all my live experiences are memorable but if i must choose one I can't decide between 2 of my :
The first one, for my fifth concert,was in Paris (10-26-2001) at "Le reservoir" for the ARTE TV show "Musicplanet2nite". The place was so small, very very small!!! it was like a cure concert in my saloon. there was a very hot ambiance. we were around 100 peoples for a set of 16 songs. The very first time I see the Cure very near. But be carrefull of that: When I saw Rob down stairs to reach the stage (I was at 1 meter from him at this moment) I don't see THE CURE, my god, but simply a music group, a man, a musician, someone like you or me, who do the job and do it very well. At this moment a touch of magic disapear (not for so long)I realize that the cure are human and not something unreachable. When you dreams come true it's not a dream but the real life... You understand what I mean?!?!?!
The second time was in London (04-01-2006)at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage cancer trust. I bought my ticket on ebay and I find a seat in the arena on the third row just front of Rob, again so closer... the setlist was simply fantastic for an epic show of more 3 hours... less epic was my wife who after 2 hours of concert (she don't like the dark cure songs but only the pop songs (yes but not all; Only Lullaby, close to me, just like heaven and in between days... pfff... ))she leave her seat and reach the hall for waiting the end of the concert. Pearl was wonderfull and I remenber at the end, Rob wanted to continue to sing but Simon was so tired and don't want to play... again...
One of my favourite moment was The kiss a very very hard & loud version...
I have seen the Cure twice. The first show was at the Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI, USA on May 14, 1992 from the The Wish Tour. Great show and I recently found the audio. I was able to relive some of my youth through the audio, though it's not great. I also saw the Dream tour on June 14, 2000 at the Tweeter Center (Great Woods) in Mansfield, MA. Another amazing experience! Was not loving Bloodflowers at the time but as the years have passed so has my appreciation for the record. I know the show was taped as I have searched high and low on the internet but cannot come up with anything. Anybody out there have it? Willing to help? MP3 would be fine.
Once it hit 09:00, all hell broke loose, the booking line had a meltdown, I had a meltdown, my programmer chum was dashing into my edit suite every five seconds to see if I was any further along in the queue to get a ticket, I panicked, opened up another window and hit 'buy' again, ended up with confirmation that I had in fact got both tickets, decided against the more expensive one, cancelled that and then panicked again coz I didn't know if I'd accidentally cancelled both (the website was still crawling) and FINALLY bought the ticket before collapsing back in my seat, a total gibbering wreck.
same here. it was my part to buy tickets for Ceho, Skuld and me. just in time i closed my office door, the colleagues knows what happen, no phone calls, no clients, DO NOT DISTURB ME!!! first try looks fine. try to order the tickets and pushed the forward button but then the side crashed and i was out...F:CK! no chance to come back and i lost my hope to get tickets. during this process i was constantly on WhatsApp with Ceho and more or less you could see 2 men crying about 15 minutes later a miracle happened and i got a new chance to get tickets and yes it worked. we got 3 tickets for the standing area and that´s exactly what we want. happiness all over the place the show was worth the whole stress we had with buying the tickets. know that so many of us had the same experience with this day.
now let´s wait for the next 3 and we all will start the same story again and again and again...
Once it hit 09:00, all hell broke loose, the booking line had a meltdown, I had a meltdown, my programmer chum was dashing into my edit suite every five seconds to see if I was any further along in the queue to get a ticket, I panicked, opened up another window and hit 'buy' again, ended up with confirmation that I had in fact got both tickets, decided against the more expensive one, cancelled that and then panicked again coz I didn't know if I'd accidentally cancelled both (the website was still crawling) and FINALLY bought the ticket before collapsing back in my seat, a total gibbering wreck.
same here. it was my part to buy tickets for Ceho, Skuld and me. just in time i closed my office door, the colleagues knows what happen, no phone calls, no clients, DO NOT DISTURB ME!!! first try looks fine. try to order the tickets and pushed the forward button but then the side crashed and i was out...F:CK! no chance to come back and i lost my hope to get tickets. during this process i was constantly on WhatsApp with Ceho and more or less you could see 2 men crying about 15 minutes later a miracle happened and i got a new chance to get tickets and yes it worked. we got 3 tickets for the standing area and that´s exactly what we want. happiness all over the place the show was worth the whole stress we had with buying the tickets. know that so many of us had the same experience with this day.
now let´s wait for the next 3 and we all will start the same story again and again and again...
So I completely missed the planned meet-up (where I probably would have met a lot of CCC folks)
yep you missed lot of CCC persons, lots of beers and lots of fun during the meet up
Similar experience here. It didn't help that the day before the tickets went on sale was my partner's birthday. I had taken him out for a posh meal but all night my phone kept buzzing: "REMEMBER YOU HAVE TO GET UP AND BUY TICKETS TOMORROW MORNING" "DON'T YOU DARE GET DRUNK AND SLEEP IN" "DO YOU WANT ME TO PHONE YOU TO GET YOU UP IN THE MORNING" etc etc etc. I think he started getting a bit fed up
At 8.45 am I sat down at home in front of two computers and two phones, feeling like a total bag of nerves. I rang the ticket line at about 8.53am, guessing that I would be in a queue for about 7 minutes, but the phone got answered almost straight away. I tried to keep the person on the other end talking but they sussed me out straight away and ended the call I was frantically hitting refresh on the Ticketmaster site having given up on the queue on the RAH one, and tearing my hair out when my laptop was displaying a time of 9.01am but still saying 'tickets not yet on sale', when suddenly the 'Buy now' link popped up and I sailed through. By 9.10am it was all done and dusted and I went back to bed, feeling very pleased with myself as I read the tales of woe on COF ;-)
In the pub beforehand I met up with a couple of really good friends, some friends of friends, and some random people that were sharing our table, and we had an excellent hour of intense Cure-fan-ing, discussing our memories throughout the years - including some slightly embarassing fangirl stuff from some of the ladies around the table, not that I have ever been like that at all *cough* *ahem* *cough*. So much so that we almost didn't want to leave the pub and had to rush to get to the show on time!
Oddly enough I hadn't been that excited beforehand, really. It was the first time I'd ever been to a 'band perform albums in full' gig and it was a weird feeling, knowing the setlist in advance. Some of my very favourite songs of all time are on 17S and Faith, but there's also a lot that aren't. It felt weird going to see The Cure and knowing that there was no way I was going to hear Shake Dog Shake, End, FTEOTDGS, or any number of others. And I mean, I love Three Imaginary Boys, but as my friend said, 'you can tell it's just kids' All of that got blown away though the moment they came on stage. I mean they just sounded FANTASTIC. We sang along word perfect all the way through the TIB set and it just got better from there
The only low point of the evening was on the train on the way back. As we sped through Horley / Gatwick / Three Bridges, some bloke shouted down the carriage at me and asked if I'd ever seen them at the Rocket! The damn bloody cheek of it! I was TEN YEARS OLD at the time
When we got home we rushed to the chippy (we'd been too keyed up to eat beforehand) and after some horrible dried up old chips we had a couple of shots in a late night pub before heading back home. I didn't sleep a wink all night and went to work feeling absolutely rough as arses the next day, but it was SO worth it
I also saw the Dream tour on June 14, 2000 at the Tweeter Center (Great Woods) in Mansfield, MA. Another amazing experience! Was not loving Bloodflowers at the time but as the years have passed so has my appreciation for the record. I know the show was taped as I have searched high and low on the internet but cannot come up with anything. Anybody out there have it? Willing to help? MP3 would be fine.
Awww, i can remember how i got my tickets for the Reflections concert at the RAH. I've asked my father if i could use the laptop to order a ticket and he agreed. Went to the website from seatickets, but i got the wrong form, i mean the one for the UK. Then i went to RAH site, but there was a holding stack and i gave up, also because i had to go back to work When i was at home i got the ticket at getmein, okay it was expensive, but it was worth it. Okay to make it short, until shortly before i didn't want to go, but i got persuade and haven't regret it. Have met so many nice Cure followers at the meet-up and enjoyed to hear, again, three albums in their entirety, with lovely people from CCC Really hope there will be meet-ups from this forum
I walk wondering why, the same dream so many times