There was an interview with Sting about the album, approach to the live show, and the ideas behind "Broken Music" (focusing on the stories that haven't been covered in the press). Nothing discussed that we don't already know.

PLENTY of plugs. Be sure to pick up "Sacred Love", "Broken Music", and American Express Blue Cash. Live at the "Blue Five", indeed. *rolls eyes*

Send Your Love - Slowly evolving. Nice, drawn-out take on the intro verse - mainly Sting on acoustic guitar. Band kicks in pretty quickly.

Set Them Free - As per usual, except for the accented hits in the chorus from the "All This Time" arrangement.

Whenever I Say Your Name - I don't particularly care for this song, but Joy Rose now clearly owns it. Mary J. Who? :-)

Synchronicity II - Straightforward. Sting has dropped the newer chromatic scale arrangement for the last verse that he played during the MF tour.

If I Ever Lose My Faith In You - a little bit of the extended end jam, reminded me of the TST live version.

I'm not surprised as to what songs were chosen for this broadcast - a mix of new songs and greatest hits. I was hoping to hear the tracks that weren't played on the BBC broadcast - "All This Time", "This War", "Desert Rose". I love when the band cuts loose, so "Never Coming Home" would have been welcome. Even though that's now a jam section we've heard countless times, it still delivers on the energy level. Even though the song means much to me, I'm glad they didn't waste time with another recording of "Fields Of Gold".

It'll be interesting to see where the songs on this tour end up. From what little I've heard, it seems that the classic songs are there, but they've been more or less returned to their original arrangements.