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Sun 30 Sep – The Police

Message in a Bottle
Synchronicity II
Walking on the Moon
Voices Inside My Head / When the World Is Running Down
Don't Stand So Close to Me
Driven To Tears
Hole In My Life / Hit The Road Jack
Truth Hits Everybody
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Wrapped Around Your Finger
De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
Invisible Sun
Walking In Your Footsteps
Can't Stand Losing You
Roxanne
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King Of Pain / So Lonely
Every Breath You Take
Next To You (feat. Henry PADOVANI)

Na to czekam - podobno to oficjalna setlista
The Police,Chorzów
European II

(Based on Marseille, France show, June 3, 2008.)
Songs
Message in a Bottle
Walking on the Moon
Demolition Man
Voices Inside My Head / When the World Is Running Down
Don't Stand So Close to Me
Driven To Tears
Hole In My Life
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Wrapped Around Your Finger
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Invisible Sun
Can't Stand Losing You/Reggatta De Blanc
Encore I
Roxanne
King Of Pain
So Lonely
Every Breath You Take
Encore II
Next To You

1-Tom Sawyer

2-Start Me Up

3-Under Pressure

4-Spirits In The Material World

5-Radio Free Europe

6-Don't Stop Believing

7-Limelight

8-Invisible Sun

9-Elephant Talk

10-Rise Above

11-Give It To Me Baby

12-Omegaman

13-Tainted Love

14-Titles

15-Vital Signs

Sat 19 Jan – The Police

Supporting The Police were Fiction Plane and Fergie.

Starting off right on time at 7:30pm were Fiction Plane- I only found out a while before the show that their frontman is Sting's son, so that altered my perceptions of them a bit. Overall I quite enjoyed them: despite not having heard any studio recordings from them, they sounded vaguely like The Killers with some good instrumentation, perhaps a touch of Police sound as well? Anyway they were cool, though not many people seemed to dig them, as with any opening band.

I wasn't keen at all on seeing Fergie, so after Fiction Plane I went to walk around and get some food for my lazy companions and missed the first few minutes. I did -hear- it though, cringing so hard at the opening lines of some recorded voice, "the Dutchess is coming!" etc, very cheesy in my opinion.

However when I actually sat down I could see she knew how to put on a good show. Having a full dance group of about 7 people and a full backing band there was a lot to look at. …

Thu 24 Jan – The Police

From my blog, on the Sydney concert (The Police):

Bloody hell, that was amazing.

They opened with Message in a Bottle, ended with Roxanne, then completed the encores with the classic finale, Next To You. At least 15 other tracks were included beyond that.

The highlights:

Stewart Copeland's moment to shine was his percussion-work on Wrapped Around Your Finger. Bloody awesome -- the guy’s a legend and one of the best rock drummers/percussionists aroundHole In My Life rocked outAndy Summers cranked out some blistering solos in the most unlikely of placesSting really knows how to work a crowd

What was just the best thing ever was the fact that almost every song had a fresh arrangement that allowed Summers a lot more breathing room than the originals. Copeland's creativity just consistently blows me away. And Sting had a beard that he grew in Byron Bay.

The whole thing just felt looser and more improvised, even though it was all obviously well-rehearsed. …

Thu 13 Sep – The Police, Fiction Plane

Who: The Police
Support act(s): Fiction Plane
When: 2007-09-13
Where: Amsterdam ArenA, The Netherlands

I’ve always preferred the Police over Sting. I just liked their songs a bit more. I have no idea anymore what the first Police song was that I heard, but it’s undoubtedly one of the big hits. Every Breath You Take probably, which is one of my least favourite Police tracks. It’s a big overplayed, I think.

The support act came in the form of Fiction Plane, aka the band of Stings son. Of course I was a bit sceptical at first, but when I heard their album I kinda started to like them. And I loved their little set, even though his voice sounds a ridiculous lot like Stings (actually, me and my friend were convinced he is the love-child of Sting and Bono). But I’ll see them again tomorrow, and I’m curious how they will carry a ‘real’ concert.

Setlist
Message in a Bottle
Synchronicity II
Walking on the Moon
Voices Inside My Head / When the World Is Running Down
…

I went to my dashboard and was pleasantly surprised to find all 15 of my friends just listened spots occupied with "just listened". First time I'd seen this in the year that I've been here!

They have been chosen as contestants in my 10 Tracks contest.

Fear not there is no physical activity on your part involved. All you have to do is hope the first ten songs played on your radio score enough points to achieve the highest score.

Artists will be rated based on my top 500 artists as such:

Artists that appear between 1 and 100 will be given 10 points
Artists that appear between 101 and 200 will be given 7 points
Artists that appear between 201 and 300 will be given 5 points
Artists that appear between 301 and 400 will be given 3 points
Artists that appear between 401 and 500 will be given 1 points

Artists that do not appear on my list will be disqualified and not eligible for any points whatsoever!
However, I have captured a list of bonus artists/song (by any artist)…