STEWART COPELAND

Okay, here's the challenge: create a full set of Police tunes (no solo stuff allowed) that doesn't include *any* of the current songs being performed on tour. For the sake of this silly exercise, let's say there are 21 songs in the show, including the encores.

Here's mine:

Synchronicity I
It's Alright For You
The Other Way of Stopping
Born in the '50s
Canary In A Coalmine
Secret Journey
Does Everyone Stare?
Miss Gradenko
I Burn For You
Man In A Suitcase
Mother
Masoko Tanga
One World (Not Three)
Tea In The Sahara
Contact
Too Much Information
Peanuts

ENCORE I:
Omegaman
On Any Other Day

ENCORE II:
Bombs Away
No Time This Time

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That wasn't nearly as easy as I thought it would be!

That's a tough one. Not sure I can come up with a good one by those rules, but this is something like my idea of what would be ideal:

Don't Stand So Close to Me (original version, with the intro stretched out as they take the stage, lights low)
Roxanne
Truth Hits Everybody (original version)
Voices/World Running Down
Bring on the Night
Omegaman
Walking on the Moon
Spirits in the Material World
Too Much Information (maybe altered, with a lot of jamming)
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
Message in a Bottle
Every Breath You Take
Man in a Suitcase
Driven to Tears
Darkness
King of Pain
Can't Stand Losing You/Regatta de Blanc
Wrapped Around Your Finger

ENCORE I:

So Lonely
Bed's Too Big Without You

ENCORE II:

Next to You
No Time This Time

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I like the idea of ending the main set on a slow note, which gives the audience more incentive to cheer for an encore. I also like front-loading some of the bigger hits (particularly Roxanne) and faster songs closer to the beginning, to "get them out of the way" and win more good will from the crowd before launching into some lesser known or more "challenging" material.

"Bed's Too Big" probably doesn't work as an encore, but I couldn't figure out where else to place it.

I know it would never happen, but I thought the idea of starting an encore with the awesome dissonant tones of the "Omegaman" opening would be sweeeeeeeeeet.

you know, i would sort of like to hear be my girl sally just so i could hear andy do his little rhyme. that's why they should do fan club only shows at small venues for the peeps like us. man, that would be cool.

Don't forget "Shadows In The Rain"

I'll take a stab. Songs they aren't playing? This is hard!!!

Too Much Information
Canary In A Coalmine
O My God
Tea In The Sahara
Peanuts
Born In The 50's
Secret Journey
Shadows In the Rain
Demolition Man
Deathwish
Be My Girl - Sally
Synchronicity I
Miss Gredenko
I Burn For You
It's Allrgight For You
Bring On The Night
Man In A Suitcase

Fallout
Dead End Job

One World

Nice! I like the "Too Much Information" opener. High energy. Good choice.

Jeesh. I can't seem to knock the list down below 24 (pretend the instrumentals are bridges to something else) -- and I have no clue how to order these, so here's a list in no particular order. I'm pretty sure that I'd want to open with "Mother" going into "No Time," but it'd take me a week to figure out the rest.

Mother
No Time This Time
It's All Right for You
Rehumanize Yourself
Friends
A Sermon
On Any Other Day
Darkness
Bombs Away
Miss Gradenko
Does Everyone Stare
Bring on the Night
Peanuts
Masoko Tanga
Canary in a Coalmine
Man in a Suitcase
Hole in My Life
Shadows in the Rain
One World (no horns!)
Fall Out
Nothing Achieving
Behind My Camel
Synch I
Dead End Job

My set is between Johnny O and Wait and see, there are a couple of songs that the Police should have put on their set ... What a shame, here's my set list.

Synchronicity I
Rehumanize Yourself
Too much information
Truth hit everybody (83 or orginal version)
Hole in my life
Don't Stand So Close to Me (Original version)
Man in a Suitcase
Driven to tears (Frejus live version ... If only they could play it like that)
When the world is running (Live like in "Around the World")
King of Pain
Secret Journey
Bring on the Night
Murder by numbers
Shadows in the rain (Classic live version with Sting on Double Bass ... This should have been on the set list)
Deathwish
It's all right for you
Can't Stand losing you / Regatta

Encore

Next to you
Bombs Away
Miss gradenko

Encore
Fall Out
Dead End Job
No time this time (Anthrax version ... just kidding)

The order in which i put the songs are not really the best, but i think most of it would work. I think "Shadows in the rain" is the song that i must have listened to the most and loved it even more as a live version, this is the Police where they improv and play the most. I wish the guys would play this one.

I am sure i forgot to add more stuff

Kinetic Kid

I'd love to see more of the GitM songs swapped out with some of the Synchronicity songs well, at least now that I have seen those 2x....

selfish I know. Hoping maybe in the post- Europe shows they might change some things around a bit....

That would make sense as by then, a lot of people will be seeing them the second time around...

So, if anyone important is stopping by in their free tour time... (yes, that is a joke. I am certain that that Stewart hasn't had much time to post let alone read anything lately- he's a bit busy!)

Sure one of my wet dreams (the only one without Cindy Crawford in) is to listen to a 64year old Brit talking about fucking his rubber girlfriend!

[quote="phaty"]>>>Sure one of my wet dreams (the only one without Cindy Crawford in) is to listen to a 64year old Brit talking about fucking his rubber girlfriend!<<<[/quote]

Isn't everyone's?