~~ Concert CuRe ~~
This page is all about my live experiences with the greatest band of all time... The Cure... It includes songs I've seen them play live, show that I've attended, setlists that I've collected, my Curiosa experience, and how I got to finally meet Robert Smith...
Songs I've seen The CuRe play live:
10.15 Saturday Night
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All Cats Are Grey
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Anniversary
The Baby Screams
Before 3
Bloodflowers
Boys Don't Cry
Charlotte Sometimes
Close To Me
Closedown
Cold
Disintegration
The Drowning Man
End
End Of The World
Faith
Fascination Street
Figurehead
A Forest
Forever
Friday I'm In Love
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
Going Nowhere
Grinding Halt
The Hanging Garden
High
I Don't Know What's Going On
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Inbetween Days
Jupiter Crash
Just Like Heaven
Killing An Arab
The Kiss
Last Dance
The Last Day Of Summer
Labyrinth
Let's Go To Bed
Like Cockatoos
Lost
The Loudest Sound
Lovesong
Lullaby
M
Maybe Someday
A Night Like This
One Hundred Years
Open
Out Of This World
Pictures Of You
Plainsong
Play For Today
Pornography
Prayers For Rain
Primary
The Promise
Push
Shake Dog Shake
Shiver And Shake
Short Term Effect
Siamese Twins
Sinking
Snakepit
A Strange Day
The Same Deep Water As You
There Is No If
Trust
Three Imaginary Boys
Torture
Us or Them
Want
Watching Me Fall
Why Can't I Be You
CuRe shows that I have attended:
1 - Irvine, CA - Irvine Meadows Ampitheater - Dream Tour - 5/28/2000
2 - San Jose, CA - Shoreline Amphitheater - Dream Tour - 6/2/2000
3 - Denver, CO - Fiddlers Green Amphitheater - Dream Tour - 6/5/2000
4 - Toronto, ON (Canada) - Molson Amphitheater - Dream Tour - 6/12/2000
5 - Boston, MA - Tweeter Center - Dream Tour - 6/14/2000
6 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center - Dream Tour - 6/16/2000
7 - Washington, DC - Merriwether Post Pavilion - Dream Tour - 6/17/2000
8 - Philadelphia, PA - E Center - Dream Tour - 6/18/2000
9 - Jones Beach, NY - Jones Beach Amphitheater - 6/20/2000
10 - Brussels, Belgium - Forest National - Trilogy Concert - 11/7/2002
11 - Hamburg, Germany - Color Line Arena - Opening Of Color Line - 11/9/2002
12 - Devore, CA - Hyundai Pavilion - Inland Invasion - 9/20/2003
13 - Indio, CA - Coachella Music Festival - 5/01/2004
14 - Denver, CO - Coors Amphitheatre - Curiosa - 08/17/2004
15 - Salt Lake City, UT - Usana Amphitheatre - Curiosa - 08/18/2004
16 - Chula Vista, CA - Coors Amphitheater - Curiosa - 08/24/2004
17 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Pavilion - Curiosa - 08/25/2004
18 - Carson, CA - Home Depot Center - Curiosa - 08/27/2004
19 - San Francisco, CA - Amphitheatre at SBC Park - Curiosa - 08/28/2004
20 - Sacramento, CA - Arco Arena - Curiosa - 08/29/2004
21 - Everett, WA - Everett Events Center - Curiosa - 08/31/2004
CuRe Setlists that I have collected:
1 - Chula Vista, CA - Home Depot Center - Curiosa Tour 2004
2 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Pavilion - Curiosa Tour 2004
3 - Salt Lake City, UT - Usana Amphitheatre - Curiosa Tour 2004
4 - Denver, CO - Coors Amphitheatre - Curiosa Tour 2004
5 - Philadelphia, PA - E Center - Dream Tour 2000
6 - Washington, DC - Merriwether Post Pavilion - Dream Tour 2000
7 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center - Dream Tour 2000
Curiosa Tour 2004 :
DENVER, CO: the drive there was half the fun. the rocky mountains are so gorgeous! and so huge and go on forever! its fabulous!! JON and i had a terrific time just hanging out together. its nice to have no immediate responsibilities, except for seeing as much amazing stuff as you can cram into your brain... downtown denver is awesome! its loaded with old CHURCHES galore, many RECORD STORES, cool historic buildings, victorian houses, etc... we spent a little too much money at all of its charming downtown record stores... the denver cure show was full of pop songs, which wasnt that impressive, but it was great to see them on stage again. robert smiled at my "piggy in the mirror sign", which made me feel good. and we met up with THROWINGSHAPES, who is an absolute doll! oh, and i got roberts SETLIST from the stage... we tried to meet the band after the show, but we ended up getting kicked out by security and the police... JON was so funny with how tactfully, yet snobbishly he handled the "authorities". = )
SALT LAKE CITY, UT: the drive from denver to salt lake was rainy. it was hard to see any sky through the thick, gorgeous overcast skies... it set a great, comfy driving mood for us. we even stopped at a redneck fireworks shoppe on the way for some explosives! oh yes, the people in salt lake seem bizarre, though there was a few really good record stores... more frivolous spending on our part... that night we had another pop set from the cure. but this was one of the most fun and amazing cure shows just due to the interaction from roger and robert (and we were in the FRONT ROW). ROBERT actually bent down off of the stage and reached out to my sign and personally said they could not play my song and that he was sorry. roger was smiling at us during the show, and he threw me a SETLIST which i caught, so that was cool. we also met up with THROWINGSHAPES and her hubby again. its too bad we didnt have more time to hang out with them. maybe next time... so after the show, we scouted around after the show to meet them. we waited until 3:30am and followed the buses out of the venue. we stopped following them after we found out that they werent staying there that night... another unsuccessful attempt at meeting them.... but it was a funny, and silly occasion for both JON and i...
CHULA VISTA, CA: one of the worst road trips of my life. we left home that morning, went to the show, and came back the next day... but we got into a car accident on the way home! i could have killed JON! im a shitty driver apparently... but... ill back up by starting with the cure gig. it was boring and filled with more pop songs. but i got really DEPRESSED during the set, due to ROGER being a PRICK! roger saw my sign at the beginning of the set and made a really mean face and said "oh for fucks sake!" it made me so sad... i mean, how ungreatful of him! here i am spending over a thousand dollars to support their mediocre-selling tour, and he has to be a jerk! i used to adore roger, but not anymore... i was lucky to have jon there to comfort my sorrowing mind... the only good part about this show was the interaction we had and the people that we met. JON caught an INTERPOL drumstick, and we met some really nice girls who gave us an INTERPOL setlist, and an unsmoked INTERPOL cigarette. thank you ladies!! i got to meet CHANTSFORRAIN, SHARI, and NEVA again, and i got to meet MODERNDOLL for the first time... oh yeah, and i got another SETLIST, so that was good too...
PHOENIX, AZ: ironically, the BEST SET of the whole tour happened in our own back yard!! they played FOREVER and many other great songs! this is (amazingly) the second time now that JON and i have seen them play FOREVER lucky us... i also got ANOTHER SETLIST this time... ROBERT seemed very upset during this set, which made for a great gig! we tried to meet them again. this time we went to the hotel in town where most of the acts that play cricket pavilion stay... we called the desk, but they werent there. we gave up. another unsuccessful attempt. i thought i would never meet him!!
CARSON, CA: another great gig from the cure. they finally stopped the pop crap and moved on to more material with substance! not that the pop songs arent good, because i do love them, but it is nice to see the more emotive songs live... this marked the last show that we would be close to them. the remaining three shows were general admission, so we knew we didnt stand a chance at getting close, so we didnt even try. i was supposed to meet up with GRACE, but we didnt end up finding eachother. it sucks, because she could have gotten us back stage that night...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA: this is where we FINALLY MET ROBERT SMITH!! we met up with SUSAN first, who had won a contest to interview robert on the radio. she got to take a plus one, which she selected to be me (THANK YOU THANK YOU). we ended up getting JON into the studio as well. ROBERT was a sweetie, so it made it that much better. i will detail this whole encounter just below this review... so anyway, it was great to see SUSAN again. we also went to SO many record stores. its so fun to find things in the stores. its a rush!! the cure gig was terrific. i would say that it was the SECOND BEST SET of the whole tour! even though JON and i were pretty far on the back of the floor, it was fantastic! i was able to dance like i was alone and just go off. its like flying. i love dancing to live cure music... its a euphoric experience!
SACRAMENTO, CA: we were late for this show, because we stayed a little too long in san francisco. but it was okay, because we only missed 4 of the anchor songs that we had already seen a million times by that point anyway. they ended up playing FAITH in their encore, which was awesome because it was the first time JON and i had seen it on this tour... after the show, we left for washington. we spent a day in portland on the way, which was fun. that night though, we were in for a bad scare. we went to a days inn hotel, and SUSAN ended up getting a HAUNTED ROOM. all three of us felt this strange presence, and i even started bawling my head off! but JON took pics of the room with his digital camera, and later on we discovered two strange orbs floating in the picture! talk about creepy!!
EVERETT, WA: there was nothing special about the actual set itself. the encores was where we were blown away. the biggest standouts were THE DROWNING MAN and GRINDING HALT. its always awesome to see them dig out some really cool archive songs for the shows... this was a bittersweet show because it was the last time we would be seeing them on this tour. but after three weeks of following them, a car accident, and lots of money spent, we were both pretty exhausted!... another really memorable event was meeting CHANTSFORRAIN again (and hubby), THISTLEMOON (and boyfriend J!!), LISALOVECAT, and others (even though i made a big ass out of myself! haha). it was neat driving home. we felt so close and so bonded by this whole experience. we even got to drive through montana, where i got an over 100 mph speeding ticket! then in utah, jon got stopped by a highway patrolman. we actually bulled our way out of the ticket because we demanded to see the radar, which they had already erased. so we got right out of that one! it was such a rush seeing justice served to all the cops who bully the people... raar! so, we figured out that on this tour alone, we saw every state in the western united states from colorado over... not too shabby!!
i miss the tour already!! = (
How I Met Robert Smith :
so here is the story of how we got to meet robert smith...
as some of you know, SUSAN went with us on the san francisco through washington leg of the cure trip with us... she happened to win a contest where she got to interview robert smith on the radio in san francisco. she was able to take one friend, so she picked me (THANK YOU SO MUCH).... so we ended up being able to get JON in the door as well....
when robert came in, everyone went silent! it was surreal!! JON and i got to watch through the glass and listen in as susan and 4 others asked robert questions live on the air...
after the taping, the station let the 11 people (the contest winners and their guests) go into a private room where robert would be making his way into shortly... so after a few minutes, robert came in and spent a couple of minutes with each set of people...
JON had the brilliant idea of bringing two records for robert to sign that are very special to our relationship... when he was signing the records, i was able to tell him the story of how JON and i met. the first one was the record that JON had sold me on ebay (charlotte sometimes 7"), and that was actually how we first came in contact with eachother. JON being the seller, and me being the high bidder... i also brought the "just like heaven white limited 7", which JON bought me on our first anniversary. after i told robert the story behind charlotte sometimes, he said "awww. thats very sweet". and signed the record "aahhh. love, robert". then when i told him the just like heaven bit, he told me that it was actually his favourite cure collectors item, so that was kind of cool.... then he signed a poster for the show that night to JON and ANGELA. it was totally surreal!!!
this is me telling him the story, pointing to JON:
i was shocked when i saw this photo actually, because we were told that no individual pictures were to be taken with robert. i wasnt even aware of it at the time, but the professional photographer had taken that picture. i just found out about its existence when i got back, when SANDRA pointed me in the direction of a post that had been made with it in there.
i also got to tell robert that i was the girl with the "piggy in the mirror sign" and asked him if it bothered him. he said that it didn't bother him at all, but "its just that the others don't know it".
so here is the group shot that was taken with robert after he had made his rounds to the 11 people that were in the room:
this was one of the best experiences in my life.... thanks again to SUSAN for making it all possible... and to JON for giving me one of the best times of my life!
