by olivier on 04 Feb 2007 11:21
Sting was quite often pissed off on stage, when something wrong happened in the audience.
If you're a bootlegger, remember Dublin July 27, 1980 when someone in the audience threw a bottle on Stewart's drumkit !
The music stopped, of course, and Sting did a long monologue to lecture the crowd. But the sound quality of this bootleg is awful, and I can't reach a word, except "Fuck Off".
About "So Lonely" there is a misunderstanding. The version in ES is not the same as the one in O To S (no trouble in the audience and no Sting yelling). And nothing is really sure about the place in ES...
Dietmar thinks it's in Hammersmith in september.
The fight was about a kid probably playing with fire, as Sting said "hey, that's a fucking fire risk !!!" (ES chapter 7, 24'18")
There was 3 Hammersmith Odeon gigs late 79, two in Sept. 22 & 23 and one in Dec. 18 + one in Hammersmith Palais the same night.
"So Lonely" in O To S. was shot in Hammersmith (Odeon or Palais ?) in Dec. 18, for sure...
A little bit confusing, mmh ?