Post by picturesofyou on Jul 13, 2018 21:57:22 GMT 1
I won't talk about what makes a band "active" or "inactive" because I think it's a too complicated topic to discuss. And anyway, it's impossible for me to measure a band's level of activity just by the number of new songs they release every year. They could make a new album every week, but if they just do it "as a job" it becomes pointless. The thing I love the most about my favourite Cure songs are the feelings hiding inside them, not their novelty or originality. I loved them when I first heard them, and I'll love them for a very long time, exactly because the feelings that link me to them are timeless. They have got no expiration date! If they want to release new material, then of course I'll freak out and spend my last few savings to buy every possible format I can lay my hands on. If they don't, who am I to be disappointed? As for the setlist, I think it's much easier to discuss about it. It would've been nearly impossible to satisfy you, your band AND 65000 more Curefans, not even if you had 5 hours, let alone 2... how can you choose the perfect set of songs in this situation? I'm still convinced that they made the most logical decision.
Post by psychophysio on Jul 14, 2018 0:01:24 GMT 1
I got back to NZ last night and must say I had a fantastic time at the show! The setlist was good and the gig really kicked off for me personally from "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" onwards - things just moved up a notch from there. A lot of it was the people that I was there with and sharing with them as well as we don't get to catch up much in real life due to distance etc.
The rest of the Festival was awesome and I caught Pale Waves, Slowdive, This Will Destroy You, The Twilight Sad and Interpol. All were great and to be honest The Twilight Sad was probably the best gig of the day for me. I was third row back and the inal song made my eyes leak a bit and I don't even know Frightened Rabbit.....
All in all an excellent day out and well worth 36, 648 flying kilometres!
It was my first concert outside of germany and it was the most emotional one for me. Yes, i wished there had been more songs like strange day, figurehead, (...) BUT the crowd ...amazing. Comparing to the gigs in germany...oh my god! we were in a croud of maybe 80 people who sings every word so loud while dancing. and if there was no lyrics, we sang the melody - incredible energy. I was in tears for four times...maybe more. i was so touched - im still touched. I wished this concert will never end. thanks to all of you who sang so loud, dance so wild...i will never forget it!
If there is another tour, we will come back in the UK for sure. Maybe with a 4 hour set, full of deeper Cure-Stuff? Hope so
It was my first concert outside of germany and it was the most emotional one for me. Yes, i wished there had been more songs like strange day, figurehead, (...) BUT the crowd ...amazing. Comparing to the gigs in germany...oh my god! we were in a croud of maybe 80 people who sings every word so loud while dancing. and if there was no lyrics, we sang the melody - incredible energy. I was in tears for four times...maybe more. i was so touched - im still touched. I wished this concert will never end. thanks to all of you who sang so loud, dance so wild...i will never forget it!
If there is another tour, we will come back in the UK for sure. Maybe with a 4 hour set, full of deeper Cure-Stuff? Hope so
Sry for my bad english..
Great review. The more I think about the show, the more I think I should have braved the sun and stayed in the crowd with ninja and lioness. Watching the show from the edge of the front crowd was a bad idea, especially given the set list - probably like watching a party from the outside looking in, rather than being at the party!
11.08.90 Crystal Palace Bowl, London 19.01.91 Wembley Arena, London 22.10.04 'Later with Jools Holland', London 23.12.14 Hammersmith Apollo, London 07.07.18 Hyde Park, London
Can’t really remember if I have said this before - I might have, but hey, I’m old! I’m supposed to repeat myself...
I think the set in HP was as it could and should be! Yes, of course we “all” would have loved some more doom and gloom, but hey! It was a celebration, and even thiugh the Cure thinks a funeral can be a party, I think we HP was supposet to be a happy day, celebrating a band that actually still exists (even though they haven’t produced anything for several year - they still exists)
I noticed everybody happily said, about Robert Smith in HP: “Ohhh he is in a very good mood” “Look how haply he looks”
And I really enjoyed to see Robert Smith smile wall to wall the whole evening (well he mainly smiled because I was there - of course... but stil) AND it is really difficult to sing “it doesn’t matter if we all die” in a convincingly way, if you just stand there in the sun with a big grin smeared all over the face. And I don’t think he will do anything, if he can’t do it convincingly - and that also aplies a new album! And that is why I think he hasn’t done a new album...
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You know I'm not the type of person who is claustrophobic or skittish but if I was by the stage and turned around to see that crowd, there would have been a clean up in aisle 3.
You know I'm not the type of person who is claustrophobic or skittish but if I was by the stage and turned around to see that crowd, there would have been a clean up in aisle 3.
Thats not even the whole crowd - you can't even see the other stage
Massive crowd for the Sad, we had no idea until the end when we turned around
Post by weedyburton79 on Jul 7, 2020 16:05:37 GMT 1
In some ways it’s hard to believe this was two years ago already, and in other ways it seems forever ago, but I haven’t yet forgotten what it feels like to be at a show… that sense of community, of belonging, of being moved by the common language of music. When I say I miss live music, this is what I’m thinking of.
If they want to release new material, then of course I'll freak out and spend my last few savings to buy every possible format I can lay my hands on. If they don't, who am I to be disappointed? 
