| Author | Message | ||
     Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 91 Registered: 04-2005 |
I thought someone might have had an opinion on this before now.... I've got tickets for Manchester and I'm looking forward to it. Having said that Sting's still a (insert favourate swear word). Do they need the money? Is anyone interested? Are they just overrated-overhypes pillocks? Have your say! Cheers Jon | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 511 Registered: 10-2004 |
I haven't been paying attention to this, but I've always liked the Police. I'm sure the impetus for the reunion was a combination of boredom and cashing in. I suppose anything that keeps Sting from churning out more of his bland, yuppie solo drivel is good, though. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1441 Registered: 05-2005 |
1.no 2.no 3.yes,yes and three times yes | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1318 Registered: 05-2005 |
no...................... no..................... no...................... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1319 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andy Summers looks like he's had a lampshade stuffed into his face! The other look good in a tantric way | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1320 Registered: 05-2005 |
He's gotta be a 103! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 587 Registered: 08-2004 |
It's got to be worth going just to feel young again, in a crowd of fifty-somethings. They're playing Twickenham Stadium, which is only about 5 miles away from me, just a quick hop on the mobility bus. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1341 Registered: 05-2005 |
I must admit, The Police, love em or hate em, then, or now as asshole indivduals, they have been the staple background music in many a pub and club in the bygone days of my youth, so, if I had a ticket, I figure I'd go, purely for that reason alone, we're all along time dead, I'm over The Police, I'm OK, I'm moving on!!!!... | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 109 Registered: 01-2007 |
My wife got some tickets for Manchester, some how it's the rear view -Presumeably of Sting. They were quite expensive, I do like Stu Copeland-he seems grounded nad a good drummer | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 72 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sting goes into the same category as Bono for me. Often in interviews they may come across as funny and smart and self-deprecating, and then they produce music that makes me want to sink my teeth into the throat of a gorilla and tear its jugular out. Also Bryan Ferry. The music, not the jugular. Well, maybe both. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1753 Registered: 05-2005 |
Totally agree Stuart, apart from the bit about them being funny. I find them to be funny, but only because they are such a pair of pompous fools, not because they are witty. Add Collins, McCartney and Elton to the list too. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1683 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thing is who cares? They've always and always will be the usual (pompous) suspects. Its a bit like Johnny Rotten going on about the Queen and the Royal family. Christ get over it man, move oin! You don't even live here for chrissake and everyone else here couldn't care a damn about the monarchy. Ahem, sorry!... | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 110 Registered: 01-2007 |
Thought it was a sore point for many of you, I agree with what you've all said,abot them being pompous/pretentious etc. I thought this would light the torch paper | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 240 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Police were the first "current" band that I got into when I was a teenager after raiding my older sisters and their boyfriends record collections. At the time they seemed slightly radical and not mainstream. If it wasn't for the Police, I guess I would not have found the other side of music that lead me to search out bands like the Go Betweens. I still think "Walking on the Moon" is sublime AND inspired - they were playing white mans pop reggae like they were a jazz combo! I've just had a horrible experience booking Crowdies tickets (as per usual at the Sydney NEVER-get-good-tickets entertainment centre) but I am planning to get up early and queue in person to snaffle Police tickets, and the GOOD (A$250)ones at that. A lot to pay for nostalgia but worth it in my book. For me, they are one of the biggies that I have to see before I leave this mortal coil. So there you go - I'm officially uncool!!!....as if you didn't know already!!!! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 112 Registered: 01-2007 |
They were one of the first bands to break it big from that punk/alternative genre, and I liked the first 2 LPs and still like Message in a bottle despite it being over played etc.I think you are right Geoff a lot of people heard that on the Kid Jensen show on radio 1 in the late seventies and it just opened another world for them.For me it was more the Clash and Jam and Bruce Springsteen.Alot to pay for nostalgia | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1684 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'd quite like to see The Police, don't get me wrong, they were part of the soundtrack to my growing up and getting into music years, from 8-11 | ||
| Austin McLean Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 44 Registered: 09-2004 |
Saw the Police in Detroit and it was by far the best stadium show I've seen in 20 years. I had great seats (11th row!), thanks to a friend with ticket connections, which I think made all the difference. I brought my binoculars, which of course I didn't need since I was so close, but used anyway to basically see each band member in an extreme close up. Sting playing bass without a pick really bugged my friend, who said that many of the parts sounded different to his ear. Stewart was the best part of the show, with boundless energy and a constant smile (sort of like Grand used to have live.) But for me, seeing a band I hadn't seen since the '86 Amnesty shows, and a band that was a HUGE part of my youth that I thought I would never see again, was just spectacular. Really, it was beyond words for me. Anyone thinking of going, I would absolutely without hesitation recommend it! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 124 Registered: 01-2007 |
Oh Austin you've just reopened this can of worms-just as well Kevin is off in australia |