(pic courtesy of Brooklyn Vegan)
ahh, The Cure. I’m not sure why i love them so, but that’s a question for another time. Suffice it to say that I am a HUGE fan, to the tune of buying tickets for this show the first day they were available, before i even knew how the festival worked (or how i would get there).
So, i was down in the very front of the stage, packed in like a smelly sardine, of course. I was about 10 people back from where Simon Gallup would end up being. As the first notes of “Underneath the Stars” began, i was as giddy as a school girl. Robert Smith is AMAZING. They played a total of 31 songs with virtually no talking to the crowd or each other, and they dug DEEP into their catalog.
Show highlights: Fascination Street (my fave Cure song), Killing An Arab (2nd encore closer), One Hundred Years, and The End of The World.
setlist: Underneath The Stars, Prayers For Rain, A Night Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, To Wish Impossible Things, Pictures Of You, Lullaby, Fascination Street, The Perfect Boy, Hot Hot Hot, alt.end, Sleep When I’m Dead, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, A Letter To Elise, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Only One, The Walk, Shake Dog Shake, Never Enough, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Baby Rag Dog Book
1st encore: A Forest
2nd encore: Boys Don’t Cry, Jumping Someone Else’s Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
Some of my pics are here, and i’ll get some links to others too.
