Anyone who knows me knows that I would be the first guy to stand in line for days to get tickets to a Police reunion show. I heard from a friend that this may be a dream coming true this year. As much as I'd like to think it'll happen it's looking bleak, just like any other time that the subject has been mentioned.

Even though it's the 30 year anniversary of the band's first single and A&M records has some marketing plans in the works for this summer I don't actually believe that there will be any sort of reunion tour.

I decided to google this subject and the only thing I could find that confirmed anything in either direction was this:

POLICE DRUMMER SAYS STING WILL NEVER GO FOR A REUNION
By: Bruce Simon

Rumors are circulating that Police will reunite in some form this year to mark their 30th anniversary, but drummer Stewart Copeland is skeptical about Sting's willingness to go along. In an interview published at the Uncut magazine website at uncut.co.uk, Copeland said, "I'm a film composer and I have to (be) very careful about what I do within that... (but) being the drummer in a rock band is just for fun and I can do that any which way. A Police reformation wouldn't compromise me at all, but for Sting, it would be a step backwards. He has another brand name -- which he's had for some time now, of course -- which is 'Sting,'and he's concerned with taking that forward. For Sting, a reformation would be a career move in the wrong direction, but for me it wouldn't be any career move at all. I guess (guitarist) Andy Summers is somewhere between those two points."

While he'd be happy to do a reunion, Copeland did reveal that he's past wondering about the band and the history. He said, "Editing the Super-8 footage for my DVD (Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out) really didn't make me feel nostalgic, although there were a few surprises there. What really struck me was how cheerful it all was... Sifting through the footage really punctuated the whole Police experience for me, and now I feel that the circle is complete. Before, I always felt like there was some kind of unfinished business but, having made the film, I'm completely cured of the Police."

Copeland added, "We were lucky to get our eight years and five albums out of Sting, because the Police was a great fit -- musically, all three of us excited each other -- but being a member of any band was not part of Sting's personal makeup... At first, that wasn't a problem, but it became more and more so as time went on and he stuck it out for eight long years. Sting made all those compromises that you have to make when you're a member of a band, rather than the band."

Stewart Copeland's brother Miles Copeland, who was also the manager for the Police and for Sting, told us that he can't imagine Sting saying yes: "Sting doesn't want to do it. He's done his thing, and for him it would be admitting his solo career wasn't as big as the Police and he had to go back to that. And he'd hate, he just hates to admit something like that."

There's been no official word that the group will reform, though there are strong rumors about live shows in the U.S. and U.K this year.

January 08, 2007