Sting gives a mini-performance for Dutch fans – Telegraaf.nl

Gordon Sumner as Sting’s real name, played four songs from his new album in which he goes back to the rock from the time of The Police. “I’m done with my experiments of the last few years,” said the British singer that all trips made to classical music and, rather, a whole plate filled with 16th century lute music. “Now I’m going back to my roots.”

“People tell me that this new album just sounds like The Police. 'Well', I joke 'I zát happen to be in The Police.'" To the delight of the attending fans that a contest had won Ziggo and Radio 2, sang Sting is also an oldie: Message in a bottle. The chorus – ” I’ll send an S. O. S.” – was hard sung.

Q & A

Also there was time for some advance by his management selected questions from the audience. Sting appeared, for example, were made at Amsterdam, where he in april for a concert in the framework of his 57th & 9th Tour. “The canals inspire me. I walk there like along. They make me melancholic, but in a good way. Amsterdam is a poetic city."

Famous or not, Sting can use it anywhere without any problems walk. “I possess the special gift to me invisible. I go to the streets without bodyguards and entourage, keep a normal pace and stance. Sometimes people recognize me and come tell me that my music is good or a flop. But mostly I’m not recognized at all, even in the middle of New York. I think that is good because actually I am a very shy person."

he told me that He 57th & 9th in three months had included, for are do very quickly. “That deadline gives the plate a certain urgency.” Sting cuts some social issues. “One fine day is an ironic song about the climate. I pray that environmental activists have it all wrong, that it isn’t too bad with the pollution. Well, of course that is totally not true."

Icons

50,000 is about acceptance. “Our cultural icons go dead: David Bowie, Prince, Glenn Frey of The Eagles, Leonard Cohen. People think that pop stars are immortal, but we die just like everyone else." With 65 years says Sting itself does not plan to be out pinching.

Although he is the mini-action ended with the sensitive issue of The empty chair, about the IS beheaded journalist James Foley, it was a less loaded than the day before in Paris. Sting performed there as the first artist in the converted Bataclan, the music venue where terrorists last year 90 people murdered.

The evening began with a minute of silence out of respect for the dead and the survivors. “A mother held a picture of her lost son up.” Sting emphasized the power of music. “Who has the power to heal. Ultimately, it was a beautiful evening, and also already started-ie gloomy. That is what music can do."