Post by wrappedinsky on Jul 21, 2014 23:12:51 GMT 1
Alas, have never seen them live. Love reading all the stories on this thread though. The best I might ever do is a live recording cranked to the max, as I live in a smallish town far away from any large concert venue. Quite unfortunate, as I am truly impressed by the lengthy shows they put on for their fans. You certainly get your money's worth when they play 40 tunes or so!
That prickly neck feeling as the music starts and them at the last encore. TCT this year surprises like Harold and Joe. One thing I have noticed at gigs over the years is people wandering about ??? This year was bad for bar traffic .. And getting asked what song was that? I get so engrossed I can't recall set lists and stuff
I don't post very often, but I check in now and again.
I just posted this on my facebook profile, and decided to come share it with you guys.
It was 10 years ago today that I first saw The Cure perform. It was the Curiosa festival in Camden NJ. A bunch of other bands played that day including Interpol, Mogwai, Muse and Thursday.
The Cure had become my favorite band sometime the year before when I was bored with all the ****ty music I was listening to. Someone had recommended that I pick up Disintegration. So I did. I wasn't instantly in love with it but I grew to like it a lot and then I got all their other albums and then they became my favorite band.
If I have any complaints, it's that in the four times I've seen them since they've played three and four hour sets ranging from 35-48 songs, and this set was was 21 songs in just under two hours. Oh yeah, and that I paid 20 dollars for a lawn ticket that day, and every time I've seen the Cure since, I've paid..........a lot more than 20 dollars!!!
I don't post very often, but I check in now and again.
I just posted this on my facebook profile, and decided to come share it with you guys.
It was 10 years ago today that I first saw The Cure perform. It was the Curiosa festival in Camden NJ. A bunch of other bands played that day including Interpol, Mogwai, Muse and Thursday.
The Cure had become my favorite band sometime the year before when I was bored with all the ****ty music I was listening to. Someone had recommended that I pick up Disintegration. So I did. I wasn't instantly in love with it but I grew to like it a lot and then I got all their other albums and then they became my favorite band.
If I have any complaints, it's that in the four times I've seen them since they've played three and four hour sets ranging from 35-48 songs, and this set was was 21 songs in just under two hours. Oh yeah, and that I paid 20 dollars for a lawn ticket that day, and every time I've seen the Cure since, I've paid..........a lot more than 20 dollars!!!
Okay bye bye.
I was there too, it was an amazing show for being just under 2 hours.
Brighton Centre 1985, my 3rd ever Cure gig. I lived in a crappy Sussex village about 24 miles away. There was one bus an hour to Brighton which took over an hour and a half to get there (as it meandered through all the other crappy villages en route) and stopped running at 6pm ... As I lived nearest the bus stop my house was the designated 'getting ready' house and during the afternoon all the local weirdos gradually started congregating round mine for several extended hours of crimping, primping, general titivation and cider consumption. One of my male friends turned up wearing the tightest pair of PVC trousers I had ever seen - shame he ruined the effect by stuffing a snotty hanky into the front pocket, which made him look unusual to say the least It's a good job my parents didn't allow smoking in the house - if anyone had lit a match the whole room would have gone up, there was that much hairspray in the air! A few of us had had summer jobs on the hop farms that year and had picked a load of 'interesting' looking mushrooms there which we all munched up just before leaving - although looking back I don't they they really did anything apart from give us stomach aches!
You could smoke on buses in those days so we all piled onto the top deck and before long the 'special' cigarettes made an appearance ... We were all madly excited and jabbering 19 to the dozen ... Eventually we reached the Brighton Centre and joined the huge throng of big haired types queueing outside.
The queue is the bit that sticks most clearly in my mind. I don't think I have ever been that excited about anything in my whole life, ever. I remember so clearly the feeling of just being overwhelmed by emotion, not able to believe that I was actually going to see The Cure, to see Robert Smith (I was an 18 year old girl remember ), that it was actually real. I felt like I was going to faint, or die, or both I think I actually had to go around the corner to hyperventilate for a bit !!!
Sad to say (but perhaps not surprising!) I remember very little about the actual gig itself. When I looked at some setlists recently I was amazed to see that Frank Bell had come on! You would have thought I would have remembered something like that but no
I have no idea what we did afterwards, as we wouldn't have been able to get home ... I think we probably just wandered about on the beach all night, riding that Cure high that I still get from shows to this day .... Will always be a very special memory for me
And don't even get me started on Crystal Palace or I will have to write another essay !!
*EDIT** I forgot the best bit! On the seafront outside afterwards, 'Number One' magazine were interviewing gig goers and taking their photos. Everyone's makeup had been sweated off and all our hair had collapsed so I managed to avoid it but two of my friends got into the magazine! Here they are, all the way from 1985!!