Cherry Vanilla & The Police Lion Hotel 9/3/1977
Originaly a performance poet and former actress (she performed in Warhol’s “Pork”) and David Bowie’s PR for 2 years, Cherry Vanilla began a tour of Europe in 1977. Brought over to England by Miles Copeland he tells Cherry to save on air fares by leaving the bands rhythm section at home as he knows a perfectly capable one in England. Stewart Copeland agrees to be the drummer on the condition The Police are booked as support and Sting is roped in to play bass.
The 1st night is in Newport Gwent at a club called Alexander’s and the 6th night of the tour arrives at the Lion Hotel. The Police, consisting of the original line up of Sting, Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani on guitar will play the opening spot and then Stewart and Sting return to the stage with Cherry Vanilla.
Sting describes the first night in his autobiography Broken Music.“The Police set begins at ten to eleven and is finished on the stroke of the hour. It blisters along at such a pace – no gaps between the songs, defying the audience to be critical or appreciative, as if we don’t give a fuck either way, and then we’re off before they know what’s hit them”
Probable song list for The Police that night was
Landlord - Kids To Blame (Games To Play) - Clouds In Venice - Night At The Grand Hotel - It's My Life - Dead End Job - Fall Out.Probable song list for The Police that night was
Sting was paid £6.50 for each gig on the tour.
The following night was at Eric’s in Liverpool which is immortalised in the Cherry Vanilla song “Liverpool” in which the Lion Hotel is mentioned.
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