The Police add Toronto show, deny 'reunion' status

The Police have added a new date to what most observers are calling the band's reunion tour, despite guitarist Andy Summers' recent insistence that the outing was anything but.

Summers told the Canadian Press news agency this week that he doesn't consider the band's current trek to be a reunion. "It just all sounds non-creative to me," Summers said. "The kind of chemistry in our band, there's no reunion. It's like, 'OK, we're back together, how do we make this work on all levels?'

"In a sense, it feels more like a new band. It doesn't feel like some old band and we're just going to kind of try to remember the way the old songs went and do them just like that. That wasn't the spirit that made The Police what it was."

Reunion or not, the resurgent trio has added a fourth night in Toronto--the band has already played two shows in that city--to its growing comeback calendar, with back-to-back shows rocking the Canadian city Nov. 8-9 as part of the band's fall North American leg. The full itinerary is included below.

The group continues to sporadically add new dates to the tour, which launched in late May and continues tonight (7/26) in Montreal.

Following the early August conclusion of the trio's current North American tour leg, The Police will head overseas for a two-month European trek, kicking off Aug. 29 in Stockholm, Sweden. The band's complete international calendar can be found at its website.

The group, which released its last album, "Synchronicity," 24 years ago, has publicly hedged on the topic of recording new material as The Police.

"That's a long-shot, that's way off yet," Summers told the Canadian Press. "We just right now want to get through this tour and make it very successful, run out of the whole thing and then see what happens."

[Note: The following tour dates have been provided by artist and/or tour sources, who verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this story. Changes may occur before tickets go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]
 tour dates and tickets
July 2007
26 - Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre
28-29 - Boston, MA - Fenway Park
31 - Hartford, CT - Rentschler Field

August 2007
1, 3 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
4 - Baltimore, MD - Virgin Festival
5 - East Rutherford, NJ - Giants Stadium

October 2007
31 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden

November 2007
3 - Atlantic City, NJ - Boardwalk Hall
8, 9 - Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre
11- Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden
17 - Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena

 tour dates and tickets
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