Sting and Peter Gabriel!?

[ras52]

I didn't see this one coming: http://petergabriel.com/news/peter-and-sting-tour-2016/

[wateroftyne]

It's an odd one. PG's band are pretty unconventional, so I assume they'll be taking two bands out with them.

But then, I'd like to hear PG with Sting's band behind him. That would be pretty cool.

[discreet]

It's too weird and I don't believe it.

[stevie]

You mean they're not dead?

[CamdenRob]

Didn't he do something similar with Paul Simon last year? My folks went to the O2 gig and thought it was excellent.

[Rich]

Lucky old USA and Canada. I wonder if the rest of us will get a look in?

[ras52]

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1453212109' post='2957435']
Lucky old USA and Canada. I wonder if the rest of us will get a look in?
[/quote]

Hang in there, we got King Crimson... eventually.

[Happy Jack]

Every little thing he does is Sledgehammer.

[ambient]

Peter Gabriel is great. I don't like Sting though.

I was hoping for a new Gabriel studio album. They've been recording it for years.

[hubrad]

Well, obviously neither of them needs to do it for reasons of finance or exposure, so they must think it works.
Probably a brilliant vibe onstage! :-)

[ras52]

[quote name='hubrad' timestamp='1453214086' post='2957462']
Well, obviously neither of them needs to do it for reasons of finance or exposure, so they must think it works.
Probably a brilliant vibe onstage! :-)
[/quote]

That's about it, the chat in the video is quite interesting.

[toneknob]

I love PG (and Sting to a lesser extent when he's not faffing around with lutes ffs) but for heavens sake do some new material Pete.

[hubrad]

Is it only me..?

[ahpook]

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1453213914' post='2957460']
Peter Gabriel is great. I don't like Sting though.
[/quote]

Go for a curry first, miss the support, then elbow your way to the front.

Everyone else at gigs I go to seems to do it.

[ras52]

[quote name='hubrad' timestamp='1453214665' post='2957469']
Is it only me..?

[/quote]

Somewhere between that and this:

[Low End Bee]

Very Brian Pern...

[toneknob]

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1453214687' post='2957470']
Go for a curry first, miss the support, then elbow your way to the front.

Everyone else at gigs I go to seems to do it.
[/quote]

Watch the video. It's both of them, then one of them, then both again, then something else I forget.

[ras52]

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1453215750' post='2957482']
Watch the video. It's both of them, then one of them, then both again, then something else I forget.
[/quote]

That's better than when I saw Ethel (the string quartet), Joe Jackson and Todd Rundgren: they each played a solo set (that's Joe completely solo and Todd completely solo) then all got on stage together for just two or three numbers. What'll be interesting here is the possibility of Gabriel-flavoured performances of Sting songs and vice versa.

[spectoremg]

Is it one of those eighties revival tours? Where's Tony Hadley and Boy George?

[ahpook]

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1453215750' post='2957482']
Watch the video. It's both of them, then one of them, then both again, then something else I forget.
[/quote]

That's not fair.

[RhysP]

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1453215696' post='2957481']
Very Brian Pern...
[/quote]

What, you mean not even remotely funny?

[sblueplanet]

Expect to pay through the roof for the privilage of seeing two big Artists together. The Sting/Simon tour tickets in UK were around the £100 mark. No thanks.

[ambient]

I'd rather wait and hopefully see Gabriel on his own. I've seen him on DVD and his shows are amazing, String is always rather pretentious.

[discreet]

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1453238453' post='2957800']
String is always rather pretentious.
[/quote]

Agreed - I prefer Sellotape.

[RhysP]

If they'd done this in the 80s or 90s I would have gone.
Neither of them has done anything remotely interesting (IMO) for donkeys years so I won't be bothering.