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A furious row has developed between Miles Copeland, manager of Police, and Jake Riviera, manager of Elvis Costello and Rockpile, over a planned “supergroup” club and university tour in April.
Copeland had already begun setting up dates for what he described as “a fun supergroup out for a laugh, not to play Knebworth or anything like that” which would have seen the amazing team-up of Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe along with Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland of Police.
RECORD MIRROR understands that Lowe and Summers have already been in the studio together, and last week Dave Edmunds told another music paper that he was “looking forward to playing with Andy (Summers). He’s the same age as me, and we fancy a few pints and a few boozy gigs.”
But Jake Riviera, who finally got Rockpile together to make an album (after two years with Lowe and Edmunds on separate contracts) last year, is said to be “outraged” by Copeland’s plans.
Although unavailable for comment when we rang his London office as spokesman said: “Jake has had enough of these silly rumours. He’s got Rockpile sorted out now, and he doesn’t need Police’s manager to start interfering and spreading stories that have no foundation in fact. This thing will never happen, despite what anybody says.”
But the rumoured merger and tour hasn’t been denied by Police. Their publicist, Keith Altham, said this week: “I wouldn’t be surprised at all if these gigs took place – nothing would surprise me with Andy and Stu involved. But there aren’t any dates at the moment and that’s all I can say.”
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