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Peter Gabriel and Sting Kick Off U.S. Tour With Exuberant, Inspired Collaborations: Concert Review

Peter Gabriel and Sting last toured together in 1986 and 1988 as part of a string of Amnesty International benefit concerts. Last night, at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, the pair kicked off their new Rock, Paper, Scissors tour with a marathon set brimming with exuberant collaborations.

In fact, it's more precise to call this a co-mingling tour, not a co-headlining tour, because both artists (and their respective bands) collaborated throughout the two-hour-and-40-minute set. Sting even lightly characterized the night as an "organic battle of the bands," even though the competition was clearly friendly.

The show started off with both groups backing Gabriel on "The Rhythm of the Heat," the first track from 1982's Peter Gabriel . Having two drummers and a percussionist on the stage was a boon for the song, which felt like a volcano simmering and then exploding. Sting then bounded onstage for a buoyant take on his solo hit "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You," which featured additional and cutting flourishes from fiddle player Peter Tickell.

Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" was another early standout: Sting and Gabriel not only shared lead vocals, but they harmonized together on the chorus, their voices blending and weaving around one another perfectly. That push-pull matched the song's strident, prey-stalking rhythmic backbone: In tandem with the arrangement, Sting and Gabriel marched across the stage and around each other, like a toreador circling a bull. "Solsbury Hill" also benefitted from the collaboration: Couples danced in the section of arena seats behind the stage — and Gabriel himself galloped around the stage — as both bands ran through the folk-flecked, uplifting song.

At times, the concert's song swapping was even more pronounced and intriguing. Sting did an admirable job taking over lead vocals on Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey," which featured skittering electronic currents reminiscent of drum 'n' bass. As a preface to the Police 's "Message in a Bottle," Sting delighted the crowd by singing a brief, nearly a cappella snippet of Genesis ' "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight." A few songs later, a laid-back take on the Police's "Walking in Your Footsteps" segued right into him tackling Gabriel's equally funky "Kiss That Frog," a tune highlighted by David Sancious' keyboard wizardry. Gabriel and his band later returned the favor by transforming Sting's upbeat "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free" into an ominous, Pink Floyd -reminiscent prog dirge with rich, soulful overtones. At the end of the song, Gabriel whispered " Set them free " and " Let 'em go " with barely concealed creepiness.

In other spots, however, these collaborations were subtler. For the Police's "Invisible Sun," Gabriel and Sting band member Jo Lawry huddled stage right at Gabriel's piano/keyboard setup and added surging backing vocals. And during Sting's "Englishman in New York," Gabriel added mincing, smoky vocals on several verses, a perfect match for Sting's jauntier delivery. Throughout the set, each musician (and his band) moved on and off the stage seamlessly — sometimes so stealthily that it was a surprise to see who might be contributing to a song. That's a testament to the weeks of rehearsal they've spent preparing for this tour, time and dedication which absolutely made a difference to the night's flow and balance.

Both Sting and Gabriel did periodically do songs with their own respective bands, however. Gabriel's song picks included fan favorites “Secret World” and “Darkness"; during the moody, ambient latter, Gabriel walked around the stage with a camera in his face, making the predominant crowd screen feature a stark, black-and-white close-up of his visage. "Red Rain" was absolutely massive and thundering, with prominent piano and Gabriel's gravelly voice conveying appropriate gravitas, and "Big Time" was a colorful, funky burst of energy boasting some of the night's coolest production flourishes: stage lights and film footage of band members bathed in 3-D-like effects.

Sting's set was loaded with Police hits — highlighted by a Steely Dan -esque take on "Driven to Tears," with red-hot guitar work from Dominic Miller, and a jazz-combo take on "Roxanne" with an interlude of "Ain't No Sunshine" — but he too pulled out a rare solo cut, with great success: Mercury Falling 's "The Hounds of Winter," on which Lawry howled and trilled like a siren breaking glass. Sting's portion of the night also had subtle political and social commentary; in particular, he gave particular pointed emphasis to the "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" lyric, " You could say I'd lost my belief in our politicians/ They all seemed like game show hosts to me. "

On a somber note, Sting also referenced the Orlando mass shootings, and said the "way we can counter unspeakable cruelty and mindless stupidity is empathy and solidarity," before doing a moving, Spanish guitar-inflected version of "Fragile." Later in the night, Gabriel told a story about meeting a young activist who was thinking about going into politics — and revealed it was British MP Jo Cox, who was assassinated last week. He then dedicated a stunning, somber new song to her, which featured minimal percussion and a breathy, keening chorus repeating the phrase "love can heal."

That revelatory moment gave way to a percussion-heavy, hip-swiveling "Desert Rose" and then everyone again coming together for an upbeat, optimistic version of Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." Every musician onstage was moving and grooving — even Sting, in the back ceding the spotlight to Gabriel, by adding harmonies with the rest of the auxiliary singers. The entire concert was like this: no ego and no preciousness about the music from any corner of the stage — just seasoned musicians passionate about performing and transforming.

That joy shone through on the encore of "Every Breath You Take," another joint production, and the night-closing, Technicolor horn explosion "Sledgehammer." This closer was exuberant fun, featuring charming choreography — onstage right, Gabriel pointed at Sting and the auxiliary vocalists at stage left, and mimed pulling the troupe toward him, as if they were on a piece of string — and plenty of goofy, unaffected singing and stage moves. The musicians and audience alike clearly having a blast — a fitting end to a night where even familiar songs played hundreds of times felt and sounded invigorated and refreshed.

Peter Gabriel and Sting Set List, June 21, 2016 "The Rhythm of the Heat" "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" "No Self Control" (Sting and Gabriel sharing vocals) "Invisible Sun" "Games Without Frontiers" (Sting and Gabriel sharing vocals) "Shock the Monkey" (Sting main lead vocal) "Secret World" "Driven to Tears" "Fragile" "Red Rain" "Message in a Bottle" (with Sting doing a brief snippet of Genesis' "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight" as an intro) "Darkness" "Walking in Your Footsteps" / "Kiss That Frog" (Sting vocals) "Don't Give Up" "The Hounds of Winter" "Big Time" "Englishman in New York" (Sting and Gabriel sharing vocals) "Solsbury Hill" (Sting and Gabriel sharing vocals) "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free" (Gabriel covering the song) "Roxanne" / "Ain't No Sunshine" New and untitled Peter Gabriel song "Desert Rose" "In Your Eyes"

Encore: "Every Breath You Take" (Sting and Gabriel sharing vocals) "Sledgehammer" (Sting and Gabriel sharing vocals)

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Sting and Peter Gabriel will hit the road across North America for the Rock Paper Scissors tour this summer.

The duo will play a string of 19 dates in June and July – having first toured together in the 80s for Amnesty International.

The duo also hint that they’ll be covering and re-imagining each other’s songs – and that they’ll perform both individual and joint sets at each show.

Sting says on his website : “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.”

Ex Genesis vocalist Gabriel 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.”

Tickets go on sale on January 25. Pre-sale tickets are available via the Sting.com Fan Club on January 20.

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June 21: Columbus Nationwide Arena, OH June 23: Washington Verizon Center, DC June 24: Wantagh Jones Beach, NY June 26: Philadelphia BB&T Pavilion, PA June 27: New York Madison Square Garden, NY June 29: Toronto Air Canada Centre, ON June 30: Detroit The Palace of Auburn Hills, MI July 02: Worcester DCU Center, MA July 05: Montreal Bell Centre, QC July 07: Festival D’été De Québec, QC July 09: Chicago United Center, IL July 10: Milwaukee Summerfest, WI July 12: Denver Pepsi Center, CO July 14: San Jose SAP Center, CA July 15: Lake Tahoe Harvey’s, NV July 17: Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl, LA July 21: Seattle Key Arena, WA July 23: Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome, AB July 24: Edmonton Rexall Place, AB

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

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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

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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”.

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Sting And Peter Gabriel To Tour North America This Summer

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If you’re a fan of the solo works of the respective frontmen of The Police and Genesis, today is going to be a good day for you. Yes, Sting and Peter Gabriel announced that they will be playing several North American tour dates this summer, in what is being called the Rock Paper Scissors tour. The two English musicians say they plan to perform several duets on the tour, and the set lists will likely include each of the pair’s most popular songs.

They released a five-minute video announcing the tour, in which they give their admiration for each other’s work, and their general excitement about the chance to tour together. They also play a nice bit of Gabriel’s classic hit “Shock the Monkey.”

The scheduled dates for the Rock Paper Scissors tour are listed below.

TOUR DATES: 6/21 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena 6/23 – Washington, DC @ Verizon Center 6/24 – Wantagh, NY @ Jones Beach 6/26 – Philadelphia, PA @ BB&T Pavilion 6/27 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden 6/29 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre 6/30 – Detroit, MI @ The Palace Of Auburn Hills 7/02 – Worcester, MA @ DCU Center 7/05 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre 7/07 – Québec, QC @ Festival D’été De Québec 7/09 – Chicago, IL @ United Center 7/10 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest 7/12 – Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center 7/14 – San Jose, CA @ SAP Center At San Jose 7/15 – Lake Tahoe, NV @ Harvey’s 7/17 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl 7/21 – Seattle, WA @ Key Arena 7/23 – Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome 7/24 – Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place

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Peter Gabriel and Sting, longtime friends, collaborated July 21 in a concert full of fine musical moments, plus a little comedy and a very special guest.

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The Peter Gabriel/Sting “Rock Paper Scissors” tour that came to KeyArena on July 21 was an unusual concert. The idea was to merge their bands and songs, and even have each artist sing a few of the other’s hits. In the end, it offered a lot of bang for the buck, and a two-song guest spot by a Seattle legend.

There was a clear camaraderie between the two men, both musically and personally, and that was a joy to watch. Gabriel said Sting got him doing yoga again, so they were now “the tantric twins,” referencing an oft-repeated Sting brag about sexual prowess.

Whether it’s yoga or comparing record sales, it would be hard for any artist to compete with Sting, who is a certified superstar, but it was nice to see him humbly retreat to be part of the 12-piece band when Gabriel sang. It was often hard to hear Sting’s bass, though, because with three drummers in the band the show was overamplified for an indoor arena (this tour is mostly hitting outside venues).

Many of Gabriel’s complex ballads, like “Red Rain” and “Don’t Give Up,” might have also had more emotional power if they’d been played in a sustained single set, without a Police hit coming next, which at times was a jarring contrast. For example, Gabriel’s fatalistic “In Your Eyes” is a dramatically different take on love than the populist “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic.”

Other moments, though, soared. The musical origins of both men combined when “Dancing With the Moonlit Knight” (by Genesis) morphed into a rousing “Message in the Bottle” (Police). Sting’s playing and singing were spot-on all night, and he looked fantastically toned.

It would be hard for any singer to overshadow Sting, but a surprise guest star delivered the true highlights Thursday. Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, who came on for “Driven to Tears” and “Red Rain,” was fantastic, bringing the ‘rock’ to “Rock Paper Scissors,” and making the special night more memorable.

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Peter Gabriel Announces First Concerts in 7 Years With European Tour

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Peter Gabriel has announced a tour of Europe, marking his first concerts since his 2016 tour with Sting. The dates kick off next May, and the setlists will feature music from a new album, I/O . His regular band of Tony Levin, David Rhodes, and Manu Katché will join him. Check out the dates below. North American dates will follow, along with news on the album, according to Gabriel’s announcement .

“It’s been a while and I am now surrounded by a whole lot of new songs and am excited to be taking them out on the road for a spin,” Gabriel said. “Look forward to seeing you out there.” The former Genesis member’s last dates outside of North America were for the Back to Front Tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of So .

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05-18 Krakow, Poland - Tauron Arena 05-20 Verona, Italy - Verona Arena 05-21 Milan, Italy - Mediolanum Arena 05-23 Paris, France - AccorHotels Arena 05-24 Lille, France - Stade Pierre-Mauroy 05-26 Berlin, Germany - Waldbuehne 05-28 Munich, Germany - Koenigsplatz 05-30 Copenhagen, Denmark - Royal Arena 05-31 Stockholm, Sweden - Avicii Arena 06-02 Bergen, Norway - Koengen 06-05 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome 06-06 Antwerp, Belgium - Sportpaleis 06-08 Zurich, Switzerland - Hallenstadion 06-10 Cologne, Germany - Lanxess Arena 06-12 Hamburg, Germany - Barclays Arena 06-13 Frankfurt, Germany - Festhalle 06-15 Bordeaux, France - Arkea Arena 06-17 Birmingham, England - Utilita Arena 06-19 London, England - The O2 06-22 Glasgow, Scotland - OVO Hydro 06-23 Manchester, England - AO Arena 06-25 Dublin, Ireland - 3Arena

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band had been all over the planet with Sting , Peter Gabriel , Tracy Chapman and Youssou N’Dour by the time the 1988 Amnesty International Human Rights Now tour touched down on Africa’s Ivory Coast. However, they’d never seen a crowd like the 50,000 fans at le Félicia soccer stadium. “It was a stadium of entirely black faces,” Springsteen recalled recently. “Clarence [Clemons] said to me, ‘Now you know what it feels like!’ There were about 60 seconds where you could feel people sussing us out, and then the whole place just exploded. The band came off feeling like it was the first show we’d ever done. We had to go and prove ourselves on just what we were doing that moment on stage.”

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The concert was one of the final stops on the Human Rights Now! tour, the second of two all-star tours that Amnesty International staged in the mid-1980s to spread awareness of human rights atrocities across the globe. They were herculean efforts that made all previous benefit concerts – Live Aid included – seem like a minor undertaking. 

The Amnesty International tours featured once-in-a-lifetime performances by U2 , Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Sting , the Police , Joan Baez, Bryan Adams and many others. However, for the past two-and-a-half decades, they’ve only been available as low-res VHS bootlegs and YouTube videos. On November 5th, they are finally coming out in ¡Released!:  The Human Rights Concerts 1986-1998 , a six-DVD package with remastered audio/video and hours of unseen footage from backstage, including new interviews (which you can watch first here). 

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Amnesty International began plotting the first tour just weeks after Live Aid raised millions for famine victims of Ethiopia and made hundreds of millions of people around the planet aware of their plight. “Amnesty realized it wouldn’t be sufficient to just do music on one day,” longtime Amnesty activist Martin Lewis told Rolling Stone . “[Amnesty USA Executive Director] Jack Healey had the idea of doing a tour. It helped immensely that he went to Bill Graham, who they couldn’t have done the tour without.”

One of the first calls they made was to U2 . “It couldn’t have been worst timing,” the Edge said in the book U2 by U2 . “We were building up to go into the studio [to record The Joshua Tree ] and I was worried all the focus and concentration would be lost.” But it was an offer they couldn’t refuse, and they agreed to not only delay the recording of their album but actually lobby other artists to join the tour. “We rang everybody we knew,” said Bono. “Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Prince…”

None of those people agreed, but Amnesty wound up with a lineup guaranteed to pack stadiums around America: U2, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Adams, Lou Reed and Joan Baez. The six-show national tour inspired great moments; for the final three shows, Sting made a last-minute decision to reunite the Police, who hadn’t performed anywhere since they broke up in early 1984. “I hadn’t seen my drums in months,” Stewart Copeland told Rolling Stone . “I’ve always been very fond of Amnesty, but if it had been for Exxon, I would have been there. Playing with my old band was an exciting prospect.”

Every show ended with all of the evening’s performers gathering onstage to sing Bob Dylan ‘s “I Shall Be Released.” At the final show, the Police handed their instruments to U2. “It’s been called a symbolic passing of the keys to the musical kingdom,” said Copeland. “But since we had been defunct for a number of years, I’m not sure we had any keys in our possession. We joked around that Andy [Summers] should de-tune his guitar before handing it over to the Edge.”

The tour was a huge success. Amnesty International raised their profile among young Americans in a huge way and their numbers swelled, but soon after it ended, the organizers began plotting out something significantly more dramatic than a mere six American concerts. “In October of 1986, I sat around the pool of the Sunset Marquis with Jack Healey,” said Lewis. “He alerted me to the fact that 1988 was the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He said it was the Magna Carta of human rights and we have to do something spectacular.”

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“His first idea was a literally insane idea of taking over Madison Square Garden for 24 hours, a rock & roll marathon,” said Lewis. “I said to him, ‘I thought we were trying to abolish torture. That sounds like a new definition.”

They ultimately plotted a six-week tour that would take Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N’Dour  to North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. “You can’t go around the world and play countries outside of the U.S. and developed Europe without practically taking the entire stadium with you,” said Lewis. “I thought we could put people on commercial flights. It never occurred to me you’d have to take two DC-10s around the world.”

The Human Rights Now! Tour — which was produced by Healey and Bill Graham — was one of the most logistically complicated undertakings in rock history, and it traveled to countries that rarely see these type of shows – including Hungary, Costa Rica, India, Greece, Zimbabwe and Argentina. The artists spent six weeks sharing busses, hotels and cramped backstage facilities. “At one stadium in Africa, there was a moat around the entire stadium,” Nils Lofgren of the E Street Band told Rolling Stone . “It ran though the dressing rooms and we started to complain about it. We realized it was going to get much worse because it was the friggin’ bathroom. There were no toilets and people were pissing and dumping into the moat. It just turned into a river.”

The musicians formed tight friendships while traveling the world together. “Branford Marsalis and I played a lot of basketball,” said Lofgren. “We had two ping-pong tables and had a spectacular tournament with about 30 players. [E Street pianist] Roy Bittan and [Peter Gabriel drummer] Manu Katche came in the top three. . . It’s still one of my favorite tours I’ve ever gone on. There was so much camaraderie and I was in a close proximity with so many great musicians for such a long time.”

Much like Live Aid, the shows – which also included a later, one-off show in Paris in 1998 with Radiohead , Springsteen, Peter Gabriel and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant –  were filmed for television, but no thought was given to ever releasing them in an official capacity. But in 2005, Bob Geldof decided to break his pledge and release Live Aid on DVD, partially to combat the bootlegs that were beginning to pop up all over the Internet.

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Inspired by the move, Lewis – who as co-creator/producer of Amnesty’s “Secret Policeman’s Ball” benefits had instigated Amnesty’s outreach to the rock world – convinced Amnesty International that releasing the concerts would be a great way to raise money for the organization. “The Amnesty tapes were spread to the four winds, the five winds,” said Lewis. “Oh, the things I had to go through to find them all. MTV shot a lot of footage and lost it all. I know they have hundreds of hours of Menudo and Wang Chung up the wazoo. They probably have hundreds of hours of Mr. Mister, but nobody knows where the Conspiracy of Hope tour footage is.”

After years of work, and painstakingly efforts to transfer the footage (often taped in archaic European and South American video formats), Lewis had to go to each artist and get permission to release the film. They all agreed, and Peter Gabriel even told him he filmed much of the tour on a camcorder, but he lost the footage. “We tracked some of it down to a farm in upstate New York,” said Lewis. “What we found there was incredible.” 

Bruce Springsteen is extremely picky about which live footage he releases to the public, but he ultimately signed off and granted Lewis an extensive interview. “This was the mid-1980s and the E Street Band was still very much a provincial band,” he said in it. “It was an eye-opening tour and a tremendous adventure for us. It opened our minds to the world as one big place. It was also a tremendous adventure.”

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Sting is performing at The Florida Orchestra’s gala in St. Petersburg

  • Maggie Duffy Times staff

Fresh off his Tampa concert at Raymond James stadium , Sting will return to Tampa Bay in May for a performance during The Florida Orchestra’s benefit gala.

The May 9 concert gala happens at The Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg. Tickets go on sale to the public on March 6, but orchestra subscribers get early dibs on Wednesday. Tickets range $100-$750 and can be purchased online at floridaorchestra.org , by calling 727-892-3337 or in person at the orchestra’s ticket center at 244 Second Ave. N in downtown St. Petersburg.

Music director Michael Francis will conduct “An Intimate Evening with Sting and The Florida Orchestra: A Gala Concert.” Sting will perform favorites including “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Englishman In New York,” “Fields of Gold,” “Roxanne” and “Every Breath You Take,” which will be reinterpreted for a symphony orchestra.

This is Sting’s second time performing for the orchestra’s benefit gala; his first appearance was in 2017 .

Maggie Duffy is an art and dining reporter, covering Tampa Bay’s arts scene and the next new place to eat. Reach her at [email protected].

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Rock Paper Scissors

Sting and Peter Gabriel Seattle Superstar Summit...

Sting and Peter Gabriel may be two of the most iconic artists with the most in common musically and philosphically. Both have fronted iconic bands whose music transcends decades and generations. The Police and Genesis both cranked out mostly credible, accessible and catchy music throughout the 80’s and 90’s. While Sting was gallivanting across the globe with The Police on their Synchronicity Tour in 1983, Peter Gabriel, several years removed from Genesis, was working on what would become his most successful record to date, the seminal So. With the help of MTV and cutting edge videos, like “Sledgehammer” and “Big Time,” Gabriel would join Sting as global music video and musical superstars.

After the Synchronicity Tour, Sting decided to go solo, releasing his first record. He employed former Bruce Springsteen keyboardist David Sancious, who would eventually join Gabriel on the “Us” and “Up” tours in 1992 and 2002.

I was fortunate to see The Police on their Synchronicity Tour at the Tacoma dome in 1983 and then Peter Gabriel’s So tour at the LA Forum in 1986. Both shows were brilliant and proved to me that not only do both of these artists know how to make great records, they can bring the performances of those studio numbers into a live setting and deliver solid, professional, yet heartfelt performances.

Sting and Gabriel are no strangers with regard to to performing together. In the mid to late 80’s both shared stages across the globe during the Live Aid and Amnesty International’s Conspiracy of Hope shows.

At the time, I never would have imagined that these two highly influential artists would put together a co-headlining the Rock, Paper, Scissors Tour 30 plus years later, celebrating their brilliant body of work. Sting and Gabriel came to The Emerald City and delivered the classics that fans came to expect. The real treat was seeing Sting and Gabriel share musical resources and perform with each other (kind of like Live From Daryl’s House on steroids).

What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together and interesting things will happen,” Gabriel said in a statement. Added Sting, “I’m very happy that we’re taking the chance to experiment this way. I think people will be intrigued, I certainly am.”

Sting, who is not only a great vocalist and songwriter but a brilliant, jazz trained bassist. It seems that he is often overlooked in this area. He has always been effective in pivoting back and forth between straight 4/4 time signatures to odd and off beat time signatures, incorporating world-music elements.

Peter Gabriel has the incomparable and long-time mainstay, Tony Levin, on bass and Chapman stick. Like Sting, Peter Gabriel was incubating elements of world music into some of his earliest solo work.

These two together on stage made the perfect paring of musical chops, styles, genres and rock/pop legend status. Of course both artists delivered their standard hits, like the romantic and beautiful “In Your Eyes” and the lovely and encouraging number “Don’t Give Up.” Sting performed catchy dittys like “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic.” Sting backing Gabriel and his band was a nice touch, as it is always great to hear and see world-class musicians and artist sharing the joy of music on stage.

One of the highlights of the KeyArena performance included an appearance by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, who joined the artists on stage for nice versions of Sting and Gabriel classics, “Driven to Tears” and “Red Rain.”

KeyArena was Sting and Peter Gabriel’s house for the night and they opened the doors to an adoring crowd who have enjoyed their body of work throughout several chapters of their lives. Needless to say, this was a very special musical treat and a unique concert experience to be cherished a lifetime.

(c) Seattle Music Insider by Greg Roth

Sting & Peter Gabriel blend like old friends at the Key...

Peter Gabriel and Sting, longtime friends, collaborated July 21 in a concert full of fine musical moments, plus a little comedy and a very special guest.

The Peter Gabriel/Sting “Rock Paper Scissors” tour that came to KeyArena on July 21 was an unusual concert. The idea was to merge their bands and songs, and even have each artist sing a few of the other’s hits. In the end, it offered a lot of bang for the buck, and a two-song guest spot by a Seattle legend.

There was a clear camaraderie between the two men, both musically and personally, and that was a joy to watch. Gabriel said Sting got him doing yoga again, so they were now “the tantric twins,” referencing an oft-repeated Sting brag about sexual prowess.

Whether it’s yoga or comparing record sales, it would be hard for any artist to compete with Sting, who is a certified superstar, but it was nice to see him humbly retreat to be part of the 12-piece band when Gabriel sang. It was often hard to hear Sting’s bass, though, because with three drummers in the band the show was overamplified for an indoor arena (this tour is mostly hitting outside venues).

Many of Gabriel’s complex ballads, like “Red Rain” and “Don’t Give Up,” might have also had more emotional power if they’d been played in a sustained single set, without a Police hit coming next, which at times was a jarring contrast. For example, Gabriel’s fatalistic “In Your Eyes” is a dramatically different take on love than the populist “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic.”

Other moments, though, soared. The musical origins of both men combined when “Dancing With the Moonlit Knight” (by Genesis) morphed into a rousing “Message in the Bottle” (Police). Sting’s playing and singing were spot-on all night, and he looked fantastically toned.

It would be hard for any singer to overshadow Sting, but a surprise guest star delivered the true highlights Thursday. Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, who came on for “Driven to Tears” and “Red Rain,” was fantastic, bringing the ‘rock’ to “Rock Paper Scissors,” and making the special night more memorable.

(c) Seattle Times by Charles R. Cross 

Sting & Peter Gabriel (July 21, Seattle)...

Billed as Rock Paper Scissors – this show wasn’t quite like when Sting shared the road with Paul Simon recently. For those gigs it was a bunch of mini-sets, with some get-togethers too. But this was a super-band, two sets of musicians on stage the whole time acting as one and the two solo artists – both bandleaders turned solo acts – on stage to share in one big super-set; not only that they even shared vocals on each other’s songs, and doffed the cap each, essentially performing a cover of the other man’s song in front of him.

It was the last show of the American tour and so the act is so well honed now, but never did it feel like a by-rote roll-out of hits.

Beginning with Gabriel’s haunting The Rhythm of The Heat the two drummers and percussionist lit the campfire and started cooking.

Sting was in next with If I Ever Lose My Faith in You and his knack for picking up a throwaway pop line now feels prescient, as nearly a quarter-century after he wrote it he gets to deliver “You could say I’d lost my belief in our politicians” drawing it out to stare deadpan knowing he’s got the knockout, “They all seemed like game show hosts to me”. The crowd erupted. For the first of so many times.

A bit of self-effacing banter as Gabriel reckoned they were now known as The Tantric Twins and the two gentlemen explained the game plan for the evening, a type of professional karaoke, two friends picking up a thread after 25 years, laying out a bunch of songs from across their careers.

So from Gabriel it was No Self Control and then Sting played the first of several songs from The Police with Invisible Sun. Both Games Without Frontiers and Shock The Monkey followed, Sting taking a verse or two of each and with Frontiers in particular you could imagine it now as a song he might have written had The Police called it a day a half-decade earlier than they did.

Gabriel’s Secret World moved from beautiful balladry to epic rock-out, and if you thought by this point that it was the former Genesis frontman in the lead – not that either singer was keeping track of points or worrying about own-goals – you’d be right.

But Sting knew something we didn’t. As Driven To Tears, another great Police album track, surged into life a figure leaped up onto the stage and was pointed to the microphone. It was local hero Eddie Vedder. The place erupted once again.

More than just two old pals sharing their songs, more than just the connection to both being the frontman for a big act before going solo, to exploring world music, to knowing that Stewart Copeland is a hi-hat wizard, Gabriel and Sting’s catalogs really do mesh so well. It’s not so much that the songs were finishing each other’s sentences, more a case of being the exclamation point, or the counterpoint, the coda, continuation, even the correct segue sometimes.

Case in point – Sting’s Fragile was dedicated to the recent police shootings in America, the Parisian Bastille Day tragedy, the ugliness of a world that needs fixing, needs rewriting. And so this short poetic ode – his own Spanish guitar framing the words – was nice enough but risked having no real poignancy. No matter. Gabriel’s Red Rain carried the emotional weight. Vedder returned to the stage to lap up some more applause and to serve the song – it was great to hear him singing live – particularly since he wasn’t offering out any of his own material.

Sting used Gabriel’s early Genesis song, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, as an intro to The Police’s Message In A Bottle – the “selling England by the pound” line also newly prescient, Sting’s bottled message now an implied paean for political change.

And if that little attempt at recontextualising and reconceptualising the song didn’t quite stick – and it’s just good enough to hear that song at any rate, especially with the skilled players in the monster-band behind – Gabriel’s Don’t Give Up had its back and of course was a mid-set highlight. Jennie Abrahamson, Gabriel’s hugely talented backing vocalist, stepped up and into the Kate Bush role. Peter Gabriel may have traded the fox-head for a simple black hoodie, something fans of his earliest music could never have predicted, but he’s still able to deliver emotional impact, every song a set of slow-moving, purposeful footsteps. Every song a movie. Every song an enormity.

Sting’s music is lighter – it’s impossible not to notice this but his voice is still a powerful instrument, and the musicality shines through in his songs; this was a no-filler set of Sting songs too, even the lesser-known tunes (in the scheme of so many hits) were highlights, in particular The Hounds of Winter, Vinnie Colaiuta’s huge driving ride cymbal and precise opening press roll setting up the impact of the song.

Big Time and Englishman in New York went well together. For me they’re both songs I thought I didn’t really need to hear again but they were just so huge so right in this environment.

Solsbury Hill followed Englishman in New York, again so much of this night was in the clever, subtle decision-making behind the set selections and placement. I had tears in my ears as Solsbury Hill bounded into life once again. Always a joyous song for me and to see Gabriel and his band members skipping across the stage was to hear and see and feel the childhood theme coming to life, flowering up through the song. Everyone’s heart going boom boom boom!

Gabriel decided to rework (Sting’s) If You Love Somebody Set Them Free as a sly, slinky little piece of sardonic jazzy-blues pop, the sort of shape any new Leonard Cohen song might make. Sting took the reins back for Roxanne and had set this trio up with Every Little Thing She Does is Magic.

Gabriel performed the evening’s only new song, Love Can Heal, a new tune written for Jo Cox. Another wonderful Gabriel ballad it was also the continuation of one of the evening’s sombre themes: political upheaval and unrest, fear and racism and violence and how to address these problems, how to reset the geo-political pulse. Lip-service? Sure. But it never felt too cloying.

And this time Sting had the winning counterpoint, his Desert Rose never sounded better dancing in on a mix of Turkish and Arabic rhythms.

In Your Eyes was the set closer, Abrahamson and Sting combining to sub for Youssou N’Dour’s original duet part. Gabriel again dancing about the stage and encouraging his band members to join his pied-piper skip.

A stunning evening. A magical concert. A treat of timing for me to be in this town on this night.

Gabriel was the reason to attend for me. His music means more. But I can say that too having seen Sting twice already. Both of them were amazing, but there’s just something very real about Gabriel – something always believable, something so powerful and intoxicating about the very best of his songs. With Sting it’s less about the emotional resonance and more about the killer performance.

Vinnie Colaiuta on drums (for Sting) and Tony Levin on bass (for Gabriel) were the superstars. But then there’s Dominic Miller’s guitar too, and Jo Lawry (backing vocals) worked hard across both teams. A stunning band (well, two bands – technically) and it’s not like when you rave about, say, Brian Wilson’s band – knowing full well they’re covering for the singer. This was just stunning musicianship in support of two great musicians still at the top of their respective games. We heard how well their music and their musicianship pairs up.

And we were sent home with the one-two encore punch of Every Breath You Take and Sledgehammer. As with the Big Time/Englishman double it was what was required for the night. Everything in its right place. And that’s exactly what we heard here. A most amazing show.

(c) Off The Tracks by Simon Sweetman

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