"fanclub, it's become a more commercial entity than a labour of passion."

Passion, yes, like Stewart's drumming, Andy's playing and Sting's....singing.
Yes, I miss the passion.

I didn't renew my membership for the similar reasons.  A steep price to pay for
one DVD and access to a message board (which in my opinion should already
be accessable to us).  However, I really would love to have a DVD with 
Broken Music tour footage though.  Is that for next year or this year? 

"unable to do anything without some corporate agreement from some office in
the US..."

Probably.  I once felt, especially during The Police days, that we in the US were
the step-children of fandom compared to those abroad.  I remember at the time
how much I longed to have the Police Files.  Unfortunately, I wasn't a member of
Outlandos, didn't find out about it until later on--even though I was a fan since '78.
I was young though, but still.  It seemed the club was not so oriented to the US, or
was it just me?  Anyway I finally acquired them all about twelve years ago.  I love
them, but would have loved them more back then.  Now, it's kind of bitter-sweet to
gaze at those pages and remember.

Teri

-- "Jason Sheldon" <jason@digital-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
I myself found the fan club extremely disappointing value for money, so
didn't renew after the first year.  That's not to say that it IS poor value
for money - I was probably expecting more for mine, 

My opinion, and not necessarily correct.

J.

-----Original Message-----
From: jason=digital-solutions.co.uk@mailman.xmission.com
Sent: 22 October 2005 18:48
Subject: [Police] Sting's fan club

The best way to say you disagreement and total unsatisfaction of the way the
club works as a mercantile enterprise is to mark your opposition by not
renewing  your  account  !! I think this is the only way to make ourselves