The Police win "People's Choice" award

The Police scored the award for "Favorite Reunion Tour" on Tuesday night (January 8th) at the 34th Annual People's Choice Awards.

Due to the ongoing writers' strike, the People's Choice Awards ceremony itself was cancelled, and host Queen Latifah announced the winners on camera on the CBS telecast, and the winners appeared via pre-taped acceptance speeches.

When asked by London's Sunday Times whether the Police would continue their reunion by heading into the studio to record a new album, which would be their first since 1983, Sting said, "Perhaps. You can't predict. I'm sure the other two would love for us to record some new material. It's really just a question of whether I feel inspired."

Andy Summers says that the Police always were able to record their albums very quickly: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "We just didn't need that much time. We were a very hot playing band. We were barely ever off the road, so we were always totally into playing. We were just red hot playing with one another. So all this thing about 'working it all up' -- I've never understood why rock bands needed a year to make an album... I don't get it -- can you play or not? We'd work these things out fast, you know? And Sting was a very good songwriter so the songs would come in and we had a good structure to work with. And then we would just 'Police-ify' them until they started to really sound tight."

He added that, although the very nature of the band is based on artistic tension, he feels that he, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers have finally found a healthy way to coexist in the same band: "We still argue, because we care passionately about the music. We don't just sit back and let it happen. But we're slightly more mature as individuals, so we navigate round each other better. It's less abrasive than it was."

The Police resume their world tour next week with a series of dates Down Under before heading out for a series of concerts in Asia.

The Police will next perform on January 17th in Wellington, New Zealand at Westpac Trust Stadium.
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