"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

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...

I don't understand why I didn't go see them during the European leg. I thought I'd had enough but there seems to be a consenus on the quality of this line-up.

Oh well since they'll only release a single album after all, I'm sure they'll put out a follow-up next year...

lol ENBB, during the breaks between the encores I was looking over in your section to see if I could figure out which one was you. No wonder I was failing!

We were on the front half of the floor in the section furthest to the left, back about 15 rows. The only time I've had better seats was sitting in the 8th row at the Orpheum in 1998.

I kind of can't believe how expensive the t-shirts were! I was thinking of getting 5 or so until I saw the prices (I still got 2; lol my moneys, let me give you them).

Also there were only 4 new songs, not 5. I don't know what I was mentally inserting into the main set; maybe I was pretending like I didn't know "Us v. Them" or something. "Freakshow" is FUCKING GREAT.

someone please add a new "78" strikethrough to this thread's title, it's starting to drive me nuts every time I see it on new answers.

I was actually thinking it was just time for a new thread, but I keep thinking maybe to wait for the album title to be announced. Then again that'll take forever.

I was hoping they'd play "Lost".

why not keep this thread? xp

The shirt prices were insane!! I really liked one of them (the girlie pink one with the red RS on the front) but couldn't justify the $$.

Also insane was standing in line for a beer for 20 minutes only to be told it was one per customer.

I was honestly blown away by how good they sounded.

A couple of the people I'm going with still owe me for the tickets but as I bought them way the hell back last summer to me it's like free money -- so I'll use their cash to pick up the shirts. All evens out in the end. ;-)

people I'm going with still owe me for the tickets but as I bought them way the hell back last summer to me it's like free money

haha me too, i love this -- i bought tix like 10 months ago!

Oh! I forgot to mention that I ran into the brother of one of my college roommates and his fiancee while 65dos were playing! That also made my night.

So how were 65dos anyway?

I don't really know, we got there halfway through their set and spent the remaining time buying t-shirts and looking for non-crowded bathrooms. What I heard seemed cool.

The Chicago show last night was fantastic. And despite everything you might be reading about Robert's voice being "fucking awful", it wasn't really that bad. You could notice between songs that he had a cold or something, but it didn't seem to be hampering his singing all that much.

65dos were pretty good, other than the fucknut who thought it was still funny in 2008 to try and blind a band member with a laser pointer (the drummer was the unfortunate victim last night, through their entire set).

"Freakshow" is "Shiver and Shake" in half time...

48 CURE THE ONLY ONE

Yeah, it's flopped.

Which is a shame because its the first really good Cure single for 16 years, kind of like High mixed with Just Like Heaven.