"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

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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.

Having said that, you couldn't get the CD single, it sold out pretty much immediately. And as far as the 'box' edition, I didn't see one.

The box thing was a myth.

Only One is probably their best post-Wish single after "The 13th" and the b-side ain't bad either. Premiered live tracks, esp The Perfect Boy, leave me hopeful.

comment from Robt replying to fan about how frustrating it is trying to find the single:

YOU'RE FRUSTRATED?
IMAGINE HOW WE FEEL!
THE BEAUTY OF THE MIGHTY UNIVERSAL GETTING US OUT THERE AND IN THE SHOPS... YEAH!

ANYWAY
ITS AN ONGOING THING...

MAYBE THE NEXT ONE WILL BE FOUND IN A FEW MORE PLACES... ?
(the sound of not holding breath)

ITS AN ONGOING THING...

LIKE MAKING THIS WEBSITE the official cure siteLOOK AND FEEL LIKE THE ONLY ONE...

SOON
PLEASE
SOON!

ITS AN ONGOING THING...

CHICAGO!
RSX

PS
THE NEW ALBUM 'SINGLE OR DOUBLE?' DEBATE...

I JUST FEEL ON REFLECTION THAT MAKING THE NEW ALBUM A 'SINGLE' (WHATEVER THAT MEANS... 8 TRACKS? 13 TRACKS? 21 TRACKS?!!) WILL BE SOMEHOW 'BETTER' - MORE COHERENT - MORE IN TUNE WITH THE BAND AS IT IS...
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LABEL - THEY ARE HAPPY(?!!) TO TRUST ME WHATEVER WE DECIDE...

AND ANYWAY (BIG CLAIM ALERT!) EVERYTHING WE RECORDED DURING THE NEW ALBUM SESSIONS WILL GET RELEASED - IN THE REAL WORLD NOT JUST AS DIGITAL...

THAT DARK SECOND ALBUM FOR CHRISTMAS MAY NOT BE AS FANCIFUL AS I THINK?!!

ONWARDS...

I really can't wait for the next batch of remasters. I was listening to a Cure playlist on iTunes last night and the difference between the remasters and my old Disintegration tracks was pretty huge.

The CD single is suddenly now available (I got one on Sunday. See it move up three places? That was me)

thanks for that Mark, i found this one interesting as well:

THE MAJOR CONFUSION

5/7/2008 1:45:12 PM - by CURE:ROBERT

A FEW OF THE MORE IRRITATING FALSEHOODS FLOATING AROUND...

1)
"THERE IS A "SPECIAL VERSION" OF THE FIRST CD SINGLE "THE ONLY ONE""

NO THERE ISN'T
ANYONE THAT OFFERS OR CLAIMS ANY KIND OF "SPECIAL" VERSION OF THE FIRST SINGLE - WITH A BOX OR A FREE HOLIDAY OR WHATEVER - IS EITHER LYING OR STUPID
OR BOTH

2)
"THERE IS NO USA VERSION OF THE FIRST CD SINGLE "THE ONLY ONE""

YES THERE IS
ITS JUST THE MIGHTY UNIVERSAL CANT GET IT TOGETHER TO EITHER
A) GET AMAZON ETC TO LIST IT
OR
B) GET IT OUT ON THE 13TH... IT WILL BE AVAILABLE AT $2.99 (OR THEREABOUTS) FROM MAY 20TH

APPARENTLY "NO-ONE BUYS CD'S ANYMORE"...
UNSURPRISING IF THEY ARE NOT AVAILABLE EH?!!

3)
"X,Y OR Z HAVE 'EXCLUSIVE X,Y OR Z' REGARDING THE FIRST CD SINGLE "THE ONLY ONE""

NO THEY DON'T
IT WILL BE AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE
IT IS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO ANY RETAILER

AND...

NO...
THATS IT FOR NOW!

BUT I AM SURE I WILL BE BACK..

RSX

So guys, likely album opener, "Underneath the Stars" is pretty godly: http://www.mediafire.com/?jdm4zyfpljx

(that's a live bootleg recording i should mention)

"The Only One" is a cross between the Smiths' "Shakespear's Sister" and, um, "High"

anyone go to San Jose last night? looks like they played "The Blood," "Catch," "A Strange Day," "Doing the Unstuck" and the full, 4-song Seventeen Seconds encore. So jealous...

SO impatient for Saturday.

they've been mixing up the setlist a bit more lately -- I think you're in for a treat, Ned :)

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OMG Mookieproof! You won the internet for the day! (That being the Sasquatch fest pic, I think.)

I <3 those Robert smith ALL CAPS UPDATES.

KEEP IT UP ROBERT

YES
NO
HAHA YES I MEAN

MACKRO.MACKRO

So, judging by the setlist, our friend Ned must have had his head blown...

yeh NO SHIT

*whistles idly*

34 songs, six of them new, perfect sound, great performances, Robert looking just fine, way into it crowd, Hollywood Bowl...nah, sucked.