Sting And Paul Simon To Tour Australia Together In 2015
Sting photo by Ros O'Gorman

Sting photo by Ros O'Gorman

Sting And Paul Simon To Tour Australia Together In 2015

by Paul Cashmere on June 30, 2014

in Live,News

Sting and Paul Simon will bring their ‘On Stage Together’ tour to Australia and New Zealand in 2015.

The two superstars will play arenas as well as outdoor shows for A DaY On The Green.

The Sting and Paul Simon show begins with the two artists performing together followed by Sting solo, back together for a few more songs, then Paul Simon solo.

They team up together in the encore for three of their biggest hits including ‘Every Breath You Take’ and ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’.

Sting and Paul Simon dates

Paul Simon, Rod Laver Arena, 2013, Ros O'Gorman, PhotoNew Zealand

January 30, Vector Arena

Australia

February 3, Brisbane, Entertainment Centre
February 7, Geelong, Mt Duneed Estate
February 8, Adelaide, Coopers Brewery
February 10, Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena
February 14, Hunter Valley, Hope Estate
February 16, Sydney, Qantas Arena
February 21, Perth, Sir James Mitchell Park

Tickets for all shows go on sale on Monday July 7.

Sting and Paul Simon setlist

Main Set

Paul Simon and Sting
Brand New Day (from Sting’s Brand New Day, 1999)
The Boy in the Bubble (from Paul Simon’s Graceland, 1986)
Fields of Gold (from Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales, 1993)

Sting
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic (from The Police’s Ghost in the Machine, 1981)
Englishman in New York (from Sting’s …Nothing Like the Sun, 1987)
I Hung My Head (from Sting’s Mercury Falling, 1996)
Driven To Tears (from The Police’s Zenyatta Mondatta, 1980)

Paul Simon and Sting
Love is the Seventh Wave (from Sting’s The Dream of the Blue Turtles, 1985)
Mother and Child Reunion (from Paul Simon’s Paul Simon, 1972)

Paul Simon
Crazy Love, Volume II (from Paul Simon’s Graceland, 1986)
Dazzling Blue (from Paul Simon’s So Beautiful or So What, 2011)
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (from Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years, 1975)
Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (from Paul Simon’s There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, 1973)
That Was Your Mother (from Paul Simon’s Graceland, 1986)

Paul Simon and Sting
Fragile (from Sting’s …Nothing Like the Sun, 1987)

Sting
America (from Simon and Garfunkel’s Bookends, 1968)
Message in a Bottle (from The Police’s Reggatta de Blanc, 1979)
The Hounds of Winter (from Sting’s Mercury Falling, 1996)
They Dance Alone (from Sting’s …Nothing Like the Sun, 1987)
Roxanne (from The Police’s Outlandos d’Amour, 1978)
Desert Rose (from Sting’s Brand New Day, 1999)

Paul Simon and Sting
The Boxer (from Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Waters, 1970)

Paul Simon
The Obvious Child (from Paul Simon’s The Rhythm of the Saints, 1990)
Hearts and Bones/Mystery Train/Wheels (from Paul Simon’s Hearts and Bones, 1983 / Junior Parker cover / Chet Atkins cover)
Kodachrome/Gone At Last (from Paul Simon’s There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, 1973 / Still Crazy After All These Years, 1975)
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (from Paul Simon’s Graceland, 1986)
You Can Call Me Al (from Paul Simon’s Graceland, 1986)

Encore 1
Paul Simon and Sting
Every Breath You Take (from The Police’s Synchronicity, 1983)
Late in the Evening (from Paul Simon’s One-Trick Pony, 1980)

Encore 2
Paul Simon and Sting
Bridge Over Troubled Water (from Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Waters, 1970)

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