REGGATTA DE BLAND

VVK 24 Euro / AK 28 Euro

Tickets are available at the local advance booking offices Touristinfo, theatre office and BBV Bocholt and online at www.tixforgigs.com/de-DE/Event/67941/reggatta-de-blanc-freier-kulturort-alte-molkerei-e-v-bocholt

When Reggatta de Blanc formed THE POLICE tribute band in 1988, nobody could have guessed that there was someone in this world whose voice not only resembled that of Police frontman Sting, but was almost identical. "Pure but beautiful coincidence", thought Reggatta singer Michael Griese at his first rehearsal with his boys in April '88. For Griese, this is still a special, precious gift to this day.

In the meantime, several years have passed, over 1,500 concerts have been played in all clubs and open airs in Germany and abroad and everything that Sting's pen has put down on paper over the last 40 years has been conjured up on stage. It should not be forgotten that the former teacher from the north of England continued as a soloist after his time with The Police from 1985 and released countless hits. There are few artists in this world who have such a comparable success story and have given the world so many hits.

The Police's success story began in 1978 with the classic "Roxanne", followed by, to name but a few, "So lonely" and "Message in a bottle" as well as "Don't stand so close to me" or "Every little thing she does is magic" and culminated in Sting's most successful work "Every breath you take" on his last album "Synchronicity".

Reggatta de Blanc did everything right when they formed their The Police tribute band at a very young age in the spring of 1988. And the emphasis here is on TRIBUTEBAND, because for 17 years they honed and almost perfected the sound, performance and stage show of what was once the most successful rock trio of the 80s, until, partly due to the change of line-up in the band, they ventured into the big hits from Sting's solo period (which continues to this day): "Set them free", "Englishman in New York", "Fragile", "Fields of Gold", "Desert Rose", "Shape of my heart", "Bring on the night", "Can't stop thinking about you" and "Don't make me wait", are just some of the songs that the multiple Grammy and Brit Award winner composed after his Police days and released over the course of 12 studio and 4 live albums.

Reggatta's current line-up promises high-calibre quality on the instruments: Tom Quast (guitar), Jonas Wilms/Christopher Hafer (drums), Markus Wentz (keyboards), Dimitri Telmanov (trumpet), Wim Wollner (saxophone) and Maja Griese/Melina Kohler/Alwine Adden (backings). As a result, the band is not only musically versatile, but also in terms of line-up: whether the original trio, which brings the early Police back to the stage, or various Sting solo constellations with backing singers and/or a brass section - Reggatta de Blanc manage to bring all live constellations from the last 40 years of The Police and Sting to the stage in an original and detailed manner.

In December 2023, Reggatta de Blanc completed their - believe it or not - 35th anniversary tour! Well over 1,500 concerts of a special kind were conjured up on stage. The inexhaustible live repertoire of The Police and Sting guarantees that Reggatta's shows have never been repeated since the beginning. Every concert is different. The various live versions that are interpreted result from the legendary The Police - Rockpalast concert from 1981, from the Synchronicity tour in 1983, from Sting's famous MTV Unplugged concert (1992), the Oslo concert from 1993 or his legendary live concert in Tuscany in the garden of his vineyard on 11 September 2001.

You won't hear studio versions of the songs from Reggatta, Reggatta play live and 1000% close to the original - just as you know it from the concerts of The Police and Sting in full bandwidth from the Internet.

Anyone who has never seen the original (especially The Police) live can now catch up with Reggatta!

+++ Every breath you take +++ So lonely +++ De do do do do de da da da da +++ Fields of gold +++ Englishman in New York +++ Message in a bottle +++ Every little thing she does is magic +++ Walking on the moon +++ Set them free +++ Fragile +++ If I ever lose my faith in you +++ Shape of my heart +++ Can't stand losing you +++ Bring on the night +++ Desert Rose +++ Driven to tears +++ Don't stand so close to me +++ King of pain +++ Wrapped around your finger +++ So lonely +++ Can 't stop thinking about you +++ Don 't make me wait +++ Roxanne +++