I believe this entire tour qualifies as Police Brutality. Save your money, go see Springsteen instead.

Depends what you mean by loosey-goosey. If you're looking for note-for-note recreations of the records you'll be disappointed, from what I've heard about the tour.

Besides, nobody's worth £70.

I flaked out and sold my tickets through an online ticket brokering service. I shouldn't say I flaked. My boss and I had a communication breakdown. I told her months in advance that I had plans. She absentmindedly scheduled me anyhow and I didn't care that much to remind her. I'm sure we would have had a good time. My husband less so than me. He's not that much of a Police fan, but a pretty good sport.

Springsteen isn't coming to Florida. le sigh.

They were pretty tight when I saw them play but then that was 27 years ago.

If I remember right, tickets at the Garden were $12.50 each.

My brother saw them in June and loved every second of it. He was a major major huge fan back in the 80s, though. He really enjoyed some of the newer arrangements of the songs. (And my brother dropped $3000 on tickets from a ticket broker.)

Sting has always had a weak and reedy voice, even on record. I can't imagine it'd be any better live and expect it'd probably be much worse. Friends who saw The Police in the 80s said as much.

They're a ska band. How good can they be?

Hugh, don't say that in front of Triode, he'll build some mad-scientist deathbot to teach you appreciation for ska. And he'd be right to.

In all seriousness, I've heard some amazing ska bands. My friend Jim dragged me to a lot of local ska shows in the early to mid 90s, and a lot of the bands were very tight.

I know, I know, it's a contentious thing to say, and I've heard some great ska bands, myself. I've also heard some great Irish folk musicians, and I feel the same way about that stuff: if one is a brilliant musician (as many ska players are), why not play something difficult?

It feels like Nashville session music to me, where the greatest players in the world play the least inventive music ever. Mileage varies, of course, and I listen to plenty of ska, Irish folk, and country, but the form carries a certain lack of variety that makes coming up with parts easy as hell, and that disqualifies most musicians in those genres from true greatness, as far as I'm concerned. Exceptions abound.

I saw what's left of The Beat and The Specials recently and really enjoyed myself... but it's mainly music for dancing, IMO.

I saw the Police and it was good fun. They basically cut loose in no particularly complex way. Just kind of a reunion party with Summers jamming it up big time in the exact opposite of his usual subtle ways, Copeland having fun, and Sting kind of just watching and enjoying the party.

I didn't expect much other than this, it was great to see them together again after I saw Ghost in the Machine tour in '82 or so and Synchronicity after that and Sting's first solo tour after that.

Also, it was Stewart Copeland's birthday when I saw their recent tour, he's a hero of mine, and he had a blast, finally yelling "BEST. BIRTHDAY. EVER!" as he exited the Cleveland stage.