So, everyone knows that my favourite band of all time is the Cure. I saw them live on the Wish Tour in 1995 in Montreal at the Molson Center (when it was still called that) and have been waiting for them to return to Montreal since then... they haven't. Last summer I heard that they were going on a world tour and they were actually going to come back to us in September. Being in South Korea at the time didn't make getting tickets easy, but I did (thanks S). And they were good seats too...
But then in August, they announced they were postponing our show until May. I held onto my tickets, but then I decided to move over here, and well, my dream of seeing the Cure again disappeared with the return of my tickets.
I knew they were playing London, but the gig was sold out. My friend had tickets, but they were all accounted for already (since they'd bought them months in advance). I had resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn't see them this time. Unless, of course, I wanted to be gouged by a scalper - which there was no way I could afford.
BUT, thanks to a great friend, I was alerted to an ethical ticket exchange site where there were a couple of tickets for sale at face value. I sorted out my ticket (I only needed one) and was set to meet this guy at a pub before the show. It kind of sucked to be going on my own, but it was the CURE! A few minutes later my friend called me back and told me that one of her tickets actually opened up! It was fate telling me I had made the right decision. I canceled on the guy and took hers, so I could at least appreciate it with someone.
In '95 the set was great, Wish was new, so they played a lot of songs from it, which up to that point was not their best album. But they played for three hours and still played many of my favourite old-school songs. Last night, they upped the ante and played the most incredible set-list a true Cure fan could ever want to hear! In it's glory (except for the new ones I don't know) here it is... don't drool, don't be too jealous, just enjoy it, put it together on a playlist on your computer and pretend you were there.
Plainsong
Prayers for rain
Strange day
New *
A night like this
New *
Lovesong
To wish impossible things
Pictures of you
Lullaby
From the edge of the deep green sea
Hot hot hot
New *
The walk
Push
Friday I’m in love
Inbetween days
Just like heaven
Primary
New *
Shake dog shake
Never enough
Wrong number
100 years
Disintegration
Encore 1
At night
M
Play for today
A forest
Encore 2
Lovecats
Let’s go to bed
New*
Close to me
Why can’t I be you
Encore 3
Three imaginary boys
Fire in cairo
Boys don’t cry
Jumping someone else’s train
Grinding halt
10:15 on a Saturday night
Killing an arab
I couldn't believe they started with Plainsong. I went through a faze in my life where I couldn't sleep at night without listening to this song... amazing to see it live... They played almost all the songs that I would have wanted to hear, including Three Imaginary Boys, M, Disintegration, Primary, Push... anyway, you can read the list but those are some of my favourite songs of all time... it was truly amazing.
The only thing that could have made it any better would be to have the kind of seats that I had in Montreal... We were in the nosebleeds last night, but that was fine by me, because at least I was there. And it's probably a good thing that I was... who knows if/when they'll ever tour again... and with a set-list like that I can only think they've done it to appease all the old fans because they'll never do it again.
It was exactly what I needed to Cure ;) my winter blues...
But then in August, they announced they were postponing our show until May. I held onto my tickets, but then I decided to move over here, and well, my dream of seeing the Cure again disappeared with the return of my tickets.
I knew they were playing London, but the gig was sold out. My friend had tickets, but they were all accounted for already (since they'd bought them months in advance). I had resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn't see them this time. Unless, of course, I wanted to be gouged by a scalper - which there was no way I could afford.
BUT, thanks to a great friend, I was alerted to an ethical ticket exchange site where there were a couple of tickets for sale at face value. I sorted out my ticket (I only needed one) and was set to meet this guy at a pub before the show. It kind of sucked to be going on my own, but it was the CURE! A few minutes later my friend called me back and told me that one of her tickets actually opened up! It was fate telling me I had made the right decision. I canceled on the guy and took hers, so I could at least appreciate it with someone.
In '95 the set was great, Wish was new, so they played a lot of songs from it, which up to that point was not their best album. But they played for three hours and still played many of my favourite old-school songs. Last night, they upped the ante and played the most incredible set-list a true Cure fan could ever want to hear! In it's glory (except for the new ones I don't know) here it is... don't drool, don't be too jealous, just enjoy it, put it together on a playlist on your computer and pretend you were there.
Plainsong
Prayers for rain
Strange day
New *
A night like this
New *
Lovesong
To wish impossible things
Pictures of you
Lullaby
From the edge of the deep green sea
Hot hot hot
New *
The walk
Push
Friday I’m in love
Inbetween days
Just like heaven
Primary
New *
Shake dog shake
Never enough
Wrong number
100 years
Disintegration
Encore 1
At night
M
Play for today
A forest
Encore 2
Lovecats
Let’s go to bed
New*
Close to me
Why can’t I be you
Encore 3
Three imaginary boys
Fire in cairo
Boys don’t cry
Jumping someone else’s train
Grinding halt
10:15 on a Saturday night
Killing an arab
I couldn't believe they started with Plainsong. I went through a faze in my life where I couldn't sleep at night without listening to this song... amazing to see it live... They played almost all the songs that I would have wanted to hear, including Three Imaginary Boys, M, Disintegration, Primary, Push... anyway, you can read the list but those are some of my favourite songs of all time... it was truly amazing.
The only thing that could have made it any better would be to have the kind of seats that I had in Montreal... We were in the nosebleeds last night, but that was fine by me, because at least I was there. And it's probably a good thing that I was... who knows if/when they'll ever tour again... and with a set-list like that I can only think they've done it to appease all the old fans because they'll never do it again.
It was exactly what I needed to Cure ;) my winter blues...
4 comments:
Hi there,
Awesome review and it sounds like it was a great show!
Just a small correction... the Wish tour was in 1992, not 1995.
cheers,
A.C.
Are you patronizing me? Don't be a hater. hahaha :)
Not at all... loved the review. I wish I could go to my local Cure show in May this year, but I already have something scheduled.
Did you catch one of their Bloodflowers shows in 2000? Brilliant.
cheers,
A.C.
The Cure. I had forgotten. The childhood memories flood back. And that song list. I have iTunes open and the Cure playing right now after reading this - thank you for the reminder of a truely great band!
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