police tour 1980

Andy Summers

Stewart Copeland

01-03-1977 Newport, Gwent Alexander’s (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 03-03-1977 London The Roxy Club (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 04-03-1977 High Wycombe Nags Head (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 05-03-1977 London The Roxy Club UK 06-03-1977 London The Nashville Room (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 09-03-1977 Warrington Lion Hotel (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 10-03-1977 Liverpool Eric's (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 11-03-1977 Birmingham University (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 12-03-1977 Middlesbrough Rock Garden (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 15-03-1977 London Dingwalls (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 17-03-1977 West Runton Cromer Pavilion (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 19-03-1977 Tweede Exloermond De Kienstobbe (w/ Wayne County & The Electric Chairs) HOLLAND 20-03-1977 Groningen Huize Maas (w/ Wayne County & The Electric Chairs) HOLLAND 22-03-1977 Nijmegen Dioganes (w/ Wayne County & The Electric Chairs) HOLLAND 23-03-1977 Rotterdam Exit (w/ Wayne County & The Electric Chairs) HOLLAND 25-03-1977 Amsterdam Paradiso (w/ Wayne County & The Electric Chairs) HOLLAND 26-03-1977 Eindhoven Effenaar (w/ Wayne County & The Electric Chairs) HOLLAND 27-03-1977 Maasbree Mafcentrum (w/ Wayne County & The Electric Chairs) HOLLAND 28-03-1977 Paris Palais des Glaces FRANCE 03-04-1977 London The Nashville Room (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 05-04-1977 Birmingham Barbarella's (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 06-04-1977 Plymouth Woods Centre (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 07-04-1977 Penzance The Garden (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 09-04-1977 London The Nashville Room (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 10-04-1977 London The Nashville Room (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 11-04-1977 Stafford Top Of The World (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 12-04-1977 Shrewsbury Tiffany's (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 15-04-1977 Wolverhampton Lafayette (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 17-04-1977 London The Roundhouse (Sting and Stewart w/ Cherry Vanilla. No performance of The Police!) UK 18-04-1977 Chester Rascal's Club (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 22-04-1977 Scarborough Penthouse (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 23-04-1977 Middlesbrough Rock Garden (w/ Cherry Vanilla) (cancelled) UK 24-04-1977 Barrow-in-Furness Maxims (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 27-04-1977 Swindon Affair (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 29-04-1977 Glasgow Apollo (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 30-04-1977 Dudley JB's Club (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 05-05-1977 Wolverhampton ? (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 06-05-1977 Newcastle Polytechnic (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 07-05-1977 Cambridge Howard Mallet Club (w/ Cherry Vanilla) UK 12-05-1977 Paris Gibus (w/ Cherry Vanilla) FRANCE 13-05-1977 Paris Gibus (w/ Cherry Vanilla) FRANCE 25-05-1977 London The Marquee UK 28-05-1977 Paris Circus Hippodrome (as Strontium 90) FRANCE 29-05-1977 Colmar Amphi de la Foire aux Vins (festival) FRANCE 31-05-1977 London, Putney The Railway Hotel UK 04-06-1977 London The Marquee UK 09-06-1977 London The Music Machine UK 10-06-1977 London The Roxy Club UK 17-06-1977 London The Roxy Club UK 24-06-1977 London The Marquee UK 03-07-1977 London Greyhound UK 08-07-1977 London, Islington Hope & Anchor UK 21-07-1977 London The Nashville Room (as The Elevators) UK 25-07-1977 London The Music Machine UK 05-08-1977 Mont de Marsan Punk festival FRANCE 10-08-1977 London (recording session w/ John Cale) UK 13-08-1977 London Red Cow (or on 06-08-1977?) UK 18-08-1977 Birmingham Rebecca's UK 07-09-1977 London Dingwalls UK ??-09-1977 Scarborough The Penthouse UK 16-10-1977 Maasbree Mafcentrum HOLLAND 17-10-1977 Amsterdam Melkweg HOLLAND 20-10-1977 Paris Nashville FRANCE 00-10-1977 München Theaterfestival (various shows with Eberhard Schoener) GERMANY

January 12, 1978 Rock Garden, London, ENG January 22, 1978 Marquee, London, ENG January 30, 1978 Vortex, London, ENG 09-02-1978 London, Islington Hope & Anchor UK 23-02-1978 London, Islington Hope & Anchor UK ??-02-1978 London Red Cow UK 04-03-1978 London Rochester Castle UK 10-03-1978 London Essex University UK 11-03-1978 London The Rainbow Theatre UK 12-03-1978 Bristol Locarno UK 18-04-1978 London The Nashville Room UK 23-04-1978 London Roundhouse UK ??-05-1978 - (various shows with Eberhard Schoener) GERMANY 23-06-1978 London Rochester Castle UK 16-08-1978 Torquay Town Hall UK 17-08-1978 Plymouth Van Dyke Club UK 23-08-1978 London The Nashville Room UK 09-09-1978 London The Marquee UK 14-09-1978 London Rock Garden UK 23-09-1978 Margate Dreamland Ballroom UK 02-10-1978 Manchester BBC TV Studios, BBC2 "The Old Grey Whistle Test" UK 03-10-1978 London The Nashville Room UK 20-10-1978 New York City, NY CBGB's USA 21-10-1978 New York City, NY CBGB's USA 22-10-1978 Philadelphia, PA Grendel's Lair USA 23-10-1978 Poughkeepsie, NY Last Chance Saloon USA 24-10-1978 Syracuse, NY The Firebarn USA 25-10-1978 Willimantic, CT The Shaboo USA 26-10-1978 Boston, MA The Rat USA 27-10-1978 Boston, MA The Rat USA 28-10-1978 Boston, MA The Rat USA 29-10-1978 Boston, MA The Rat USA 31-10-1978 Swissvale, PA Phase III USA 01-11-1978 Buffalo, NY Stage One USA 02-11-1978 Toronto, Ont. The Horseshoe CANADA 03-11-1978 Toronto, Ont. The Horseshoe CANADA 05-11-1978 Detroit, MI Bookies 870 USA 06-11-1978 Cleveland, OH Pirate's Cove USA 07-11-1978 Dayton, OH Bailiwicks USA 09-11-1978 Johnstown, PA University of Pittsburgh USA 10-11-1978 Washington, D.C. The Atlantis Club USA 11-11-1978 Washington, D.C. The Atlantis Club USA 13-11-1978 Philadelphia, PA Grendel's Lair USA 14-11-1978 New York City, NY CBGB's USA 15-11-1978 New York City, NY CBGB's USA 25-11-1978 London The Electric Ballroom UK 28-11-1978 Sheffield Limit Club UK 29-11-1978 York Pop Club UK 30-11-1978 Manchester Russell Club UK 01-12-1978 Bath University UK 03-12-1978 Sheffield Top Rank UK 04-12-1978 Oldham Civic Hall UK 06-12-1978 Loughborough Loughborough University UK 07-12-1978 Derby The Assembly Rooms UK 08-12-1978 Newcastle University Theatre UK 09-12-1978 Glasgow Strathclyde University UK 10-12-1978 Saint Andrews Fife Saint Andrew's University UK 11-12-1978 Edinburgh Tiffany's UK 13-12-1978 London The Venue UK 15-12-1978 Stoke-on-Trent North Staffs Polytechnic UK 17-12-1978 Cardiff Top Rank UK 18-12-1978 Exeter Routes UK 19-12-1978 Plymouth Woods Centre UK 22-12-1978 Walsall College UK

??-01-1979 - (various shows with Eberhard Schoener) GERMANY 18-01-1979 Bremen WDR "Musikladen" GERMANY 09-02-1979 London King's College UK 10-02-1979 Liverpool Eric's UK 21-02-1979 Hatfield Polytechnics UK 01-03-1979 Los Angeles, CA The Whisky A Go Go (1st set) USA 01-03-1979 Los Angeles, CA The Whisky A Go Go (2nd set) USA 02-03-1979 Los Angeles, CA The Whisky A Go Go (1st set) USA 02-03-1979 Los Angeles, CA The Whisky A Go Go (2nd set) USA 03-03-1979 Los Angeles, CA The Whisky A Go Go (1st set) USA 03-03-1979 Los Angeles, CA The Whisky A Go Go (2nd set) USA 04-03-1979 Berkeley, CA Zellerbach Auditorium, University of California USA 05-03-1979 Davis, CA Coffee House, University of California (1st set) USA 05-03-1979 Davis, CA Coffee House, University of California (2nd set) USA 07-03-1979 Austin, TX Armadillo World Headquarters USA 08-03-1979 Houston, TX Ophry House USA 09-03-1979 Dallas, TX Palladium USA 10-03-1979 Grinnell, Iowa Grinnell College, Darby Gym USA 12-03-1979 Madison, WI Headliners USA 13-03-1979 Chicago, IL The Beginnings USA 15-03-1979 Kansas City, MO One Block West USA 16-03-1979 St. Louis, MO Mississippi Nights USA 18-03-1979 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's USA 20-03-1979 Pittsburgh, PA The Decade USA 21-03-1979 Cleveland, OH The Agora Ballroom USA March 22, 1979 Center Stage, Canton, MI (supported by The Romantics) 23-03-1979 Toronto, Ont. The Edge CANADA 24-03-1979 Toronto, Ont. The Edge CANADA 25-03-1979 Buffalo, NY Stage One USA 27-03-1979 Syracuse, NY Uncle Sam's USA 28-03-1979 Albany, NY Hullabaloo USA 29-03-1979 Roslyn, NY My Father's Place USA 30-03-1979 Washington, D.C. The Bayou (unsure about the date; see also 02-05-1979!) USA 03-04-1979 New York City, NY The Bottom Line (1st set) USA 03-04-1979 New York City, NY The Bottom Line (2nd set) USA 04-04-1979 New York City, NY The Bottom Line (1st set) USA 04-04-1979 New York City, NY The Bottom Line (2nd set) USA 06-04-1979 Boston, MA Paradise Theater (1st set) USA 06-04-1979 Boston, MA Paradise Theater (2nd set) USA 07-04-1979 Boston, MA Paradise Theater (1st set) USA 07-04-1979 Boston, MA Paradise Theater (2nd set) USA 08-04-1979 New York City, NY CBGB's (1st set) USA 08-04-1979 New York City, NY CBGB's (2nd set) USA 09-04-1979 Philadelphia, PA Walnut St. Theatre USA 12-04-1979 London The Nashville Room UK 23-04-1979 Paris Bataclan FRANCE 25-04-1979 Slough Thames Hall, Fulcrum Centre UK 27-04-1979 Atlanta, GA The Agora Ballroom USA 28-04-1979 Nashville, TN Exit / In USA 29-04-1979 Memphis, TN East End Ballroom USA 30-04-1979 Birmingham, AL Brothers Music Hall USA 01-05-1979 Athens, GA Georgia Theatre USA 02-05-1979 Washington, D.C. The Bayou (unsure about the date) USA 03-05-1979 Tampa, FL Tampa Theatre USA 04-05-1979 Miami, FL Fat Cats Club (1st set) USA 04-05-1979 Miami, FL Fat Cats Club (2nd set) USA 05-05-1979 Orlando, FL The Great Southern Music Hall USA 06-05-1979 Gainesville, FL Lake Alice Field, University of Florida USA 08-05-1979 Avondale, LA Ole Man River's USA 09-05-1979 Baton Rouge, LA Kingfish USA 10-05-1979 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom USA 11-05-1979 Denver, CO Rainbow Music Hall USA 14-05-1979 Tempe, AZ Dooley's USA 16-05-1979 San Diego, CA The Roxy USA 17-05-1979 Santa Monica, CA Santa Monica Civic Auditorium USA 18-05-1979 Los Angeles, CA Madam Wong's USA 19-05-1979 Santa Cruz, CA Civic Auditorium USA 20-05-1979 Davis, CA Freeborn Hall USA 21-05-1979 Seattle, WA Paramount Theater USA 22-05-1979 Vancouver, B.C. Commodore Ballroom CANADA 23-05-1979 Milwaukee, WI Palmsclub USA 24-05-1979 Minneapolis, MN Longhorn Saloon USA 25-05-1979 Chicago, IL Park West USA 31-05-1979 Glasgow Apollo Centre UK 01-06-1979 Edinburgh Odeon UK 02-06-1979 Liverpool Empire Theatre UK 04-06-1979 Geleen Burgemeester Damensportpark (Pinkpop festival) HOLLAND 06-06-1979 Birmingham Digbeth Civic Hall UK 07-06-1979 Hanley Victoria Hall UK 08-06-1979 Manchester Free Trade Hall UK 09-06-1979 Nottingham Rushcliffe Centre UK 10-06-1979 London Lyceum Ballroom UK 11-06-1979 Guildford Civic Hall UK 12-06-1979 Bristol Locarno UK 13-06-1979 London Capital Radio "Capital Session" UK 13-06-1979 London BBC Paris Theatre ("BBC In Concert") UK 14-06-1979 Newcastle Mayfair Ballroom UK 15-06-1979 Sheffield Top Rank UK 16-06-1979 Aylesbury Friars UK 17-06-1979 London Lyceum Ballroom UK June 19, 1979 Music Palais, Stockholm, SWE 20-06-1979 Berlin Kantkino GER 21-06-1979 Hamburg Sounds GER 22-06-1979 Amsterdam Paradiso NED 23-06-1979 St. Goarshausen Loreley Freilicht Bühne ("British Rock Meeting '79") GERMANY 24-06-1979 Dortmund Westfalenhalle ("British Rock Meeting '79") GER ??-06-1979 Brussels Ancienne Belgique (scheduled for 24-06-1979, but cancelled or rescheduled) BEL 23-07-1979 Exeter Routes UK 17-08-1979 Bilzen Jazz Bilzen Festival BEL 24-08-1979 Reading Pop festival UK 01-09-1979 Hamburg Markthalle GER 03-09-1979 München Schwabinger Bräu GER 04-09-1979 Wiesbaden Wartburg GER 07-09-1979 Voorburg Vliegermolen NED 10-09-1979 Derby The Assembly Rooms UK 11-09-1979 Blackburn King George's Hall UK 13-09-1979 Birmingham Odeon UK 14-09-1979 Southampton The Gaumont UK 15-09-1979 Oxford New Theatre UK 16-09-1979 Leicester De Montfort Hall UK 18-09-1979 Swansea Top Rank UK 19-09-1979 Cardiff Top Rank UK 21-09-1979 Brighton Dome UK 22-09-1979 London Hammersmith Odeon UK 23-09-1979 London Hammersmith Odeon UK

September 27-29, 1979 Hotel Diplomat Grand Ballroom, New York City, NY 30-09-1979 Providence, RI Rhode Island College USA 02-10-1979 Roslyn, NY My Father's Place USA 03-10-1979 Albany, NY Hullabaloo USA 04-10-1979 W. Hartford, CT Stage West USA October 5, 1979 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ 06-10-1979 Browns Mills, NJ Alexander's USA 08-10-1979 Washington, D.C. Ontario Theater USA 09-10-1979 Virginia Beach, VA Rougues USA 11-10-1979 Columbia, SC University of South Carolina USA 12-10-1979 Atlanta, GA The Agora Ballroom USA 14-10-1979 Tuscaloosa, Ala. Bama Theatre USA 15-10-1979 Nashville, TN Exit Inn USA 17-10-1979 Marietta, OH Marietta College’s Ban Johnson Fieldhouse USA 19-10-1979 Davidson, NC Davidson College USA ??-10-1979 South Charleston, WV Galaxy2000 USA 26-10-1979 Miami, FL Gusman Auditorium USA 27-10-1979 Orlando, FL Disneyworld Tomorrowland Terrace (1st set) USA 27-10-1979 Orlando, FL Disneyworld Tomorrowland Terrace (2nd set) USA 27-10-1979 Orlando, FL Disneyworld Tomorrowland Terrace (3rd set) USA 31-10-1979 Austin, TX Municipal Auditorium USA 01-11-1979 Houston, TX Palace Theatre USA 02-11-1979 Dallas, TX Palladium USA 03-11-1979 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom USA 04-11-1979 Lawrence, KS Lawrence Opry House USA 06-11-1979 De Kalb, IL Holmes Center Ballroom, Northern Illinois University USA 07-11-1979 St. Paul, MN Prom Ballroom USA 08-11-1979 Milwaukee, WI Palmsclub USA 09-11-1979 Chicago, IL Pavilion USA 10-11-1979 Detroit, MI Bookies 870 USA 11-11-1979 Youngstown, OH Agora Theatre USA 13-11-1979 Pittsburgh, PA Stanley Theater USA 14-11-1979 Buffalo, NY Uncle Sam's (cancelled!) USA 16-11-1979 Toronto, Ont. Danforth Music Hall (1st set; 7.30 pm) CANADA 16-11-1979 Toronto, Ont. Danforth Music Hall (2nd set; 11.00 pm) CANADA 17-11-1979 Montreal, Que Theatre St. Denis CANADA 19-11-1979 San Pedro, CA Terminal Island State Prison USA 20-11-1979 San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre USA 21-11-1979 Riverside, CA Ben H. Lewis Hall USA 22-11-1979 Hollywood, CA The Palladium USA 24-11-1979 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre USA 25-11-1979 Denver, CO Rainbow Music Hall (cancelled!) USA 27-11-1979 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre USA 29-11-1979 New York City, NY The Palladium USA 30-11-1979 Ithaca, NY Cornell University USA 01-12-1979 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theater USA 03-12-1979 Paris Theatre de l'Empire FRANCE 04-12-1979 Aachen Eurogress GERMANY 05-12-1979 Bremen Alladin GERMANY 07-12-1979 Düsseldorf Philipshalle GERMANY 08-12-1979 Hannover Rotation (cancelled!) GERMANY 10-12-1979 Leeds Queenshall UK 11-12-1979 Deeside Leisure Centre UK 12-12-1979 Glasgow Apollo Centre UK 13-12-1979 Bridlington Royal Spa UK 15-12-1979 Birmingham Odeon UK 16-12-1979 Southampton The Gaumont UK 17-12-1979 Brighton Conference Centre UK 18-12-1979 London Hammersmith Odeon UK 18-12-1979 London Hammersmith Palais UK 19-12-1979 London The Rainbow Theatre UK 20-12-1979 Leicester Granby Hall UK 22-12-1979 London Lewisham Odeon UK

11-01-1980 Hamburg Markthalle GERMANY 20-01-1980 Buffalo, NY Clark's Gym, State University of New York USA 21-01-1980 Cleveland, OH The Agora Ballroom USA 22-01-1980 Ann Arbor, MI Michigan Theatre USA 24-01-1980 Granite City, IL Stages USA 25-01-1980 Memphis, TN High Rollers USA 26-01-1980 New Orleans, LA The Warehouse USA January 28, 1980 Boomer Theatre, Norman, OK (Supported by The Specials) January 30, 1980 Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, CO January 31, 1980 Terrace Ballroom, Salt Lake City, UT February 1, 1980 Showbox, Seattle, WA (Supported by The Specials) 02-02-1980 Vancouver, B.C. The Commodore CANADA 05-02-1980 Portland, OR Paramount Theatre USA ??-02-1980 Los Angeles, CA ABC "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" USA 08-02-1980 Honolulu Campus Center Ballroom, University of Hawaii HAWAII 14-02-1980 Tokyo Sun Plaza Hall JAPAN 15-02-1980 Tokyo Sun Plaza Hall JAPAN 17-02-1980 Tokyo Shibuya Kokaido JAPAN 18-02-1980 Nagoya Aichiken Kinro Kaikan JAPAN 19-02-1980 Osaka Festival Hall JAPAN 20-02-1980 Kyoto University West Auditorium JAPAN 26-02-1980 Hong Kong Today's World Disco UK 27-02-1980 Hong Kong Today's World Disco UK 29-02-1980 Christchurch Christchurch Town Hall Auditorium NEW ZEALAND 12-03-1980 Sydney Hordern Pavilion AUSTRALIA 13-03-1980 Canberra Bruce Stadium AUSTRALIA 14-03-1980 Melbourne Festival Hall AUSTRALIA 15-03-1980 Melbourne Festival Hall AUSTRALIA 17-03-1980 Adelaide Apollo Theatre AUSTRALIA 19-03-1980 Perth Entertainment Centre AUSTRALIA 21-03-1980 Sydney Hordern Pavilion AUSTRALIA 22-03-1980 Sydney Hordern Pavilion AUSTRALIA 24-03-1980 Brisbane Festival Hall (cancelled!) AUSTRALIA 26-03-1980 Bombay Rang Bhavan INDIA 28-03-1980 Cairo American University EGYPT 30-03-1980 Athens Sporting Hall GREECE 31-03-1980 Athens Sporting Hall GREECE 02-04-1980 Milano Palalido ITALY 03-04-1980 Reggio Emilia Palasport ITALY 04-04-1980 Torino Palasport ITALY 06-04-1980 Berlin Deutschlandhalle GERMANY 08-04-1980 Lyon Palais des Sports FRANCE 11-04-1980 Barcelona Pabellon de Badalona SPAIN 14-04-1980 Paris Palais des Sports FRANCE 15-04-1980 Brussels Forest National BELGIUM 16-04-1980 Rotterdam Ahoy' Sportpaleis HOLLAND 17-04-1980 Amsterdam Jaap Edenhal HOLLAND 19-04-1980 Hannover Eilenreadehalle GERMANY 28-04-1980 Newcastle City Hall (1st set) UK 28-04-1980 Newcastle City Hall (2nd set) UK

The Police Zenyatta Mondatta Tour 1980 & 1981

26-07-1980 Milton Keynes Superbowl UK 27-07-1980 Dublin Leixlip Castle IRELAND 09-08-1980 Werchter Festival BELGIUM 10-08-1980 Le Touquet Hippodrome FRANCE 12-08-1980 Cabourg Parking du Yachting FRANCE 14-08-1980 Nantes La Beaujoire, Parc des Expo FRANCE 16-08-1980 Royan Chapiteau Parking du Stade Municipal FRANCE 18-08-1980 Biarritz Parc des Sports d'Aguilerra FRANCE 20-08-1980 Orange Théâtre Antique FRANCE 22-08-1980 Béziers Les Arènes FRANCE 24-08-1980 Grenoble Palais des Sports FRANCE 26-08-1980 Toulon Plage du Mourillon FRANCE 28-08-1980 Fréjus Les Arènes FRANCE 29-08-1980 Barcelona Plaza de Toros Monumental SPAIN 31-08-1980 Madrid Estadio Roman Valero SPAIN 02-09-1980 Lissabon Estado du Restelo PORTUGAL 14-10-1980 München Rudi Sedlermayerhalle GERMANY 15-10-1980 Wiesbaden Rhein-Main-Halle GERMANY 18-10-1980 Essen Grugahalle (Rockpalast) GERMANY 21-10-1980 Winnipeg, Man. Winnipeg Arena CANADA 22-10-1980 Regina, Sask. Saskatchew Centre of the Arts CANADA 24-10-1980 Calgary, Alta. Max Bell Arena CANADA 25-10-1980 Edmonton, Alta. Northland Coliseum Concert Bowl CANADA 27-10-1980 Vancouver, B.C. PNE Coliseum CANADA 28-10-1980 Seattle, WA Paramount Theater USA 29-10-1980 Portland, OR Paramount Theatre USA 31-10-1980 Oakland, CA Auditorium USA 01-11-1980 Fresno, CA Warnors Theatre USA 02-11-1980 Santa Barbara, CA Events Center, University of California USA 03-11-1980 San Diego, CA Centre for the Performing Arts USA 07-11-1980 Phoenix, AZ Veterans Memorial Coliseum (State Fair) USA 08-11-1980 Tuscon, AZ University of Arizona USA 09-11-1980 Albuquerque, NM University of New Mexico USA 11-11-1980 Austin, TX City Coliseum USA 12-11-1980 Dallas, TX McFarlin Auditorium USA 13-11-1980 Houston, TX Cullen Auditorium, University of Houston USA 15-11-1980 Mexico City Grand Ballroom, Hotel de Mexico MEXICO 18-11-1980 Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Armory USA 19-11-1980 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater USA 20-11-1980 Madison, WI Oscar Meyer Theater (Madison Civic Center) USA 22-11-1980 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom USA 23-11-1980 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple Auditorium USA 24-11-1980 Toronto, Ont. Massey Hall CANADA 26-11-1980 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theater USA 28-11-1980 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre USA 29-11-1980 Passaic, NJ Capitol Theater USA 02-12-1980 Philadelphia, PA The Spectrum (or replaced by the show on 26-11-1980?) USA 03-12-1980 Washington, D.C. Warner Theater USA 04-12-1980 Owings Mills, MD Painter's Mill Music Fair USA 06-12-1980 Atlanta, GA The Fox Theatre USA 07-12-1980 St. Petersburg, FL Bayfront Center Arena USA 08-12-1980 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Sunrise Theatre USA 14-12-1980 Buenos Aires Discotheque New York City ARGENTINA 15-12-1980 Buenos Aires Obras Sanitarias ARGENTINA 16-12-1980 Mar del Plata Radio City ARGENTINA December 21-22, 1980 Tooting Bec Common Supertent, London, ENG December 23, 1980 Bingley Hall, Stafford, ENG

07-01-1981 Montreal, Que. Centre Sportif de l'Université de Montreal CANADA 10-01-1981 New York City, NY Madison Square Garden USA 11-01-1981 New York City, NY The Ritz USA 13-01-1981 St. Louis, MO Kiel Auditorium USA 15-01-1981 Los Angeles, CA Sports Arena USA 16-01-1981 Los Angeles, CA Variety Arts Theatre USA 20-01-1981 Honolulu Neal Blaisdell Center Arena HAWAII 25-01-1981 Nagoya Rainbow Hall JAPAN 26-01-1981 Osaka Festival Hall JAPAN 27-01-1981 Osaka Festival Hall JAPAN 29-01-1981 Kyoto Kyoto Kaikan JAPAN 30-01-1981 Kurashiki Shimin Kaikan JAPAN 31-01-1981 Fukuoka Kyden Taiik-kan JAPAN 02-02-1981 Tokyo Budokan JAPAN 04-02-1981 Sapporo Kosei Nenkin Hall JAPAN 06-02-1981 Utsunomiya Bunka Kaikan JAPAN 07-02-1981 Sendai Denryoku Hall JAPAN 10-02-1981 Wellington Townhall NEW ZEALAND 11-02-1981 Wellington Townhall NEW ZEALAND 13-02-1981 Auckland Logan Campbell Centre NEW ZEALAND 14-02-1981 Auckland Logan Campbell Centre NEW ZEALAND 16-02-1981 Sydney Showgrounds AUSTRALIA 19-02-1981 Brisbane Festival Hall AUSTRALIA 21-02-1981 Melbourne Festival Hall AUSTRALIA 22-02-1981 Melbourne Festival Hall AUSTRALIA 24-02-1981 Adelaide Memorial Park Drive Stadium AUSTRALIA 26-02-1981 Perth Entertainment Centre AUSTRALIA

The Police Ghost In The Machine Tour 1981 & 1982

29-07-1981 Carácas El Poliedro De Caracas VENEZUELA 30-07-1981 Carácas El Poliedro De Caracas VENEZUELA 22-08-1981 Philadelphia, PA Liberty Bell Horse Racetrack USA 23-08-1981 Oakville, Ont. The Grove CANADA 09-09-1981 London The Theatre Royal ("The Secret Policeman's Other Ball") UK 10-09-1981 London The Theatre Royal ("The Secret Policeman's Other Ball") UK 11-09-1981 London The Theatre Royal ("The Secret Policeman's Other Ball") UK 12-09-1981 London The Theatre Royal ("The Secret Policeman's Other Ball") UK 01-10-1981 Böblingen Sporthalle GERMANY 02-10-1981 Essen Grugahalle GERMANY 03-10-1981 Kassel Eissporthalle GERMANY 05-10-1981 Freiburg Stadthalle GERMANY 06-10-1981 Rüsselsheim Walter-Köbelhalle GERMANY 08-10-1981 Heidelberg Rhein-Neckarhalle GERMANY 09-10-1981 München Olympiahalle GERMANY 12-12-1981 London The Marquee UK 14-12-1981 London Wembley Arena UK 15-12-1981 London Wembley Arena UK 16-12-1981 London Wembley Arena UK 18-12-1981 Brighton Conference Centre UK 19-12-1981 Birmingham National Exhibition Centre UK 21-12-1981 Deeside Leisure Centre UK 22-12-1981 Leeds Queenshall UK 23-12-1981 Stafford Bingley Hall UK 31-12-1981 Edinburgh Inglestone Exhibition Hall UK

03-01-1982 Stockholm Isstadion SWEDEN 04-01-1982 Göteborg Scandinavium SWEDEN 05-01-1982 Copenhagen Brøndbyhallen DENMARK 07-01-1982 Hamburg Ernst Merckhalle GERMANY 09-01-1982 Leiden Groenoordhal HOLLAND 10-01-1982 Paris Parc des Expositions du Bourget FRANCE 11-01-1982 Paris Parc des Expositions du Bourget FRANCE 15-01-1982 Boston, MA Boston Garden USA 16-01-1982 Landover, MD Capital Center USA 18-01-1982 Philadelphia, PA The Spectrum USA 19-01-1982 Uniondale, NY Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum USA 20-01-1982 Springfield, MA Grand Arena, Springfield Civic Center USA 22-01-1982 New York City, NY Madison Square Garden USA 23-01-1982 New Haven, CT Veterans Memorial Coliseum USA 25-01-1982 Williamsburg, VA William & Mary Hall USA 26-01-1982 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum USA 27-01-1982 Atlanta, GA The Omni USA 29-01-1982 Cleveland, OH Richfield Coliseum USA 30-01-1982 Detroit, MI Cobo Arena USA 01-02-1982 Chicago, IL Rosemont Horizon USA 02-02-1982 Minneapolis, MN Met Center USA 04-02-1982 Denver, CO McNichols Sports Arena USA 06-02-1982 Phoenix, AZ Compton Terrace USA 08-02-1982 Los Angeles, CA Inglewood Forum USA 09-02-1982 Los Angeles, CA Inglewood Forum USA 10-02-1982 Los Angeles, CA Inglewood Forum USA 12-02-1982 San Francisco, CA Cow Palace USA 13-02-1982 San Francisco, CA Cow Palace USA 16-02-1982 Rio de Janeiro Ginásio Do Maracanãzinho BRAZIL 17-02-1982 Rio de Janeiro Ginásio Do Maracanãzinho BRAZIL 19-02-1982 Vina del Mar Quinta Vergara Anfiteatro ("23rd Festival Internacional de la Canción") CHILE 20-02-1982 Vina del Mar Quinta Vergara Anfiteatro ("23rd Festival Internacional de la Canción") CHILE 12-03-1982 Miami, FL Hollywood Sportatorium USA 13-03-1982 Jacksonville, FL Memorial Coliseum USA 14-03-1982 Lakeland, FL Coliseum USA 16-03-1982 Birmingham, Ala. Jefferson Civic Center USA 17-03-1982 Memphis, TN Mid-South Coliseum USA 19-03-1982 Baton Rouge, LA Riverside Centroplex USA 20-03-1982 Houston, TX The Summit USA 22-03-1982 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center USA 23-03-1982 Dallas, TX Reunion Arena USA 25-03-1982 Kansas City, MO Kemper Arena USA 26-03-1982 Oklahoma City, OK Lloyd Noble Arena USA 28-03-1982 Chicago, IL Rosemont Horizon USA 29-03-1982 Indianapolis, IN Market Square Arena USA 31-03-1982 Champaign, IL Assembly Hall, University of Illinois USA 01-04-1982 St. Louis, MO Checkerdome USA 03-04-1982 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Coliseum USA 04-04-1982 Lexington, KY Rupp Arena USA 06-04-1982 Cincinnati, OH Riverfront Coliseum USA 07-04-1982 Ann Arbor, MI Crisler Arena, University of Michigan USA 09-04-1982 Pittsburgh, PA Civic Arena USA 10-04-1982 Hartford, CT Civic Center USA 12-04-1982 Boston, MA Boston Garden USA 13-04-1982 Providence, RI Civic Center USA 15-04-1982 Portland, ME Civic Center USA 16-04-1982 Syracuse, NY Carrier Dome USA 18-04-1982 East Rutherford, NJ Meadowlands Arena USA 19-04-1982 East Rutherford, NJ Meadowlands Arena USA 21-04-1982 East Rutherford, NJ Meadowlands Arena USA 22-04-1982 Uniondale, NY Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum USA 02-07-1982 Bologna Fiera Parco Nord ITALY 04-07-1982 Milano Parco Lago Redecesio ITALY 28-07-1982 Aylesbury Friars UK 29-07-1982 Southampton The Gaumont UK 31-07-1982 Gateshead International Stadium UK 09-08-1982 Norfolk, VA The Scope USA 11-08-1982 Montreal, Que. McGill Stadium CANADA 13-08-1982 Toronto, Ont. C.N.E. Grandstand Stadium CANADA 15-08-1982 Charlevoix, MI Castlefarms Music Theatre USA 17-08-1982 Nashville, TN Municipal Auditorium USA 18-08-1982 Peoria, IL Civic Center USA 20-08-1982 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre USA 21-08-1982 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Five Seasons Center USA 23-08-1982 Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre USA 24-08-1982 Omaha, NE Rosenblatt Stadium USA 26-08-1982 Salt Lake City, UT Salt Palace USA 28-08-1982 Sacramento, CA California Exposition Grandstands USA 29-08-1982 Portland, OR Memorial Coliseum USA 31-08-1982 Vancouver, B.C. PNE Coliseum CANADA 01-09-1982 Seattle, WA Coliseum USA 03-09-1982 San Bernardino, CA Glen Helen Regional Park USA 05-09-1982 Tucson, AZ Convention Center Arena USA 06-09-1982 Las Cruces, NM Memorial Coliseum USA

The Police Synchronicity Tour 1983 & 1984

July 23, 1983 Comiskey Park, Chicago, IL (supported by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, A Flock Of Seagulls, The Fixx & Simple Minds who cancelled and was replaced by Chicago band Ministry)

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The Dyatlov Pass Incident

What is the Dyatlov Pass incident? Well, as we’ll find out, it was when nine Russian hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1st & 2nd in 1959, under supposed uncertain circumstances. The experienced trekking group, who were all from the Ural Polytechnical Institute , had established a camp on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl , in an area now named in honour of the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov. During the night, something caused them to cut their way out of their tent and attempt to flee the campsite while not being dressed for the heavy ass snowfall and subzero temperatures. Subzero was one of my favorite Mortal Kombat characters… god I loved that game.

After the group's bodies were grusomly discovered, an investigation by Soviet authorities determined that six of them had died from hypothermia while the other three had been killed by physical trauma . One victim actually had major skull damage, two had severe chest trauma, and another had a small crack in the skull . Was all of this caused by an avalanche or from something nefarious? Four of the bodies were found lying in running water in a creek, and three of these had soft tissue damage of the head and face – two of the bodies were missing their eyes, one was missing its tongue, and one was missing its eyebrows. It’s eyebrows! The Soviet investigation concluded that a "compelling natural force" had caused the untimely deaths. Numerous theories have been brought forward to account for the unexplained deaths, including animal attacks, hypothermia, avalanche , katabatic winds , infrasound -induced panic, military involvement, or some combination of these. We’ll discuss all these in further detail later on.

Recently, Russia has opened a new investigation into the Dyatlov incident in 2019, and its conclusions were presented in July 2020: Simply put, they believe that an avalanche had led to the deaths of the hikers. Survivors of the avalanche had been forced to suddenly leave their camp in low visibility conditions with inadequate clothing, and had died of hypothermia. Andrey Kuryakov, deputy head of the regional prosecutor's office, said: "It was a heroic struggle. There was no panic. But they had no chance to save themselves under the circumstances." A study published in 2021 suggested that a type of avalanche known as a slab avalanche could explain some of the injuries. However, we’ll run through everything and you can come to your own conclusion.

Ok, let’s dive into the details of the event.

In 1959, the group was formed for a skiing expedition across the northern Urals in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union. According to Prosecutor Tempalov, documents that were found in the tent of the expedition suggest that the expedition was named for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and was possibly dispatched by the local Komsomol organisation.Which was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union , which was sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Igor Dyatlov, a 23-year-old radio engineering student at the Ural Polytechnical Institute; now Ural Federal University, was the leader who assembled a group of nine others for the trip, most of whom were fellow students and peers at the university.Ok, so they were mostly students. Each member of the group, which consisted of eight men and two women, was an experienced Grade II-hiker with ski tour experience, and would be receiving Grade III certification upon their return. So, this trekk was like a test. I hated tests. Especially ones that could KILL YOU! At the time, this was the highest certification available in the Soviet Union, and required candidates to traverse 190 mi. The route was designed by Igor Dyatlov's group in order to reach the far northern regions of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the upper-streams of the Lozva river. The route was approved by the Sverdlovsk city route commission, which was a division of the Sverdlovsk Committee of Physical Culture and Sport. They approved of and confirmed the group of 10 people on January 8th, 1959. The goal of the expedition was to reach Otorten, a mountain(6.2 mi north of the site where the incident took place. This path, taken in February, was estimated as a Category III, the most difficult time to traverse.

On January 23rd, 1959 the Dyatlov group was issued their route book which listed their course as following the No.5 trail. At that time, the Sverdlovsk City Committee of Physical Culture and Sport listed approval for 11 people. The 11th person was listed as Semyon Zolotaryov who was previously certified to go with another expedition of similar difficulty (that was the Sogrin expedition group). The Dyatlov group left the Sverdlovsk city (today called Yekaterinburg) on the same day they received the route book.

The members of the group were Igor Alekseyevich Dyatlov, Yuri Nikolayevich Doroshenko, Lyudmila Alexandrovna Dubinina, Georgiy (Yuri) Alexeyevich Krivonischenko, Alexander Sergeyevich Kolevatov, Zinaida Alekseevna Kolmogorova, Rustem Vladimirovich Slobodin, Nikolai Vladimirovich Thibeaux-Brignolles, Semyon (Alexander) Alekseevich Zolotaryov, and Yuri Yefimovich Yudin

The group arrived by train at Ivdel , a town at the centre of the northern province of Sverdlovsk Oblast in the early morning hours of January 25, 1959. They took a truck to Vizhai, a little village that is the last inhabited settlement to the north. As of 2010, only 207 really, really fucking cold people lived there. While spending the night in Vizhai, and probably freezing their baguettes off, the skiers purchased and ate loaves of bread to keep their energy levels up for the following day's hike.

On January 27, they began their trek toward Gora Otorten. On January 28, one member, Yuri Yudin, who suffered from several health ailments (including rheumatism and a congenital heart defect ) turned back due to knee and joint pain that made him unable to continue the hike. The remaining nine hikers continued the trek. Ok, my first question with this is, why in the fuck was that guy there, to begin with??

Diaries and cameras found around their last campsite made it possible to track the group's route up to the day before the incident. On January 31st, the group arrived at the edge of a highland area and began to prepare for climbing. In a wooded valley, they rounded up surplus food and equipment that they would use for the trip back. The next day, the hikers started to move through the pass. It seems they planned to get over the pass and make camp for the next night on the opposite side, but because of worsening weather conditions—like snowstorms, decreasing visibility... large piles of yeti shit—they lost their direction and headed west, toward the top of Kholat Syakhl . When they realised their mistake, the group decided to set up camp there on the slope of the mountain, rather than move almost a mile downhill to a forested area that would have offered some shelter from the weather. Yudin, the debilitated goofball that shouldn’t have even been there speculated, "Dyatlov probably did not want to lose the altitude they had gained, or he decided to practice camping on the mountain slope."

Before leaving, Captain Dyatlov had agreed he would send a telegram to their sports club as soon as the group returned to teeny, tiny Vizhai. It was expected that this would happen no later than February 12th, but Dyatlov had told Yudin, before he departed from the group, that he expected it to actually be longer. When the 12th passed and no messages had been received, there was no immediate reaction because, ya know… fuck it. Just kidding, these types of delays were actually common with such expeditions. On February 20th, the travellers' worried relatives demanded a rescue operation and the head of the institute sent the first rescue groups, consisting of volunteer students and teachers. Later, the army and militsiya forces (aka the Soviet police) became involved, with planes and helicopters ordered to join in on the search party.

On February 26th, the searchers found the group's abandoned and super fucked up tent on Kholat Syakhl . The campsite undoubtedly baffled the search party. Mikhail Sharavin, the student who found the tent, said “HOLY SHIT! THIS PLACE IS FUCKED UP!”... No, that’s not true. He actually said, "the tent was half torn down and covered with snow. It was empty, and all the group's belongings and shoes had been left behind." Investigators said the tent had been cut open from inside. Which seems like a serious and quick escape route was needed. Nine sets of footprints, left by people wearing only socks or a single shoe or even barefoot, could actually be followed, leading down to the edge of a nearby wood, on the opposite side of the pass, about a mile to the north-east. After approximately 1,600 ft, these tracks were covered with snow. At the forest's edge, under a large Siberian pine , the searchers found the visible remains of a small fire. There were the first two bodies, those of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, shoeless and dressed only in their tighty whiteys. The branches on the tree were broken up to five meters high, suggesting that one of the skiers had climbed up to look for something, maybe the camp. Between the pine and the camp, the searchers found three more corpses: Dyatlov, Kolmogorova, and Slobodin, who died in poses suggesting that they were attempting to return to the tent. They were found at distances of 980, 1,570, and 2,070 ft from the tree.

Finding the remaining four travellers took more than two frigging months. They were finally found on May 4th under 13 ft of snow in a ravine 246 ft further into the woods from the pine tree. Three of the four were better dressed than the others, and there were signs that some clothing of those who had died first had been taken off of their corpses for use by the others. Dubinina was wearing Krivonishenko's burned, torn trousers, and her left foot and shin were wrapped in a torn jacket.

Let’s get into the investigation. A legal inquest started immediately after the first five bodies were found. A medical examination found no injuries that might have led to their deaths, and it was concluded that they had all died of hypothermia .Which would make sense because it was colder than a polar bear’s butthole. Slobodin had a small crack in his skull, but it was not thought to be a fatal wound.

An examination of the four bodies found in May shifted the overall narrative of what they initially believed transpired. Three of the hikers had fatal injuries: Thibeaux-Brignolles had major skull damage, and Dubinina and Zolotaryov had major chest fractures. According to Boris Vozrozhdenny, the force required to cause such damage would have been extremely high, comparable to that of a car crash.Also, the bodies had no external wounds associated with the bone fractures, as if they had been subjected to a high level of pressure.

All four bodies found at the bottom of the creek in a running stream of water had soft tissue damage to their head and face. For example, Dubinina was missing her tongue, eyes, part of the lips, as well as facial tissue and a fragment of her skullbone, while Zolotaryov was missing his friggin eyeballs, and Aleksander Kolevatov his eyebrows. V. A. Vozrozhdenny, the forensic expert performing the post-mortem examination , judged that these injuries happened after they had died, due to the location of the bodies in a stream.

At first, there was speculation that the indigenous Mansi people , who were just simple reindeer herders local to the area, had attacked and murdered the group for making fun of Rudolph. Several Mansi were interrogated, but the investigation indicated that the nature of the deaths did not support this hypothesis: only the hikers' footprints were visible, and they showed no sign of hand-to-hand struggle. Oh, I was kidding about the Rudolph thing. They thought they attacked the hikers for being on their land.

Although the temperature was very low, around −13 to −22 °F with a storm blowing, the dead were only partially dressed, as I mentioned.

Journalists reporting on the available parts of the inquest files claim that it states:

Six of the group members died of hypothermia and three of fatal injuries.

There were no indications of other people nearby on Kholat Syakhl apart from the nine travellers.

The tent had been ripped open from within.

The victims had died six to eight hours after their last meal.

Traces from the camp showed that all group members left the campsite of their own accord, on foot.

Some levels of radiation were found on one victim's clothing.

To dispel the theory of an attack by the indigenous Mansi people, Vozrozhdenny stated that the fatal injuries of the three bodies could not have been caused by human beings, "because the force of the blows had been too strong and no soft tissue had been damaged".

Released documents contained no information about the condition of the skiers' internal organs.

And most obviously, There were no survivors.

At the time, the official conclusion was that the group members had died because of a compelling natural force.The inquest officially ceased in May 1959 as a result of the absence of a guilty party. The files were sent to a secret archive.

In 1997, it was revealed that the negatives from Krivonischenko's camera were kept in the private archive of one of the investigators, Lev Ivanov. The film material was donated by Ivanov's daughter to the Dyatlov Foundation. The diaries of the hiking party fell into Russia's public domain in 2009.

On April 12th, 2018, Zolotarev's remains were exhumed on the initiative of journalists of the Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda . Contradictory results were obtained: one of the experts said that the character of the injuries resembled a person knocked down by a car, and the DNA analysis did not reveal any similarity to the DNA of living relatives. In addition, it turned out that Zolotarev's name was not on the list of those buried at the Ivanovskoye cemetery. Nevertheless, the reconstruction of the face from the exhumed skull matched postwar photographs of Zolotarev, although journalists expressed suspicions that another person was hiding under Zolotarev's name after World War II .

In February 2019, Russian authorities reopened the investigation into the incident, yet again, although only three possible explanations were being considered: an avalanche, a slab avalanche , or a hurricane . The possibility of a crime had been discounted.

Other reports brought about a whole bunch of additional speculation.

Twelve-year-old Yury Kuntsevich, who later became the head of the Yekaterinburg-based Dyatlov Foundation, attended five of the hikers' funerals. He recalled that their skin had a "deep brown tan".

Another group of hikers 31 mi south of the incident reported that they saw strange orange spheres in the sky to the north on the night of the incident.Similar spheres were observed in Ivdel and other areas continually during the period from February to March of 1959, by various independent witnesses (including the meteorology service and the military). These sightings were not noted in the 1959 investigation, and the various witnesses came forward years later.

After the initial investigation,

Anatoly Gushchin summarized his research in the book The Price of State Secrets Is Nine Lives. Some researchers criticised the work for its concentration on the speculative theory of a Soviet secret weapon experiment, but its publication led to public discussion, stimulated by interest in the paranormal .It is true that many of those who had remained silent for thirty years reported new facts about the accident. One of them was the former police officer, Lev Ivanov, who led the official inquest in 1959. In 1990, he published an article that included his admission that the investigation team had no rational explanation for the incident. He also stated that, after his team reported that they had seen flying spheres, he then received direct orders from high-ranking regional officials to dismiss this claim.

In 2000, a regional television company produced the documentary film The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass . With the help of the film crew, a Yekaterinburg writer, Anna Matveyeva, published a docudrama of the same name. A large part of the book includes broad quotations from the official case, diaries of victims, interviews with searchers and other documentaries collected by the film-makers. The narrative line of the book details the everyday life and thoughts of a modern woman (an alter ego of the author herself, which is super weird) who attempts to resolve the case. Despite its fictional narrative, Matveyeva's book remains the largest source of documentary materials ever made available to the public regarding the incident. Also, the pages of the case files and other documentaries (in photocopies and transcripts) are gradually being published on a web forum for nerds just like you and i!.

The Dyatlov Foundation was founded in 1999 at Yekaterinburg, with the help of Ural State Technical University, led by Yuri Kuntsevitch. The foundation's stated aim is to continue investigation of the case and to maintain the Dyatlov Museum to preserve the memory of the dead hikers. On July 1st 2016, a memorial plaque was inaugurated in Solikamsk in Ural's Perm Region, dedicated to Yuri Yudin (the dude who pussed out and is the sole survivor of the expedition group), who died in 2013.

Now, let’s go over some of the theories of what actually took place at the pass.

On July 11 2020, Andrey Kuryakov, deputy head of the Urals Federal District directorate of the Prosecutor-General 's Office, announced an avalanche to be the "official cause of death" for the Dyatlov group in 1959. Later independent computer simulation and analysis by Swiss researchers also suggest avalanche as the cause.

Reviewing the sensationalist " Yeti " hypothesis , American skeptic author Benjamin Radford suggests an avalanche as more plausible:

“that the group woke up in a panic (...) and cut their way out the tent either because an avalanche had covered the entrance to their tent or because they were scared that an avalanche was imminent (...) (better to have a potentially repairable slit in a tent than risk being buried alive in it under tons of snow). They were poorly clothed because they had been sleeping, and ran to the safety of the nearby woods where trees would help slow oncoming snow. In the darkness of night, they got separated into two or three groups; one group made a fire (hence the burned hands) while the others tried to return to the tent to recover their clothing since the danger had passed. But it was too cold, and they all froze to death before they could locate their tent in the darkness. At some point, some of the clothes may have been recovered or swapped from the dead, but at any rate, the group of four whose bodies was most severely damaged were caught in an avalanche and buried under 4 meters (13 ft) of snow (more than enough to account for the 'compelling natural force' the medical examiner described). Dubinina's tongue was likely removed by scavengers and ordinary predation.”

Evidence contradicting the avalanche theory includes:

The location of the incident did not have any obvious signs of an avalanche having taken place. An avalanche would have left certain patterns and debris distributed over a wide area. The bodies found within a month of the event were covered with a very shallow layer of snow and, had there been an avalanche of sufficient strength to sweep away the second party, these bodies would have been swept away as well; this would have caused more serious and different injuries in the process and would have damaged the tree line.

Over 100 expeditions to the region had been held since the incident, and none of them ever reported conditions that might create an avalanche. A study of the area using up-to-date terrain-related physics revealed that the location was entirely unlikely for such an avalanche to have occurred. The "dangerous conditions" found in another nearby area (which had significantly steeper slopes and cornices) were observed in April and May when the snowfalls of winter were melting. During February, when the incident occurred, there were no such conditions.

An analysis of the terrain and the slope showed that even if there could have been a very specific avalanche that found its way into the area, its path would have gone past the tent. The tent had collapsed from the side but not in a horizontal direction.

Dyatlov was an experienced skier and the much older Zolotaryov was studying for his Masters Certificate in ski instruction and mountain hiking. Neither of these two men would have been likely to camp anywhere in the path of a potential avalanche.

Footprint patterns leading away from the tent were inconsistent with someone, let alone a group of nine people, running in panic from either real or imagined danger. All the footprints leading away from the tent and towards the woods were consistent with individuals who were walking at a normal pace.

Repeated 2015 investigation [ edit ]

A review of the 1959 investigation's evidence completed in 2015–2019 by experienced investigators from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) on request of the families confirmed the avalanche with several important details added. First of all, the ICRF investigators (one of them an experienced alpinist ) confirmed that the weather on the night of the tragedy was very harsh, with wind speeds up to hurricane force,(45–67 mph, a snowstorm and temperatures reaching −40 °C. These factors weren't considered by the 1959 investigators who arrived at the scene of the accident three weeks later when the weather had much improved and any remains of the snow slide had settled and been covered with fresh snowfall. The harsh weather at the same time played a critical role in the events of the tragic night, which have been reconstructed as follows:

On 1 February the group arrives at the Kholat Syakhl mountain and erects a large, 9-person tent on an open slope, without any natural barriers such as forests. On the day and a few preceding days, a heavy snowfall continued, with strong wind and frost.

The group traversing the slope and digging a tent site into the snow weakens the snow base. During the night the snowfield above the tent starts to slide down slowly under the weight of the new snow, gradually pushing on the tent fabric, starting from the entrance. The group wakes up and starts evacuation in panic, with only some able to put on warm clothes. With the entrance blocked, the group escapes through a hole cut in the tent fabric and descends the slope to find a place perceived as safe from the avalanche only 1500 m down, at the forest border.

Because some of the members have only incomplete clothing, the group splits. Two of the group, only in their underwear and pajamas, were found at the Siberian pine tree, near a fire pit. Their bodies were found first and confirmed to have died from hypothermia.

Three hikers, including Dyatlov, attempted to climb back to the tent, possibly to get sleeping bags. They had better clothes than those at the fire pit, but still quite light and with inadequate footwear. Their bodies were found at various distances 300–600 m from the campfire, in poses suggesting that they had fallen exhausted while trying to climb in deep snow in extremely cold weather.

The remaining four, equipped with warm clothing and footwear, were trying to find or build a better camping place in the forest further down the slope. Their bodies were found 70 m from the fireplace, under several meters of snow and with traumas indicating that they had fallen into a snow hole formed above a stream. These bodies were found only after two months.

According to the ICRF investigators, the factors contributing to the tragedy were extremely bad weather and lack of experience of the group leader in such conditions, which led to the selection of a dangerous camping place. After the snow slide, another mistake of the group was to split up, rather than building a temporary camp down in the forest and trying to survive through the night. Negligence of the 1959 investigators contributed to their report creating more questions than answers and inspiring numerous conspiracy theories.

In 2021 a team of physicists and engineers led by Alexander Puzrin published a new model that demonstrated how even a relatively small slide of snow slab on the Kholat Syakhl slope could cause tent damage and injuries consistent with those suffered by Dyatlov team.

Ok, what about the Katabatic wind that I mentioned earlier?

In 2019, a Swedish-Russian expedition was made to the site, and after investigations, they proposed that a violent katabatic wind was a plausible explanation for the incident. Katabatic winds are a drainage wind, a wind that carries high-density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity. They are somewhat rare events and can be extremely violent. They were implicated in a 1978 case at Anaris Mountain in Sweden, where eight hikers were killed and one was severely injured in the aftermath of katabatic wind. The topography of these locations were noted to be very similar according to the expedition.

A sudden katabatic wind would have made it impossible to remain in the tent, and the most rational course of action would have been for the hikers to cover the tent with snow and seek shelter behind the treeline. On top of the tent, there was also a torch left turned on, possibly left there intentionally so that the hikers could find their way back to the tent once the winds subsided. The expedition proposed that the group of hikers constructed two bivouac shelters , or just makeshift shelters, one of which collapsed, leaving four of the hikers buried with the severe injuries observed.

Another hypothesis popularised by Donnie Eichar 's 2013 book Dead Mountain is that wind going around Kholat Syakal created a Kármán vortex street , a repeating pattern of swirling vortices , caused by a process known as vortex shedding , which is responsible for the unsteady separation of flow of a fluid around blunt bodies. which can produce infrasound capable of inducing panic attacks in humans. According to Eichar's theory, the infrasound generated by the wind as it passed over the top of the Holatchahl mountain was responsible for causing physical discomfort and mental distress in the hikers. Eichar claims that, because of their panic, the hikers were driven to leave the tent by whatever means necessary, and fled down the slope. By the time they were further down the hill, they would have been out of the infrasound's path and would have regained their composure, but in the darkness would have been unable to return to their shelter. The traumatic injuries suffered by three of the victims were the result of their stumbling over the edge of a ravine in the darkness and landing on the rocks at the bottom. Hmmm...plausible.

Military tests

In another theory, the campsite fell within the path of a Soviet parachute mine exercise. This theory alleges that the hikers, woken up by loud explosions, fled the tent in a shoeless panic and found themselves unable to return for their shit. After some members froze to death attempting to endure the bombardment, others commandeered their clothing only to be fatally injured by subsequent parachute mine concussions. There are in fact records of parachute mines being tested by the Soviet military in the area around the time the hikers were out there, fuckin’ around. Parachute mines detonate while still in the air rather than upon striking the Earth's surface and produce signature injuries similar to those experienced by the hikers: heavy internal damage with relatively little external trauma. The theory coincides with reported sightings of glowing, orange orbs floating or falling in the sky within the general vicinity of the hikers and allegedly photographed by them, potentially military aircraft or descending parachute mines. (remember the camera they found? HUH? Yeah?)

This theory (among others) uses scavenging animals to explain Dubinina's injuries. Some speculate that the bodies were unnaturally manipulated, on the basis of characteristic livor mortis markings discovered during an autopsy, as well as burns to hair and skin. Photographs of the tent allegedly show that it was erected incorrectly, something the experienced hikers were unlikely to have done.

A similar theory alleges the testing of radiological weapons and is based partly on the discovery of radioactivity on some of the clothing as well as the descriptions of the bodies by relatives as having orange skin and grey hair. However, radioactive dispersal would have affected all, not just some, of the hikers and equipment, and the skin and hair discoloration can be explained by a natural process of mummification after three months of exposure to the cold and wind. The initial suppression by Soviet authorities of files describing the group's disappearance is sometimes mentioned as evidence of a cover-up, but the concealment of information about domestic incidents was standard procedure in the USSR and thus nothing strange.. And by the late 1980s, all Dyatlov files had been released in some manner.

Let’s talk about Paradoxical undressing

International Science Times proposed that the hikers' deaths were caused by hypothermia, which can induce a behavior known as paradoxical undressing in which hypothermic subjects remove their clothes in response to perceived feelings of burning warmth. It is undisputed that six of the nine hikers died of hypothermia. However, others in the group appear to have acquired additional clothing (from those who had already died), which suggests that they were of a sound enough mind to try to add layers.

Keith McCloskey, who has researched the incident for many years and has appeared in several TV documentaries on the subject, traveled to the Dyatlov Pass in 2015 with Yury Kuntsevich of the Dyatlov Foundation and a group. At the Dyatlov Pass he noted:

There were wide discrepancies in distances quoted between the two possible locations of the snow shelter where Dubinina, Kolevatov, Zolotarev, and Thibault-Brignolles were found. One location was approximately 80 to 100 meters from the pine tree where the bodies of Doroshenko and Krivonischenko were found and the other suggested location was so close to the tree that anyone in the snow shelter could have spoken to those at the tree without raising their voices to be heard. This second location also has a rock in the stream where Dubinina's body was found and is the more likely location of the two. However, the second suggested location of the two has a topography that is closer to the photos taken at the time of the search in 1959.

The location of the tent near the ridge was found to be too close to the spur of the ridge for any significant build-up of snow to cause an avalanche. Furthermore, the prevailing wind blowing over the ridge had the effect of blowing snow away from the edge of the ridge on the side where the tent was. This further reduced any build-up of snow to cause an avalanche. This aspect of the lack of snow on the top and near the top of the ridge was pointed out by Sergey Sogrin in 2010.

McCloskey also noted:

Lev Ivanov's boss, Evgeny Okishev (Deputy Head of the Investigative Department of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Prosecution Office), was still alive in 2015 and had given an interview to former Kemerovo prosecutor Leonid Proshkin in which Okishev stated that he was arranging another trip to the Pass to fully investigate the strange deaths of the last four bodies when Deputy Prosecutor General Urakov arrived from Moscow and ordered the case shut down.

Evgeny Okishev also stated in his interview with Leonid Proshkin that Klinov, head of the Sverdlovsk Prosecutor's Office, was present at the first post mortems in the morgue and spent three days there, something Okishev regarded as highly unusual and the only time, in his experience, it had happened.

Donnie Eichar , who investigated and made a documentary about the incident, evaluated several other theories that are deemed unlikely or have been discredited:

They were attacked by Mansi or other local tribesmen. The local tribesmen were known to be peaceful and there was no track evidence of anyone approaching the tent.

They were attacked and chased by animal wildlife. There were no animal tracks and the group would not have abandoned the relative security of the tent.

High winds blew one member away, and the others attempted to rescue the person. A large experienced group would not have behaved like that, and winds strong enough to blow away people with such force would have also blown away the tent.

An argument, possibly related to a romantic encounter that left some of them only partially clothed, led to a violent dispute. About this, Eichar states that it is "highly implausible. By all indications, the group was largely harmonious, and sexual tension was confined to platonic flirtation and crushes. There were no drugs present and the only alcohol was a small flask of medicinal alcohol, found intact at the scene. The group had even sworn off cigarettes for the expedition." Furthermore, a fight could not have left the massive injuries that one body had suffered.

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There's a (partial) recording of this concert. The encores are missing... The show was filmed and parts of it were used in Around The World .

Around 11:00am The Police drove from the Grand Hotel in Osaka to Kyoto in a big bus.

They visited Kinkakuji temple and Kiyomizu temple. They checked in at the Miyako Hotel where they were interviewed by NHK (Japanese TV).

Soundcheck at the venue was around 4:00pm. The concert started around 6:00pm in front of 1400 people.

The VHS Around The World opens with live clips from Kyoto.

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