The Cure live in Oberhausen, Germany (March 16th, 2008)

Plainsong, Prayers For Rain, A Strange Day, alt.end, A Night Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, Pictures of You, Lullaby, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Figurehead, Kyoto Song, The Only One (Please Project), Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, A Boy I Never Knew, Never Enough, Wrong Number, The Baby Screams, One Hundred Years, Disintegration

1st encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
2nd encore: Friday I'm In Love, 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 3 minutes.

Yesterday in Oberhausen was a great night.
I haven't been to a Cure concert since the brussels trilogy show in 2002, and i must say that the 4 man lineup produces a very different and much more �hevier� sound.
Wich isn't always better but impresses a lot.
Plainsong and Prayers for Rain where fantastic and made me stunned.
All in all they played a lot of Disintegration and they did them very well ( I like the new guitar/keyboard part Robert plays on Lullaby). Kyoto Song was also a great since it's one of my favourites. FTEOTDGS was also very great with Porl going wild in the solo. The singles part was a little bit boring because it was one rock song after another, but Just like heaven was very good i must say and never enogh was done well also. For the new songs: A Boy I never Knew is really fantastic, I love it(Porls part reminded me of some other Cure song, but I couldn't remember). Please Project is a nice one but Robert did mess up the lyrics.
I was pleased to hear Primary though and Disintegration was very impressing.
The 17 seconds encore: very great(I am always hoping they play the song 17 seconds), love at night.
The second encore started up with firday I'm in love and a very nice Close to me then got directly into Freak Show, which is a really groovy song, like it very much. And I was laughing seeing Robert doing this strange movements like standing on one knee and spreading his arms.
The classic encore was fantastic and I loved Jumping Someone else's tran and Grinding Halt. Then 10.15 (which I love very much) and a very very very heavy Killing an Arab. Wow.

It was funny to see that they had some sound problems. There was always a bunch of workers doing something behind Robert.
The Band seemed to be in very good mood.

So, enough for now, sorry for any mistakes (I am still a german after all).
Great night, will see them again.

- Martin P.

Last night went to see the cure in Oberhausen, it was my second 4tour gig.
And it was great ofcourse.
Normally i have arena tickets this time i was on the second ring. Now i had i great overview from the arena.
The sound is much better that when you are upfront.
There where some suprise songs; the figurehead and kyoto song. Never thougth to hear them.
The crowd was also great. During the encore many people danced and sing allong.
Normally i go to cure concerts by myself. This time 2 friends went with me. One is not a cure fan at all, but he enjoyed himself.
Ofcourse he knows all the singles , and they played a lot of them.

Robert sounded very good ! During prayers for raaaaaaaaaaaaaaain...many people applaused !
This 'new' version of Push is also very well done and i really liked it !

Tomorrow i go to see them in Rotterdam..and thats it for me. Wanted to go to London . But got no tickets and had to work anyway,
AND I HOPE THEY PLAY: FAITH AND THE LOVE CATS !!!!!

- Marco