Live report: July 13th, Mad Cool Festival Madrid, Spain

maybe they feel it's insulting?? 

Dunno about insulting, but maybe they thought it was just a bit too clichéd to play it only in Portugal & Spain & only in those countries.

But we did get the debut of Impossible Things, Forever and the hottest gig of the tour
Trust was my one that got away, didn't see that until years after the Wish tour.

Dunno about insulting, but maybe they thought it was just a bit too clichéd to play it only in Portugal & Spain & only in those countries.

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


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.

The rest is history!