the The Cure thread

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

Ok night saved, made a power move to get a small bit obit I could throw my blanket on and now can se the stage


Also WTF with the dc airports tonight, SO got grounded on a flight from Orlando to dc in Charlotte

Pilot was like “umm we have radio silence from all dc airports and we ar landing out of caution “


!!!!

This extends down the coast. Richmond and Raleigh also have/had ground holds. My flight got bumped to tomorrow. It’s a radar system that’s out.

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Beautiful night here…..10 minutes til showtime

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I see Sidehatch on the sky lawn

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I am far today but show is just awesome


Of course the Cure is probably my second favorite band ever after New Order and they beat them one month a year. It makes me happy that they are so popular now

Sound is tight

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Reeves Gabrels Is in the band!

Felt that wailing guitar was off in Charlotte sometimes

But was wailing most of the night

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Yeah ugh they haven’t played Charlotte Sometimes

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Great show… lots of songs I didn’t know

What the heck is Omar coming?
https://twitter.com/yourcanadiangf/status/1673289697664151554

Is this a “local” reference to the wire??

[lily1]

Probably a reference to the Wire; who knew Robert was a fan.

He sure did have fun on stage last night. I don't think I've actually seen him smile before.

Solid show, solid set, amazing lights and graphics, top notch professionalism and performance from him and the rest of the band. Excellent example of what a large classic outdoor summer concert should be. It's been a long time since I've experienced that; Wolftrap is always so much more pared down from a set and lighting design perspective.

I'd give the show an 8/10. I deduct .5 point as I was hoping for another deep cut and another 20 minutes. Philly got 3 hours and we got 2 hours 40 minutes; there was time for them to do another 2 songs before they hit the 11pm venue curfew.

I deducted another 1.5 points because Ticketmaster can go fuck themselves. That was a debacle no fan should go through. And my inner conspiracy theorist thinks it was retaliation for Robert taking them on this Spring. I had to call both my credit card and Ticketmaster to see what was going on. Nothing off with my card and Ticketmaster said my account was fine and it was my card's fault. Yeah, sure, I had already used the card twice that day. In fact, Ticketmaster said I see tickets for sale right now Ma'am, why don't you try again on both the browser and app to which I replied that's what I've done already and I get the same message. Oh he responds, well, everything is fine with your account Ma'am. They changed policy and won't do phone so even though he saw tickets for sale, he couldn't process the sale. Another hour of trying. I'm already in Columbia so I stop for dinner and another hour of trying for a ticket with the same stupid messages online. In a lovely change of events, a group dining at the same restaurant had an extra which I overhear from a distance as I'm on other side of dining room. I yell across that I'll buy it and rush over to introduce myself and get a venmo address to pay them on the spot. They were just going to eat the ticket! (pun intended). So all worked out in the end and yet another wonderful example of good concert ticket karma.

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Wow
 glad to hear your efforts paid off
Obviously it was meant to be

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

I'm already in Columbia so I stop for dinner and another hour of trying for a ticket with the same stupid messages online. In a lovely change of events, a group dining at the same restaurant had an extra which I overhear from a distance as I'm on other side of dining room. I yell across that I'll buy it and rush over to introduce myself and get a venmo address to pay them on the spot. They were just going to eat the ticket! (pun intended). So all worked out in the end and yet another wonderful example of good concert ticket karma.

Incredible outcome.

[hutch]

Nice article about last night includes some pics



https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/06/26/the-cures-first-tour-since-2016-is-one-of-the-best-of-2023/70355063007/

[Yada]

Good story lily... also, the "curfew" is false.

[Vas Deferens]

They're not doing 3 hours anywhere....the closest was NYC 3rd night with 31 songs - 2 hr 50 min.

I wish they did something from Pornography or Faith.

[hutch]

They did the same amount of songs in Philly and DC: 29.

7 years ago at merriweather they did 32…factor in 5 new songs (that people are unfamiliar with) and that means 8 less slots for deep cuts/classics on this tour. That’s a big difference. I can’t knock them for playing new music but only one of the new songs gave me anything to grab onto.

Having said all that, we got SEVEN songs from Disintegration including Prayers of Rain which I adore!! And the song Disintegration which was incredible. We got a set list very heavy on disintegration. And Fascination Street has only been played at 6 of 31 shows this tour. To me that’s a crowd pleasing set list . First show in 31 to get seven…numbers have varied from 3-6.

Now what does this all mean ..if you add the new as yet unreleased songs, from the edge of the deep green sea, 3 from seventeen seconds (an album that has been critically reappraised the last 10-15 years) and SEVEN from disintegration it means more than half of set were darker, slower more droning less pop songs accounting for probably two thirds of concert time…the other songs like the walk, just like heaven, in between days, boys, the walk, Friday were knocked out quickly and all in the end! There are pros and cons to this approach..we got the up wow bang finish but at same time first two thirds of show were more lumbering drony long songs

The Walk was fantastic

I don’t understand what was going on with the big screens but assume it’s the way the band wanted it.

I couldn’t make out what Robert Smith was saying between songs.

We did not find Robert Smith at the Lakehouse Hotel earlier today….don’t think he stayed there..oh well

Merriweather was so nice last night.

[Got Haggis?]

I wasn't able to secure tickets for the show for myself when they originally went on sale (never got selected to even purchase tickets) - but a friend had extra tickets, so i was able to go into the venue with them.....however that meant I was on their schedule - and they switched tickets around to have pavilion seats, so weren't sussed about getting there early....so anyway I HATE the lawn at Merriweather..might as well go home and watch recordings on youtube lol.    also, the video screens for the lawn were pretty terrible..wide angle showing the entire band - about half the screen taken up by Roberts monitors and lighting.  They switched to show the drummer 3 times...but never got to see Simon, Gabrielle, etc (it seemed like the screens inside the pavilion switched it up quite a bit, but they were hard to see from the lawn)

the cure sounded fantastic though, so i guess there is that.  for the most part, i don't think i would ever get lawn seats at Merriweather..i made an exception for the cure, since it was the only thing i could get