July 7th Hyde Park London Live Report

What songs and albums were released during these 2009-2018 years?
None.
And I don't count playing a couple of songs (step into the light/it can never be the same) from the 2008 sessions as new music! Will probably never get released just like "boy I never knew"

As much as I hate to admit it, they are currently a dinosaur band living off past glories.

The reason I loved this band was for their creativity and total musical genius. The way they used to regularily put out fantastic albums then play the majority of the new album every night during the subsequent tour.

They haven't really done that since 2000 dream tour where they would play about 7 of the 9 Bloodflowers songs each night.

If you are no longer a creative band releasing music and just playing decades old songs then yes you are a dinosaur band living on past glories.

I just get frustrated at Bob with his constant promises of all these new albums! I enjoy 4:13 dream and just want them to release new stuff and become a current viable creative band again. It's not like they don't have great songs to release like please come home/boy I never knew/it can never be the same again

You might be right.
Robert himself did say that he's been unable to write lyrics for a good while & that there's like 3 or 4 albums worth of instrumentals already written.

I’d love to hear some quality new material, but I don’t care if they ‘live off past glories’, given there are so many of them. And their past is so much better than a lot of other bands’ present, IMO.

Even if the set list wasn’t everyone’s ideal (and how could it be), just being a band that still pulls the support and crowds they do at live shows, 40 years on from their first live gig is well worthy of celebrating.

I wasn't expecting faith/Siamese Twins, I knew it was going to be a greatest hits set of the songs that are well known, and I enjoyed it.

Though ironically, possibly their most known song, their first ever huge hit record, the track which made them famous, wasn't played....the lovecats.

Didn't Robert promise they were going to play a new song at hydepark? He probably meant "end of the world". The youngest song at only 14 years old!

It's not that I've made up my mind, it's fact that they haven't released any new music for 10 years.
I know they are capable of releasing a brilliant new album, I just hope it happens!!

The Sisters Of Mercy......... cough