The Police's Sydney, Australia concert

January 24, 2008

Review by Jon.

I thoroughly enjoyed this show. I saw them twice in London in the early eighties and know all their stuff inside out. I agree with 1 or 2 of the other reviewers who have commented that the quieter tracks (walking on the moon, wrapped around your finger) seemed to work better. Unfortunately, and I must say this frustrates the hell out of me when I've paid a lot of money for the tickets, the sound in the Olympic Stadium was pretty poor. You would think after playing so many shows around the world on this tour that their sound engineers would be able to get it vaguely right? I was quite a way back which def didn't help but the guitar mix was verging on dire, which obviously isn't Andy's fault but it def detracted from the show. Someone I know went to see them in Melbourne 2 days later having also been to the Sydney gig and he said the sound mix in Melbourne was much much better. A shame for the Sydney fans though! Ho hum, will wait for the DVD, I'm sure they'll get it right on there.