Rehash of the 2016-2019 sets for sure. I hope not, but the last few tours have been samey samey.
This is what I think too. Crossing my fingers that we’re wrong!
Probably even goes back further than that with the samey samey sets, a big shame when you got the best back catalogue in music.
The new Cure album songs will refresh the setlists.
Hey even the Sisters of Mercy are a creative present band again with half their current setlists being new songs.
(OK no sisters new album but I get the feeling that would only happen if Von has major record labels banging on his door showering him in huge wads of cash...ie unlikely scenario)
Last Edit: Sept 8, 2022 14:45:46 GMT 1 by mralphabet
pretty sure most events will be opened with ehm... open high
and be closed with
cut end talking about the main set which will include at least one b'side from wish-era for example the big hand
then you can guess the setlist ,won't be so much different than the 2016/2019 plainsong/disintegration (pictures of you)
almost every show will include inbetween days just like heaven from the edge of the deep green sea play for today a forest a night like this shake dog shake one hundred years And of courde they will perform The Figurehead (after a long long time) or A Strange Day My guess though. Don't forget to add a couple of new songs. And that's it. Thing is that this current line-up are together for so many years and they do perform just perfect. So one way or another (almost) everyone of us fans will be happilly ever after (except mr.AlphaBet of course)
;-)
p.s. : i don't think they will be so much of a pop-encore this time around.
might be wrong though,as usual.
Last Edit: Sept 8, 2022 18:30:22 GMT 1 by figie: a letter to elise
pretty sure most events will be opened with ehm... open high
and be closed with
cut end talking about the main set which will include at least one b'side from wish-era for example the big hand
then you can guess the setlist ,won't be so much different than the 2016/2019 plainsong/disintegration (pictures of you)
almost every show will include inbetween days just like heaven from the edge of the deep green sea play for today a forest a night like this shake dog shake one hundred years And of courde they will perform The Figurehead (after a long long time) or A Strange Day My guess though. Don't forget to add a couple of new songs. And that's it. Thing is that this current line-up are together for so many years and they do perform just perfect. So one way or another (almost) everyone of us fans will be happilly ever after (except mr.AlphaBet of course)
;-)
p.s. : i don't think they will be so much of a pop-encore this time around.
might be wrong though,as usual.
Actually I would totally love that setlist
if it was still 1992. On a beautiful intoxicating evening in April 1992 I listened and danced to that very same setlist in a jubilant Nottingham Rock City, the masterpiece Wish album only a week old and witnessing the live premiere of the spine tingling "To Wish Impossible Things".
But as perfect a night it was, that was then 30 years ago. It's now 2022 and the Cure are on the eve of releasing a brilliant new album, Songs of a Lost World, and I'm looking forward to hearing the album live.
Last Edit: Sept 8, 2022 19:45:56 GMT 1 by mralphabet
This is what I think too. Crossing my fingers that we’re wrong!
Probably even goes back further than that with the samey samey sets, a big shame when you got the best back catalogue in music.
The new Cure album songs will refresh the setlists.
Hey even the Sisters of Mercy are a creative present band again with half their current setlists being new songs.
(OK no sisters new album but I get the feeling that would only happen if Von has major record labels banging on his door showering him in huge wads of cash...ie unlikely scenario)
I'm down with a reasonably consistent mainset if you're touring an album. Like what they did with the Prayer and Wish tours. They wanna be playing those new songs, and people presumably wanna hear them (I do).
What I think is quite lazy or to placate the "hits" crowd is playing SO MANY singles in festival sets. I get it, (I'm not a moron), festival sets are much more crowd-pleasers chocked full o' singles so that the more casual fan, of which there are A LOT at festivals, much more so than at standalone gigs, walk away with a smile on their faces, instead of "they played all this dark and doomy stuff", then their attraction to festival organisers goes down and subsequently so do their appearances, and presumably, appearance fees - let's not forget the almighty dollaroonee.
My preference would be: Festival sets - 3/4 familiar/singles, 1/4 just insane deep cuts like I'm Cold. Solo gigs touring an album - the whole new album wherever in the set, then the rest split 50-50 deep cuts and non-single old faves (push, fteotdgs, 100Y) Solo gigs not touring an album - 50% deep cuts, 25-25 non-single faves, singles.
If you have a lead on Brisbane 21 August 1992 - CT version, for the love of Bob, let me know. Please!
It’s looking like 2-2.5hr sets from El Bobbo’s interviews on the subject so… Reckon it’ll be a similar set to Reading Festival etc 2012 but they’ll swap out 4:13 songs for new tracks, and The Top songs for Pornography tracks, with ‘hits’ encores in rotation.
I'm just looking forward to seeing them again really. Yes, I hope there'll be a smattering of new songs (he's already said as much) and I hope they've rehearsed some stuff to bring out of retirement. I would dearly love to see New Day make its debut this tour. There will obviously be a dollop of hits. It'd be foolish not to given the fanbase has grown up through different iterations of the band & become enamoured during different eras.
They've had a relatively insanely long rehearsal recording a new album & collaborating with everyone & their dog period. They don't need to rehearse probably forgot the 15 song core.