4Tour World Tour 2007 - 08 
  


Feb. 18th, 2008 - Warsaw, Poland (Hala Torwar)

Plainsong, Prayers For Rain, Fascination Street, A Strange Day, alt.end, A Night Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, Pictures of You, Lullaby, The Figurehead, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Please Project, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, A Boy I Never Knew, Us or Them, Never Enough, Wrong Number, The Hanging Garden, One Hundred Years, Disintegration

1st encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
2nd encore: Let's Go To Bed, Freak Show, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You
3rd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab.

Show was 3 hours and 10 minutes.


(Thanks to Olivier for the setlist and the ticket scan)


Photos

COF


Videos

Let's Go To Bed - Just Like Heaven - Disintegration - Close To Me - Lullaby 1 - Lullaby 2 - Plainsong 1 - Plainsong 2 - Lovesong - M

From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea Part 1 - Part 2 - Prayers For Rain 1 - Prayers 2 - Never Enough - Primary - Push - A Night Like This

The Hanging Garden - The Figurehead - A Strange Day



 Reviews


The most surprising thing is that everything in my life began to adjust when the Cure announced their European tour! Before that I was without the job and the person dearest to me left me for good… I was desperate, I hadn’t any will to live, so I’d like to thank all my friends from Russian CloseToCure fan club – I wouldn’t have survived without their immense love and support! Thank you!!! But the Cure are going to tour, and suddenly I’m alive again with the fire in my eyes – almost three months I live with only one thought – I’m going to see the Cure in Poland! Two concerts of my favorite band, whose music means to me so much! How could I describe the joy to have in my hands two thin slices of paper – the tickets to Warsaw and Katowice shows? The time seems to stop, but here we are – me and my friends – climbing out of our “Someone Else’s Train” on the cold morning of 17th of February in Warsaw! And I’d like to thank my best friend Svetlana for being my guide through this beautiful city – I loved the smallest house in Warsaw, and the magnificent church where the heart of Chopin is buried! Unfortunately it was so cold, that I caught a terrible cold – my facial nerve was inflamed, and trust me, it was VERY painful!

And so comes February the 18th, the day of the show. I feel a little better, so we decide to invade the first row. We leave our hotel at 12:30, buy a bunch of blood-red roses for Robert Smith and take the bus to the station Losienki. We go to Torwar Arena through this lovely park; I’m totally captivated by its stunning beauty, the old theatre and the peacocks! The old polish man feeds them, he gives us some seeds and we feed them, too, trying not to be scared off by impudent pigeons! It was the Fairy Tale indeed! So we get to Torwar in a very good mood. There is a nice cafй near the arena where we can get some food, warm ourselves and even listen to the soundcheck! We are waiting for the Cure to arrive – me and my friends Svetlana, Julia and Kate (Kate is a real heroine of our trip because she had to spend three days in the train from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia to Moscow and then another 20 hours in another train with us to Warsaw. The love for the Cure can do anything, really!), and the main theme of this day is “Robert Smith doesn’t exist. He’s not real. He’s a hologram image” because we have never met him in reality! =) The Cure bus arrives, we wave, holding our flag with Robert’s face and the inscription “Russian fan club “CloseToCure” and go back to the entrance, seeing many fans there already. We stand in line, running to the cafй to warm ourselves periodically – it’s so damn cold! Why can’t the Cure tour Europe in summer?! I stand in line and dream of quick and painless death, because I feel so bad – I have high temperature and a horrible headache! Only my desire to see the Cure for the second time (the first one was at Rock-n-coke, Istanbul, 2005) and “Hanging Garden” heard at the soundcheck (two times) make me be there…

At 6 o’clock they finally let us come inside. Svetlana gives me her coat and runs to take a place in the first row, and I’m rushing to the check-room and buy some merchandise – 3 t-shirts and a cure-bag! Yes, I know I’m a maniac! =) Then I rush into the Arena, trying to find where my friends are standing; I hear Svetlana’s voice and run in that direction, quite soon I find myself in the second row in front of Robert’s microphone, behind my friends, bloody roses  and the flag =) I’m very exited, I go hot and cold by turns, the anticipation is high… At last the lights fade out and 65 Days of Static greet the audience. To my surprise, I really liked them – it’s an astonishing fact ’cause I can’t stand instrumental music – but I love this one! The drummer sets himself on fire and throws away a whole bunch of drumsticks – very funny! After half an hour the Cure tech crew appears… And the lights fade out once again…
I don’t understand those who go to the Cure shows and then moan and complain that “they didn’t play this, hadn’t sung that, all in all it was dull and boring”! Because a Cure show has nothing to do with the set-list, it’s the atmosphere and enthusiasm of the band that make a good concert. The dark set-list is all right, but the pop one can be excellent, too when the band puts the whole heart and soul into it…
I hear the crystal wind chimes and understand that one of my wildest dreams comes true – ‘Plainsong’, and after it, another dream, ‘Prayers for Rain’ with incredible ‘raaaaaaaaaaaain’ as it should be (Shorter than on ‘Entreat’, but anyway…)! Lovely, heavy bass driven ‘Fascination Street’ comes in, the third song from “Disintegration” in a row – it’s long and is flawlessly played! I never grow tired of this wonderful piece of music! It doesn’t sound wooden any more, thank you, guys! The next one is suddenly ‘Strange Day’, enfleshed beauty of the end of the world =) I do love ‘Alt.end’, especially the lyrics (“Yeah I know I should care if you come with me/and I should care if you go/Really should care about your love or your hate of me/Yeah I should care... but I don't…” – mmm, lovely!) and it is played flawlessly as well, the fans jumping and singing along with the chorus! I feel the enthusiasm of the band, even Simon smiles often (!) and I’m sorry to say this but the Cure without keyboards are as good as they are with them! I didn’t miss the keys at all, Porl with his strange gothic outfits is a guitar hero! ‘A Night like This’, ‘The End of the World ’, ‘Lovesong’ (after this song Kate throws our blood-red roses on the stage, they land beautifully near Robert's guitars, roadie carries them backstage and I do hope that the band got our flowers after all) – the audience sings along, total happiness! ‘Pictures of You’ – I get a little teary-eyed, this piece being a successful pop-single is a mistake… I remember the people that are the dearest to me, this song simply breaks my heart – somebody, pick up the pieces! ‘Lullaby’ – cute little theatrical performance from Robert, I grin from ear to ear, and this smile stays on my face till the end of the concert. And I love the way Robert smiles every time he glances at our flag, he’s like the big teddy bear with bloody lips and eyes painted black, very huggable! It’s nonsense, some kind of surrealism – Robert Smith in two (five?) meters from us, real, alive, all but hologram image! =) And then they play the song that symbolize for me the whole Warsaw show – ‘The Figurehead’, pure masterpiece from the genius album! I have goose bumps all over my spine and butterflies in my stomach – they play it so intense; I don’t want this magic to end… “I will never be clean again”, the drum beat fades and I’m trembling, but my “shiver and shake” has nothing to do with the temperature. The hymn of all cure-fans follows – ‘From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea’. This piece is immortal, it doesn’t grow old, it grabs you in its open-work guitar net and never lets you go; it’s the tight spiral ready to unbend, it’s hopelessness of love and the hands put in the sky with the plead of understanding… The Cure somehow relieve the tension with the series of pop-songs (pop in the good sense of this word) - ‘Please Project’ (to me it’s a little bit muffled, I shall wait for the album version to judge), ‘Push’ (Robert breaks the string and tells the tech to f… off, when the last tries to give him another guitar in the middle of the song), ‘In-Between Days’ (Robert breaks the string again and sweetly apologizes, the charming teddy bear) and ‘Just like Heaven’ (everybody dancing). One more dream comes true - ‘Primary’, you can three girls from the single cover on the screen, the rhythm carries me away, and it seems to me, I can see the stars … ‘A Boy I never knew’ – one of saddest Cure-songs ever, as well as “Pictures..”, it breaks my fragile heart, I’m the only one in Torwar who sings along quietly… The other fans look at me with bewilderment – “This song is new and she already knows the words!” Funny and sad at the same time.  ‘Us or Them’ – I don’t like it that much live, but Robert didn’t disappoint us and this one sounds astonishingly good. ‘Never Enough’ – Robert walks without a guitar, paying his precious attention to the crowd on both sides of the stage. ‘Wrong Number’ – yes, it not a dream!!! It is really «incorrectly dialed number», fervent and angry! One girl passes out, the Arena is incredibly hot, and we are thirsty… Pinch me, the Cure cannot play ‘The Hanging Garden’, it’s 2008, not 1982! But they do it, and Smith's voice hides sincere pain and torture – “in the hanging garden …” The next one is one more song with “Pornography” – ‘One Hundred Years’! Stroboscopes, photos of the Second World War picture us an image of Poland, fury and despair… The despair leads to ‘Disintegration’ – last song of the main set, encores ahead, but now it is «How the end always is…».
Svetlana leaves to get some water (the rest of the show she dances behind with our friends who didn’t make it to the front) – we are wet all through – and I’m taking her place in the first row, me and Kate clutching the flag. ‘At Night’, ‘M’ (huge “M” can be seen on the screen), ‘Play for Today’ (everyone sings the keyboard part, it’s a pleasure to hear it almost as loud as on the Paris CD), ‘A Forest’ (Lots of clapping), all of these prepare us for the fun of the second encore! ‘Let’s Go To Bed’ – this time, unlike Istanbul 2005, the second microphone is working all right! =) ‘Freak Show’ – excellent pop-song, you may hate it, but if you SEE how Robert dances on this one, you will be stunned! I laughed out loud (I really waited for this song in Katowice to see Robert’s magnificent dance again, but alas)! ‘Close To Me’, ‘Why Can’t I Be You’ – the banquet continues! They leave only to return with ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ – it’s a fine song, Robert, but it bores me to death now (it’s literally on almost every bootleg so far)! Please, give us something instead! ‘Jumping Someone Else’s Train’ – a leitmotif of our travel, I jump and sing along, today is the day of miracles, though it seems to me that Simon’s bass was lower in tone than necessary! =) One, two, three, four, ‘Grinding Halt’ and ‘Killing an Arab’ – and the concert is suddenly over! Three hours fly by like twenty minutes, and I know, that tomorrow, in Katowice, there will be the other songs, but the magic will be there again, letting us to stay in the Cure world a little longer…

Sorry for this LONG review – I tried to cut it short, but I failed! Hugs and hellos to CloseToCure fan-club crew, especially to Svetlana, Kate, Julia, Lena_Smith and MikeG and all the others I might have missed out!

Lots of love, B-Flower.

- Olga


Yes it is possible!
I had great doubts about a Cure concert without keyboards...and I was wrong (except for Lullaby which never sounded great live according to me).
It was my 10th Cure concert and I must admit the best one ever! Everything was perfetly performed and sooooo refreshing! You can hear that they rehearsed crazy to adapt all these songs without keyboards, it was just marvelous!Set like Clockwork!
It was also my first Cure concert outside France or Belgium and I was shocked by the lack of enthusiasm of the Polish audience which woke up
after more than 2 hours....of course for 'A Forest'.
No "put your hands to the sky" on FTEOTDGS:(( but a shy "la la la" on 'Play for today'.
Let's say it was just a cultural shock and this is just the way it is in Poland, doesn't mean that people didn't enjoy.
My favourite moments of the concert were: Plainsong,A Strange Day,A night like this(hard to recognize at first but beautiful),the Figurehead,From the Edge,Please Project(which I never heard before and which is a nice summer song but nothing special) and......A Boy I never knew!(Waooow! I'm looking forward to hearing the studio version.Is it a confession of Robert?), and the final with The Hanging Garden, 100 Years, and Disintegration.
I personnaly don't understand why the keep on playing Let's go to Bed, Never Enough and Why Can't i be You....
Regarding the 3d encore I would have prefered to hear 'Faith','Bloodflowers' aso but whatever...they were not playing only for me...
To conclude I can only confirm again that the 4 Cure Concept is working and if anyone still has doubt just go to see them, they are sooooo fit!
One last word... without keyboards we will probably never hear 'Trust' again and it's a shame.

- Jerome S.



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