It's no Cinderella reunion, but it'll do:
The Police have booked rehearsal space for their upcoming reunion tour, according to reports.
The news seems to confirm claims that the band are on the brink of reforming, more than 20 years since they last played live.
Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland are expected to reunite at Lions Gate Studios in Vancouver in the coming weeks to work on material.
With the group currently celebrating the 30th anniversary of their breakthrough hit "Roxanne," details of a full world tour are expected shortly, reports Billboard.
The Police came to Houston in 1984 on their Synchronicity tour and played an amazing show. Of course, I was in 9th grade and living in College Station and the chances of my parents letting me go to the Big City for a rock concert were essentially nil, so I had to hear all about it from Peenman's older brother, who was a senior at the time and gloated about it endlessly while driving us to school. True story.
Anyway, it's pretty common knowledge the three met briefly in Park City at last year's Sundance Film Festival, where Copeland was promoting Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out, Sting was producing A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and Summers was bumming quarters. Nothing reportedly came of that particular meeting, but now it looks like I might finally get a chance to see one of my favorite bands of all time live.
Especially since Queen probably won't be reuniting in the near future.
Andy Summers gotta be at least 70 now (checks). Nope, just 64.
I too had to hear of that Houston show (at the Summit, before it became a house of ungodly worship) from my older brother. He did at least bring me a pin. Yeah, I’ll plunk down some fat cash to see them if they tour, and the whole time I’ll be thinking, “Fuck Sting.”
What do you hear of a proposed picture with Johnnie Depp as Freddie Mercury???
I am the older brother of whom Basshole speaks, and yup, I drove down from College Station to Houston in November 1983 to see the Police, either in my kickass puke-yellow 1975 Dodge Dart or my buddy Chris’ spraypaint-blue Datsun 240Z. But truth is I don’t remember a damn thing about that night. After a massive amount of warm Schaefer and cheap pot in the parking lot the show itself was a blur. Ah, Texas youth.
Rumor has it that LZ is planning a tour:Paige/Plant/Jones/Lil’ Bonham.