Sting concert at the Nokia Arena was packed

22. 09. 2022 Thursday / By: Robert Denes / Generic / Exact time: BST / Print this page

The legendary rock veteran took to the stage in a T-shirt and jeans, true to Sting's style, and performed what could be called his first concert in the Nokia Arena, which was attended by more than 15,000 people, true to Sting's style. Four days after wrapping up his American and Canadian tour, the indefatigable Sting returns to Europe for a much longer tour.

The Nokia Arena was filled almost to the last seat on a Tuesday evening in September, but a middle-aged audience came to listen and recall the memories of their youth. Between 1977 and 1984, the British band The Police indelibly etched themselves into rock history. The band's undisputed frontman and hit man, Sting, ensured that his solo career lasted 37 years in history. The now 70-year-old pop veteran was brought to Finland for two concerts to promote the latest album "The Bridge" (2021). Sting's 15th (solo) performance in Finland at Tampere's Nokia Aréna, which opened the entire European tour.

The evening was started at 20:00 by the son of singer-songwriter Sting, Joe Sumner. Joe-boy drew his musical inspiration from the British band Fiction Plane, whose biggest moments probably served as the warm-up for The Police's 2007 reunion tour, but the guy has been performing solo for a long time. Sting and his seven-member band took the stage exactly as scheduled at 8:45 p.m., and specifically the whole band at the same time. Being wireless and independent of the microphone stand, Sting did not always have to return to the center of the stage to perform, but could move around the stage while singing. The night's 19-song setlist started immediately with a bonjo-like dramaturgy, that is, with big hits at the top and in every possible interval, because they are known to not end immediately.

"Message in a bottle" opened and the oldest rock cops immediately took over, of course Sting had the time and perspective to raise several generations of fans, as was also visible on the lower level in Tampere. It was also an interesting choice to play three tracks from the latest album right at the beginning of the set, all consecutively. Two of the songs were pure modern Police and one was pure guaranteed solo Sting. Accompanied by our husband's acoustic guitar, "If It's Love" and, above all, the rougher "Rushing Water" did not embarrass themselves in the classically focused setlist, on the contrary. Sting introduced his band already after the third song, in a somewhat unusual way. The central characters of today's stage were Miller's talented guitarist sons, Dominic and Rufus (also). During the evening, Shane Sager and his harmonica also got a solo spot, especially in "Brand New Day", which starts a bit lazily, but rises to big soul sounds, the original lip synth of which is played by Stevie Wonder himself. Of the musicians performing on stage, keyboardist Kevon Webster was perhaps the most vocally understated, but even the already praised backing singer Melissa Musique, who took care of the percussion instruments, guaranteed the amazing harmony of the evening. maybe a small thing, but it really is a great merit for the evening counter.

Before the super hit at the end of the concert, The Police's hit "So Lonely" was the most beautiful, in which the band covered Bob Marley's poem ("No Woman, No Cry"), and "Desert Rose" pushed forward with unfathomable force, the release of which once Sting was able to present Algerian Rai music to a very wide audience in the world. For the police song "King of Pain", isSting asked his son Joe to help him sing, and without any fuss that this is my son, they just sang back to back, sounded the same and looked pretty much the same. The boy's knee cannot deteriorate under any circumstances, life goes on, rock'n'roll never dies and what are they now.


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