By Iain Blair

My old mate Andy Summers is finally back in town after nearly 2 years on the road with the Police for their hugely successful world reunion tour and as always he’s busy with a bunch of film and photo projects and road trips. He was just in Brazil for the 50th Anniversary bash of Bossa Nova and is now hard at work on the film of his acclaimed music memoir, One Train Later (a great read for anyone into the British music scene of the 60s and 70s). “It’s directed by Lauren Lazin, the woman who did the Tupac Shakur film, and they’re currently editing it in New York,” he tells me. Andy’s busy composing the score and also lining up another film project, “Which I may direct,” he adds. In between all that, he, like me, will be running around the world. As inveterate travelers, we’ve been hiking and camping in the Sierra Nevadas together and a couple of years ago we planned to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro – the highest peak in Africa – together – but we both got too busy with work. Now, he’s heading back to South America for a couple of weeks “on a photo sojourn” of Peru and Bolivia.

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