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10-08-2007, 08:50 PM
Dublin - Will the curtain close again on The Police when their reunion tour ends? Andy Summers thinks the fractious trio could yet have a new album in them.
Summers, 64, was speaking in Dublin in the middle of The Police's current swing through Europe, part of its 30th anniversary world tour that began in May and is scheduled to run into 2008.
The Police broke up in 1984 following five albums and a relationship-wrecking world tour, since when front-man Sting has sustained solo stardom.
Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland, 55, have pursued their own, much more low-key recording projects, but reunited this year at the insistence of the 56-year-old Sting.
Sharpened group skills
Summers said the trio had yet to discuss in any detail the prospect of recording a new album together.
But he said the tour had sharpened their group skills again - and, four months into the reunion, creating something new together would make sense.
"It's sort of like living with the elephant in the room. I would see it as a challenge, to make an absolutely brilliant pop album at this stage of our career, and that would be something quite remarkable," Summers said.
He was speaking after a sold-out concert Saturday in Dublin's 82 000-seat Croke Park that received praise from critics and the largely thirty-something crowd alike.
Summers - whose percussive guitar style is an important part of The Police's sound fusing pop, punk, jazz and reggae - said the tour was a full-time workout.
'All-devouring'
"Right now it is just the tour and holding everything together, mentally, physically and musically. The tour and the travelling and the playing and the tension you have to keep to do it every night is all-devouring. It is just too much," he said.
Summers spoke to reporters at a book signing in a central Dublin park, where he was signing copies of I'll Be Watching You: Inside The Police 1980-1983, his personal photographic record of the band's glory years.
Last year Summers published his autobiography, One Train Later: A Memoir.
The Police are performing in Antwerp, Belgium, on Monday and Tuesday nights, then on to Germany and their native England.
The band returns to the United States for a 16-concert swing starting October 31 in New York City, then tours South America in December, and Australia and New Zealand in January-February 2008.
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Summers, 64, was speaking in Dublin in the middle of The Police's current swing through Europe, part of its 30th anniversary world tour that began in May and is scheduled to run into 2008.
The Police broke up in 1984 following five albums and a relationship-wrecking world tour, since when front-man Sting has sustained solo stardom.
Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland, 55, have pursued their own, much more low-key recording projects, but reunited this year at the insistence of the 56-year-old Sting.
Sharpened group skills
Summers said the trio had yet to discuss in any detail the prospect of recording a new album together.
But he said the tour had sharpened their group skills again - and, four months into the reunion, creating something new together would make sense.
"It's sort of like living with the elephant in the room. I would see it as a challenge, to make an absolutely brilliant pop album at this stage of our career, and that would be something quite remarkable," Summers said.
He was speaking after a sold-out concert Saturday in Dublin's 82 000-seat Croke Park that received praise from critics and the largely thirty-something crowd alike.
Summers - whose percussive guitar style is an important part of The Police's sound fusing pop, punk, jazz and reggae - said the tour was a full-time workout.
'All-devouring'
"Right now it is just the tour and holding everything together, mentally, physically and musically. The tour and the travelling and the playing and the tension you have to keep to do it every night is all-devouring. It is just too much," he said.
Summers spoke to reporters at a book signing in a central Dublin park, where he was signing copies of I'll Be Watching You: Inside The Police 1980-1983, his personal photographic record of the band's glory years.
Last year Summers published his autobiography, One Train Later: A Memoir.
The Police are performing in Antwerp, Belgium, on Monday and Tuesday nights, then on to Germany and their native England.
The band returns to the United States for a 16-concert swing starting October 31 in New York City, then tours South America in December, and Australia and New Zealand in January-February 2008.
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