You Americans are so lucky. The setlists haven't been anywhere near as amazing in Canada. I'm so damn jealous. You got "A Letter To Elise" and "Catch". Other US cities have gotten "To Wish Impossible Things" and "Doing the Unstuck", too. That's awesome.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):
I saw The Cure in Montreal and Toronto. I was probably the first person to buy a ticket for Toronto because the official site messed up the password and I was the first person to get a ticketmaster operator to be willing to give me the correct password. After I got my ticket, I posted the correct password on the official site message board and people got their tickets. The frustrating thing was, on my way to the show, a scalper offered to sell me a 4th row ticket at half price. Mine was 16th row and the view wasn't always the best, especially with incredibly selfish amateur filmers jutting their arms above people's heads so it's impossible to see; that's reason number one for fining people if they videotape stuff, even on their cell phone. Pit is overrated if you're not tall!
