What a fantastic night! Arguably the best show that I've been to. Definitely the best Cure show that I've attended, and I have been to 3 previously including the Teenage Cancer Trust show in 2006.
Robert Smith was the business tonight, throwing his all in to every song, whether it was howling like a banshee during 'Shake Dog Shake' or dancing like a drunk uncle during 'Why Can't I Be You?'.
Overall and an amazing night, and I was aching all over and drenched to the bone with sweat by the end of it.
Here are my photographs from the night:
The setlist:
Plainsong, Prayers For Rain, A Strange Day, alt.end, A Night Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, To Wish Impossible Things, Pictures of You, Lullaby, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Hot Hot Hot!!!, The Only One (Please Project), The Walk, Push, Friday I'm In Love, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, A Boy I Never Knew, Shake Dog Shake, Never Enough, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Disintegration
1st encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest.
2nd encore: The Lovecats, Let's Go To Bed, Freak Show, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You
3rd encore: Three Imaginary Boys (with a little bit of Foxy Lady at the beginning), Fire In Cairo, Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab.
Show was 3 hours and 15 minutes.
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21 March 2008
The Cure - Wembley Arena, London, 20 March 2008
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6 comments:
Hiya, Some great photos here thx for sharing, It was an amazing night! Nice to have the setlist documented too...i could never remember the order otherwise :)
Thx again :D
WAS IN SEATS ...SO YOUR PHOTOS WERE EXCELLENT SENT ME BACK .IT WAS A BLINDER OF A GIG LOVED THE SET AND YOUR LIST WAS GREAT COZ I LOST TRACK AFTER 2 HOURS ,,,WOW 3 1/4 HOUR BRUCE SPRINGTEIN EAT YOUR HEART OUT
MIKE AND VICKI S5 SEATS 50 51
the cure are one of the best band i have ever seen it was amazing ,, to complete such a full sound for so long with only a 4 piece band was fantasticly rich ,, keyboard player and brass not needed with such proffessionalS ,,, wankers who need minimum 6 piece to feel satisfied of a value sound should FO. (GAURDIAN PRESS ) PS SECURITY WERE NAZIS WILL NEVER GO TO ARENA AGAIN...UNLESS U LIKE BEING TREated like shit
hi i was there that night and your right it was an amazing concert , but i am sure that they played * the blood * , i def remember it , great for getting the set list 3 1/2 hours of pure enjoyment.
Thanks for such a great post, but I agree with the last poster ... they finished the main set with Bloodflowers, not Disintegration as you list.
I took my cousin (a Cure virgin) who said it was the best thing he'd ever seen and we listened to the Bloodflowers album as we drove up to Wembley and he turned to me during the song and said 'Isn't this what we had in the car?'. So I know this to be tru, and I'm also thrilled as I can claim another convert!
Stunning picture, though :~)
You write very well.
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