1996-03-09 (Sting)

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1996-03-09
1996 03 09 bourbonstreet1 irisedinger.jpg
a photo at Bourbon Street - copyright Iris Edinger
1996 03 09 bourbonstreet2 irisedinger.jpg
a photo at Bourbon Street - copyright Iris Edinger
1996 03 09 ticket.jpg
a ticket for this concert
1996 03 09 paradiso martinnickel.jpg
a photo from the Paradiso concert - copyright by Martin Nickel
1996 03 09 paradisosetlist.jpg
Sting's setlist - provided by Martin Nickel
Performance summary
Artist performing: Sting
Tour: 1996-1997 Mercury Falling Tour
Venue: Bourbon Street / Paradiso
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Support acts: none
Ticket prices: ƒ 40.00


On 1996-03-09, Sting first made a surprise appearance at the Dutch Sting Association's fan club meeting at Bourbon Street in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Later he performed at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Setlist

Bourbon Street:


Paradiso

Recording information

This section needs more information. Please note if an official or unofficial recording, or recording(s), is known to exist of this performance.

Trivia

Sting's appearance at the Dutch Sting Association's fan club meeting was organized the day before when the DSA's management visited Sting at his hotel.

His appearance at 1:00pm came as a surprise for about 125 fans present.

Sting and Dominic Miller first performed Lithium Sunset.

Then Ed "Lemon" Citroen came on stage to sing a homage to Sting. Ed then started to play Message In A Bottle and was quickly joined by the whole audience and Sting.

Then fans could ask Sting some questions - here's what Martin Nickel could write down:


  • Peterlien: Is there anybody who wants to ask Sting something? No ?? Ask him something !
  • Fan: I read something about "La Belle" as a protest against the nuclear tests
    • Sting: ... France, because I love France very much ... french art, food, culture, but I'm not a fan of the nuclear tests.
    • Audience: We neither!
  • Fan: Sting, with which artist do you want to do a duet
    • Sting: Aehm, with Vinnie Colaiuta.
    • Audience: Do it !
    • Sting: Actually Dominic, Vinnie and I have been developed this modern music aehm ...
    • Sting, Dom & Vinnie: aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhpp
    • Sting: It's not finished ... our second ...
    • Sting, Dom & Vinnie: aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhpp
    • Peterlien: I buy the album ! OK, anybody else ?
  • Fan: Yes, here! My favourite venue in the world is ..... in Glasgow do you want to play there ... you think ...
    • Sting: It's the strangest dutch accent I've ever heard. Actually I love in Glasgow "The Apollo". Do you know "The Apollo"?
  • Fan : Sting I have a question. Why did you write the song "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" or for whom did you write it? It's my song for now.
    • Sting: Is it?
    • Fan: Yeah!
    • Sting: OK, there is someone that is actually specific about, but I don't want to mention who that is, but it's someone who .... aeehh ...
    • Fan: It's your wife!
    • Sting: No, it's not my wife, it's actually someone who's ending, near the end of his life and aeeh, you know, it means a lot to me and him.
    • Fan: I want to thank you for writing this song. Thank You.
  • Fan: Sting, I once wrote a devil in your book I hope you didn't find it. It's terrible. ...
  • Fan: Sting, I want to thank you for writing the song "Englishman in New York". That is the song that I became a very great fan of you.
  • Fan: Sting, from Barcelona, Spain. Do you have plans to play in Spain, as any song in Spanish
    • Sting: Aaeh, I sang in Spanish before.
    • Fan: Yeah, but you have plans to make now a ... song in spanish from the new album?
    • Sting: ....
  • Fan: I want to ask you something about singing.
    • Sting: About What?
    • Fan: About Singing!
    • Sting: ... make my chest big, sing for longer ...
    • Fan: Have you ever read the Sting newsgroup on the Internet?

Sting: I think so and I've decided never to look in. It's pretty crazy the Internet. Some of it's good some of it is bad. Actually I was online one night in New York, answering. There were over 5000 questions that night. I'm not online every night it's not my thing, I'm playing music.

  • Fan: You've got some folk influences on your new album
    • Sting: I came from Newcastle ...

Sting then performed I Hung My Head before leaving the venue around 1:40pm.

A short time afterwards and only a few streets away from the Bourbon Street Sting was seen shooting parts for his new video You Still Touch Me - driving on a dutch bicycle and driving on a boat through the channels of Amsterdam.


At the Paradiso Sting's band looked like this:

See also

1996-03-08 (Sting)

External links

fan report and photos

References

source: internet (see external links), ticket stub, Rogier van der Gugten, Martin Nickel