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STING CONCERT IN BUDAPEST


23 May 1996
Kisstadion, Budapest, Hungary
A review by Gergely Nagy

The band:
Stage 8
Sting: vocals & bass
Dominic Miller: guitar
Vinnie Colaiuta: drums
Kenny Kirkland: keyboards
Butch Thomas: saxophone
Clark Gayton: trombone

Set-list:

  1. The Hounds Of Winter
  2. I Hung My Head
  3. I Was Brought To My Senses
  4. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
    Butch & Sting
  5. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
  6. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
  7. Seven Days
  8. All Four Seasons/When We Dance
  9. Mad About You
  10. You Still Touch Me
  11. Synchronicity II
  12. Roxanne
  13. Bring On The Night/When The World Is Running Down...
  14. Demolition Man
  15. Englishman In New York

    Wave 1st encore
  16. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
  17. Every Breath You Take
  18. Lithium Sunset

    2nd encore
  19. Fragile

Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes


Hounds In early January when I got to know that Hungary is one of the destinations of Sting's new program schedule, I became very very glad. He is my all-time favourite pop/rock singer and he played only once in Budapest in 1988 within the 'Human Rights Now!' tour with such stars as Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour and Tracy Chapman. As I didn't attend that time (I was only 13 :-) I had been waiting for this fabulous date of Thursday, the 23rd of May 1996 for eight long years!!! So, that was my very first time to meet him live!

Sting landed with his 'Sting Airforce' small private plane later than it was planned. He wanted to spend two free days in Budapest before the show, but he was unexpectedly invited to a small island in the Indian Ocean to perform with his band on the birthday party of the Sultan of Brunei on the 21st of May (not for gratis of course!). So, after that gig he was very cheerful when he arrived to our capital.

The show took place at 'Kisstadion' which name doesn't have any connections with the band called 'Kiss'. That means 'Small Stadium', an old open-air ice-hockey rink, where the (approx. 12,000) fans totally used up the capacities. A few hours before the concert you could hardly find a free parking place because of the migrating people and the crowded streets, where I recognized a few buses from the former Yugoslavia as well. (How come? The answer is simple. In these countries Sting and his band are not going to make an appearance this year.)

Around the building I also marked some huge wagons with the words 'MTV' on them. No, no! These were not stand for the 'Music Television' but the 'Magyar Televízió' or 'Hungarian Television', so it was good news for me that the event will be recorded. Everything went O.K. till 8:00 p.m.

The weather was fine, the whole spirit was quite good and the people were waiting patiently, but the concert just did not want to start in time. There was no opening act, so we were listening to some Bob Marley and Alanis Morissette tracks. The tension and discontent were just growing in everyone. Meanwhile, on the stage the roadies finished with tuning the instruments. When they started to pose with Sting's bass and Dominic's guitar to set the lights, the crowd cheered for fun. Then the cameramen sat down behind their equipment, but the anxiety was just getting bigger and bigger.

Vinnie At about 8:50 p.m. the band finally came out. I saw Kenny first in black trousers, white jacket and a white baseball hat. Vinnie was a bit strange with his long hair and with a green bandana on his head. Dominic was wearing black trousers and a black 'Shovelhead' T-shirt which was turned inside out (I dunno why!). The new horn section was also there, the trombone player Clark Gayton and the saxophonist Butch Thomas who had a funny hat. Then we heard Vinnie's rolling snares, which meant that they start off with 'The Hounds Of Winter'. Suddenly Sting appeared from top to toe in black leather, and the performance began...

Dom & Sting Right in the middle where I was standing, the atmosphere wasn't at its peak in the beginning. People just seemed to have been listening to a CD at home. Probably, it was because not so many people knew the songs from the new album. At the end of the first song Sting was 'howling in the wind'. Then came 'I Hung My Head' started right away with the horns. After this tune, he welcomed the audience, 'Good evening. It's nice to be in Budapest.' he said. The following melody was one of my favourites 'I Was Brought To My Senses'. Dom changed to acoustic guitar, he and Kenny sang the vocals, Clark and Butch made some percussion stuff as well. The song included a great keyboard solo followed by a nice sax and a trombone improvisation.

Go away During the rhythms of 'Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot' Sting sent away a huge video camera out of his face then waved to the crowd. He also grabbed a small iron table, which was in front of him and dropped it in the way of the cameraman not to disturb him any more. After that he introduced his musicians. Then he took off his black leather jacket and continued the concert in his well-known black and white striped shirt. LYSBYP was a shorter version without backing vocals, but the refrain was sang by the audience too.

Three 'If You Love Somebody Set Them Free' came next. When I realised the voices of Dolette McDonald & Janice Pendarvis, I knew it couldn't be the vocals of Dominic Miller ;-) that was playback of course. 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' was the first Police song at the show. Each and every person started to sing along in the arena, while Sting and the horn players were dancing rhythmically which was fantastic! Only the first six songs were permitted to record, but during the next tune the recording was continued. Then the organizers began a short fight with the cameramen to stop it immediately...

Kenny The version of 'Seven Days' was perked up with saxophone and it was much colourful than on the album 'Ten Summoner's Tales'. Vinnie did a great job and the few brief pauses made the song more impressive. 'All Four Seasons' ended with the final lines of 'When We Dance' then came 'Mad About You' from 'The Soul Cages', the latest single 'You Still Touch Me' and 'Synchronicity II'. During 'Roxanne' nice pictures were shown on the background projectors :-). The medley of 'Bring On The Night' and 'When The World Is Running Down...' was the highlight of the whole concert. The Latin American style stunning keyboard solo took about two minutes. That was extremely superb! Unfortunately, it wasn't mixed well because Kenny's play was too loud all the time. The live 'Demolition Man' was really an awesome heavy metal version!!!

'Englishman In New York' contained a great rap-part by the saxophonist Butch Thomas. Sting made a mistake in this song, but it wasn't for the first time he forgot or confused his words. I think, the main reason was that he didn't use a monitor to follow the lyrics as usually. While the band left the stage, the walking Butch finished the song with a solo (just as Branford on the original video).

The first encore started off with 'If I Ever Lose My Faith In You' wich ended with Dom's guitar crash. First we heard a big noise, but while a roadie exchanged the wreck instrument the song was over. 'Every Breath You Take' and the extended 'Lithium Sunset' were also wonderful!

The final number was 'Fragile' of course. Dom played on bass and Sting on acoustic guitar. Kenny shined on the keyboards, he played South American tunes again. Sting introduced the band for the last time, then they said their goodbyes and left the stage.

Stage 2 Sting's performance was magnificent! He enjoyed his songs very much. He sang and played on bass with all his heart and usually ran around the stage. I have to say, his voice was in really good shape. He didn't talk too much to the audience because his message was in his lyrics. Vinnie Colaiuta is truly one of the best drummers in the world and he also showed it (as much as it was allowed to him). Kenny Kirkland is a brilliant pianist, no doubt about it. But I wouldn't compare him with David Sancious (Sting's former keyboard player) 'cause both of them are very good but so different. So, both Vinnie and Kenny were in top form and they did everything for the show. Butch Thomas and Clark Gayton were absolutely pleasant surprises. In my opinion, they replaced the Memphis Horns well. They are professional musicians and funny people as well, always dancing and fooling around. Dominic Miller was very disappointing during the concert. He had less role than before, but he was worse than expected. He was lack of ideas in his solos and he just repeated himself over and over again. I think, David Sancious proved on 'The Soul Cages' tour in 1991 that he is a much more interesting and colourful guitar player.

Sting ticket At the end of the concert I became a bit hoarse, but I didn't mind it. The fans left the building for the ol' Beatles tune 'Yellow Submarine'. I was at a loss without some tracks at the gig especially from the 'Mercury Falling' album e.g. 'I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying' or 'Twenty Five To Midnight'. In my humbly opinion all songs were beautiful and a bit different than the original versions; some of them were more sophisticated or simplyfied, but they were different... In spite of the fact that the band Red Hot Chili Peppers played at the same stadium in the following month, I'm quite sure who was there that night, will not forget this concert for a long long time.



JAZZ JAM '96 IN BUDAPEST


27 June 1996
Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary
A review by Gergely Nagy

Andy Summers: guitar
Larry Coryell: guitar
Trilok Gurtu: percussion

Andy Summers Larry Coryell is sitting next to Andy Summers in this photo which was taken on 27 June 1996 at Jazz Jam '96 Festival in Budapest, Hungary. The whole event lasted about 5 hours (!) with such HUGE jazz stars as guitarist Mike Stern and his band (Bob Malach, Dave Weckl & Lincoln Goines) and saxophonist Bob Berg with his quartet (Joey Calderazzo, James Genus & Dennis Chambers). That was the very first time when Andy Summers played in the trio with Larry Coryell (the legendary American guitarist) and Trilok Gurtu (the magnificent percussionist from India). They made approx. a 70-minute-long repertoire of jazz standards for acoustic guitar e.g. 'Manha de Carnival'. Both Andy and Larry made some comments between each song, so it proved that they were in a really good mood. The only problem was the pouring rain because of the show was taken place in the open yard of Buda Castle. This picture is from the Hungarian satellite channel (Duna TV). They aired only a minute long clip of the gig, unfortunately. I was one of the members of the lucky audience, so I thought this short story and photo could be interesting to all of Andy Summers' and The Police's fans on the Net.



ANDY SUMMERS' SHOW IN BARCELONA


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Andy gig 1 Luis Ramiro Lopez
lramiro@ingrammicro.es
April 29th, 1998
Luz de Gas, Barcelona, Spain

On April 29th, Andy played in a small club in Barcelona called 'Luz de Gas'. The show was announced to begin at 22:30 p.m. but Andy came a little bit later (at 23:00 approx.). The room was half-filled with about 150-200 souls. When Andy came to scene, people started to scream. It was great!!! What kind of playing!!! He's still the best guitar player around (I think). The bassist (called Jerry, a tall man) was perfect. His performance playing on a 5-corded bass was incredible (personally I think that Sting is the best). And the drummer (Bernie), made a very good performance, too. He spent high energy during the show (especially in the re-entree, with a formidable solo).

Andy gig 2 But the star was Andy (there's no doubt) and the audience. The feedback between us was unique. It seemed like a party among good friends. Andy was talking to the public all night (making comments in Spanish just reading in a small English-Spanish dictionary). He was joking during the whole show, it was especially funny when a couple of South American boys that were in the audience screamed, 'Roooxanne!!!' Andy in his 'phlegmatic pose' replied, 'O my God!, Sting's in the audience!!!' Comments of this kind filled the show. Two songs were especially demanded by us: 'Murder By Numbers' and 'Message In A Bottle'... People sang out of their voice, very loud. During the concert Andy experienced some problems with his amplifier but it wasn't any problem for him, he could solve it thanks to his maestry. After the show I ran right to the backstage, where I talked with Jerry and Bernie. They are both very funny (especially Jerry).

Andy gig 3 When I asked Jerry about when we could talk with Andy, he said, 'Be patient... He is with the press... Andy is still a Policeman, you know!!!...' We all laughed at the comment. At last Andy went to us and I could tell him some words. I told him that I was waiting that moment for years and Andy answered, 'Aren't you tired to stay here for all these years?'. He signed me a photo and I made my own photos with him. Andy was exactly like I imagined him, a perfect gentleman, a cool person and his virtuosity (with the guitar and other things like photography) makes him a renaissance kind of person.
How can I say that night was unforgettable?



AN EVENING WITH BRANFORD MARSALIS


8 July 1998
Dokk Backstage Arena, Budapest, Hungary
A review by Gergely Nagy

Branford gig
Branford Marsalis: tenor & soprano sax
Kenny Kirkland: piano
Eric Revis: double bass
Jeff 'Tain' Watts: drums

Branford Marsalis (former musician of Sting) is one of the most famous and popular jazz saxophonists today. He is really a unique artist and he is open to many musical styles as post bop, blues, jazz-rock, hip-hop or even classical music. His first appearance in Hungary was ten years ago within Sting's 'Amnesty International Tour'. Kenny Kirkland (current keyboard player of Sting's band) has already been to my country on two occasions (in 1988 and 1996) before this particular performance. Both musicians and drummer Jeff 'Tain' Watts (worked with Kenny Garrett and Michael Brecker recently) have been playing jazz together for about 17 years. The fourth and youngest man of the quartet was the bass player, Eric Revis.

The show took place on the Óbudai Island in the Dokk Backstage Arena. Fortunately, it was not an open-air event because it was the coldest and windiest summer evening I can remember. This new, huge and bright building (which is a pub, a restaurant and a small concert hall in one) is at a dockyard on the banks of the river Danube in Budapest. The place was fully crowded (in spite of the high ticket prices); some people were having dinner at the tables and others were drinking at the bar counter. All of them were watching a large video projector in the middle of the hall; the World Cup semi-finals. It was the match between France and Croatia. As I was walking through downstairs, I saw a few black guys on the first floor smoking, drinking and laughing, but not really interested in the soccer. When I realised that one of them was Kenny Kirkland (sitting back to the screen) I waved to him then he started smiling and waved back to me. It was impossible to get closer to them because of the security guards, but it was a great fun anyway! :-)

When the match was over (it was no extra time, thank God!) the audience moved to the concert hall where approx. 300-400 people could be seated. The lights were fine and we could see the instruments on stage (the Boesendorfer piano and the drumkit were properties of Hungarian musicians, by the way). After we heard some warming-up snatches from backstage by Branford, they finally came out at about 23:00.

Branford ticket Marsalis started complaining 'I hurt my back today. Oh, shit! It hurts... I'm tired too'. Then he introduced his band and played the first song called 'Spartacus' (about a 12-minute-long composition) which was recorded by one of the Hungarian television channels. It was a speedy tune with Branford's fantastic tenor solos and Kenny's brilliant piano work. The second song was a very funny swing theme beginning with Jeff's incredible drum solo. Branford played on soprano sax and there was a nice bass solo by Eric. Marsalis also played on soprano sax in the third song which was written by Kenny Kirkland. The next one was Jeff's composition (with a bit of Thelonious Monk feeling) in which Branford changed to tenor saxophone. I liked the fifth tune best. It was really cool! An amazing free jazz where sometimes Jeff Watts played simple rock rhythms... The following tune was very familiar to me, I'm sure I have heard it before. It contained a tenor sax, a piano, a bass and finally a long drum solo. Kenny used some South American patterns too (he likes to play them especially in his live solos with Sting e.g. in the medley of 'Bring On The Night/When The World Is Running Down...'). The encore was a Keith Jarrett composition titled 'So Tender' played by Kenny, Jeff and Eric. Branford didn't show up again so it was only performed in a trio formation.

By the way, he didn't communicate too much with the audience but he said 'Thanks' in Hungarian a couple of times. 'Köszönöm,' then he said 'I'm sorry I don't speak Hungarian. I hope you speak English'. Someone shouted from the audience 'Don't worry!'. 'Well, I worry but I can't do anything about it...' replied Branford. :)

Unfortunately, he almost couldn't move because of his severe backache. He was standing during his solos or sitting and resting on a bar stool while the others were playing, but sometimes it was hard for him to get up. For example, once he dropped a bottle of water after drinking because he simply couldn't put it back to the ground. All musicians seemed to be in a good mood despite the bandleader's health problems and the late starting of the gig. The whole concert was not longer than one and a half hour but it felt like an eternity for me. It was the very last (the 27th, I think) leg of their European tour. In my opinion, everyone did his best that night. Pure and modern acoustic jazz!

At the end of the performance Branford did not take a bow, but we understood him and we were not angry at all... ;-)



BRAND NEW DAY LIVE IN BRATISLAVA


12 March 2000
Incheba, Bratislava, Slovakia
A review by Gergely Nagy

The band:
Incheba
Sting: vocals, guitar & bass
Dominic Miller: guitar
Manu Katché: drums
Kipper: keyboards
Chris Botti: trumpet
Jason Rebello: keyboards
Mation Taylor: backing vocals
Darryl Tookes: backing vocals

Set-list:

  1. A Thousand Years
  2. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
  3. Perfect Love... Gone Wrong
  4. After The Rain Has Fallen/We'll Be Together
  5. Mad About You
  6. Seven Days
  7. I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying
  8. Fill Her Up
  9. Fields Of Gold
  10. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
  11. Moon Over Bourbon Street
  12. Tomorrow We'll See
  13. Englishman In New York
  14. Brand New Day
  15. Roxanne
  16. Desert Rose
  17. Bring On The Night/When The World Is Running Down...

    Sting & Chris 1st encore
  18. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
  19. Every Breath You Take

    2nd encore
  20. Message In A Bottle
  21. Fragile

Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes


Incheba logo It all began with a meeting one of my friends from the Hungarian Sting Mailing List, Balázs Megyesi at a Belgian brasserie in Budapest on a Sunday evening, 20 February 2000. He told me about the fantastic 'Brand New Day' concert he attended on Tuesday in Prague, Czech Republic. He also showed me some photos that were taken by him and some merchandise stuff he bought there. We were sitting over our 'Kriek' cherry beers and decided to go to Bratislava, Slovakia in March to see Sting live again... And finally we did it!

It was a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon when I met Balázs and his girlfriend, Lívia and his car, a Mitsubishi Colt to try our luck. I had never been to Bratislava before, what we only knew was the name of the venue and that the show was sold out for more than a month. We were listening to my Sting rarities CDs during the journey, which lasted about two and a half hours. We had to ask a lot of people to be able to get to the huge building called 'Incheba', a congress and exhibition hall. It was about two hours before the start of the gig but there were already a lot of people waiting outside pavilion C.

Because we did not have any tickets, we had to try to buy from the dealers, who were walking outside the building, so we joined to a group with 'We want to buy tickets...' signs. They were Canadian and Spanish students from Kecskemét, Hungary. First, it all worked fast and we managed to buy one ticket for a very nice price. Then we had to wait about an hour to get the other two, which we were buying from four Slovakian guys for about three times higher than the original price. They wanted to go to the concert originally but when they realized that they could sell Sting Bratislava 1 their tickets for so much money, they decided not to get in. When we bought those tickets together with a Polish guy, the Slovakians said 'Happy birthday!' when they saw we were so happy. Balázs told them that it was my name day that day, which was true by the way. 'Have a nice party!', I replied to them. They seemed to be a bit upset because they had to go home and they said 'Fuck Sting!'. I told them that Sting would have a concert in Budapest in June, so if they wanted to get such expensive tickets, they could contact me.

Fortunately, I also managed to get in my little Sony tape-recorder despite the strict guards and the thorough search. We were able to stand 7 or 8 meters from the stage on the right side during the one and a half hours of waiting and the whole show. The 'Incheba' is a modern congress hall with only 2500 seats and 4000 standing places, which proved to be one of the reasons that the show was sold out so soon. The venue was packed to capacity of course with mostly young people. We saw the technicians on the stage: Phil Docherty, Danny Quatrochi and Donald Fitzimmonds. They tuned up the instruments, they also set up the lights etc. while we were waiting for the start. It was time for some fun as well, i.e. we sang some old Beatles tunes and Phil shook his bottom to the audience, which received a huge ovation. At 8:30 p.m. suddenly all became dark and we heard the first sounds of 'A Thousand Years', the huge curtain rose, and the crowd went crazy when Mr. Sting appeared on the stage with his guitar in his hand...

I had been waiting for this moment for almost four years! The 'I still love you' part was the best part of the opening song, in my opinion. After that he took off Sting & Manu his strange leather jacket (which is well-known from the video of 'Desert Rose') switched to his bass guitar named 'Brian' and started to play 'If You Love Somebody Set Them Free'. Sting looked very relaxed, he was full of energy and, above all, he had a superb voice. He wore a black vest and dark trousers with pockets and the guitarist Dominic Miller had almost the same clothes as Sting. 'Perfect Love... Gone Wrong' came next, so we discovered that the usual set-list was changed significantly. Chris Botti, who had short hair and an elegant dark-coloured suit, played an unbelievable Miles Davis-like trumpet solo. Manu Katché made the French rap-part with great success in his white baseball cap, and Jason Rebello did a short but fantastic keyboard solo as well. After the song was over in an interesting way, one of my favourite tunes came next from the new album 'After The Rain Has Fallen', which was mixed with 'We'll Be Together'. Sting greeted the audience 'Dobry vecer Bratislava!' (Good evening, Bratislava!) between the two songs. Dominic made some really exciting guitar solos and the new backing vocalists did a great job too. Sting shouted 'Dakujem!' (Thank you!) and introduced his band. Dominic Miller changed his guitars very frequently during the show and I noticed that he did not use his new yellow Stratocaster at all, which could be seen at the Los Angeles gig on television. Except for some usual solos he remained in the background and he seemed to be a bit bored. Once Sting went up to him and he tapped him on the arm twice as if he had wanted to say I am in the red circle 'Come on! Wake up!'. The backing vocalists, Mation Taylor and Darryl Tookes really enjoyed the whole show. They were dancing all the time and made some percussion stuff as well. The drummer, Manu Katché played pretty well in the first half of the show but after that, somehow he lost his energy and his drumming became rather monotonous. Sting's co-producer and keyboard player, Kipper wore a red waistcoat and sunglasses. He really was in good mood while playing the synthesizers, samplers and drum machines. He also sang background vocals to add some more feeling to all the great songs. The trumpeter, Chris Botti did awesome solos but at the end of the show the volume of his instrument was really low, so it was almost impossible to hear anything. While he was waiting for his turn, sometimes he played percussions or he was just simply looking at the audience. Once I managed to draw his attention by waving my hand. When he noticed it, he nodded and smiled at me. He also left the stage for several times because he was not involved in every song. The pianist, Jason Rebello waved and smiled at Balázs as well. :))) These young musicians really had a good time on the stage having fun together. For example, Chris suddenly threw his sordino (a part of his mute trumpet) to Kipper, who managed to catch it, and Chris also pushed some buttons on Jason's keyboard, so poor boy had to reset his instrument soon before something really bad could happen.

Sting Bratislava 2 After the beautiful but sad ballad of 'Mad About You' it was time for some fun with 'Seven Days'. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with Manu's drumming in this song because Vinnie Colaiuta did it absolutely different and in a more stunning way. The next two songs were the surprise 'country-part' of the night because Sting and his band played 'I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying' (the only song from 'Mercury Falling') and it was immediately followed by 'Fill Her Up'. It is a pity that Sting did not pick somebody from the audience to sing with him! Balázs and I replaced the James Taylor-parts of this song with shouting 'goddamn' and 'that's it' in the right time. After a great bass-line and some amazing minutes of improvisation, 'Fields Of Gold' came next when some lighters and what is more, some green fireworks appeared in the audience. The first Police song was 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic', which made a cheerful atmosphere in the hall and it was a great sing-along as well. Manu broke two of his drumsticks during this tune, which were thrown high to the air. Before the start of the renewed version of 'Moon Over Bourbon Street', huge balls appeared on the stage symbolizing the Moon. At this occasion Sting did not sing on his Louis Armstrong-voice but on his normal one. The song ended with a great howling and with the 'Mr. Chris Botti on the trumpet!' introduction by Sting. The next number was 'Tomorrow We'll See' where Branford Marsalis' clarinet solo was replaced by Chris' trumpet; Dominic also did a long and remarkable heavy metal solo. When the line of 'These new heels are killing me' was being sung, the Chris Botti whole crowd went nuts... After a quick change from side A to B of my tape, the classic song 'Englishman In New York' began with a nice drumming by Manu and it was filled with cool piano solos by Jason. Everyone sang 'Be yourself, no matter what they say' and 'yeah-yeah' together with Sting, which made an incredible feeling at Incheba. I think, one of the peak points of the whole gig was when we heard the first chords of 'Brand New Day'. During this optimistic and very dynamic love song, Kipper and Jason were moving simultaneously on their seat behind their keyboards as if they had been dancing. It was fun! Then 'Roxanne' came next with an acoustic intro and it all ended up with a huge reggae-rage, which was simply brilliant. The current single 'Desert Rose' was fantastic even without the Algerian rai-singer, Cheb Mami. As far as I remember, the audience liked this song the most and it was also a great spectacle to see some red and yellow fake-flames on the stage. I almost became deaf when this tune was over... During the 10-minute-long Police-medley of 'Bring On The Night/When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around' Jason Rebello paid tribute to the late Kenny Kirkland with an astonishing jazzy piano solo. The first part was over but after a few seconds of applause and boos the band came back to the stage to perform 'If I Ever Lose My Faith In You'. It started without drums and Manu joined only at the first refrain, but I have to admit that I really missed Vinnie. When Sting was singing 'in you' he always pointed to one part of the audience and he received a great ovation in return. After 'Every Breath You Take' Sting introduced his band once again and they all left the stage. The second encore included an unplugged version of 'Message In A Bottle' and the all-time final song, the touching 'Fragile'. Surprisingly, Sting played both songs on Dominic's acoustic guitar and not on his own Gibson Chet Atkins while Dom played the bass. After that we heard the very last note of 'Fragile' the curtains fell gently to the floor. Finally, Sting thanked the audience for coming and listening and all the band members bowed and waved to us. When he said his usual 'See you again!' then I thought of the concert in June in Budapest, of course. He also made a few handshakes with some people in the first row then he left the stage.

Bratislava ticket At 10.25 p.m. exactly we started to get out of the building very slowly. During the very popular 'Desert Rose Melodic Club Mix' some people were dancing and singing, including me. It really was a great enjoyment to entertain ourselves while going outside. Some guys were listening to 'If You Love Somebody Set Them Free' and 'Russians' in their cars but after some minutes of silence we turned on the stereo and listened to the whole bootlegged gig in Balázs's car. After the two hours of travelling, 'Fragile' closed the night for us again when we arrived home in the end.

This was truly an unforgettable night with Sting (it was my second chance to see him live), and now I am even more eager to see him again in Budapest as I had been before the Bratislava show. So, I am really looking forward to seeing the concert on 12 June 2000. Thanks Sting! ;)))))))))))

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BRAND NEW DAY LIVE IN BUDAPEST

Sting in Budapest 1
12 June 2000
Kisstadion, Budapest, Hungary
A review by Gergely Nagy

The band:

Sting: vocals, guitar & bass
Dominic Miller: guitar
Manu Katché: drums
Kipper: keyboards
Chris Botti: trumpet
Jason Rebello: keyboards
Russ Irwin: backing vocals

Set-list:

  1. A Thousand Years
  2. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free Sting in Budapest 2
  3. After The Rain Has Fallen/We'll Be Together
  4. Perfect Love... Gone Wrong
  5. All This Time
  6. Mad About You
  7. Seven Days
  8. Fill Her Up
  9. Fields Of Gold
  10. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
  11. Moon Over Bourbon Street
  12. Tomorrow We'll See
  13. Englishman In New York
  14. Brand New Day
  15. Roxanne
  16. Desert Rose
  17. Bring On The Night/When The World Is Running Down...
    Sting in Budapest 3
    1st encore
  18. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
  19. Every Breath You Take

    2nd encore
  20. Fragile

Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes


It was really a superb show and Sting's voice was incredible! We had a great time and I also managed to meet him personally and GAVE THE FANBOOK TO HIS HANDS!!! ;-))))))))))))))))))

During the soundcheck Manu played for some minutes. Later Jason and Sting joined him, and then the whole band performed an absolutely new and unknown song (to us) four or five times. It was really a nice and 'Stingy' melody with piano, guitar, drums, synth and some lyrics as well. Unfortunately, we have never heard this tune before but we really liked its atmosphere. So let's check it out when Sting is in your country and he's doing a soundcheck! I can only remember that it was a very moody and a little bit slow song, and it was good for Sting to train his voice because of the low and the high notes were always changing.

Sting in Budapest 4 During the show there were some additional playback backround vocals as well. Phil Docherty, Dom's technician always showed a paper to Dom and the band with the current result of the England vs. Portugal soccer match in the Euro Cup. :)))) Once Jason sang too loud at the end of 'Fill Her Up' which was funny. Sting made a huge jump at the end of 'Roxanne', just like in the ol' good Police days... Sting was really in a good mood and said 'Köszönöm!' (Thank you!) quite a lot of times during the concert and he greeted the audience 'Szevasztok budapestiek!' (Hi there, Budapesters!) which really made our day! At the end of the show Sting said his goodbye 'Budapest! Köszönöm és szia!' (Thank you and good bye!), so he didn't tell his regular 'Thanks for coming, good night, god bless and see you again' stuff. It was really fun and he also enjoyed it very much! I also managed to record the whole gig and it's quality is surprisingly better than I made in Bratislava...

Fanbook 2000 Let's continue my review about my meeting with Sting on the day before the show:
The idea of making a 'Fanbook' popped up by a friend of mine when we received the first news about Sting's concert in February 2000 in Budapest, Hungary. Unfortunately the show was postponed because the original venue, Budapest Sports Hall, was totally burnt down in a devastating fire in December 1999, which truly depressed every Hungarian fan. So we were really enthusiastic and looked forward to the re-scheduled gig at Kisstadion in June 2000. All of the messages were sent to Sting via e-mail between 13th December 1999 and 1st June 2000. The Fanbook contained several touching stories, funny comments and short but lovely greetings, some of them in Italian, Spanish, French and Hungarian too. Some people wrote letters not only to Sting, but to his son, Jake and to Sting's guitarist, Dominic as well. Interestingly enough, the youngest fan who wrote a message was 8 years old from Italy and the oldest one was 50 years old from Australia. Every message was printed out without any modifications.

BND signed I had a sleepless night and was really excited on 11th June 2000. At 10 a.m. in the morning I met two other Hungarian Sting Fan Club members in front of the Hotel Corvinus Kempinski in Budapest. It was the most likely place for Sting's stay because this hotel is the most beautiful and the most expensive one in the country. I got to know that he would arrive between 2:30 and 3:00 p.m., so we went home and I phoned my other friends to come to the spot at 2:00 p.m. It was unbelievably hot (35 degree Celsius) and we were informed at the reception and by some policemen in the street that Sting would be arriving after 2:30 p.m. Ten people and I were sitting under the trees in the shades in front of the building. At the beginning we were nervous and excited but after two and a half hours of waiting in vain we became really really tired...

Greg & Sting Budapest ticket Then suddenly at around 4:30 p.m. two black cars arrived and from the first Mercedes Dominic Miller and Billy Francis got out. I saw Dom's long hair flying in the wind and I shouted to the others, 'There's Dominic!'. Then I rushed to the side of the hotel across the road with the Fanbook, my Brand New Day CD and a CD marker pen in my hand. I could hardly recognise Sting when he got out slowly of the car, because he was very blond and really dishevelled. As he was approaching the hotel entrance I walked up to him and said, 'Sting!' twice but he did not notice me. When I was really close to him I told him, 'Hi Sting! Welcome to Hungary!'. He looked into my eyes and replied, 'Hi!'. It was the very last second when I could stop him because he almost grabbed the handle of the hotel entrance door... 'My name is Greg.' I continued as he put down some baggage from his hand and shook my hand. 'We would like to give a present to you. This Fanbook contains more than 300 messages from the Internet!' and I gave the book to his hands. He looked at its cover and said very politely 'Ah, it’s great! Thank you!'. He held it for a while and then he handed it over to his tour manager, Billy Francis as he was walking into the building. I said, 'Would you please sign this for me?' and I gave him a black pen and my BND CD cover. 'Yes, sure!' he signed his name on the blue coloured inner booklet but I originally wanted him to sign my disc, so I added, 'Would you please sign it here as well?', 'Sure!' and he did it immediately then I thanked him. Until then the other members of our fanclub had come over and they also asked him to sign their different posters, photos, CDs and books. A lot of photos and even a short video were taken by us during this unbelievable meeting. After everyone had got what they wanted, Sting took out my pen from his mouth and gave it back to me 'Here is your pen', he said. Then he said goodbye and he disappeared in the hotel lobby.

We really wanted Sting to find our Fanbook exciting and enjoyable to read. We tried to make a pleasant surprise for him and sincerely hoped that he would remember it for a long time.

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Andy Summers in Budapest

ANDY SUMMERS TRIO IN BUDAPEST


31 October 2001
Petôfi Csarnok, Budapest, Hungary

The band:

Andy Summers: guitar
Darryl Jones: bass
Dennis Chambers: drums

Set-list:
Darryl Jones in Budapest
  1. Strange Earth
  2. Easy On The Ice
  3. Opus Three
  4. Reincarnation Of A Lovebird
  5. 'Round Midnight
  6. Evidence
  7. Solar
  8. Think Of One
  9. Afro Blue Dennis Chambers in Budapest
  10. Blues For Snake

    encore
  11. Tonight At Noon

Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes





EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DOMINIC MILLER


4 June 2004
Kempinski Hotel Corvinus, Budapest, Hungary
A review by Gergely Nagy

The most active members of our fan club (around ten people) gathered at noon on 4th June in front of the Kempinski Hotel Corvinus. This was exactly the same place where we successfully met Sting and his band almost four years ago on 11th June 2000, when Sting received our first present personally, called 'Message In A Fanbook'.

Dani, Mimi, Greg, Szandra & Andi Although we tried to amuse ourselves by talking to each other and taking funny pictures, we were nervously waiting for the arrival of Sting. I also asked the others to help me in collecting interesting questions for an upcoming interview with Dominic Miller, which was scheduled for 4:00 p.m. inside the hotel. Finally, a very nice and interesting list of topics were formed on a sheet of paper. Then suddenly it started to rain, so we had to move right in front of the hotel entrance, where some paparazzis and bodyguards were also standing. No one knew about the time of Sting's arrival, he could have appeared in any second. At 4:05 p.m. we asked the guards if anyone from Universal Music Hungary was waiting for us because of the interview. It seemed that they simply do not believe us, but thanks to Nóra Pordány from Universal, she saw us from the lobby and came outside to us. So, Andris (a great fan of Dominic, who did all the photographs during the interview) and I had to leave the others, who were still staying in front of the hotel, standing in the pouring rain.

Inside Kempinski Outside Kempinski We could also feel the tension inside the hotel. The staff was at least as excited as we were. It was unspoken but evident, a very imporant person was going to visit the place. We also checked out the elegant board room, Ficino, which was the place for the meeting with Dominic. We felt more comfortable after we had sat down in the lobby. As we were informed by Nóri, two hours had been reserved altoghether for four different media (including us, representing Zene.net and Sting.hu), so everyone had to be ready for 6:00 p.m. Unfortunately, Sting and his crew were late. Some minutes after 5:00 p.m., we noticed pianist Jason Rebello as he was coming up to us. We stopped him at the elevator to ask for his autograph. He was not that friendly, maybe because he was not expecting any fans inside such a luxurious hotel. He signed my 'Sacred Love' Tour Book and the '...All This Time' DVD cover of Andris without saying a word, so we let him go. Then the two backing vocalist girls, Joy and Donna were also walking to the elevators. Sting arrives to Kempinski They were both really nice, so I started to chat with them. Then Donna pointed to the entrance door because Sting was coming inside, accompained by a few guards. As he was getting closer to us, he did not look really well. He was quiet thin and very tired. Andris like a brave warrior, went up to him and asked for his autograph. Sting did not say a word, he just reached for the pen and signed Andris' DVD cover very quickly. Some seconds later, the bodyguards started to shout with us beacuse we were invited to the hotel to make an interview with Dom and not to bother Sting. We did not disturb him at all, because he did not refuse to give us an autograph, but all the guards were really aggressive and rude with us. We did not care about this, so we sat down again and were waiting for our interviewee. Andris was still in shock after meeting Sting. I can understand him. I was in shock too four years ago when I personally gave him the first Fanbook. Then we also saw Rhani, Keith, Kipper and Dom as they were walking to the elevators. Five minutes later, Dom appeared in the lobby in a new T-shirt. He was ready to be interviewed. We shook hands and introduced ourselves. We were the first ones to go, so we went to the meeting room. We had only 20 minutes, so we were in a hurry. I have to admit, Dom is a very nice guy with an excellent sense of humour. During our interview session, I asked him about his childhood, his works before Sting, his role in Sting's band, his co-writing with Sting, his favourite Sting songs, his latest works 'Shapes' and 'Third World', his favourite jazz musicians and many many more. It was quite interesting and amazing!


Dominic Miller interview

You can read here the whole article in English! And you can also check out the Hungarian version as well!



HANDING THE FANBOOK 2004 TO STING


5 June 2004
Felvonulási tér, Budapest, Hungary
A review by Gergely Nagy

As you might already know, Attis (a very good friend of mine, who is the webmaster of www.sting.hu and I started to collect letters and photos to our favourite musician via the Internet at love2.sting.hu. During our three-month campaign, 'Send Your Love to Sting!' from 1st March to 1st June 2004, we received 200 messages and 78 pictures altogether. Fans from 5 continents and 37 countries from Argentina to Yugoslavia wanted to express their feelings about Sting's wonderful music and lyrics. Being Hungarian citizens, we are really proud of the fact that more than one third of all messages were written by fellow fans from Hungary. Interestingly enough, the youngest person who wrote was 11 years old and the oldest one was 70 years old. For more statistics, please check out this page. Every message was printed without any modifications to Sting. We have to let you know that the downloadable public version of Fanbook2004 does not include any e-mail addresses, postal addresses and telephone numbers because of the protection of moral rights.

Greg & Attis with the Fanbook So, back to the day of 5th June, there was an incredibly huge crowd in Dózsa György Road, in Heroes' Square and in the surrounding streets of Budapest. Fortunately, my fiancée, Kati and I received two T-Mobile VIP tickets just before the show, so we were able to sit really close to the stage, while others were 'packed like lemmings' outside the fence. Thanks to Dani, one of the members of our fan club, two really good seats were reserved for us in advance in the VIP area of 6,000 people. After the performance of ten Hungarian singers, Suzanne Vega and her band from New York City came to the stage at 7:00 p.m. It was high time for me to collect my two good friends, Attis, the editor of Sting.hu, and Zoli, the inventor of the idea of the Fanbook. Both of them were standing somewhere outside the VIP area together with nearly 500,000 people. We could hardly hear each others' voices on our mobile phones because of the loud music and the audience. While I was looking for them, I saw as Sting and his bands' cars arrived to the backstage area. Finally, I was able to get both of my friends through three VIP checkpoints with my invalid tickets. :-)

Sting arrives to meet & greet Sting & Csaba Ajtony Around ten or twelve professional photographers and some other people (e.g. winners of different radio contests) were waiting at the entrance door of the backstage. The other fans also wanted to look into the pages of the Fanbook 2004, which they really liked. At 7:45 p.m. Éva Márkus from Universal Music Hungary came out and talked to us. There was a short briefing before the meet & greet party e.g. we must not leave the group in the backstage area and we were not allowed to take any private pictures. As I started to get inside a small town of caravans behind the scenes with a bunch of people, I became very anxious. It was a fantastic moment when I realised that I was going to meet personally my favourite musician again and give him our unique present. Wow! As we were climbing up the stairs into a hall, we saw Kipper and waved to him, then he smiled and welcomed us. We were asked to stand in a circle and wait until Sting arrived, not to rush to him. We sat down and were waiting for some minutes. It was 17 lucky people altogether attending the meet & greet party including us. We were really excited until Sting appeared at the door with his tour manager, Bill Francis and a lady, a Hungarian organiser, who hosted him. He wore his usual stage clothes, dark striped shirt with white collars and dark trousers. Honestly, he looked much better than the day before. First, the marketing manager of Universal Music Hungary, Csaba Ajtony welcomed Sting and gave him the gold record of 'Sacred Love'. We applaused him because of the 16,000 sold copies in Hungary. Then Sting started to walk around the room almost silently, shaking hands with all the fans and giving some autographs, while two professional photographers were shooting a lot of pictures. Péter Geszti, a Hungarian rapper and director of an advertising agency, which prepared the whole launch campaign for T-Mobile also met and talked to Sting. As Sting was walking to us, he said: 'I'm gonna sign anything!' and then smiled.

Sting & Greg with the Fanbook Suddenly he was standing in front of me and shook my hand. I welcomed him: 'Hi Sting! My name is Greg and I’m one of the founders of your Hungarian fan club.' And then, I continued: 'You may remember us, because four years ago we gave a similar present to you. Our current campaign is called 'Send Your Love To Sting!' and this Fanbook contains a lot of messages from your fans all over the world. We hope you will find it enjoyable to read.', I also added: 'It contains 200 messages and 78 pictures from 37 countries and 5 continents. This is our feedback for you.' I do not remember whether he said anything apart from 'Thank you. Thank you so much.', but he looked really excited. When I finally gave the book to his hands he started to read into it immediately. On the second page, Sting noticed the picture of a young lady, María Elena from Uruguay, and Sting, Greg, Attis & Zoli he looked as if he were just saying: 'Wow! She is so pretty. I am glad she is one of my fans.', then we laughed together with him. It seemed that he really appreciated to receive such a thoughtful present from his fans and his face became very cheerful. He also started to sign photos, covers and books for Attis, Zoli and me. When he noticed that we have a copy of his memoir, 'Broken Music' he asked me: 'Is this the German version?', 'No. It is the English one, but we also have your book in Hungarian as well.' I replied. 'Yes, I have heard about it. Have you read it already?', 'Yes, we have.' said Attis and I. 'Is the translation good?' asked Sting, 'Yes it is, of course!' we replied with enthusiasm to our hero. Then he also signed Attis' book 'Széttört zene', the Hungarian version of 'Broken Music'. My friend asked Sting to write the words 'To Attis' as well, above his signature. Sting said OK and then he added a funny comment: Attila, the Hun!, which absolutely amazed us. Marcell Szabó (www.marcello-design.hu), a young designer gave Sting a present as well, a wine bottle rack, which had a shape like a guitar neck. Sting liked it very much, but after lifting the present, he found it too heavy and handed it over to Bill Francis.

We were really proud that Sting held our Fanbook in his hand or under his arms during the rest of the meet & greet event. After he waved good bye to us and left the building he even started to read its pages. And what is more, we also noticed that while he was chatting with Suzanne Vega in front of her dressing room, he was holding it. That was an unforgettable encounter for us with Sting. It was not too long but it was very long-awaited. We managed to send our love to Sting through this Fanbook! Thank you very much for all of your messages and photos! Mission completed!

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STING'S LARGEST SHOW EVER


5 June 2004
Felvonulási tér, Budapest, Hungary
A review by Gergely Nagy

Suzanne Vega Almost 500,000 people attended the grand ceremony marking the rebranding of the biggest Hungarian mobile operator on T-Mobile day, 5th June 2004. Luckily, rain spared the audience at the free mega-party. The spectators could follow the events on five giant screens that presented the latest sound and light technology. 300,000 cans of Coca-Cola and tens of thousands of pink frisbees were distributed among participants. In the sky, a huge illuminated pink zeppelin carried the new logo of the rebranded mobile company. The biggest Hungarian and foreign stars entertained the audience of the concert that counts as one of the biggest European music events. Suzanne Vega also appeared on stage before Sting's performance of almost two hours.

The band:

Sting stage Sting: vocals, guitar & bass
Dominic Miller: guitar
Keith Carlock: drums
Kipper: keyboards
Rhani Krija: percussion
Jason Rebello: keyboards
Joy Rose: backing vocals
Donna Gardier: backing vocals

Set-list:

  1. A Thousand Years (instrumental)
  2. Send Your Love (remix) Sting in Budapest in 2004
  3. Inside
  4. We’ll Be Together
  5. Dead Man’s Rope
  6. Synchronicity II
  7. Whenever I Say Your Name
  8. I Was Brought To My Senses
  9. This War
  10. Fragile
  11. Fields Of Gold
  12. Sacred Love
  13. Stolen Car
  14. Englishman In New York
  15. Roxanne/Spirits In The Material World
  16. Never Coming Home/When The World Is Running Down...
    Sting & Joy Rose
    1st encore
  17. Desert Rose
  18. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
  19. Every Breath You Take

    2nd encore
  20. A Thousand Years

Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes


Some minutes passed 9:00 p.m. when the stage grew dark and the first notes of the instrumental version of 'Thousand Years' sounded. First, the band came out to the huge stage, Dom, Jason, Joy, Donna, Kipper, Keith and Rhani, then Sting appeared in the middle without any instruments and they started to play the techno remix of 'Send Your Love'. At the end of the song, some really fine drum and percussion solos were performed by Keith and Rhani.

VIP sector By the way, the stage was really huge, but there were no movie clips played in the background as it was usual at Sting's previous shows. Dominic's great guitar riff of 'Inside' came next, the whole song was magnificent, although it was not ended with the duet of Joy and Sting as we saw it on the DVD, but in a cool jazzy way. The next tune was an old hit from the ablum '...Nothing Like The Sun', called 'We'll Be Together', which had also been played at the sound check in the afternoon. It began with phone rings just like in the unreleased version on 'Fields Of Gold – The Best Of Sting 1984-1994'. Dom did great guitar solos in the song and the lovely vocalist girls were really great while Jason played in Hammond organ tone. Sting said 'Thank you! How nice to be back in Budapest! How are you feeling? Good?' and then he introduced his band. In 'Dead Man's Rope' Sting messed up the lyrics by singing the verse 'Now I'm suspended between my darkest fears and dearest hope...' instead of 'If you're walking to escape, to escape from your affliction...', so because of that he had to skip a whole verse. This touching song had a country style ending, so I prefer the album version better.

500,000 people in Budapest The first Police classic was 'Synchronicity II' which sounded exactly the same as ten years ago... It was just brilliant! Then Sting asked the audience again 'How do you feel now? Good?'. Nearly 500,000 people cheered. 'Whenever I Say Your Name' followed the previous speedy tune. I was amazed by Joy's voice, she sounded fantastic! Sting grabbed his bass towards the end and Joy got her knees while she was singing the final lines of this wonderful composition. This was one of the most memorable moments of the whole show. My all-time favourite, 'I Was Brought To My Senses' was really a pleasant surprise in the set-list. Jason's piano solo was excellent, though I missed a saxophone or trumpet solo very much. The song finished with short breaks which proved to be a very funny ending. The arrangement of 'This War' was reinvented compared to the CD version. As far as I recognised, it included the main theme and the bass line of Miles Davis' 'It's About That Time'. Dominic Miller played the starring role and it really rocked!

Sting in Budapest in 2004 It was strange to hear 'Fragile' in the middle of the set, but to be honest, it had a very close link to the previous tune. 'Fraglie' is also a protest against war and violence, although in a different way. Sting played the acoustic guitar and Dom played a Sting signature Fender Precision bass. The show was not over after the final note, it continued with the romantic melodies of 'Fields Of Gold' in which Dom's guitar solo was perfectly performed. 'Sacred Love' had great percussion and bass parts, and I think Sting's voice was in top form, so he could sing the highest notes easily. The current single, 'Stolen Car' was played in a very funny way, it had a calypso kind of song feeling, and it was great when the vocalist girls danced in the middle of the stage almost during the whole song. 'Englishman In New York' was undoubtedly one of the most well-known songs, so everyone sang along with Sting, which must have been a great experience for him as well. During this tune, I called up my father and my brother on my mobile phone to broadcast the live show for them. They heard some snippets of the refrain!

The second Police number, 'Roxanne' was a 10-minute reggae version with a long sing-along part and some pieces of 'Spirits In The Material World'. The last song was the medley of 'Never Coming Home' and 'When The World's Running Down...' before the first encore. Sting sang the lines so fast as if he was doing rap. Jason's keyboard solo was magnificent, but Dom played his usual solo from 'Bring On The Night'. Sting and the band came back to the stage to play 'Desert Rose'. Some of Cheb Mami's voice tracks were used, and there was a marvellous percussion part as well, thanks to Rhani. In my opinion, this song was the second peak during this fantastic night! 'If I Ever Lose My Sting on huge screens Faith In You' came next, in which Kipper played some very funny harmonica melodies. The song was great as usual, dynamic and powerful and it also contained some elements which reminded me of 'Jeremiah Blues'. 'Every Breath You Take' proved to be the third most popular song for the Hungarian audience, because each and every person sang it together with Sting. After the usual introduction of the band, Sting also chanted the refrain of the song 'Brand New Day'. The second encore and the final tune was 'A Thousand Years', but this time the original one with vocals. Sting was sitting when he started to play his guitar, it was a great improvisational theme. The members of the band were bowed and waved to their biggest crowd ever.

Unfortunately, I really missed Vinnie Colaiuta on drums and Chris Botti on trumpet, and the songs like 'The Book Of My Life', 'Waking On The Moon', 'Forget About The Future'. Anyway, the whole concert was a dream to me! Approximately half a million people in my hometown, Budapest at Sting’s free show! I still cannot believe it! I think it’s just impossible to be surpassed!!! :-) (A Thousand Years, 1999)

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