2023-02-23
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| a photo from this concert - copyright Joe Matera (from "Shepparton News" - March 2, 2023) | |
| Performance summary | |
| Artist performing: | Sting |
| Tour: | 2023 My Songs Tour |
| Venue: | Rod Laver Arena |
| Location: | Melbourne, Australia |
| Support acts: | Joe Sumner |
| Ticket prices: | TICKET PRICES |
On 2023-02-23, Sting performed at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia.
Setlist
- Message In A Bottle
- Englishman In New York
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- If It's Love
- Loving You
- Rushing Water
- If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
- Fields Of Gold
- Brand New Day
- Shape Of My Heart
- Heavy Cloud No Rain
- Seven Days
- What Could Have Been
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- Walking On The Moon
- So Lonely
- Desert Rose
- King Of Pain
- Every Breath You Take
- Roxanne
- Fragile
Recording information
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Trivia
The show was reviewed by Joe Matera in "Shepparton News" - March 2, 2023:
Sting's still got it
Live review: Sting
Last Thursday evening, I caught Sting’s show at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne.
Previously in the country in 2016 for the AFL grand final, Sting returned for the Australian leg of his My Songs world tour.
His show saw the 71-year-old offer up a jukebox of his hits, covering his entire career from The Police to his solo outings.
After a short and sweet opening set by Sting’s son Joe Sumner, who was joined by Something for Kate’s Paul Dempsey on closer Hope, Sting hit the stage to the deafening, rapturous applause of the fully packed seated arena.
From the moment he kicked off proceedings with Message In A Bottle, the audience members were up on their feet, and for the next 100 minutes, remained in Sting’s hands.
Still commanding a powerful vocal range and having lost none of his charismatic stage presence and youthful energetic vigour, he paced the stage from side to side, entertaining and performing a set that was a trip down memory lane.
After the back-to-back of Englishman In New York and Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Sting dropped the tempo, took a seat and in a moreintimate mode, performed three new tracks — If It's Love, Loving You and Rushing Water, all off his most recent album, 2021’s The Bridge.
Then the familiar favourites returned in all their splendour: Fields Of Gold, Wrapped Around Your Finger, Walking On The Moon and So Lonely, which saw the arena crowd singing loudly along.
King Of Pain, saw Sting’s son join his father for a duet before the timeless classic Every Breath You Take closed the show on a high.
But the crowd wanted more, and Sting returned, teasing the crowd by asking, “What song should I play next?” before the stabbing opening chords of Roxanne whipped the crowd into a frenzy.
Again, taking his seat, he moved to classical guitar and played the poignant finale, Fragile, which closed the show superbly.
Age has not slowed nor troubled Sting, and the show affirmed without question his status as a music icon of our time.
See also
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References
sources: sting.com, Joe Matera review in "Shepparton News" - March 2, 2023
