Sting Releases “57th and 9th”, Announces World Tour
Sting has returned with his first rock-oriented album in thirteen years. 57th and 9th came together in an impulsively over a few weeks earlier this year and ranges in topic from Syrian refugees (“Inshallah”) to climate change (“One Fine Day”) to the loss of musical heroes (“50,000”).
“There’s a child in all of us that looks at cultural icons and goes, ‘How could they die?’ Because we’ve invested this sort of godlike immortality to them,” he told USA Today. “‘50,000’ is from the point of view of someone who’s been there watching his friends die and facing his mortality. Mortality is something that once accepted, it’s not morbid. If anything, it makes your life richer — at least, that’s the philosophy I’m developing as I speak to you.”
The bass legend has also a boatload of tour dates in support of the album for 2017. The tour will kick off at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, British Columbia before snaking across North America and jumping the Atlantic for a month in Europe.
57th and 9th is available on CD, vinyl and as a digital download (iTunes and Amazon MP3).
57th and 9th Track List:
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
- 50,000
- Down, Down, Down
- One Fine Day
- Pretty Young Soldier
- Petrol Head
- Heading South On The Great North Road
- If You Can’t Love Me
- Inshallah
- The Empty Chair
Sting 2017 Tour Dates:
Date | Location | Venue |
---|---|---|
Feb 1 | Vancouver, BC | Commodore Ballroom |
Feb 2 | Portland, OR | Theater of the Clouds at Moda Center |
Feb 5 | San Francisco, CA | The Masonic |
Feb 8 | Los Angeles, CA | Palladium |
Feb 11 | Rancho Mirage, CA | Agua Caliente Casino |
Feb 14 | Denver, CO | Fillmore Auditorium |
Feb 16 | Kansas City, KS | Uptown Theater |
Feb 17 | St. Louis, MO | The Pageant |
Feb 19 | Austin, TX | ACL Live at The Moody Theater |
Feb 20 | Dallas, TX | Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie |
Feb 22 | New Orleans, LA | UNO Lakefront Arena |
Feb 23 | Houston, TX | Smart Financial Centre |
Feb 25 | Miami, FL | Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater |
Feb 27 | Atlanta, GA | Tabernacle |
Feb 28 | Nashville, TN | Municipal Auditorium |
Mar 2 | Minneapolis, MN | The Myth |
Mar 3 | Chicago, IL | Aragon Ballroom |
Mar 5 | Toronto, ON | Rebel |
Mar 6 | Montreal, QC | Metropolis |
Mar 8 | Boston, MA | House of Blues |
Mar 9 | Uncasville, CT | Mohegan Sun |
Mar 11 | Philadelphia, PA | Fillmore |
Mar 12 | Washington, DC | The Theater at MGM National Harbor |
Mar 14 | New York, NY | Hammerstein Ballroom |
Mar 21 | Barcelona, ES | Sant Jordi Club |
Mar 23 | Milan, IT | Fabrique |
Mar 25 | Hamburg, DE | Sporthalle |
Mar 27 | Warsaw, PL | Torwar |
Mar 29 | Stuttgart, DE | Porsche Arena |
Mar 30 | Zurich, CH | Samsung Halle |
Apr 1 | Luxembourg | Rockhal |
Apr 2 | Brussels, BE | Forest National |
Apr 4 | Dusseldorf, DE | Mitsubishi Electric Halle |
Apr 5 | Amsterdam, NL | Heineken Music Hall |
Apr 7 | Manchester, UK | Apollo |
Apr 9 | London, UK | Eventim Apollo Hammersmith |
Apr 12 | Paris, FR | Olympia |
Apr 13 | Paris, FR | Olympia |