This show looks like a winner — if I can get my hands on some tickets. The Police, Aug. 4, at the PNC Bank Arts Center, with Elvis Costello opening.
Yes. You read that correctly.
Accordign to The Record of Bergen County, tickets will be $40.25 for lawn seats and $90.25 and $225.25 for reserve seats and go on sale Feb. 25.
I saw The Police twice — once during the summer of 1981 when the band took a break from recording Ghost in the Machine to do a one-off show at Liberty Race Track in Philadelphia. The show — with the Go-Gos, The Specials, Oingo Boingo and the Coasters opening — was amazing.
The second show was the final one of their Synchronicity tour at Shea Stadium, with R.E.M. and Joan Jett opening (we got their late and missed R.E.M., but I have been lucky enough to catch the band on several other occasions). It was, I believe, my brother’s first concert and also was a great show.
R.E.M., by the way, also will be touring (June 14 in Long Island, June 17 in Philadelphia and June 18 in New York — click on the link to hear the new single, which is guitar-driven in a way the band has not been for a while), so if I can come up with the cash, I’ll be hitting some concerts this summer (already have Springsteen tickets).
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