"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

We're in 106 row E which I'm a little nervous is going to suck but have no idea since I've never been to AA before. It won't matter that much though because it's going to be awesome wherever we're stting!

Three weeks to go to the Hollywood Bowl show. Can't wait!

baader, where are you finding the new songs?

I've only seen them once before and that was 12 or 14 years ago and L never has. One of the three (!!) encores they played last week was four songs all from Seventeen Seconds. When I read it to him over the phone earlier today I heard him gasp - ha. The tickets were part of my 1st anniversary present (paper) to him. :-) I have a feeling it's going to be pretty great.

Very nice. Not seen them since 2000 since that whole festival thing in 2004 was non-fascinating -- gotta be full-on long sets or nothing with them.

I'll be hitting the Chicago show this Saturday, very very excited as I've never seen them live before.

I also haven't seen them since 2000. AM VERY EXCITED

I haven't seen them since '85. they were decent then tho

I am trying to get my sis to get me a ticket for Charlotte. No other show could get me this excited at this point in time.

They were beyond awesome in '98.

You saw the 1998 tour? At the small venues? Damn I'm jealous.

I am wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt from that tour right now! lol u mad

FUCK YES I'M MAD

lol

or rather, post-Lol

http://www.chaindlk.com/interviews/images/Levinhurst/Levinhurst_pic.jpg

ps check yr email

I DID DAMN YOU

hahahahahahahahaha

Great Cure tour regrets -- missing the 1989 show at Dodger Stadium, knowing there was no chance in hell of getting to see them in 1998.

I sold my tickets to the Patriot Center show last Friday on ebay at a loss. : (

;_; (for you)

Dan - it says the show starts at 7:30 - that probably means doors at 7:30 and opening act at 8:30 right? Just trying to figure out what time to get there.

Is there an opening act? I didn't think there was one.

65daysofstatic, I believe.

Yup, confirmed on their Myspace site:

http://www.myspace.com/65propaganda

ugh, I might be in trouble because I had my wife park the car in a garage that closes at midnight

hmmmm - the last couple shows started at 9 (which is when I suspect they'll start playing tonight) and went until just after midnight w/ the encores so you might want to move car if possbile. :-(

not possible at this point

or rather, possible but super annoying

Dan - re. new songs, check COF. There are a few youtube links of new songs that have been premiered. The latest being The Perfect Boy

and the new single is streaming on pitchfork: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/50590-the-cure-the-only-one-stream

the news single sounds like outtakes from friday i'm in love

car crisis averted, yay

Qdoba is super fucking packed though

We demand regular show updates.

(Or not.)

http://assets3.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/50024.the-cure.jpg

I can't wait for the next step in Robert Smith's transformation into Bernadette Peters

We demand regular show updates.

pretty sure the Chain of Flowers blog is doing live setlist updates, like they did for the first two shows.

http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/

In fact, soundcheck's already up:

Soundcheck: The Baby Screams, Us or Them, New Song #1, New Song #2, New Song #1, Plainsong.

I also haven't seen them since 2000.

I haven't seen them since 1984. Looking forward to the Hollywood Bowl show also.

I caught the Houston and Dallas shows for Curiosa 2004; never seen a full-length Cure set. I'll be hitting Houston, Austin and possibly Dallas this year, the latter depending on my work schedule. But definitely the first two!

Hev DP if you happen to check this and are walking around we're in first row right next to players' entrance!

Guys guess what is rocking balls

No I'm not jealous. >:( How do the new songs sound?

Guess what is still rocking balls

ANSWER THE QUESTION

hahahahaha

5 new songs: 3 were good, one (the first single) was great, one (during the second encore) was FANTASTIC.

Last encore: "Boys Don't Cry", "Jumping Someone Else's Train", "Grinding Halt" (!!!), "10:15 Saturday Night", "Killing An Arab"

They also played "The Lovecats", "The Blood", "Never Enough", "Wrong Number", "Plainsong", "One Hundred Years", "Primary", "alt.end" and "Signal To Noise", among others.

Good mix, that. Roll on the end of the month.

It was amazing. I agree with Dan's assessment of the new stuff (I was actually surprised by how much I liked it) and the encores were incredible.

That venue was awful though and our seats, while we had a great view, sucked. It didn't feel like we were part of the show and kind of ruined a lot of it for me. We made our way onto the floor for the hour of encores though and that was amazing. I kind of just wish I could see the whole thing all over again while on the floor. Oh well, it was still pretty awesome.

I'm getting really excited for Saturday. I hate Allstate Arena, but I'm encouraged that we actually do have floor seats! Very far back on the floor, but still...