-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Jason_Daly@dell.com Sent: November 21, 2007 7:30 PM To: angeline.adams@gmail.com; police@mailman.xmission.com Subject: RE: [Police] The Dublin Show. The review, Sorry for the late review: I was at the Dublin gig in Croke Park, Ireland and yes it was outdoors with 80,000+ fans. The sound was just awesome. I saw Sting and 2 old guys sing and play some Police songs. That's it, really! To say that I was disappointed was an understatement. I was standing in the "Gold Circle" area, which was right in front of the stage and could almost touch them. Fiction Plane came out and blasted our ear drums off. Brilliant sound and great energy. Fronted by a young Sting with hair. The Police came out to a huge, and I mean huge reception, the place just went bananas. Usual set list. Sting was skinny in his black leotard. Andy came out on his walker. Stewart came out and didn't even look at the crowd. They played a few songs and Sting did his usual walking from side of one stage to another mumbling some shit to himself. A few songs in, Sting spoke to the crowd just before they played DSSCTM about when he wrote it when he was living in Ireland. That was the only thing said by any of the of 3 them for the whole concert!! No joking about, no interplay. Nothing. This is what disappointed the most. Andy looked like he was about to have a stroke, the whole way through the gig but was brilliant anyway Stewart just blew me away. His facial expressions are just comical. He was flawless that night. Sting was Sting. To me, it was a Sting concert with the 2 others from The Police. Another disappointment. The best song by far on the night, for me, was their version of Wrapped Around Your Finger. This belonged to Stewart. I dunno, maybe it was just me - I had been expecting so much more. As a life long Police and mainly a Sting fan .... the concert was good. Not excellent as I thought it was going to me. Don't kill me for this .... I went to George Michael's concert in August in Dublin, and it was UNBELIEVABLE and was THE best concert this year BY FAR! Jason in Ireland
Saw Roger Hodgson a couple of weeks ago at Rama. Way way better than any police or Sting show (excluding Aug 11, 96). Roger actually cracks jokes, talks to the crowd, unscripted. Not slagging the Police. It's just they don't put on a show. They simply perform. -----Original Message----- From: police-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:police-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Jason_Daly@dell.com Sent: November 21, 2007 7:30 PM To: angeline.adams@gmail.com; police@mailman.xmission.com Subject: RE: [Police] The Dublin Show. The review, Sorry for the late review: I was at the Dublin gig in Croke Park, Ireland and yes it was outdoors with 80,000+ fans. The sound was just awesome. I saw Sting and 2 old guys sing and play some Police songs. That's it, really! To say that I was disappointed was an understatement. I was standing in the "Gold Circle" area, which was right in front of the stage and could almost touch them. Fiction Plane came out and blasted our ear drums off. Brilliant sound and great energy. Fronted by a young Sting with hair. The Police came out to a huge, and I mean huge reception, the place just went bananas. Usual set list. Sting was skinny in his black leotard. Andy came out on his walker. Stewart came out and didn't even look at the crowd. They played a few songs and Sting did his usual walking from side of one stage to another mumbling some shit to himself. A few songs in, Sting spoke to the crowd just before they played DSSCTM about when he wrote it when he was living in Ireland. That was the only thing said by any of the of 3 them for the whole concert!! No joking about, no interplay. Nothing. This is what disappointed the most. Andy looked like he was about to have a stroke, the whole way through the gig but was brilliant anyway Stewart just blew me away. His facial expressions are just comical. He was flawless that night. Sting was Sting. To me, it was a Sting concert with the 2 others from The Police. Another disappointment. The best song by far on the night, for me, was their version of Wrapped Around Your Finger. This belonged to Stewart. I dunno, maybe it was just me - I had been expecting so much more. As a life long Police and mainly a Sting fan .... the concert was good. Not excellent as I thought it was going to me. Don't kill me for this .... I went to George Michael's concert in August in Dublin, and it was UNBELIEVABLE and was THE best concert this year BY FAR! Jason in Ireland
A few songs in, Sting spoke to the crowd just before they played DSSCTM about when he wrote it when he was living in Ireland. That was the only thing said by any of the of 3 them for the whole concert!! No joking about, no interplay. Nothing. This is what disappointed the most.
I remember some other stuff, but it was very recognizable as the scripted banter mentioned in other fans' show reports. Like the part about some song having been written in 1856... I forget which one that was. And there's the part at the end where they go off, and Andy looks around like they've forgotten him... then they come back and do Next To You. Actually, I tell a lie. There was some exhortation from Sting to "make some fucking noise" a couple of times (in a good way), and also for everyone to get their hands in the air for Voices... I'm always going to remember the sight of the sea of hands in front of us. Also, I'm wondering if he actually did write DSSCTM when living in Ireland. My understanding is that that honour belongs to Demolition Man, which I understand he wrote at Peter O'Toole's home. He didn't move to Galway until 1980, the year DSSCTM came out. So it's still possible, but... I realize it sounds kind of crazy and presumptuous to suggest that someone's anecdotes about his own life/work are wrong, but I've heard him mix up song lyrics and other such details enough times for a little flag to pop up in my brain. Not that it matters. For me it was a great night, though I also didn't have the kind of huge ecstatic response I'd expected. That may have a lot to do with the kind of year I had, though (serious illness for me, and my bf's badly broken hand, meant that until a couple of weeks before the show we were afraid we wouldn't get there, which meant I couldn't let myself get hyped up). The best song by far on the night, for me, was their version of Wrapped
Around Your Finger. This belonged to Stewart.
Word. I loved that; it was a total surprise to me when they used all those other instruments, because I hadn't been looking at many videos of other concerts on YouTube. Didn't want to come to the concert feeling like I knew every guitar flourish already... Angeline
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