Prepare yourselves for an onslaught of song-related puns. Over the next few months, we’re all about to be subjected to clever doozies like “I’ve read the Message in a Bottle, and it says The Police are getting the band back together.”
The language is still purposefully vague, the commitments missing completely. But the chatter flying around our old mercantile mater is now suggesting we may see a reunion of The Police some time this summer. Several papers in Jolly Ol’ England believe Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland will triple-kiss and make up for a tour around the time of the band’s 30th anniversary:
“Sting is in talks to re-form The Police and tour with the group – 30 years after they were formed. The band, who rank alongside The Rolling Stones and The Beatles among the greats of rock, are considering playing a series of dates in the UK next summer.”
Like GnR’s long-awaited Chinese Democracy release and Sting’s long-delayed tantric release, I’ll believe this piece of reunion news when I actually see it.
Related streaming audio: The Police at NYC’s Bottom Line on 4/3/79; and in Minneapolis on 5/24/79; and in Roslyn, Lawn Gisland on 10/2/79.
4 Responses
The Police could be my favorite old band of 2006. What I mean is that after seeing Everyone Stares, reading One Train Later, and listening to every live show available I fell in love with the Police last year.
As happy as I would be to see them reunite I worry about how it will be musically. The three songs they played at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are fairly awful and I know the band rehersed. The Police was all about those three guys at the peak of their writing and musicianship, a reunion would be a money grab. That being said sometimes seeing a band you never thought see trumps seeing an amazing musical performance.
We got Genesis and Police – lets hope Sting and Phil Collins don’t do an adult/contemporary opening set, otherwise its good
Yeah, I’m with Scott on this one. It wouldn’t be a good thing for them to *try* without having their shit together first — which we know they wouldn’t.
Can you imagine, though?