It will be 23 years, 8 months and 19 days late, but yes — I will finally get to see The Police in concert. The newly-reunited band is coming to New Orleans on June 30th, and will play the New Orleans Arena. And I will be there. Oh yes, I will be there.
As I blogged about in the entry titled The Police, Oct 11th 1983, I had tickets for the Synchronicity tour stop in Baton Rouge, but was unable to go due to my father being a sadistic prick. But I won’t be so easily foiled this time.
Concerts by Tool and The Police within a month of each other may not be a big deal if you live in a large city, but here in Baton Rouge it is huge. BR has historically been denied decent concerts due to the craptastic nature of the Baton Rouge River Center, nee Centroplex. And New Orleans, despite having better arenas (Superdome, NO Arena, UNO Lakefront) still is usually skipped over when bands tour the south. Tours usually hit Houston and/or Dallas, then skip right over Louisiana and Mississippi and end up in Atlanta. So this is good news indeed.
March 6th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Ah, yes… The Sting Man, the Stinginator, Stingalingadingdong…
Presale tickets go on sale tomorrow. I’ll have my Ticketmaster account logged in and ready to rock 30 minutes early!