In this issue :
All unknown songs Andy/Stewart/Sting
Wendy and Dave report from Newcastle
Finsbury Park 1996 bootleg
Rerelease Synchronicity in Japan
Italian 1997 dates
German TV dates for December 1996
Ruediger asks if anyone knows were to find these tittles?
Sting: 1 800 SPICE/ONE EIGHT HUNDRED SPICE BICYCLE HEALING HANDS LOCK MY HEART AWAY NEXT LEVEL REMIX SAMPLED KING SIEMPRE TE AMARE TEST ADD BARBIE WE COULD NEVER BE FRIENDS Stewart: BATTLE FIGURINE HARMONICA IMPROV JUDGEMENT R T W TEST ADD BARBIE TROUBLE AGAIN Andy: 100 RIFLES/HUNDRED RIFLES BIG O BIRDS AND BELLS BLUES BLUES C/C BLUES BLUES HENDRIX BACKWARDS BURKE AND HARE BURN THE CHURCH CABANA MIRROR CARMEN'S LATIN TV MUSIC COSTA DELL HELL D BLUES DANCE DON'T RESIST DANCE WITH THE DEAD DEVO DIZZY SPELL DUST MY BROOM EVERYBODY/-ONE LIKES MONKEYS F M THREE/FM3 FALSE FAREWELL FAMILY IN A SUITCASE FAST C ROCK FUNKY AQUARELLE G METAL GERMS HAWAIIAN PARADISE HEAVY A HIDE ALA SANBORN HONK I CAN ALMOST I COULDN'T TEAR MYSELF AWAY JERRY IN MIRROR JERRY READING IN THE POOL JERRY SEARCHES ALLEY LIGHT CHANGES/CHARGES LITTLE PERSIA MAHARIST ROCK G MATISSE ROLLS OVER MAX S LIPSTICK MEASURE OF SIERRE PADRE NICE DAY FOR A HOMOCIDE ORANGE LIPSTICK ORGASM OUT OF TIME PEACE O MINE SAXY REGGAE SEVEN DAYS SHUFFLE SLOW BLUES STAN LIKES MAKING BABIES SUSPECT TEST ADD BARBIE TFM TRAINING MATISSE WEEKEND AT BERNIES WOMAN OH WOMAN
From: Dave & Wendy
OK as promised:
We were the first to arrive at Dunes about 12 noon just as Phil's resident band "Revolver" were doing their sound check. They sounded good playing Roxanne so that was a promising start. Next up, Jeremy and Sam arrived in Jeremy's rather cool Toyota MR2 and parked right on the seafront outside the bar (Poser !). The wind was blowing hard, and sleet and snow continued to fall. Dunes is right on the seafront and we were treated to the rather bleak sight of the wild wild sea smashing onto the beach as we sat and nursed our drinks. Then a few Outlandos members including Stina from Spain and Iris
(Hi Iris !) from Germany arrived. Meanwhile, Phil Sumner had taken a call behind the bar and was heard giving directions....
Whilst we all 'bonded' the bar started to fill with Phil's regular customers. Word got round that the DSA would be late as one of their two coaches had trouble and they decided to wait and all travel together.
Revolver hung back and waited for the arrival of the DSA coaches, and once Peterlien, Luuk, Martin N, Magda, Benjamin and about 90 others (including Guido and his friends from Italy) had crammed into the bar the band started. Revolver were pretty good and very loud in the small bar. Playing covers by
artists like INXS, Black Crowes, U2, Cameo, Oasis, Paul Weller, the Police and Sting the band were well received. Excellent versions of Roxanne, Message in a Bottle and You Still Touch Me left the crowd in an anticapatory mood for the evening.
Tina and two minibuses of Outlandos members were nowhere to be seen, having been caught in the foul weather heading south from Glasgow and the previous night's show. Eventually one minibus turned up with Stevie Welsh, Paul Carter, John Dickson and Jane Sagr arrived but Tina's bus was missing - and
several people were waiting for their tickets from her. Mild panic was setting in....
Once the band had finished, Phil was given a video tape of Ross's outstanding solo effort on stage with Sting in Vancouver. If you haven't seen this - it is pretty awesome. Ross (Cool as a Cucumber Like) Viner gets on stage, engages Sting in some banter [asking him to sign a 20 square foot banner !], and then blows Sting sideways by not only singing in tune, but belting out the long notes. Sting's impressed sideways looks are caught well in the video and at one point you actually see him drop the long note on "how its all connected" and let Ross hold the note for him. As the song reaches its climax Ross loses the plot and leaps up and down like a demented madman - as well he should. "Thank you Ross, that wasn't bad" says Sting who looked genuinely impressed. (Note for Jake - if only we had had a tape of you too !]
Whilst the video played the bar was pretty quite as Phil joined in the banter, and everyone watched the screens whilst we yelled encouragement - "Go for it Ross!". Phil did the rounds posing for photos, signing things, (looking suitably embarrassed) and taking Benjamin and later Jeremy into his beer cellar to conduct a 15 minute interview. Once Benjamin has had the tape translated he'll let us know what was said (looking forward to it BJ). Phil was obviously very keen on the band and had hoped to persuade Sting to allow him to join him on stage that night for ISHICSC. This could have given Ross some competition, but as it didn't happen the legend remains intact. As for Phil he was great host, a real down to earth no bullshit type of guy, who found time to speak to everyone and anyone.
In the meantime Tina had arrived to dish out the outstanding tickets and we all started to get ready to leave for the Arena. Thanks to his unplanned interview Benjamin had missed his coach so hitched a lift with us. The Arena is fairly new venue, part financed by the late Chas Chandler (ex-Animal) and Nigel Stanger (ex Newcastle Big Band). Security was lax getting in with no frisking or searching, but once inside the security staff were keen eyed for camera flashes. Paul Carrack played a short support set including "Over my Shoulder", "Tempted" and "How Long", Miles Copeland prowled around the stage area, the press were sheperded to the front and then we ready for Sting. It was no surprise to find that there were no surprises in the set. The setlist [like Aberdeen's and Glasgow] followed that posted by Rogier recently for the Dublin shows in exactly the same format - if anyone needs it we'll be happy to post it. The backdrops were pretty tasteful and simply done. Sting's voice was in fine form after the worries from the previous night but infact his voice seemed as good as we can ever remember hearing it.
The acoustic version of You Still Touch Me is very good. All the band come to the front of the stage, Vinnie takes a tambourine, and Kenny his '$7 organ' as they perform this song. Sting introduces 25 to Midnight as what could have happened had he made a different, wrong decision 20 years ago
when he left Newcastle and went to London to seek his fortune and fame. The very relaxed banter with the four members who got on stage to sing during ISHICSC was enjoyable and they made a pretty good job of the song too. Some of the stage moves are a little predictable - the shuffle across the stage
during BOTN/WTWIRD, the leaning on the amp and looking into the audience before starting Englishman etc.. but what the hell, the man rocks and we loved it. Having heard Roxanne live quite a few times now, it is nice to hear it reworked into a very lengthy, brassy version and Butch & Clark's
moves were good to see. Lithium Sunset was the great penultimate show-wrapper-upper that we all knew it would be, and there was the added bonus of having Paul Carrack helping out on vocals. We think the band just gets better - watching Vinnie flailing away, losing and replacing drumsticks, all without missing a beat is quite impressive. It was also good to see Sting recognise the area of the arena where many of the Outlandos and DSA fans were, and nod in recognition in their direction.
Then having said our goodbyes to our new friends on the Mailing List it was time to head south into the freezing fog. Hope you all get back OK. Back home, all kinds of delaying tactics are employed on Jeremy (watch this video Jeremy, another coffee Jeremy ?, why not go and send another e-mail to Ross
& Bill and wind them up Jeremy ? etc] in order to keep his MR2 parked on our driveway as long as
possible in a pathetic attempt to obtain maximum street cred with the neighbours....
Roll on Sheffield on Wednesday, Manchester on Saturday and see some you again in London next week...
Cheers
Dave & Wendy (now minus Jeremy)
From: Ruediger Hoeckel
and yet there is another CD bootleg from the current tour:
STING - My Senses (live Finsbury Park, London 8.6.96, soundboard recording)
source: Hot Wax, Brake/Germany
Bye, Ruediger
From: akakabe@sun.gunmanet.or.jp
Small information of The Police CD. On 21 Nov., Synchronicity CD album(limited edition) is released in Japan. The catalogue No. is POCM-9017, price is 1450 Japanese yen.
Cheerio, Kana
From: guy@galactica.it
For all the italians fans on this list I wish to inform you that Sting is going to play again for the Mercury Falling tour in FEBRUARY in 3 places!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GENOVA - Teatro Carlo Felice on 17.02.96 - only 1200 seats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MILANO - Theatre unknow day unknow
BARI - Theatre unknow day unknow
I am so happy I can't stop crying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CIAO
GUIDO
From: Martin Nickel
Hi FREAKS,
here's some "new" food for your VCR ...
Sat, Dec 7, 23:00-23:30, MTV, Sting unplugged
Sun, Dec 8, 20:15 "Wetten Dass ...?"
Eilenriedehalle, Hannover, Germany
Sting will perform "I'm So Happy"
Tue, Dec 10, 20:15-21:10, SuperRTL
"On Air: Sting - live from Oslo" (Excerpts)
Wed, Dec 11, 01:00-02:00, MTV, Sting unplugged
(that's the night from Wed to Thu)
Sat, Dec 14, 01:00-02:00, ZDF,
(that's the night from Sat to Sun)
Sting Musik-Portrait
aus der Reihe "Power Vision - Pop Galerie"
Cheers,
Martin
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