Go to Bonnaroo. I am. $200 a ticket (after fees and whatnot) but you get to see:

The Police · Tool · Widespread Panic · The White Stripes · Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals · Wilco · The Flaming Lips · Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System · The String Cheese Incident · Franz Ferdinand · Bob Weir & Ratdog · Damien Rice · Ween · Gov't Mule · Ziggy Marley · The Decemberists · Kings of Leon · Michael Franti & Spearhead · Wolfmother · Regina Spektor · The Black Keys · Galactic · The Black Keys · DJ Shadow · Gillian Welch · Spoon · Keller Williams (WMD's) · Sasha & John Digweed · STS9 · Old Crow Medicine Show · The Hold Steady · North Mississippi Allstars · Fountains Of Wayne · Hot Tuna · Feist · Hot Chip · Lily Allen · John Butler Trio · Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys · Aesop Rock · The Richard Thompson Band · Dierks Bentley · Xavier Rudd · Gogol Bordello · Junior Brown · Tortoise · T-Bone Burnett · Mavis Staples · Clutch · Cold War Kids · Dr. Dog · Paolo Nutini · Brazilian Girls · RX Bandits · The Nightwatchman · The Slip · Girl Talk · Railroad Earth · Martha Wainwright · Rodrigo y Gabriela · Annuals · Tea Leaf Green · Sam Roberts Band · Elvis Perkins in Dearland · Charlie Louvin · Sonya Kitchell · Mute Math · Apollo Sunshine · Uncle Earl · James Blood Ulmer · The National · The Little Ones · Black Angels · Ryan Shaw

Go to Bonnaroo. I am.

HOLY HELL! I'd like to! Is it $200 for the full three days?

Oh my. I sincerely hope I don't impulsively blow a buncha cash tonight. Seriously.

General admission tickets (not bought by being a member of the Police Fan Club) go on sale tomorrow. Maybe the price will go down. Or not. The Police in Toronto would be brilliant. I saw them in '82 (83?) and '84, LOL.

I sincerely hope I don't impulsively blow a buncha cash tonight.

I mean, like, the Pogues burned a hole in my wallet the instant someone (here!) mentioned they were coming to Chicago next month. Ghaaah. Total loss of control.

Dumb question, but will The Police on tour really be so different from Sting on tour? I mean, hasn't he been touring solo for years and doing Police songs the whole time? Not to diminish the other two dudes.

I might just have to take a trip up to Seattle for this.

Via and I are exploring our Bonnaroo possibilities, and it will be awesome. So you should come too. All of you.

Not to diminish the other two dudes.

The other two dudes rock too. Stewart played with Miles Davis right after the Police broke up and has done some amazing soundtrack music since (Rumblefish!!), not to mention his goofy Klark Kent stuff, if you dig that. I think Andy did his album with Fripp of King Crimson while the Police were still together, and he's been busy since too.

Sting is way different from the Police, and if we're lucky they might write some new stuff, or just totally rework the old tunes...

I saw Sting on his first solo tour too, front row, maybe 20'-25 away from him, close enough to make eye contact. Amazing show. But totally different from a Police gig. Way more jazz and improv, and jazz improv on the Police covers, at least when I saw him.

God, how awful. Thanks for the warning, Shane.

keyyyy-rhistonacrutch! I had no idea Hot Tuna was still in business. Boy, does that take me back to '69, what I remember of it! I'm surprised they're still doin' it, but damn, it might just be worth the $200 bucks, and the long trip, to see those guys....

I love Sting and the Police and are they coming to the UK?

UK around October, apparently. No dates announced yet, though.