The Police to record entire reunion tour ?
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While concert tickets for their reunion tour are going to be pretty expensive already it seems that the post punk act The Police have found another way to fill some financial gaps left and right. The band, which is to embark on a worldwide tour later this year, would have plans to produce and sell live concert recordings of each gig on their forthcoming tour. Concert goers would be informed the day itself via displays and via a special website that live recordings of the night itself are available for purchase.
This move is not exactly new as several other band in the past have done this: Moby, The Pixies, Erasure, Dead Can Dance or yet Depeche Mode. It would however be the first time that such a large band like The Police would launch itself in such a very personal targetted endeavour. Not that they should be frightened of sales not going as planned, because even a smaller act like Dead Can Dance managed to sell out of all individual disc-sets and box-sets from the European leg of their late 2005 tour. Around 500 copies were pressed per show. A short estimate shows us that Sting and Co might well earn an extra 3.200.000 US$ by doing this (considering they would shift up to 120.000 copies during their tour, which according to me is a very reasonable guess). Add to this the various downloaded purchases and you are in for a very nice treat !
This new way of marketing (live) albums is obviously a way to get the listeners back closer to the bands and creating an I-was-there-to atmosphere. Also good to notice is that very company dealing with this kind of live CDs has completely abandonned the instant delivery on the night itself of the actual recordings on CD-R as it became soon clear that this often ended with unplayable CD's, sound problems and so on. Instead every in live concert recording is now being properly produced and shipped off to the fans who signed up for the service within 2 to 3 months after the actual gig took place.
And for those worrying that this would prevent them from having an 'official' release, the release of such live documents does not prevent a later more elaborated release as this now mostly happens in the more versatile DVD format holding a more cleaned up recording of one or more gig cuts.
In related news, here is the list of songs that The Police rehearsed in Vancouver:
- World Running Down
- Message
- Driven to Tears
- Walking on the Moon
- Synchronicity II
- Don't Stand
- Magic
- Footsteps
- Tea in the Sahara
- Deathwish
- Demolition Man
- De Do Do Do
- Murder by Numbers
- Spirits
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- Invisible Sun
- Bed's Too Big
- One World
- Bring On
- King of Pain
- Shadows in the Rain
- Roxanne
- So Lonely
- Every Breath
- Next to You
- Can't Stand Losing You
For more news, check this The Police newspage.
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