There was no earthly reason for Sting and Shaggy to release an album together in 2018 other than that Sting and Shaggy thought it would be fun to release an album together in 2018, and there is no earthly reason for Sting and Shaggy to be jointly flogging that album together on the road five months after its release other than that Sting and Shaggy still appear to be having rather a lot of fun together. The same spirit applied to Sting and Shaggy’s sold-out-to-the-point-of-bursting Toronto gig at the Phoenix on Friday night. Or, to put it another way, it was dreadful in a mostly enjoyable way. The pair even donned goofy costumes for the 44/876 convict tale “Crooked Tree,” Sting sporting prison stripes and Shaggy rockin’ the mike in a powdered magistrate’s wig. “Walking on the Moon” mashed into Bob Marley’s “Get Up, Stand Up” was also fun in a cheeseball kinda way.

Source: thestar September 29, 2018 18:33 UTC