I got in on this, taking a one way flight
from Montreal to Toronto in July to return from The Police concert (I'll take the train down with friends):
It's a good time to book airfare in Canada, with rival airlines Air Canada and WestJet offering competing promotions in a
bid to win over consumers.
Air Canada on Tuesday dropped its prices on select routes to $11 one-way to match bargain prices offered by rival airline
WestJet, said Peter Fitzpatrick, a spokesman for Montreal-based Air Canada.
On Tuesday only, an $11 ticket could be bought for flights between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal
The Police reunion tour will begin May 28 in Vancouver and include at least two other Canadian dates, the band announced Monday.
[...] Toronto's Air Canada Centre on July 21 and Montreal's Bell Centre on July 25 will be among the arena and stadium venues for the tour, the first since they disbanded in 1984.
[...] Other confirmed shows for the spring-summer tour include the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee and Madison Square Gardens in New York, as well as in Seattle, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Dallas, New Orleans and St. Louis.
The tour will continue this fall with dates in the U.K., the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France, and is expected to continue in Mexico, South America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
I'm not going say much here -- it was awesome, though I may have said that if they just came out and did polkas. I though the first verse was a little rough -- it sounded like Copeland and Summers were playing half a beat out of sync -- but when they went into the improve section, well, heaven. On the subject of Copeland, I had to laugh at the guy smiling like a retard; yeah baby, here comes the paycheck!
More:
Toronto Star:
Chalk it up to understandable rust, but the Police's show-opening rendition of "Roxanne" wasn't likely to inspire skeptics to fork out for tickets to the trio's upcoming 30th anniversary tour, details of which will be announced today. The appearance at the Los Angeles Staples Center was the first joint performance for singer/bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland since The Police were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. The band hasn't toured since breaking up after 1984's Synchronicity tour.
IndyStar:
his highly hyped reunion appearance opened the show, but the rock trio could have made a bigger impact with a song other than "Roxanne." While this desperate plea to a prostitute ranks among the group's best-known hits, a tune such as "Message in a Bottle" would have been a stronger showcase for the various sides of the Police -- namely punk, reggae and progressive rock.
At the same time, vocalist Sting, drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers didn't neglect the reggae aspect of their sound. A mid-"Roxanne" improv segment slowed down the rhythm and gave room for Sting to sing weighty lines such as "I won't share you with another boy" wrapped in an echo.
More than anything, Copeland's crisp striking heightens anticipation for a full-fledged summer tour.
MTV:
With a buff-if-balding Sting in fine form and voice, the trio's homage to a woman of the night sounded as hypnotic as it did all those years ago, but in keeping with the bandmembers' jazzbo backgrounds, it also felt fresh (see "Timberlake Rocks; Blige Weeps; Chicks, Chilis Clean Up At Grammys"). The group lived up to its reputation for experimentation, dropping into a dubby, echo-laden live remix of the song during the second verse; Sting did a bit of scatting and mashed up the song's loping tempo, as if to suggest that this reunion won't be a rote sleepwalk through a 90-minute greatest-hits set.
I moved on a few seconds after The Police, as Jamie Foxx was painful. They say the Dixie Chicks cleaned up; weird since I don't think I've ever heard them played on the radio though I understand they had the courage to call Bush Hitler or something. Then again, I've never heard Michael Bublé before and apparently he's pretty popular too.
