2006-05-05
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| Artist performing: | Sting |
| Tour: | n/a |
| Venue: | Baltic Centre For The Arts |
| Location: | Newcastle, England, UK |
| Support acts: | SUPPORT ACTS |
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On 2006-05-05, Sting performed at the Baltic Centre For The Arts in Newcastle, England, UK.
Setlist
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Recording information
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Trivia
Sting had just received an honorary doctorate in music from Newcastle University. He celebrated this with today's private concert for around 130 friends (after a soundcheck and further rehearsals).
Guests included Phil Sutcliffe, photographer Rik Walton and Impulse Studios owner Dave Wood.
The Gerry Richardson Trio opened the concert with a three song set.
Andy Hudson then introduced the musicians - Gerry Richardson (Hammond organ), Paul Smith (drums), John Hedley and Terry Ellis (guitars), Pete Volpe (Trumpet), Don Fairley, Ray Chorter and Brian Chester (Trombone), Cormac Loane, Pat Crumley and Garry Linsey (Saxophones) and Sting.
Ex-Newcastle College students Andrew Mockler and Hannah Taylor were then invited up on stage to join Sting and their former teacher Gerry and reprise their roles from 2004's Variety Club dinner at which Sting was honoured. Andrew and Hannah had previously stood in as guest vocalists for Sting at the dinner after impressing him at a workshop for music students when he'd fallen foul of a bout of laryngitis before the dinner. Sting had invited the pair to guest with him again only an hour earlier, and despite what must have been a stomach churning wait both were delighted to reprise their roles.
Andy Hudson then orchestrated both the musicians and the audience through a rousing version of one of the Big Band's staples - Jimmy Forest's 'Night Train' - which brought the evening's main set to a close. But we all wanted more and the band duly obliged with more blues as they tore through 'Need Your Love So Bad'.
The musical entertainment may have been over but Sting and Trudie found time to wander from guest to guest spending some time with anyone that wanted to chat to them or have their photographs taken as a reminder of a wonderful night on Newcastle's Quayside. All present left in the hope that Sting's promise to come back some time and do it all again comes to fruition!
See also
2006-05-04 (rehearsal)
External links
References
source: sting.com
