"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

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.

Oh shucky darn.

so i found the whole thing, anyone want a link? ILX mail me and i will get it for you.

Part 1: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper
Part 2: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper, Roger O’Donnell
Part 3: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper, Roger O’Donnell, Laurence Tolhurst
Encore: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper, Roger O’Donnell (partial), Laurence Tolhurst (partial)

Part 1:
Three Imaginary Boys Album
10:15 saturday night
accuracy
grinding halt
another day
object
subway song
foxy lady
meathook
so what
fire in cairo
it’s not you
three imaginary boys

Part 2:
Seventeen Seconds Album
a reflection
play for today
secrets
in your house
three / forever
the final sound
a forest
m
at night
seventeen seconds

Part 3:
Faith Album
the holy hour
primary
other voices
all cats are grey
the funeral party
doubt
the drowning man
faith

Encore 1:
world war
i’m cold
plastic passion
boys don’t cry
killing an arab
jumping someone else’s train
another journey by train

Encore 2:
descent
splintered in her head
charlotte sometimes
the hanging garden

Encore 3:
let’s go to bed
the walk
the lovecats

they played all that on both nights dude

actually no, because as I said upthread, they played The Weedy Burton the second night*, so presumably you are asking people to ILXmail you to get the same link as was posted four posts above yours?

*and "three / happy birthday to Simon" instead of "three / forever"

oh, i misread or didn't finish reading. i thought that was only part of the show, didn't notice your other comment where you said it was the whole thing.

also yes link is from the 5-31 show.

your Capitaine Jay Vee

Great show - hope y'all dig. Can't wait for the dvd's (??)

If there aren't DVDs I will hunt and slay.

if there aren't DVDs then presumably something went very wrong with the cameras, given that was such a big factor of the shows happening (and thus annoying that they got a huge chunk of tax money to come and make a commercial product, instead of funding local arts, but that oughtn't bother anyone who doesn't live in the state)

btw if anyone cares: two fixed cameras by the sound desk (below the circle), two on a dolly front of stage, and one on a jib from the stage left box directly above the stage - the opposite box, in front of mine, was populated. spotted four or five mics, mostly from the ceiling but a couple right in front/attached to boxes, so the audience mix could be a headache for whoever gets to put the sound together!

Hearing Robert Smith, in 2011, singing the words to 'So What' makes me inexplicably happy!

;_; can't download this at work due to stupid firewall

http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=6967_0_2_0

o'donnel is out again.

that's from '05 unless I'm misreading the timestamps...?

oh never mind, that is like, five years old

it's not like he or Lol were announced as actually rejoining the band anyway.

I must have my head in the sand cos I've only just listened to the new Japanese Popstars album and was surprised and delighted to hear Robert on vocals for 'Take Forever'. I'd managed to miss hearing anything about this but the track is really strong and the vocal is wonderful.

his vocal on the crystal castles' version of 'not in love' is also amazing. I think he should maybe just do guest vocals on other people's work from here on out. bernard sumner too since I liked that song he did with hot chip. maybe these guys need to work like hip hop people, with different producers on each song.

Robert has definitely been on more v good songs by other people than on v good Cure songs in the last decade. the extra-cool bit about the Japanese Popstars one is that he turned up to the session with a six-string bass and said "how about some of this too?"

it's not like he or Lol were announced as actually rejoining the band anyway.

googled after posting this and Roger says he wasn't asked to do anything apart from Reflections; hasn't talked to Robert about anything apart from Reflections; and is happy to do more Cure if it comes up, but not arsed if it doesn't (paraphrase)