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I know this is going to sound wierd, but I don't have a problem with this -- as long as it doesn't conflict with my schoolwork. When I got the ticketmaster email talking about a delay, I feared it would be a month or two, which is crunch time for university courses, or on a day I have a night class.

In a strange way, the further ahead it is, the further away is the moment after the show is over and I feel depressed I won't see The Cure for awhile. Also, it gives me time to really starve myself of Cure music so I reach orgasm in concert!

And my great seat is still valid so I'm happy, and those who didn't get good seats can maybe buy up ones that will be returned.

I'm totally not saying people don't have a right to be pissed off, especially if their schedule is busy or they have made travel arrangements. I'm a lucky guy because I live close to the venue and have a cozy place to live.

I feel badly for fellow Cure fans who are in trouble though. I hope you folks are gonna be alright.
 
mediaman44 said:
Well they are coming Oct. 4th and I want to go but I never can find people that like the same artists I do.

I am glad that the set list was posted. I just wanted to be sure some of the songs I know were played and they all were. I am sorta a weird person when it comes to music. Most of the time I am not really a huge fan of the band till I see them in concert. That happened with U2, Depeche Mode and INXS so I have Galore but nothing else. What should I listen to in order to become more familiar with their stuff?
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Well I guess that date's a way off, huh. So you have lots of time to listen to:

Disintegration (1989)
Wish (1992)
Kiss Me (1987)
Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Faith (1981)
Pornography (1982)
Three Imaginary Boys (1979)
The Top (1984)
The Head on the Door (1985)

Basically, The Cure is great because unlike U2 they play from a wide variety of albums. I personally was hooked from my brother's Mixed Up (1990) album which had a lot of Galore type singles. The singles are awesome on Galore, but it's only the excellent pop aspect of the band. There's a harder sound and a more lovelorn sombre aspect; the latter is my favorite: you've already had a taste: "A Letter to Elise," "Pictures of You," "Catch," but on "Wish," there's also the awesome "Trust" and "Apart" and "To Wish Impossible Things" and a great pop song in "Doing the Unstuck."

It took me quite a while to appreciate the harder stuff, but it's worth it; it just takes more effort. I guess "Fascination Street" might fit into that category.

I'd start with Disintegration and Wish. The early 80s stuff can be a bit hard because it sounds dated, especially the drum effects, but it's great if you give it time. Pornography is heavy but pretty awesome if you're in the right mood. There's nothing like "One Hundred Years", "Siamese Twins", "The Figurehead" or "Cold" if you're feeling bleak about why human kind deserves to live.

The Faith album has one of my favorites "The Drowning Man" and "All Cats Are Grey" (which was used in the end credits of Marie Antoinette).


All the albums are selling for pretty cheap in remastered SINGLE DISC format. Also, if you like the songs, maybe learn the lyrics, which are quite incredible.
 
blueeyedgirl said:
Ah that sucks with postponements. Well, it gives people LOADS of time to listen to the CDs and get word perfect :wink:
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I know especially because Robert tends to slur words as he shouts in concert, so you need to know them before hand to know what he's saying. :smile:
 
New dates announced; only Seattle's venue has been changed to a festival (and I think that sucks because festival bellweather fans are annoying and never shut up!), and some new dates have also been announced, but I'll let the Cure press release tell you that; I should note that, while it says tickets can be returned until November 1st, my ticketmaster email specified it was until 5pm October 31st, so you can't return them on November 1st!

13TH SEPTEMBER 2007
THE CURE ANNOUNCE RE-SCHEDULED 2008 NORTH AMERICAN 4TOUR SHOWS

AT LAST!
WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THE NEW 2008 DATES OF OUR POSTPONED NORTH AMERICAN 4TOUR.

EIGHTEEN OF THE NINETEEN PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED SHOWS HAVE BEEN RE-SCHEDULED IN THE ORIGINAL VENUES, AND ALL 2007 TICKETS WILL BE HONOURED FOR THESE NEW 2008 CONCERTS.

(THE ONLY ONE WE COULDN’T GET SWITCHED WAS SEATTLE… BUT INSTEAD OF NO CURE SHOW AT ALL, WE WILL BE CLOSING THE SASQUATCH! MUSIC FESTIVAL ON SUNDAY 25TH MAY (MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND) AT THE GORGE AMPHITHEATRE, WHERE WE HAVE BEEN GUARANTEED 150 MINUTES ONSTAGE! ALL TICKETS FOR THE ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED CURE KEY ARENA CONCERT WILL BE HONOURED AT THE GORGE, BUT PLEASE NOTE: ALL TICKETS FOR THE SASQUATCH! FESTIVAL ARE GENERAL ADMISSION, INCLUDING ANY PREVIOUSLY ISSUED CURE KEY ARENA TICKETS).

IT’S ALL HAPPENING SLIGHTLY LATER THAN WE EXPECTED DUE TO ‘THE PLAYOFFS’ – A LOT OF THE VENUES WE NEEDED WOULDN’T LET US CONFIRM DATES IN THE MARCH/APRIL PERIOD – BUT WE UNDERSTAND THEY ALL HAVE TO LIVE IN HOPE!

HOWEVER, AN UNEXPECTED BONUS OF THE NEW ROUTING IS THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ADD IN KANSAS CITY, PHOENIX, AUSTIN, FT LAUDERDALE AND CLEVELAND… AND THERE WILL BE MORE DATES TO COME!

WE APOLOGIZE AGAIN FOR THE INCONVENIENCE AND UPSET THE ORIGINAL POSTPONEMENT CAUSED, AND WILL MAKE SURE THAT THE NEW SHOWS ARE MORE THAN WORTH THE WAIT…

SEE YOU ALL SOON,

LOVE ROBERT, SIMON, JASON AND PORL XXXX (THE CURE)

PS
ANYONE WHO WANTS A REFUND ON THEIR 2007 TICKET WILL BE ABLE TO GET ONE IN FULL FROM HIS OR HER POINT OF PURCHASE UNTIL 1ST NOVEMBER 2007.

PPS
ALL TICKET INFO LINKS WILL BE UP AS SOON AS WE HAVE THEM...

>

THE CURE 4TOUR NORTH AMERICA 2008

MAY
09 WASHINGTON DC Patriot Center

10 PHILADELPHIA Wachovia Spectrum

12 BOSTON Agganis Arena

14 MONTREAL Bell Centre

15 TORONTO Air Canada Centre

17 CHICAGO Allstate Arena

19 KANSAS CITY Starlight Theatre – ADDED SHOW

21 DENVER Red Rocks Amphitheatre

23 SALT LAKE CITY E Center

25 GEORGE WA The Gorge Sasquatch! Festival (in place of Seattle - headlining from 9:30 to midnight)

26 VANCOUVER General Motors Place

29 SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara Bowl

31 LOS ANGELES Hollywood Bowl

JUNE
03 SAN DIEGO Cox Arena

04 PHOENIX Dodge Theatre – ADDED SHOW

06 DALLAS American Airlines Center

08 AUSTIN Austin Music Hall – ADDED SHOW

09 HOUSTON Toyota Center

11 TAMPA St Pete Times Forum

13 FT LAUDERDALE Bank Atlantic Center – ADDED SHOW

15 ATLANTA Gwinnett Center

16 CHARLOTTE Charlotte Bobcats Arena

18 CLEVELAND (Venue TBD) – ADDED SHOW

20 NEW YORK CITY Madison Square Garden
 
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fat bob is a frigging dumbass for scheduling the tour THEN scrapping it because he hadn't finished the new album that nobody cares about. when i see them (in a mere 9 months!) they better not replace some of the kickass wish stuff (open, end) with crappy new songs.

bitching aside, im actually quite happy the tour got gutted. it allowed to me sell back the second pair of tickets i accidently bought AND now instead of seeing the cure next week, im seeing arcade fire/lcd soundsystem at the hollywood bowl, eff yeah!!
 
bollox said:
fat bob is a frigging dumbass for scheduling the tour THEN scrapping it because he hadn't finished the new album that nobody cares about. when i see them (in a mere 9 months!) they better not replace some of the kickass wish stuff (open, end) with crappy new songs.

bitching aside, im actually quite happy the tour got gutted. it allowed to me sell back the second pair of tickets i accidently bought AND now instead of seeing the cure next week, im seeing arcade fire/lcd soundsystem at the hollywood bowl, eff yeah!!
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I'm quite excited about the new album. I mean, Porl's back! Maybe he was the missing link!
 
Muldfeld said:

I'm quite excited about the new album. I mean, Porl's back! Maybe he was the missing link!
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having porl back is a plus, maybe we'll get more wish-y sounding stuff.

but no keyboards? whiskey tango foxtrot?
 
bollox said:
when i see them (in a mere 9 months!) they better not replace some of the kickass wish stuff (open, end) with crappy new songs.
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Totally. When I saw that aspect of the setlists from the shows in Australia, I got really excited.
 
bollox said:


having porl back is a plus, maybe we'll get more wish-y sounding stuff.

but no keyboards? whiskey tango foxtrot?
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Sorry for the delay. I LOVED Wish, too. What's whiskey tango foxtrot?

So, anyone go to the Download Festival? Apparently they played a new song. Any ideas if it was good?

Apparently this was the setlist, which I will endeavor to copy and past from Chain of Flowers without looking at it in order, so I don't ruin the surprise for myself when I see The Cure in May.

Tape (intro), Open, alt.end, A Night Like This, The Baby Screams, The End of the World, Lovesong, Pictures of You, Lullaby, Maybe Someday,
Kyoto Song, NEW SONG! (title unkown at this time. Olivier says "It's pretty upbeat"), The Walk, Push, How Beautiful You
Are, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, The Kiss, Never Enough, Wrong Number, Signal To Noise, One
Hundred Years, Shiver and Shake, End

1st Encore: Three Imaginary Boys, Fire In Cairo, Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An
Arab
2nd Encore: Play For Today, A Forest.

Show was 2 hours and 47 minutes.
 
Muldfeld said:

Oh, so it's an abreviation? WTF?, I guess?
Okay.
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Correct. WTF as in 'what the fuck'. It's just another way of saying it. If you look at the section of that Wiki article called "Usage", you'll see what I mean.
 
greenlight7-11 said:

Correct. WTF as in 'what the fuck'. It's just another way of saying it. If you look at the section of that Wiki article called "Usage", you'll see what I mean.
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I read quite a bit of it and then realized I'd had so much confusion over something quite simple. :)

So, anyone listen to the new mp3 live recording? I still haven't yet.
 
I wanna hear how the shows went from all the Mexican Cure fans! I might not visit too often, but I'll read them within the week, and I'm sure other Cure fans will be delighted to read them, too. No need for setlists, from my personal standpoint; I just wanna hear if you enjoyed the show and new sound or what you thought of any new songs performed.
 
WOOT!! Just scored 2 tix to the Fairfax,VA show 5/09! They are floor tix: 2nd center section behind the stage, 2nd row! yahoooooooooooooo!:D

This will be the second time I have seen them.. Saw them at Coachella a few years ago.
 
U2Fanatic4ever said:
WOOT!! Just scored 2 tix to the Fairfax,VA show 5/09! They are floor tix: 2nd center section behind the stage, 2nd row! yahoooooooooooooo!:D

This will be the second time I have seen them.. Saw them at Coachella a few years ago.
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Awesome! It'll be my second time, too. I first saw them during Curiosa in 2004; I also got to see Interpol that time, and the prep for that tour also got me into Mogwai.

For anyone interested, here are 2 new songs bootlegged at the California Download Festival ("Please Project") and the 2nd Mexican date ("The Boy I Never Knew"). Many thanks to those that put them online, and I hope Robert doesn't mind because it will hopefully just increase excitement for the new album. I'm holding off listening to them for a while. They're in lossless wave format.

"Please Project":
http://www. .com/file/zhcdkb

"The Boy I Never Knew":
http://www. .com/file/hguo9x

Okay, the board doesn't seem to be accepting this site. All you have to do is after "www." type in "s e n d s p a c e" (but without spaces) and it should work.
 
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The North America tour finally starts this week after the change in schedule from last fall to this spring/summer. Awesomely, 65daysofstatic are still opening. I'm seeing them May 23rd, and am starting to get quite excited. Looking at their last setlist from March, they were still playing 30+ songs. Let's hope they keep that up for the North America shows.

For those of you who haven't heard, The Cure will also be releasing a new "single" on the 13th of every month to lead up to their 13th album coming out on the 13th of September, so we can expect a new song NEXT WEEK!
 
Bitchfork is good for something

u2popmofo said:

For those of you who haven't heard, The Cure will also be releasing a new "single" on the 13th of every month to lead up to their 13th album coming out on the 13th of September, so we can expect a new song NEXT WEEK!
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You can stream the new single, The Only One, here!

linky

Similar to the last album, looks like they went with a poppy track as the first single. Fun song. "I love what you do to my hair, it's a mess up there" Ha.

I have a feeling I'm gonna be a sucker and buy all of the singles on iTunes and then be disappointed that I know so many of the songs when the album comes out.
 
Robert posted on the official Cure site about the new single and other awesome news at the end......

Rang up my local record shop (YES I still call them that) and asked if they had the new CURE single yet, he said"when is it out??"
I had to tell him all about it...

YOU'RE FRUSTRATED?
IMAGINE HOW WE FEEL!
THE BEAUTY OF THE MIGHTY UNIVERSAL GETTING US OUT THERE AND IN THE SHOPS... YEAH!

ANYWAY
ITS AN ONGOING THING...

MAYBE THE NEXT ONE WILL BE FOUND IN A FEW MORE PLACES... ?
(the sound of not holding breath)

ITS AN ONGOING THING...

LIKE MAKING THIS WEBSITE LOOK AND FEEL LIKE THE ONLY ONE...

SOON
PLEASE
SOON!

ITS AN ONGOING THING...

CHICAGO!
RSX

PS
THE NEW ALBUM 'SINGLE OR DOUBLE?' DEBATE...

I JUST FEEL ON REFLECTION THAT MAKING THE NEW ALBUM A 'SINGLE' (WHATEVER THAT MEANS... 8 TRACKS? 13 TRACKS? 21 TRACKS?!!) WILL BE SOMEHOW 'BETTER' - MORE COHERENT - MORE IN TUNE WITH THE BAND AS IT IS...
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LABEL - THEY ARE HAPPY(?!!) TO TRUST ME WHATEVER WE DECIDE...

AND ANYWAY (BIG CLAIM ALERT!) EVERYTHING WE RECORDED DURING THE NEW ALBUM SESSIONS WILL GET RELEASED - IN THE REAL WORLD NOT JUST AS DIGITAL...

THAT DARK SECOND ALBUM FOR CHRISTMAS MAY NOT BE AS FANCIFUL AS I THINK?!!

ONWARDS...



Two Cure albums in a year?????! I may have just fainted.
 
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I saw them last night. The killer setlist was as follows:

Plainsong, Fascination Street, A Night Like This, The Walk, The End of the World, Lovesong, Pictures of You, Lullaby, Catch, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Other Voices, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Friday I'm In Love, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, A Letter To Elise, Shake Dog Shake, Never Enough, Hot Hot Hot, The Only One, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Disintegration

1st encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
2nd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
3rd encore: Why Can't I Be You?


3 hrs of The Cure, 35 songs played. You think I would be in heaven, but unfortunately we had some sound issues (not sure if it was where we were sitting or the entire arena). It was extremely difficult to hear the guitars on a lot of songs, and nearly the only times I could ever hear Porl's guitar was when they upped the volume for solos and such. We were sitting over on Simon's side (bass), and that's the majority of what we could hear all night. These sound issues were extremely frustrating for me, as it made the songs feel hollow as Cure have absolutely fantastic guitar. I was just glad I'd seen them before, as I knew they really do sound much better than that live.

Annoyances aside, the show was still a great deal of fun. AMAZING setlist. I was so happy to hear Plainsong open the show, and it was pretty dang cool to hear all the old keyboard parts being played on guitars now that they're a "4 piece". They ended up playing 6 of 12 songs from Disintegration, which was awesome. The highlight for me was the Seventeen Seconds encore, I flipped out when they blasted into At Night.

We got down closer at the end of the show (I don't think the fans were expecting 3 encores), and it was really cool to see them so close. I found this picture from the show online, and this was at the exact same angle we were watching them from at the end (not quite this close though of course):

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3 hours?! :ohmy:

Too bad about the sound. I always wondered about that with them--I love The Cure but I always feel a little frustrated with the sound even on the records. Amazing setlist, though. I would love to see them. For some reason I've been listening to Disintegration a lot lately.
 
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