Nobody ever wants to leave out In Between Days or High? How come? haha
And lovesong, forest, just like heaven, disintegration, lullaby, boys don't cry.
Always the same singles get played, a lot of their classic singles ignored...A Letter to Elise, Charlotte Sometimes, Catch, The Hanging Garden, Cut Here, Mint Car, Wrong Number, the 13th, Perfect Boy.
I've seen this line up play Charlotte Sometimes, Catch, Mint Car and, Wrong Number - I'm sure they've played more of those songs at other dates.
Ever since they became an arena band around '85 they have had to drop older stuff and big singles to play fairly static setlists on nearly every single tour - even their most successful tours like Prayer and Wish ignored 'classic' songs and were the same most nights.
The only reason these current songs are on the setlist is because these are the songs they want to play - no-one makes them pick any songs. I get the impression that the songs are being chosen because they suit this line-up and they like playing them. The setlist is still evolving, just slowly. Would you rather they went through the motions and played stuff they didn't enjoy for the sake of it?
And lovesong, forest, just like heaven, disintegration, lullaby, boys don't cry.
Always the same singles get played, a lot of their classic singles ignored...A Letter to Elise, Charlotte Sometimes, Catch, The Hanging Garden, Cut Here, Mint Car, Wrong Number, the 13th, Perfect Boy.
I've seen this line up play Charlotte Sometimes, Catch, Mint Car and, Wrong Number - I'm sure they've played more of those songs at other dates.
Ever since they became an arena band around '85 they have had to drop older stuff and big singles to play fairly static setlists on nearly every single tour - even their most successful tours like Prayer and Wish ignored 'classic' songs and were the same most nights.
The only reason these current songs are on the setlist is because these are the songs they want to play - no-one makes them pick any songs. I get the impression that the songs are being chosen because they suit this line-up and they like playing them. The setlist is still evolving, just slowly. Would you rather they went through the motions and played stuff they didn't enjoy for the sake of it?
Yes they choose the songs they want to play but I've also read on here that the reason Robert sings different melodies to some of the studio versions is because he's bored of singing them.
the main sets of the prayer/wish tours would be similar because they were concentrating on playing most of the respective album as it should be. The other songs would get varied from the back catalogue.
My own personal favourite Cure single, along with Charlotte Sometimes, is A Letter To Elise. I find it strange how rarely Elise has been played over the years, it's a beautiful song.
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And lovesong, forest, just like heaven, disintegration, lullaby, boys don't cry.
Always the same singles get played, a lot of their classic singles ignored...A Letter to Elise, Charlotte Sometimes, Catch, The Hanging Garden, Cut Here, Mint Car, Wrong Number, the 13th, Perfect Boy.
To call The Perfect Boy and Cut Here, "classic" singles is a bit dubious, you like them and would like to hear them that I can appreciate but classics!
I understand that The Perfect Boy may not be a classic single but personally I really like the track.
Cut Here is brilliant though, very heartfelt lyrics and sweet melody.
I've seen this line up play Charlotte Sometimes, Catch, Mint Car and, Wrong Number - I'm sure they've played more of those songs at other dates.
Ever since they became an arena band around '85 they have had to drop older stuff and big singles to play fairly static setlists on nearly every single tour - even their most successful tours like Prayer and Wish ignored 'classic' songs and were the same most nights.
The only reason these current songs are on the setlist is because these are the songs they want to play - no-one makes them pick any songs. I get the impression that the songs are being chosen because they suit this line-up and they like playing them. The setlist is still evolving, just slowly. Would you rather they went through the motions and played stuff they didn't enjoy for the sake of it?
Yes they choose the songs they want to play but I've also read on here that the reason Robert sings different melodies to some of the studio versions is because he's bored of singing them.
the main sets of the prayer/wish tours would be similar because they were concentrating on playing most of the respective album as it should be. The other songs would get varied from the back catalogue.
My own personal favourite Cure single, along with Charlotte Sometimes, is A Letter To Elise. I find it strange how rarely Elise has been played over the years, it's a beautiful song.
Agree on Elise, it’s a song I’ve never seen them play as I went on the „wrong“ nights to London and Paris in 92. Would have been a lot happier to see this make a comeback than Wendy Time from Wish.
So... I managed to get a couple of backstage passes for the festival, because a friends of mine played the same day as The Cure. We reached the venue about 8pm, and went straight to the backstage to pick some drinks. My idea was then to look for fiveswinglive and wait with him 'til the show in the front rows, but when we were about to leave the backstage, I suddenly spotted Simon entering the dressing rooms. Humm…… I just couldn’t leave the area after that sight.
So we waited there, just to see If could say hello to any of them and give a humble ‘thank you’ for all these years of wonderful music.
We wandered around for a while, nervous. It was a clearly a Gallup-esque backstage as you can see:
Then, Roger appeared, relaxed, with some friends. I approached and told him that how thankful I am for their music, how, since I was fifteen, their music has been with me, like a soundtrack of my life. He was very friendly and polite. Then I asked if they were going to play The Blood and he said:
“No… We are embarrassed to play The Blood in this country, we are not good enough to do it”
It really surprised me… I told him that everybody was waiting for it (at least, everybody on TCC ) and he laughed saying “No, no…”
We chatted a little bit more and I left him with his friends.
I spotted Jason walking into the dressing rooms a bit later. No Reeves or Robert.
15 minutes before the show, we decided to go behind the main stage as our passes seemed to let us walk freely in that area. Or at least, nobody stopped us. We started to sneak in through several corridors, and suddenly, we were on the front pit, just below the stage, with all the photographers. I couldn’t believe it. And then… Plainsong, POY and High. Nobody seemed to notice us. But when the photographers left, we found ourselves alone there, with all the Security crew looking at us
I tried to convince the Security guy that Roger let us stay there (obviously a lie) and I even showed the picture with him. At first, he –surprisingly– swallowed it and said: “OK, but you stay seated against the fence, you can’t be on your feet, ok?”. Great!, No problem! Then he left, but five seconds after, turned back, came to me and said “Hey, wait a minute... Where is your AAA pass? how it is that he didn’t give you any pass to be here? When did he tell you you can be here? And who brought you here?” “C’mon, you gotta leave, you can’t stay here!”
I mumbled some final excuses but with no luck.
We watched the rest of the gig quite far, among the crowd. The highlight of the show for me was FTEOTDGS, I think it was a brilliant performance, with stellar vocals. I really missed One Hundred Years and Want, but you can’t have it all. It was kind of strange knowing wich song was going to be played one after the other, but I accepted it and enjoyed the show. I guess we are too spoiled with setlists…
After The Cure ended, I finally!!! met fiveswinglive, his lovely wife and the also lovely Gita.
Same here, I've never heard Elise live. I was at Nottingham Rock City 92 and although they played the majority of Wish, A Letter To Elise wouldn't be played.
Weird as it's obviously a classic Cure song that even got chosen as a single. I'm a big fan of the two extended versions of it.
My own personal favourite Cure single, along with Charlotte Sometimes, is A Letter To Elise. I find it strange how rarely Elise has been played over the years, it's a beautiful song.
Agree on Elise, it’s a song I’ve never seen them play as I went on the „wrong“ nights to London and Paris in 92. Would have been a lot happier to see this make a comeback than Wendy Time from Wish.
I got lucky and saw it in '92, at one of the Olympia nights - I really liked it with 3 guitars. I'm not a fan of the live version I've heard from 2016 - I get why they dropped that one, the keyboards sounded really chintzy.
There are a handful of songs that I'd still really like to hear live but I've totally given up on them rather than get disappointed about it - better to enjoy the surprises when they come! I never realised how much I liked Hey You until it became their set closer in 2014 but now it's an absolute fav.
Agree on Elise, it’s a song I’ve never seen them play as I went on the „wrong“ nights to London and Paris in 92. Would have been a lot happier to see this make a comeback than Wendy Time from Wish.
I got lucky and saw it in '92, at one of the Olympia nights - I really liked it with 3 guitars. I'm not a fan of the live version I've heard from 2016 - I get why they dropped that one, the keyboards sounded really chintzy.
There are a handful of songs that I'd still really like to hear live but I've totally given up on them rather than get disappointed about it - better to enjoy the surprises when they come! I never realised how much I liked Hey You until it became their set closer in 2014 but now it's an absolute fav.
(They've dropped it, of course )
Yeah I’m the same now, and though I’m not a big fan of Wendy Time it was nice to knock it off the songs I’ve seen list in Dublin. Elise is probably the most high profile one I’ve never seen now as it was a top 40 single, maybe someday
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"we are not good enough to play The Blood" ??? What kind of shiza is that? The Cure are the ONLY band good enough to play The Blood. It's a Cure song!! haha
So I have pretty much seen and heard, live every song I ever wanted so really it doesn't matter to me but it matters to my fellow Cure fans they get to hear what they would like. I even heard Forever back in 1984 (even though I don't remember it. I have to listen to the boot to remember it. lol ) but fat chance of them doing that any time soon.
"we are not good enough to play The Blood" ??? What kind of shiza is that? The Cure are the ONLY band good enough to play The Blood. It's a Cure song!! haha
It was a strange thing to say, live versions of The Blood have always sounded good imo, and I'm sure Reeves would have played a killer solo for it.
As posted earlier he has already played it with them in Barcelona and it WAS fantastic. I don't know. I think they just either didn't want to vary the setlist, did not rehearse it for the festival tour, or maybe they feel it's insulting?? I think it is an honor to ONLY play it in a Spanish country. I'm kind of jealous! I think it makes it special but too late now.
) and he laughed saying “No, no…”
