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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
theprovince.com
Kelowna and
Victoria getting
the basic Sting
But no show scheduled for
Vancouver on Back to Bass World Tour
two dates:
Stuart Derdeyn
The Province
Sting’s Back to Bass World Tour stops in Kelowna and Victoria will
not have the overblown strings and lute. Ian Lindsay/PNG files
While no stranger to our city, the
artist known simply as Sting has
been somewhat elusive delivering the sort of shows his fans most
desire.
Namely, the stripped-down,
back-to-basics band laying down
those hits from back in the day.
Forget the lute, out with the
orchestra.
People want to hear the man
with his longtime group of guitarist Dominic Miller, drummer Vinny Claiuta, keyboardist David Sancious, electric fiddler Peter Tickell
and backup singer Jo Lawry.
Most of all, they want Mr. Police
plucking away in that ever-so-reggae-pop way on his bass.
That’s what you get with the
appropriately named Back to Bass
World Tour that winds its way to
Kelowna on May 30.
The concerts — everywhere from
Africa to Asia and Europe — feature something of a greatest-hits
package played with the pristine
execution that the 10-time Grammy Award-winning performer is
known for — but without the overblown strings and that darned tootin’ lute.
He’s playing at the Save-OnFoods Memorial Centre in Victoria on May 31 as well. Ticket details
for that show will be announced at
sting.com.
As for Vancouver, well, it isn’t
going to happen this time around.
So if you want to sing along to Every
Breath You Take or Roxanne, plan
that road trip now.
It’s almost certain to be good
weather in the Okanagan, and
maybe you can do some bass fishing after the Back to Bass concert.
Tickets for Sting: Back to Bass are
$66.50, $116.50 and $176.50, and
go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. at
livenation.com, 250-762-5050 and
Prospera Place Box Office.
Was Beyoncé’s anthem mere lip service?
charade:
R&B singer accused of miming Star Spangled Banner at inauguration
Peter Foster
London Daily Telegraph
For millions watching on television, Beyoncé’s soaring rendition
of America’s national anthem was
the highlight of Monday’s presidential inauguration.
But admiration turned to disappointment Tuesday after it was
reported that the performance was
mimed, not live.
Doubts about the widely praised
performance of The Star-Spangled
Banner were raised after some
guests sitting close to the stage on
the Western Steps of the Capitol
noticed that the award-winning
singer’s lips were not perfectly synchronized with the sound emerging from speakers.
The secret was apparently confirmed by the “President’s Own”
Marine Corps Band, which provided the backing music for the ceremony and had itself been accused
of miming its performance.
“We performed, live, the band.
But we received last-minute word
Beyoncé posted a photo of her and the Marine Corps band in the
recording studio a day before the inauguration. — Getty Images
that Beyoncé was going to use the
pre-recorded vocal track. Those
were the instructions we were
given. We don’t know the reason
why,” Kristin DuBois, a spokesman for the band, told the New
York Post.
She added that this was standard procedure: “All music is
pre-recorded for the ceremony
because there are so many eventualities and conditions that day.”
As the story spread to social
media networks, some fans
expressed dismay that the performance was pre-recorded.
Many observed that at one point
during the performance Beyoncé
had dramatically pulled out her
earpiece, provoking a debate over
whether this was part of the charade or — for the faithful — evidence that she had indeed decided to sing live after all.
While some cried “fraud,” others
took a more knowing approach,
pointing out that Beyoncé had
posted a photograph of herself in a
recording studio with members of
the Marine Corps band taken the
day before the inauguration.
It also was recalled that during
Obama’s first inauguration in 2009,
cold weather and wind meant that
recordings were used for performances by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and
the violinist Itzhak Perlman.
For conservatives, it was a chance
to score political points, with the
Drudge Report website devoting
half of its front page to a picture
of Beyoncé with Barack Obama
beneath the words: “Faked It!”
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e-today | B5
Bieber’s the new
king of the tweeters
Justin Bieber is the new king of Twitter,
ousting Lady Gaga from her throne.
The Ontario pop star has collected
33,331,355 followers, CTV News reports,
more than 4,000 ahead of the flamboyant New Yorker.
Lady Gaga has been the queen of the
social media network for almost three
years after overtaking Britney Spears in
2010. She was the first Twitter user to
attract 10 million followers — and soon
broke the 20- and 30-million thresholds.
— Postmedia News
January 19 - March 13, 2013
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