The Cure, 6/20/08

[rikibeth]

OMG YAY.

OMG TIRED.

Some observations:

There are actually Cure songs that I do not recognize. I didn't realize that.

I love them dearly, and have since about 1985, and that that doesn't even make me one of the earliest fans, and I realize that that's a long time and that there's a ton of back catalog, but I'm not sure I needed a three hour show. Or maybe a three hour show WITH NO OPENING BAND would have improved things.

Could not understand a word Fat Bob was saying. Some of this was sound engineering, but I think a lot of it was him, since I DID decipher that he was making a self-deprecating remark about nobody being able to understand him.

The lights-on-strings twinkle effect? SO MUCH LOVE. Exactly, completely the visual equivalent of what I HEAR as "sparkling" or "shimmering" in the places they used it.

The three-song sequence of "Friday I'm In Love," "In Between Days," and "Just Like Heaven?" CUREGASM. Don't care if they've been played and played and played. Just because they're the biggest radio hits doesn't mean they're not WONDERFUL SONGS. YAY!

Concur with the Austin contingent's observations about the current guitar-focused sound. Enjoyed it. It was interesting to hear songs I'd always thought of as synthesizer noodling done more simply.

Simon Gallup? Hot.

Realizing that if Porl Thompson had been wearing a Free The West Memphis Three t-shirt on over his fishnet shirt, he would have been wearing EXACTLY what naivefreedom was the first time I saw him.

The new material is definitely up to standard.

Yes, it was clever that the encores were by album in reverse chronological order. DID WE REALLY NEED SO MANY? I have gotten spoiled by smaller bands, some of whom now say "you know, we could walk off stage now, and wait for you to yell a lot, and then come back out, but we gotta be out of here by closing, so how about we pretend we did all that and we play you a couple more songs?"

I think I got to hear every song I was hoping for.

And, in conclusion, Three Things I Do Not Want To Smell At A Concert:

1. Your B. O.

2. Your hair product.

3. YOUR WEED.

Comments

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

CUREGASM

I AM SO JEALOUS

and omg that reminds me of when we went to see Lou Reed at Bumbershoot, and OH MY GOD I was all clean and sober and hand to God I was holding my breath so I wouldn't get a total contact high because that place was FULL of weed. omg omg omg. (And dear God, weed smells to me like patchouli dipped in skunk and set on fire, or something.)

CUREGASM

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I WISH YOU COULD HAVE BEEN THERE

The kiddo had a wonderful time. eternaleponine not so much, as she is sort of an incidental Cure fan, not at my level of love, and her tastes skew faster and louder. She got to hear the three songs she was hoping to hear but one had to wait for the third-fourth encore.

So it would have been nice to have you along to boost the squee.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

DUDE IF I HAD BEEN THERE MY SQUEE WOULD HAVE KNOCKED ANCIENT SOVIET SATELLITES FROM ORBIT

//cries

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

here bookmark this page

http://www.fuse.tv/ontv/shows/fuse-rocks-the-garden/?s8221c18625914o56848t8246n35043e

I think eventually when they take it out of the broadcast rotation there will be watchable online video

Also, Youtube to the rescue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI5e3FIIplk

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

//sniffles

//is all out of nutella

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Boys Don't Cry from last night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLRIcsUtxu0

[surelle.livejournal.com]

Aw, these clips are pretty good!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

especially for crappy audience-cam.

They were great.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

HERE IS THE BIT WHERE HE MOCKED HIMSELF FOR NOBODY BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND HIS STAGE CHAT

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD HOW DID WE LIVE BEFORE YOUTUBE

NEVER MIND I DON'T WANT TO REMEMBER HOW
IT'S LIKE LIVING BEFORE....FIRE OR TOAST OR SOMETHING

[pocketpolina.livejournal.com]

El oh el at the things you do not want to smell and I absolutely concur.

I wish I could have gone with you, I'm wicked jealous.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

you would have been charmed by how delighted Charlotte was at the whole thing, too.

we did not get home until 3 AM.

[ihadtimetokill.livejournal.com]

oh awesome! curegasm. i love it.
i also agree whole-heartedly with your list of things that ought not ever be smelt at concerts.

tonight = triogasm! wooooo. skibagasm? oh god. i can't wait.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

And I will be taking my daughter and a friend's daughter with us so it can be her first concert!

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

What? The Cure got back together and they're touring again?!

Why was I not notified of this?!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

'cause you're not signed up for Ticketmaster alerts?

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Well, ask a silly question...

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

my friend Bruce put a moratorium on fat bob jokes, so I'll share here:

"I liked the new stuff, but I expected he'd do more from Bat Out of Hell

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

y'know, he still earned the name Fat Bob, but he didn't look BLOATED the way he sometimes does.

Simon Gallup, though. eternaleponine was convinced he had to be a late-joining member because he looked (from the blue tier, anyway) twenty years younger than Porl and Fat Bob. Color me impressed.

[c1.livejournal.com]

Could not understand a word Fat Bob was saying.
HA!!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Some of it was poor sound engineering, not damping the reverb for the spoken parts in an enormous arena. He's at least partially intelligible on the video.