"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

final set list

1st set: 10:15 Saturday Night, Accuracy, Grinding Halt, Another Day, Object, Subway Song, Foxy Lady (RS on vocals), Meathook, So What, Fire In Cairo, It's Not You, Three Imaginary Boys (No Weedy Burton).

From Fuji: "in the olden days that was IT!!! but...see you in a few minutes!!" RSX walking off stage at the end of 3IB "

2nd set (with Roger O'Donnell): A Reflection, Play for Today, Secrets, In Your House, Forever! (instead of Three?), The Final Sound, A Forest, M, At Night, Seventeen Seconds.

3rd set (with Roger and Lol Tolhurst): The Holy Hour, Primary, Other Voices, All Cats Are Grey (Lol played the closing notes on this. Nice!), The Funeral Party, Doubt (Roger on the magical tambourine : ) ), The Drowning Man, Faith (not extended).

1st Encore: World War, I'm Cold, Plastic Passion, Boy's Don't Cry, Killing Another, Jumping Someone Else's Train (with keyboards), Another Journey By Train

2nd encore: Descent, Splintered in Her Head (RS on harmonica), Charlotte Sometimes, The Hanging Garden

3rd encore: Let's Go to Bed, The Walk, Lovecats.

Yeah, we all need a recording of this ASAP.

would have seriously lost it if they'd closed with the entire Japanese Whispers.

encores better be included on the DVD

how long did it go all up?

ANSWER ME

I turned down FIVE offers to swap tix for Thursday ;_;

"encores better be included on the DVD"

^^^^

THEY PLAYED "WORLD WAR"????????????????????????????????

WTF OMG WAU

haha i was waiting for DJP to see this

I should have pillaged my bank account for this ;_;

I like the way The Hanging Garden creeped quietly in the (amazing) setlist.

GAAAH BAADERONIX WHAT TIME DID IT FINISH

this is my dream concert I need to hear it now yes now

xp
err, I dunno - wasn't there myself unfort - seems the concert went on for four hours

would be perfectly happy with the cure turning into a pixies-like nostalgia act that only plays this stuff now.

err, I dunno - wasn't there myself unfort - seems the concert went on for four hours

that can't possibly be right though:

wait shit all the b-sides? I said no to swapping my Odd Future tickets cos they announced it was going to be completely over by 10 aaargh

― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 22:38 (Yesterday)

Dan if you can make it by tomorrow I'll bump my friend from our box seats

2nd encore: Descent, Splintered in Her Head (RS on harmonica), Charlotte Sometimes, The Hanging Garden

O_O !!!!!!!!

BTW this gig was originally meant to just be Faith played in full for it's 30th birthday. Bless Robert for being such a giant Cure nerd.

aha yeah - some of his choices are the stuff of teenage Cure geek fantasy - "can you imagine if they invited Lol to play Descent and I'm Cold?!?"

http://images.smh.com.au/2011/05/31/2398827/546859447-600x400.jpg

Dan if you can make it by tomorrow I'll bump my friend from our box seats

;_;

Clips surfacing:

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2011/05/31/cure-reflections-setlist-video-sydney-opera-house/

hello from the bar

they just played The Weedy Burton

At Night: the first time Jason has ever sounded good in The Cure?

WTF OMG WAU

― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is insane. Jealous.

they just played The Weedy Burton

Hahah brilliant.

hey guys

hey guys

I just saw the Cure with Lol drumming and Roger on keyboards

Lucky. Fucking. BITCH.

No, we don't hate you. Instead, we loathe you. (In a kind way.)

Anyway now I've got "Secrets" running through my head.

I have the music to "Secrets" in my head now, but it's mashed up with the vocal line from "Girls (Who Run The World)"

WTF OMG WAU

― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP)

This is insane. Jealous.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB)

this sounded AMAZING btw

Robert's appeared to have lost a little weight there...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5AjUvbYc30o/Teazz61dN2I/AAAAAAAABM4/QfbXkmoaldQ/s1600/S.jpg

And also from Chain of Flowers, for the gearheads:

Robert:
- 3 Jazzmasters (1 sunburst for 3IB and associated encore songs, 1 white for 17S, 1 black for Faith and associated encores) Each guitar has an 'M' sticker on it. None have matching headstocks or 3rd 'Top 20' pickup. They all looked pretty pristine so maybe newly purchased?
- 1 Fender Bass VI black with matching headstock (looks like the one used in Trilogy with fewer stickers on it now)
- 1 red 2ble cutaway epiphone for JW encores (suspect this is the guitar he bought to record Lovecats with, and I believe is seen during this song in Cure in Japan 84 video but it's been awhile since I watched that)

2x Roland JC-120 amps for guitars and one for Bass VI. Usual array of Boss pedals. Guitar sounds were all wonderfully authentic unsurprisingly.

Simon:
- 2 Guild basses just like Michael Dempsey's. Very nice touch! 1 walnut w/ black pickguard which he used for all 3IB associated material and a black one for backup.
- 2 Fender Precision basses both black with black pickguards and maple necks. Almost certainly the original ones. The backup one had a white pickup cover.
- 2 Gibson Tbirds (his usual black one and a sunburst one for backup). Used for JW encores only.

2x Ampeg SVT heads and 2x Ampeg 4x10 cabinets instead of his usual 2x 8x10 cabinets. The bass was huge and full and rich sounding all night particularly with the Guild and Fender basses interestingly.

Boss pedals.

Roger & Lol:
Each had only a single keyboard rather than the double keyboard setup the Cure have used since 85. Manufacturer and model taped over, maybe Roland D50? Either way the sounds were all very authentic and MIDI from some ext source no doubt. Particularly impressive were the sounds Roger played during a Reflection, Secrets and The Final Sound. Both main keyboard rigs were placed in line with the guitar backline so set back from the guitarists for Faith although Roger had another keyboard setup inline with Robert and Simon for all of 17S which then was removed after that set.
(Update from Roger: "we were playing Kurzweil PC2xs and no midi all internal sounds that I programmed! Very difficult but what Robert wanted, some of the sounds were closer to the originals than ever!")

Yeah - Robert looks great! U can actually see his jawline. I need to get on whatever diet he's on.

Lol, on the other hand..

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VpTfLZtr1bg/Teazts7JDOI/AAAAAAAABMw/POSP5_q2rlU/s1600/Sydney1.jpg

is this where we're supposed to "lol at lol"?

Well he's never exactly been a looker.

AHHHH I still can't believe this happened.

The more he grows old, the more Smith is becoming a grizzled, gothy version of Neil Young.

Like Neil Young isn't already pretty grizzled and goth-out himself!

TS: which album cover is more goth

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BZyWeA-GL._SL500_AA300_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61wxEZfqMLL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Neil "Nephilim" Young!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s0obJtu-VZo/TMV4A2fRD1I/AAAAAAAADPk/c6c0dakMI68/s1600/Cover-Rs84-Neil-Young.jpg

lol

these album covers are all goth as fuck

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61dpQHYmTEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hEMsVAqLL._SL500_AA300_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517TJuastVL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Here it is. All of it.

Awesome!

Actually seems like it's NOT all of it. Just 5.31 and only the albums, no B-side encores. Dammit.

Guys - apologies. It IS everything from May 31.