Back to Bass Tour: 2011/12

Sting and his 3,000-voice sound...

For his Back to Bass tour, Sting and his team took to the Galaxie d'Amnéville last night for a rock concert. The faithful Englishman delighted his audience. He certainly touched their hearts.

Sting, his four musicians, his backing vocalist, and his impressive 3,000-voice choir. Or rather, the story of a legend who has the power to bring together audiences of three, four, or even five generations in one venue. The Englishman stopped by the Galaxie d'Amnéville last night for a sonic adventure revisiting past triumphs and exploring lesser-known gems, delighting long-time fans.

The singer, who revealed his instrumental talents to the music world early on, is playing the extension of a tour that began over a year ago across the Atlantic to mark his 60th birthday. And especially the release, in 2011, of '25 Years' or 25 years of highlights from a solo career with almost no false notes, compiled in a single album.

The Back to Bass tour is for the former Police frontman, as for his audience, an opportunity to return to his first loves, those of a more rock sound for an overview of a quarter-century of repertoire. The singer plays on bass the emblematic songs of his enduring career, from his beginnings in Police to almost three decades of his solo career. His voice is intact, the pleasure on stage is dazzling as is the desire to give himself to an audience that seems never to have forgotten him. So he was not spared, singing along to 'Englishman In New York', 'Driven To Tears', 'Message In A Bottle' and the essential 'Roxanne'. His hits, bass version, are reduced to the essentials and have not aged a day. Sting maintains, in near-perfect French, a complicity with his audience to share with them good rock and good sound. Proof in Amnéville, among other places, that success has never faltered. Sting, who confided at the dawn of his 60th birthday that he believed the best of writing was still before the law. A promise of great returns.

(c) Républicain Lorrain