4Tour World Tour 2007 - 08
March 2nd, 2008 - Milan,
Italy (Palasharp)
Plainsong, Prayers For Rain, alt.end, A Night
Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, Pictures of You, Lullaby, Catch,
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Kyoto Song, Please Project, Push, Just Like Heaven, A Boy I Never Knew, If Only
Tonight We Could Sleep, The Kiss, Us or Them, Never Enough, Wrong
Number, The Baby Screams, One Hundred Years, Disintegration
1st encore: At
Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
2nd encore: Lovecats, Friday
I'm In Love, Inbetween Days, Freak Show, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be
You
3rd encore: Boys Don't Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing
An Arab.
Soundcheck: Faith, Torture, Doing the Unstuck.
(Thanks to Blackemy at Cureconnections for the setlist,
to Domenico for the ticket scan and to Stefano for the soundcheck)
My 5th Cure concert and always like the first
time.
We go inside the Palasharp at 7pm, the venue is smaller than Assago
Forum, where i saw them in 1992. The 65daysofstatic start their show at
7.20pm: I know them and I like them, their drummer is simply "out of
this world". They play for 45 minutes, then lights on. The people keep on
get inside the Palasharp (on the tickets there is 20.45 as start hour: there
is no respect for the support bands...).
Punctual like a Swiss band, the show start at 8.45pm with bells sounds
e stars images on the screen. The first part of the show is like a warm-up:
for the band, for the technicians and for the people.
The mood changes with “Disintegration singles” Lovesong, Pictures
of You and Lullaby: the band play very good, specially POY, and Robert
voice is simply perfect.
The first surprise: Catch. After 12 years I can hear it without problems
(in 1996 I was in Treviso, during Catch, Robert was sick and threw up on
the stage…).
After “classic” FTEOTDGS (with a powerful Porl’s solo!!!) another surprise:
Kyoto Song. I’ve always loved this song (The Head on The Door was my first
Cure album and I love it like a baby screams).
After the first new song (Please Project) 2 terrific songs: Push and
Just Like Heaven: the Palasharp is on fire!!!
When they played “A Boy I never knew” around me the people stand up
and seems no involved: I know the lyrics and at the end of the song, there
is a tear at the side of my eyes…
Then, the climax of the concert: If only tonight we could sleep (Heaven)
and The Kiss (Hell). After these 2, they can go out and we can go home…
All the rest is a more thing.
I’ve noticed that, at the begin of The Kiss, Porl get out from the stage,
just a trio with Robert and Simon (SIMPLY GREAT this guy) that torture their
instruments. When Robert start singing, Porl come back on the stage: anyhow
very strange…
After the climax, the weakest part of the show: Us or Them, Never enough
(Robert no-guitar and Porl-Simon kiss ) and Wrong Number.
The main set ends with another surprise (The Baby Screams) and then
wit 2 masterpieces: One Hundred Years and Disintegration.
First encore: Robert said “Ultimo” (it means: the last…) and we are
scared that the show will not come to 3 hours… During M he changes some
words, Play for Today is, as ever, a favorite one and so A Forest. The
Press Gallery appreciated this encore set: there are so many Journalists
(or maybe their friends…) that dance and sing.
Then the Pop encore (light and funny: Robert received a white rose from
a fan) and the final three (BDC, 10.15 and Killing Another) very powerful
.
In conclusion a wonderful concert with a good setlist (focus on 1985-1989
era: 6 songs from THOTD, 5 from KMKMKM and 6 from Disintegration), played
very well specially Simon (from the start to the end) and Robert (voice,
guitar and mood). See you soon guys.
The distance from heaven to hell is filled up with the voice of a fallen
angel...
- Michele
The show was absolutely rubbish! There were no surprises, it
was all so predictable that before they even started playing a song
I could say "I bet you this is going to be a Cure song" and I was
always right!! I was at least hoping they'd play "Like a virgin":
what an horrible setlist!!!
Ok, now, let's get down to real business: the show was great and
Robert, Simon, Porl and Jason were fantastic. It was a real Cure show
from beginning to end, not one song out of place, and the lads banging
like hell on their instruments. Blackemy's setlist is correct, it
took more or less 3 hours 10 minutes to get through it all, and Simon's
hair was black.
Of course some stuff was left out, some real good stuff, but it's
normal. I will probably never get to hear "Want" live, but who cares:
as long as I can manage my CD player and my iPod I'll be an happy man
just the same; but yesterday, I had the Cure in front of me on a
stage, playing brilliantly for over three hours... wow! could I ask
for more?
Here's a list of what, in my opinion, were good and bad things about
the show:
Bad things: a) on two or three songs the sound got a bit messy
(especially during "Us Or Them"); b) from where I was seated, the
powerful white lights sometimes made it impossible to see what was
happening on the backscreens (on "One Hundred Years" I couldn't work
out what most of the (depressing) pictures were about).
Good things: a) the Cure don't look at all tired of playing live,
so we should get live shows for a long while yet; b) they are not
playing songs just to please the audience, but to please themselves
and their mood really changed with the songs: when Robert sang "We're
the lovecats" he really was a cuddly purring lovecat, and when he
sang "I wish you were dead" he was so darn serious to get me worried;
c) the new songs: I had heard them on youtube and wasn't impressed,
but last night they seemed to fit in well with all the rest, just a
bit strange because unfamiliar; d) Robert's dancing up and down the
stage was so good it earned him a big white flower! e) the crowd really
enjoyed themselves and the singing, clapping and bouncing on some
songs was thrilling.
I had many favorite moments: the first two songs, the sets from
Lovesong to From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea and from Push to The
Kiss, A Hundred Years meddling into Disintegration, the whole encores...
But I would pick out "Push" and "The Kiss" to give someone an idea
of The Cure at their bestest best.
Really great. Can't wait to hear the new album and I hope to see
them again on stage very soon.
- Dom.
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