4Tour World Tour 2007 - 08
October 21st, 2007
- Mexico City, Mexico (Palacio De Los Deportes)
Plainsong, Prayers For Rain, A Night Like This, The End
of the World, Lovesong, To Wish Impossible Things, Shake Dog Shake, The
Figurehead, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, A Strange Day, Please Project,
Pictures of You, Lullaby, Catch, Hot Hot Hot, A Boy I Never Knew, Push,
Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Never Enough, Wrong Number, One
Hundred Years, Shiver and Shake, Disintegration
1st Encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
2nd Encore: The Holy Hour, Other Voices, Faith, Boys Don't Cry.
(Thanks to Octavio, Makeiko and J@Curefans.com for the setlist
and to Annuar for the setlist scan)
I've enjoyed many reviews on COF since 1997...and now I feel it's my
turn to contribute especially since no one else has sent anything :-) I flew
out from Phoenix Saturday stressing about whether I would find good seats
(unneeded stress). Landed in the afternoon and after telling immigration
I was here for the Cure show they put me in the special 2 hour lane (more
stress). Got to a nice hotel 5 minutes cab ride away threw everything in
the room and made it to venue at 4pm where I met Maribel the ticket broker
who told me she had floor seats (but of course I didn't trust her and bought
at the ticket office). The first show was good, with Torture as a nice surprise
but it seemed just as good as any other of the 15 shows I have been to (except
the Halloween show in NYC and Phoenix Curiosa) so let's move on to the 2nd
show! I arrive at noon to buy a ticket this time less stressful since the
next 2 shows aren't "sold out" and I run into Maribel! 2 floor seats, 10
rows back right in the middle at a discount!!! No way I say and start moving
on when I turn back I notice my wife (who gets dragged to a lot of these
shows not that she has a choice)...anyway my wife negotiates a better deal
and the stress comes back again! Until 6pm when we walk in and I am proven
wrong that they are not fake and it wasn't too good to be true. So on to
the show:
Plainsong- lots of chimes, crowd is going nuts RS says "hello again" and
the feeling of you get when you start any cure show is there. Not describable
but I'm sure many of you know it.
Prayers for rain- very tight and about a 10-15 second rain as everyone in
the crowd shows their appreciation. I never thought I would say this but I
now understand the "who need Roger when you have Porl" bit. RS lets out a
"muchas gracias".
A night like this- I've never really liked this song for some reason.
Tonight it made me cry...something to do with trust I guess and the way RS
sang it with so much passion and possibly the release of opening the show
with the prior 2 songs.
The end of the world- Time to lighten up! It seemed a little different in
that it there was more of a heavy rock feeling. The whole coliseum sang along
the ooooo ooo ooooo and RS could not resist from smiling at everyone. It got
loud until-
Lovesong - The loudest I have ever heard ANY crowd at any concert ever!
And then it felt like every single person in the building sang along
with RS. The more we sang the more he seemed to feed of that energy.
To wish impossible things - WOW! At first I thought we would go back to
the normal set list but then this-sang beautifully! Better than I ever
remember...too bad she missed it!
Shake dog shake- Very very powerful! At the end lots of Shhh shhhh shhhhh
from everyone in the crowd.
Figurehead- I was shocked at the amount of people that knew this. Usually
in the US shows there will be a couple dozen people that know it while this
time it seemed like 12,000 were singing along-and a huge roar when RS lost
himself in the "Mexican girls"
FTEOTDGS- RS played his guitar to the crowd for the opening and then what
seemed about 30k hands in the sky. RS seemed to enjoy himself
watching Porl and Simon get crazy while it seemed they didn't even notice.
Strange Day - Always nice to hear. Again EVERYONE sang along to this.
A boy I never knew - A very simple song. Simon and Porl hardly played, just
watched RS in a very sincere and emotional voice sing. His voice sounded
unbelievable good and extremely emotional. The crowd just seemed in awe. I
could write a lot more but one last thought on this: usually I
hear a new Cure song and usually don't like it but this I loved. Reminded
me of the first time I saw/heard A Letter to Elise during Unplugged. RS says
"That one was new by the way".
Pictures - Everyone goes nuts again. Someone throws a Mariachi hat on stage
and lands right behind RS. Again everyone sings along and justifies me flying
down here for these shows. It really is an experience to hear so many people
singing along-RS says "Muchas Gracias".uh, and that's all I know- then laughs.
Lullaby- RS gets really playful! Dances and makes faces through the whole
song and the crowd loves it. so at this point it becomes an endless cycle
of RS feeds off the crowd and the crowd feeds off of RS. And then-
Catch- more playing around
Hot hot hot - One huge party. I thought my eardrums would pop. All arms
in the air on the "hey hey hey" part.
Please Project - Everyone seems to take a breath (plus hardly anyone knew
it)-but it was a well needed rest at the 6,000 ft elevation of Mexico City.
Push- Continuation of the hot hot hot party. By now it seems everyone on
the floor have become best friends and everyone is dancing. Balloons
appear from nowhere and after about 60-90 seconds I look up and there are
Robert and Porl looking directly at us like we are the show rather than them!
RS laughs.
Inbetween days- Robert first asks "how many of you were here last night"
in his usual hard to understand way and then says "oh wait, I need to be
slower: Hoooow mmmaannny of yoouuuuu were hereee last niighttt??? and the
crowd roared. Everyone sings AGAIN! And Robert seems to love it.
Just like heaven - At this point it just seemed like the party
and singing would never end
Primary - Raw power again
Never enough - something was out of tune during the intro -possibly Simon's
base but at this point who cares! Robert travels with microphone in hand from
one end of the stage to the other similar to Lullaby during Bloodflowers tour.
Wrong number - I'm sure you've heard it before but I'll say it again: This
song rocks when you hear it live. I feel tired just writing (and remembering)
this but the huge party continues.
100 years - ok, party over and no more smiles. IT was very tight. This song
never gets old.
Shiver and Shake- Party is definitely over now as RS looks like he wants
to actually smash someone (into pieces). Nice to hear live
Disintegration - So now we are going to full out party to full out drama
and everyone loved it! I must have heard/seen this live 20 times and this
ranked a close second to the Entreat version. And I'm sure you have heard
this one as well but it is true: Porl is a magician! And then it ends with
a "Thank you very much". At this point it feels like a full show. Everyone
is laughing and shaking themselves in disbelief. The whole place is cheering
and will not stop until they come out again. Lots of foot stomping and chants
of "the cure, the cure!"
At night - Nicely done and straight to the point.
M - Another surprise at the amount of people that knew this
Play for today- -the party atmosphere is returning again and of course 20,000
people replaced the missing keyboard part and Robert had the biggest grin
during this that he could not control (until he started singing )
A forest - Wow! I'm not really sure what to say at this point. RS watched
Simon give us an extra long ending. Simon either doesn't know, or pretends
not to know Robert is watching and RS just looks at him with what seems a
lot of pride. Another "than Q"
Holy Hour - RS opens with "right, we haven't played these songs in a very
very long time".
Other Voices - very strong and nicely done. RS sounded 15 years younger.
Faith - I had the privilage of watching RS bawl his eyes out to this in
Chicago during bloodflowers, but this was a close 2nd. Though he did not
cry he seemed very emotional during this. Hardly opened his eyes. He also
threw in the first verse of 2 late toward the end. Then Porl puts his guitar
down, then Simon puts his bass down and they watch Robert finish up, and
then when he is done they all watch the final drum beats as EVERYONE in the
place claps along.
Then something weird (or unplanned): Porl waves good bye, throws his pick
to the person in front of me (darn!) and walks over to Simon and they start
chatting. RS walks to them and looks like he is trying to convince them of
something but they start to walk off stage toward Porl"s side. As they are
leaving RS goes to the microphone and says "Hold on, We need to talk for a
bit". Simon and Porl keep walking though and as Jason emerges from behind
the drums RS tries to convince him so he goes back to his seat and Robert
goes and drags Simon and Porl back on stage and says "We couldn't leave without
playing this one... then yells "THE VERY LAST SONG!!!" and then-
Boys Don't Cry. I was drained, dehydrated and completely satisfied. One
last "Muchas Gracias, we'll see you again tomorrow -some of you" and that
was it.
The crowd went into a roar and the lights came on - we'll see what tomorrow
brings.
- MC
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