Peter Gabriel & Sting 2016 tour

[thatguy]

http://petergabriel.com/news/peter-and-sting-tour-2016/

Peter and Sting Tour 2016
19th January, 2016
We are pleased to announce today that Peter Gabriel and Sting will tour together in the USA and Canada during June & July 2016.

The tour will be entitled Rock Paper Scissors

July 14
San Jose, CA
SAP Center at San Jose

July 17
Los Angeles, CA
Hollywood Bowl

The tour will go on sale in two phases so please check the details based on the city most relevant to you so as not to miss out!

Ticketing details if you want to attend the shows in:
Washington, Philadelphia, NYC-MSG, Toronto, Montreal, San Jose, Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, Calgary & Edmonton

Fan Pre-sale – Wed. Jan. 20 – Friday, Jan. 22  – we will have the link here from 1pm EST on Wednesday 20 Jan.
Venue sales – Friday, Jan. 22 (check locally for times)
Public on sale – Monday, Jan. 25 (check locally for times)


Peter and Sting first toured together in 1986 with Amnesty International in the USA and subsequently the World in 1988 and they have been friends ever since.

“I had a successful tour with Paul Simon, who is someone else I admire greatly, and that worked so well I thought I’d like to do this again… who could I tour with? And then I thought of Peter because we’ve known each other for so long” – Sting

“What intrigues me is that when you get a good bunch of musicians together then interesting things will happen if they are allowed to” – Peter Gabriel

For the shows fans can expect the two artists to be delving into each other’s catalogues to choose songs to perform together and will be doing their own solo slots.

“The interesting thing for me is what happens to our songs when they are juxtaposed with each other’s songs. What I do will change what he does and vice-versa. The songs we trade and the songs that we sing together will have an unexpected result, we hope”, says Sting, whilst Peter adds “For me it’s partly what sounds good in that present incarnation balanced with what people want to hear. You want to try and get both sides and throw in something unfamiliar as well as the hits”.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/152154479

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

RM don't work the SAP. 

[El Dingo]

Some artists produce brilliant music when they go solo to explore their own musical ideas (Peter Gabriel). Some artists produce yuppie-fueled self-important buckets of shit (Sting). Even Peter Gabriel's worst stuff, ("Sledgehammer", "Dirt") is much better than "Man in a Suitcase" or "Englishman in New York".

I'm sure Sting is a very nice man and I do like his acting roles, especially Feyd ("Dune") and "Brimstone and Treacle". He is also slightly less of a dick than Bono, so there's that.

I will just wait for the inevitable Genesis reunion tour (first half with Peter, second half with Phil).

For the record, Sting was fantastic on The Police reunion tour.

[Drunk Monk]

He is also slightly less of a dick than Bono, so there's that.

Funniest comment of the week!

Genesis (with Phil) was my first concert ever.  At least, it was the first one I paid for tickets to.  At the Greek.  I remember it pretty well, despite it being so long ago.  That was the early 80s.  Actually, I'd bought tickets for a Wagnerian Opera at Davies prior to that.

[Drunk Monk]

I got cut off posting earlier cuz I'm at work and they keep inneruptin me.  

I have an indelible image burned into my memory like the dragon and tiger off that Shaolin hibachi - that's of ED lip-synching Sledgehammer in a nightclub contest, drunk off his arse, and horrifying the entire crowd.  It was awesome and ED forever earned my respect for his sheer ballsy-ness that night, although he's earned my respect for his ballsy-ness many other times over the years.  This time was exemplary.