Main AttractionThe Police, who somehow become one of the biggest groups in the world, play Millennium Stadium tonight in front of 55,000 on their "f*ck it, we know it's shite and nobody really listens other than the bored and lost souls tuned to Real Radio but let's cash in" World tour.
£85 a ticket? - that's what I call a STING!
There are plenty of groups I love still being about or reforming but, Stewart Copeland's magnificent drumming apart, I'd like to make an exception for this group.
OK, back in the day, I quite liked them. Well until they went shit on us anyway and even bored us at gigs with music interludes with Sting's yeah-o, yay-o, yay--o-O (repeat ad nauseam for about 2 and a half days)! That was after 2 albums but what did they care? They'd cracked it.
It's all a far cry that what must be their first ever Cardiff appearance. Just £1 to see Manchester spoof punk outfit Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias. As usual, I went to the Rose and Crown (now Barfly) for a pre-gig bevvy and missed the support act.
"Who was it? What were they like?", I asked as I got in.
Shitty bleached blonde reggae white boys in jumpsuits. The feckin' Police or something, shite. Got gobbed all set, drinks hurled their way, a typical Kairdiff Top Rank welcome back then. Glad I missed that then. At the time, they were better known for a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum ad going up a tube escalator holding outsized packs of gum.
Nine months later I was back, the place packed as the white reggae boys found their songs Can't Stand Losing You, Roxanne and co suddenly became hits about 2 years after they first bombed. Loved it too and they pulled the birds in but it was now £3 to see them but wahey! Not long after, I lost all interest in them but the world everywhere now loved them and those lost 20 something girls are no doubt dragging their men along tonight - poor sods..
Cardiff Top Rank was buried long ago - now covered by Primark - a shame the venue's gone, a bigger shame Sting wasn't buried with it.
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