The Cure to play their first 3 albums (with Lol Tolhurst)

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Only in Australia though so far :(

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Lol is only doing the Faith set, but this was one reunion I did not expect to see. Roger O'Donnell is also back, which is a good thing to these ears. I'm slightly surprised by this as well, the last interview I saw with him (admittedly some time ago) he was still less than impressed by the reshaping of the band to a three piece (speaking of which, where is Porl Thompson for these shows!?)
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That's one tasty looking event, even if you take the Cure out of the equation!
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cool, i like the cure's first 3 albums but play it closer to me ;D
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Ha! My post broke the news that Lol is back :)
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in the mood of the cure, they should play that first 3 albums as first, second and third encore :lol:
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Looking good, indeed! Wish they also do something like that a little bit closer to home...
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wow wow wowowowowowowwowowow
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stefan moermans wrote:wow wow wowowowowowowwowowow
See you in the pit :lol:
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Anyone going?
I am.;D

Meet up details here if anyone's up for a beer or three before hand
http://www.cureconnections.com/live-201 ... et-up.html
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FYI these shows sold out in a couple of hours, but the promotors only started advertising after they had sold out. Most tickets were by pre-sale, I missed out... So if it does come to a town near your get in quick!!!
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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).

"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/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,The Lovecats.

Robert at the end of the show: "See you again for The Top!" ...
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It was a belter

& all with original instruments too.

Not a Schecter in sight.
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Well if you consider how many records the Cure have released, they have another 10 years going if they consider to play them all in their entirety.

Still to my ears, anything they released after "wish" with the exception of a few songs, just sounds crap.
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Silence is platinum wrote: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).

"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/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,The Lovecats.

Robert at the end of the show: "See you again for The Top!" ...
What an amazing show......Wish I was there...
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Just got in from the second night & wow!
wow wow wow!

Proper The Cure.

absofcukinglutely brilliant!!!
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We contemplated paying $1000+ for tix & flying up yesterday, for shame we did not. So glad it was wonderful.
Hope we have been good hosts too ;)
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Now let's have something like that a little bit closer to home, please... :innocent:

Good to hear it was such a brilliant night out, didn't expect it to be anything less than that.
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Awesome news, The Cure at their best IMHO
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It was indeed.

Loads of yoochoob stuff up too

Doubt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XSqi0SAoh0
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THE CURE “REFLECTIONS� - SEVEN FINAL PERFORMANCES

Featuring THREE IMAGINARY BOYS (1979), SEVENTEEN SECONDS (1980) and FAITH (1981) played in their entirety.

Due to overwhelming demand The Cure “REFLECTIONS� show - first experienced in the spring of 2011 at the Vivid Festival in Sydney - will be performed seven more times in November 2011.


"REFLECTIONS" sees an evolving line up of band members past and present playing the first three Cure albums live in their entirety - from the punchy, offbeat, starkly unadorned songs of Three Imaginary Boys (1979), through the increasingly shadowy and quixotic pieces of Seventeen Seconds (1980), to the singular melancholic grandeur of Faith (1981) - in a truly extraordinary concert experience.


This final chance to experience the "REFLECTIONS" show will happen in Europe at the Royal Albert Hall, London on Tuesday November 15th, and in the USA at the Pantages Theatre, LA on Monday 21st, Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd, and at the Beacon Theatre, NYC on Friday 25th, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th.


Tickets for the Royal Albert Hall, London show go on-sale Friday 30th September 2011 at 9am local time and are available from the 24 hour ticket hotline:

www.bookingsdirect.com / 0844 338 0000. Four tickets per person maximum.


Tickets for the Pantages Theatre, LA and Beacon Theatre, NYC shows will go on-sale Monday 31st October at 10am local time and are available online at Ticketmaster.com and at all Ticketmaster outlets. To charge tickets by phone, call (800) 745-3000. Any tickets not purchased directly through Ticketmaster or at the venue box offices may not be official tickets and run the risk of not being honoured night of show. Two tickets per person maximum.
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was Charlotte Sometimes played the slow version or the faster one?
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panzerfaust wrote:was Charlotte Sometimes played the slow version or the faster one?
Regular version.

All original instruments & arrangements were used in Sydney.
None of that Shechter nonsense.

Fenders all over the place.
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wet dream. will do my best to grab a RAH ticket. not puting my hopes high tho
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