ACL - Live Report

I don't really understand this festival setlist thing.
Let's face the facts and see what was played in festival since 86':

1986: Other voices, Faith, Forever, Pornography, Why can't I be you (not released)
1990: Jumping..., In your house, M, Faith, Lament, The perfect girl, Same deep water as you, Never enough (not released)
1993: It's not you, Fire in Cairo, Shiver and shake, Push (rare track then)
1998: Faith, Forever, The figurehead, A strange day, Cold, Kyoto song, Sinking, Torture, If only tonight..., Like cockatoos, Untitled, Cut, Treasure
2002: M, The drowning man, Faith, Siamese twins, A strange day, The figurehead, Pornography, The baby screams, Torture, Don't believe a word, The faith healer
2004: M, Drowning man, Faith,Forever, Charlotte sometimes (rare then), The figurehead,Siamese twins, A strange day, Sinking, Like cockatoos Closedown, Jupiter crash
2005: Grinding halt, Fire in Cairo, M, At night, Primary (rare then), The drowning man, Faith, A strange day, The figurehead, The baby screams, If only tonight..., A letter to Elise
2007: Fire in Cairo, Jumping..., Grinding halt, M, Kyoto song, How beautiful you are, If only tonight..., The big hand, Out of this world

And even 2012: A strange day, Cold, Just one kiss, Bananafihbones, The top, If only tonight..., Fight, The same deep water as you

I left aside the pre-1986 festival as The Cure didn't have the same status and repertoire by then.
So, since 2013, a festival setlist has to be an almost singles setlist and let's do the same every night.
It's the first time since 1995, which I didn't include here for that reason.
It's far, the time when Robert Smith said he couldn't play the same stlist again and again without getting bored...

And last but not least, remember that the two first reflections nights were played at a festival !!!


Not sure whether Reflections at Vivid in Sydney counts as a festival. It was a stand alone show inside the opera house that was separately ticketed. I know what you are saying though. The setlist for ACL doesn't excite me at all and is very SAFE and STANDARD...dare I say it...for a conservative American audience?