Sting was absolutely perfect in the Royal Arena...

In a tight-fitting grey t-shirt and even tighter-fitting black jeans, 71-year-old Sting took the stage at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen on Friday evening. He had a selection of his gold-plated back catalogue with him, and for 95 minutes he took the Friday-happy guests on a tour of his hit parade.

Accompanied by an electric rock ensemble, everything good from Sting was played, but also some of the best from The Police. Between 1977 and 1986, Sting was better known as the bassist, singer and songwriter for the band The Police.

And a song from The Police days was the first of the concert. In a bubbly pace and high energy, “Message In A Bottle” was presented to a well-prepared and mature audience.

The concert with Sting was characterized by an incredibly well-playing band in every minute of it. During “Rushing Water”, “If I Ever Love My Faith In You” and “Brand New Day”, the band sounded like one that has spent a lifetime together on the roads. The euphoric atmosphere the latter song brought with it was on the verge of heaven.

During the concert, a special song was played that has not been in Sting's back catalogue for a long time. The song “What Could Have Been” from the Netflix series ‘Arcane’ was performed delicately, and made the entire hall in the Royal Arena fall silent. Perhaps most of all because people did not know the song when the series was first released in 2021, but it was phenomenal.

In a deal worth two billion kroner, Sting has sold all his music rights to the record company Universal, and you can understand why they wanted to buy it. His songs contain a certain quality that is rarely seen. The same can be said about the concert on Friday night.

During the closing songs like “Desert Rose”. “Every Breathe You Take”, “Roxanne”, which included a small remix of It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) by Ella Fitzgerald and finally the incredibly beautiful “Fragile” was absolutely perfect and at a towering level.

There was not a finger to put on Sting’s hit parade on Friday night in the Royal Arena. It was a great pleasure to hear an extremely impressive back catalogue being played and presented from an extremely well-playing band, where the youngest member was only 18 years old. Although Sting is 71 years old, and has long since earned the right to the Arne pension, he realized on Friday night that he still has many good years in him.

(c) Poplish by Nicolaj Sveiger