"It’s very fast, very loud and features heavily garbled shouting noises usually accompanied by large mouthfuls of spit. "The prevailing style is easily described," Summers recalled. Both Sting’s website and Setlist.fm list the show at Rebecca’s happening two days later.) "In a nutshell, we suck." He also writes disparagingly about playing the venue "on the day Elvis dies." (Technically Presley died on Aug. "What we have is a fast, furious row more like three brats misbehaving, more the sound of a fashion statement than a musical message - and it’s worthless," Summers wrote. The guitarist dismisses their early songs as "terrible" and unoriginal in his 2007 autobiography, One Train Later.
Summers’ recollection of this period is a bit less fond. It will take time, but now I’m certain of it.” "I know, perhaps for the first time, that I have found a flagship for my songs," Sting added. He described the rest of the gig as "total mayhem," ending with "three encores" and the destruction of a drum kit as they walked to their dressing room.
"We walk onstage, the lights come up, and out of sheer desperation, panic, and I suppose character we somehow manage to kick off the shackles of self-doubt and despondency," Sting added, "and within the first eight bars of the first tune begin to play with the unrelenting power of a 10-ton hammer." Sting describes the Police show with romanticized intensity in his 2004 book Broken Music, calling it a "crucial Rubicon" that could have brought one of two outcomes: "We will either cross it successfully or our fragile enterprise will be swept downstream in a chaos of despondency and abandoned dreams," he wrote. 18, 1977, at Rebecca’s, a small nightclub in Birmingham, England, where the original lineup had previously backed punk singer Cherry Vanilla. The new trio’s first headlining performance took place on Aug. In the meantime, the Police still had some gelling to do. That sound - an innovative fusion of punk, reggae and new wave - fully bloomed on the band’s debut LP, 1978’s Outlandos d’Amour. "A sound of our own is beginning to hatch." "Andy shows up with his harmonic sophistication, and Sting starts writing these big songs," Copeland wrote in his 2010 memoir, Strange Things Happen: A Life With the Police, Polo and Pygmies. And after a pair of shows - including France’s Mont de Marsan Punk Festival, alongside the Clash, the Damned and the Jam - the Police settled into their trio configuration of Sting, Copeland and Summers. The fit turned out to be awkward: Summers favored a more colorful, versatile style than Padovani’s raw punk attack.
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