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| Happy 25th Cure anniversary, Roger! Photo by Luigi Orro |
Setlist: (Tape), Open, High, The End of the World, Lovesong, Sleep When I'm Dead, Mint Car, Friday I'm In Love, Doing the Unstuck, Play For Today, A Forest, Bananafishbones, Pictures of You, Lullaby, The Caterpillar, The Walk, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven,From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Trust, Want, The Hungry Ghost,Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, End
1st encore: The Same Deep Water As You
2nd encore: The Kiss, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Fight
3rd encore: Dressing Up, The Lovecats, Close To Me, Just One Kiss, Let's Go To Bed,Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry
Note from @katemaddock1: There was an encore of Cold, A Strange Day, and Hanging Garden listed on the setlist, but obviously not played.
From Roger on Twitter: "Last night marked the 25th anniversary of my first show with The Cure, playing SDWAY made me very emotional as all those memories came flooding back, lots of very hot hugs back stage and a few tears. Thank you to everyone for being a part of this amazing journey with me"
Huge thank you to Bruno, David Fargier, Maciek,
Photos: Optimus Facebook (Cure near the bottom) / Lacricure / AndrewV127 / Bastard:Angel / Disordininquieti / Afarfalle / Malocchio / Rockoteque / Irene Nocentini / Marsworld / Riccardo Arena / Robert (SottoPalco) / Robert (luigioss) / Claudia Picone / Robert (Sergio Gzr) / Rock in Roma Facebook / Newspaper ad
Audio: DIME / Dark Circle Room / Guitars 101
Videos: Italian news report (pro-shot clips of The Kiss, Fight, Lullaby, Boys Don't Cry) / Open 1 (brief) - 2 - 3 / The End of the World 1 - 2 - 3 / Lovesong 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 / Sleep When I'm Dead 1 - 2 / Friday I'm In Love 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 / Doing the Unstuck 1 - 2 - 3 / Play For Today 1 - 2 / A Forest 1 - 2 (Part 1 - 2) - 3 - 4 - 5 / Pictures of You 1 - 2 / Lullaby 1 (sideways) - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 / The Caterpillar / The Walk 1 - 2 / Push 1 - 2 / Inbetween Days 1 - 2 / Just Like Heaven / From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea 1 - 2 / Trust 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 / Want / One Hundred Years 1 - 2 - 3 / The Same Deep Water As You 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / The Kiss / If Only Tonight We Could Sleep 1 - 2 / Fight 1 - 2 - 3 / Dressing Up 1 - 2 / Close To Me 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 / Just One Kiss 1 - 2 / Let's Go To Bed / Boys Don't Cry 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6
Reviews: Francesca Norcia (English) / Blow Up Rock (English) / Recensito (English) / Onstage (English) / Chas / Benj (fatpie1664) / David Fargier / Lorenzo / Maciek
Articles: La Repubblica (English) (Robert interview) / Il Messaggero (English)
00:24 - Bruno: Robert sang LGTB in a different way. He sang: "every time i sing this, i sing in the same way.." bla bla bla which i can't remember and then "i dont care if u dont.."
00:22 - @MarbleAndStone: My dream came true (Just One Kiss). (Photo)
00:03 - David: Robert invites us to go to England in October for 'TSDWAY', smooth and sad before going back to Spain for good. 'The Kiss' is perfect, like 'IOTWCS' with little changes in the melody. 'Fight' will wake us up. Porl's tribute, and he deserves it, don't u think.
00:02 - @Object29: Fight... Fuck yeah'! sorry for swearing in the Holy City but. ... Fuck Yeah
23:36 - David: 'Want' is FANTASTIC, Reeves' moment that makes the crowd open their mouths. But 'OHY' and 'End' are the Prince of darkness.
23:34 - Bruno: Absolutely amazing! The best gig that I've ever attended so far!! The audience is really into it and the band is extremely exited!! Simply awesome!!
23:29 - @Alex_Meehan: rammed tighter than a Dublin bar at last orders. Took 30 minutes to move 50 feet. Crowd didn't thin out until the very back.
23:24 - @Alex_Meehan: check out the audience. This is about 50% of the people. Huge crowd, most singing along to all the words. (Photo)
23:24 - @Fons36: complete different lyrics
23:12 - David: 'Want' is a pure beauty but 'The Hungry Ghost' tonight is one of the best Cure song ever. And with Roger's keyboards, it's like a dream. Everything is perfect. The set list, the sound, the atmosphere. Seeing The Cure in Rone and die !
23:10 - @Alex_Meehan: Had to leave the gig early, but wow, sounding very very strong. Much better than the last ten years. Probably longer.
23:06 - @Object29: Want is kicking some serious fucking arse
23:05 - @MarbleAndStone: That was magic again (Trust). Robert really puts a lot of emotion into that song. Beautifully sung. And Roger rules
23:02 - David: 'Trust' maKes me cry like a child. I'm 17 again. And you, fans of the world, are 17 too. The best concert in my entire life.
23:00 - @Fons36: Lighters go up for Trust (Photo)
22:48 - David: In Paris, we sing the keyboard tune on 'PFT'. In Roma we sing the keyboard and voice tunes on 'Inbetween Days' ! I'm Italian, a guy from the south of France is becoming Italian !
22:35 - David: 'Lullaby' darker than ever. 'The Caterpillar' ouu ouu hoou ouu than ever ! Goin' up and up and up in the Roman night. Heaven is an hypodrome, did u guess that ?
22:26 - @Object29: Mary would be happy.. Robert is singing well tonight...
22:18 - David: 'Bananafishbones' drives us into psychedelic madness. What happens to The Cure tonight ?! They may be the best band in the whole music history. At least, in Roma ! Love u, Italy, love u Roma !
22:13 - @MarbleAndStone: Jason sounds so fucking tight on this tour.
22:13 - @Fons36: having a great time with my roman friends here. Amazing crowd. Entusiastic. They sing along with whatever they play.
21:59 - David: 'FIIL', Roman crowd totally crazy, never seen that ! The boys fucking rock tonight. Impossible to find the right words and I promise, it's not my first Cure gig, honeys !
21:46 - @Fons36: Crowd all sing a long with lovesong.
21:45 - Bruno: Roger just unplugged all the wires of the fog machine by himself. : )
21:45 - David: 'End of the world', what can I say but that we never heard it like this. Crowd already at 150 % into it.
21:37 - David: 'Open' fantastic, a much better opener thant 'Plainsong'.
21:07 - @Fons36: correction they're actually throwing bottles of water in the audience. I might get hit while typing this:-)
21:02 - Bruno: On roger's keyboards it's written "mille grazie 25 anni!". I don't know if it's written just as a regular "thank u italy for all" or if it's a goodbye to italy... Just guessing..(Photo)
20:56 - @Fons36: they're giving water now to the people in the front.
20:42 - Maciek: Crystal Castles playing i'm not in love. Without RS
20:39 - David: Cranes were cool even if the guitar player fucked up the last song. Crystal Castle on stage, incredibly powerfull techno-rock sound, the singer drinking at a bottle of whiskey and heating the crowd. Eden Gallup is the seated public. Friends of curefans.com and closetocure.com are there with banners on the seated barriers. Jason went into the the public area for a few minutes and met Marcel. Simon showed up a few seconds down the seated area and went back stage. The crowd is amazing and we're gonna get a much more energetic show than in Milan. A kind of goth-pop-indie-rock attendance, fucking into it.
20:36 - Maciek: And this is me and my wife with Alison! Just a minute ago :) (Photo)
20:24 - Maciek: Cure Merchandise stand (Photo)
20:10 - @Fons36: glad i brought my belfort earplugs. Terrible loud
19:55 - Bruno: During the opening concert here I'm seeing all the staff such as Jeremy and Darren we're all running around and doing microphone check. I've just spotted Roger and Simon among the audience over a balcony and the crowd really cheered them up!! Just telling you that because Crystal Castles is about to get on the stage and this things can be signs of a possible duet of Robert and Alice in Not in Love (as I said, I'm not sure but it really looks like it's gonna happen).
19:48 - @Fons36: Cranes finished. Good atmosphere here.
19:45 - @AndySabre: Bob is between us ...(Photo)
19:32 - Shellheart (in the front row): "Maybe you can post on the forum of this rock in rome thing on twitter, facebook that they threat the crowd like shit.They dont give water to the people and it is italian summer. Even the russians did. Maybe we can spread the word so they have a bad reputation."
19:23 - @Fons36: far and away, adrift
19:13 - @Fons36: good to see cranes live again. They're now into some newer songs. 2 songs that i'm not so familiar with. Now jewel..
19:06 - @Fons36: night and day. Now another track from loved. Maybe reverie?
18:53 - @Fons36: cranes just started. Cloudless. Everywhere . If i'm not mistaken. shining road.
18:45 - @AndySabre: Cranes! (Photo)
18:34 - @Marsworld: darren talking with Ali at back of stage while other cranes members are setting up instruments
18:23 - @Marsworld: Jason talking with Ben, paul and Jim from cranes at the back of the stage
15:58 - @AndySabre: Arrived! (Photo)
15:38 - Maciek: We came from Poland to see TC, so it has to be wonderful! :) There is something like 35 degrees in Rome, so the atmosphere already became hot.. ;)
Word going around all Summer was that this was THE show to see on the tour. If you could only go to one, this was it. We'll know if the hype was justified or not, in just a few hours. : )
The Cure are scheduled to play from 21:30 - 00:30 tonight. In the US, that's a start time of 3:30 pm eastern, 2:30 pm central, 1:30 pm mountain, and 12:30 pm pacific. The Cranes play at 18:45, and Crystal Castles at 20:00.
Let's rock!
ReplyDeleteRoma is hot today. The meet up was pretty cool yesterday eve with very nice people (ciao Marcel, Georgia, Antoinette, Nico, Thomas, Katrin, Alessandro, Marco, Stephano, Maurizio, Sandrine and all of those who were there). Going to the venue, almost sold out, we heard.
ReplyDeleteCraig, as always I'll think of you and send vibrations from Europe.
To everyone at the show in Rome: Have a spectacular night!!!
ReplyDeletebrink bak porl ze best Cure gitarist
ReplyDelete@eirc lecock: apparently porl doesn't want to.... :(
ReplyDeletei actually like reeves guitars in the cure sound. different!
Me and my brother Benj here in Rome. Went rather too large last night. Cranes just played, really quite exceptional. Both a bit battered now.
DeleteSay hello to Benj for me. And you guys take it easy in that heat!
Deletepersonally i think ireland is THE show to go to, since it's the one i'm seeing.
ReplyDeleteWould love to see Robert go really punk and crowd surf with Alice.
ReplyDeleteCranes were cool even if the guitar player fucked up the last song. Crystal Castle on stage, incredibly powerfull techno-rock sound, the singer drinking at a bottle of whiskey and heating the crowd. Eden Gallup is the seated public. Friends of curefans.com and closetocure.com are there with banners on the seated barriers. Jason went into the the public area for a few minutes and met Marcel. Simon showed up a few seconds down the seated area and went back stage. The crowd is amazing and we're gonna get a much more energic show than in Milan. A kind of goth-pop-indie-rock attendance, fucking into it. Craig, I'll send a complete review tomorrow but will try to post a bit during the set.
ReplyDeleteThank you, David! Can't wait to hear your report. Hope this is an amazing show for all of the diehard fans there tonight.
DeleteSo thrilled for all the fans who get to see this show, but I hope the organizers start handing out water!! :/
ReplyDelete'Open' fantastic, a much better opener thant 'Plainsong'.
ReplyDeleteI realize how moving it is to share a concert through COF with fans fron all over the world... And with Mr Craig Parker, I said Mr Craig Parker. Thank you so much for being who you are.
Your words are moving as well, can really feel how you must feel ricght now.
Deletehave a great show and name it in the next edition of you book!
Thank you, David. : )
Deletei'm predicting a curveball song off the recent albums by the end of the tour: Labyrinth? Real Snow White?
ReplyDeleteI hope we get a few curveballs!! :D
Deletethe legendary Heron replies to one of my posts! (faints) :)
Delete'End of the world', what can I say but that we never heard it like this. Crowd already at 150 % into it.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh...I can't believe I am missing out on this tour! So much energy!
ReplyDeletemixing it up tonight... excellent
ReplyDelete'FIIL', Roman crowd totally crazy, never seen that ! The boys fucking rocks tonight. Impossible to find the right words and I promise, it's not my firt Cure gig, honeys !
ReplyDeleteyeah...love to see the poppy songs in the first half! leave the serious [and quirky psyche] songs for the encores!!
ReplyDeletehope there's at least a bootleg being made...updates appear to promise us that aren't lucky to be there that tonight is a very tight and special night.
ReplyDeleteWhat a setlist change-up! This sounds like a seriously spectacular concert. Wish I could be there! I'm excited to see what comes next...
ReplyDelete'Bananafishbones' drives us into psychedelic madness. What happens to The Cure tonight ?! They may be the best band in the whole music historu. At least, in Roma ! Love u, Italy, love u Roma !
ReplyDeleteIt's sounding like an amazing show so far! I'm smiling like crazy reading the reports. So appreciative of the people who stop to text and include us : )
ReplyDeletelucky ones!!! we wait after ur reports like childs!! thx so much from France!:)
Delete'Lullaby' darker than ever. 'The Caterpillar' ouu ouu hoou ouu than ever ! Goin'up and up and up in the Roman night. Heaven is an hypodrome, did u guess that ?
ReplyDeleteWow, this is very much a high-tempo happy song main set. Makes me wonder what they're leaving for the encores.
ReplyDeleteIn Paris, we sing the keyboard tune on 'PFT'. In Roma we sing the keyboard and voice tunes on 'Inbetween Days' ! I'm Italian, a guy from the south of France is becoming Italian !
ReplyDelete'Trust' maKes me cry like a child. I'm 17 again. And you, fans of the world, are 17 too. The best concert in my entire life.
ReplyDelete'Want' is a pure beauty but 'The Hungry Ghost' tonight is one of the best Cure song ever. And with Roger's keyboards, it's like a dream. Everything is perfect. The set list, the sound, the atmosphere. Seeing The Cure in Rone and die !
ReplyDeleteI just wrote a new hit pop song. It's called "Why Can't I Be There?"!!!!
ReplyDelete"The hungry ghost" one of the best Cure songs ever. WTF!? Italians problably on solid drugs tonight.
ReplyDeleteRS, listen to Rihanna and don't talk of what you can't hear
ReplyDeleteRihanna's got shitload of songs that's superior to "HG". Trust me, I love Cure as much as you do but HG is average at it's best. The last great song Cure did was "This Morning" and "Anniversary". "UTS" could have been a classic but the final production was awful. They should do that with Roger and Reeves instead of HG.
DeleteBut David isn't saying it's the best song ever. He just said that tonight, the way they played it, to him, it was. Can't really argue about that.
DeleteThat's it Craig. A great live version.
DeleteThank you for the reports, David! That was so much fun!
Delete'Want' is FANTASTIC, Reeves's' moment that makes the crowd open their mouths. But 'OHY' and 'End' are the Prince of darkness's'.
ReplyDeleteOk, Same Deep Water is a goot piece to lead us through a brilliant unconventional encore :)
ReplyDeleteI would die to hear Same Deep Water As You live again.
ReplyDeleteRobert invites us to go to England in October for 'TSDWAY', smooth and sad before going back to Spain for good. 'The Kiss' is perfect, like 'IOTWCS' with little changes in the melody. 'Fight' will wake us up. Porl's tribute, and he deserves it, don't u think.
ReplyDeleteEngland in October? Hmmm. Does that mean there's another festival beyond Electric Picnic or was he just confusing the Reading/Leeds shows in August?
ReplyDeleteEngland in October would be awesome...
DeleteI think you're misunderstanding what David is saying. Describing the feeling of the songs.
DeleteRobert said sonething like : 'It's fucking hot today. Let's imagine that it's October and that we're in Emgland', to put us into the song's mood. Not a kind of announcement, sorry.
DeleteAh! Okay. That makes sense. : ) I thought you were describing the way the song made you feel. Sorry about that. : )
DeleteThat makes tons more sense than how I read it too! :D Thanks David for your excellent and very earnest reports!
Delete<3 Wow...
ReplyDeletenothing smooth about October in the UK, but we get his drift i suppose..
ReplyDeleteAt the rate they are going, the sun should be up soon. Wowsa
ReplyDeleteIt's only 1am now in Italy. : )
Deleteexcellent setlist. would love to see this in ireland, just add 'the top.'
ReplyDeletequestion: am i mistaken or have they played 'underneath the stars' at least once on these festival dates? i could have sworn they did but i can't find it in the setlists...
No, unfortunately, that hasn't been played yet.
Deletealas. would love to hear that song with roger's keys.
DeleteSame here! That could be beautiful!
DeleteYou know Robert would keep going if he could ;o)
ReplyDeleteReview from Maciek:
ReplyDelete"That was my 28th Cure gig and it was surprisingly different. Very poppy set as you probably noticed. So kind of very "positive", the most uplifting Cure gig I ever saw. The audience sang loudly most of the singles. Especially lovesong, lullaby, close to me. Very positive atmosphere.
I have also never seen Robert dancing so much during the concert :) Which made the crowd even more enthusiastic.
The encores made up this "pop" basic set. The same deep water announced as "try to imagine it's cold october in england for 10 minutes" - amazing performance. Then this kiss me set - awesome. And on the dessert just one kiss, dressing up, close to me and others.
Great gig,however quite different from the "usual" ones. I'm tired and happy to see it :)"
Greta concert! Three hours! Terrible transportation to get in And out!
ReplyDeleteGREAT! They were awesone! Thank you, Robert! <3
ReplyDeleteMaria Laura
I can't count how many Cure concert I saw in my life, but enough to say that the Roma gig was nice/great. Double valutation: NICE, because I am more into the firts period of The Cure, so that I don't like too much "pop" Cure concerts, GREAT because the crowd made the difference singing almost all (ehm... I think "Just One Kiss" was sung by very few people even if is the song I wanted to hear since ever) and also because we could hear songs from The Top album quite unusual but 1987 tour, like "Dressing Up" and "Fight". I went to the gig avoiding reading previous setlist and it worked: more emotional to hear surprises. Totally changed lyrics for "One hundred years", collectors are statisfied! Lots of songs also from the Kiss me album: I would include "How beautiful you are...", underratede song, but that's it. More than 3 hours concert is really enough! Nice to see again my old love Cranes, it's a pity that amplification sucked, they really needed a better soundcheck, but the time was few.
ReplyDeleteIn conclusion: brilliant gig, Robert seems to have a special feeling with Rome. Too much pop for me but, looking back at the calendar, I suddenly realize (oh my God!) they're on tour since 1976 and it's quite impossible to hear a sequence like "The Holy Hour"/"The Drwoning man"/"The Funeral party" in a popular gig. And, oh yes, they already did it somwhere!
not thesame with no porl tompson and wawa giutar ses mieux san Reeve et cent Roger.Bizou d'ma campagne kebekoise...
ReplyDeleteReview from David Fargier:
ReplyDeleteWe arrived at the venue when it was about 6:45, a country side hyppodrome and a good place to organize concerts due to the existing stuctures for food, drinks... About 3,000 people were already there, and the shadowed seated area was full. We ran in front of the stage to see Cranes. Lovely Alison did a good job but the sound wasn't strong enough. They played some of their classics and a bit of recent material as well. The slow-mid tempo of their songs is sometimes difficult to find and we heard a few mistakes but it was a good starter even if the guitarist completely missed the tune of the closing song.
After a few/lots of beers, I noticed that some fans from curefans.com and closetocure.com had put some banners on the seated balcony. The venue slowly and quietly packed but I managed to see almost everyone, my french friends and most of the previous eve meet up. Once again I want to say ciao to Maurizio, Georgia, Marcel, Alessandro/Grego, Marco, Stefano, Thomas, Katrin, Soledad, Antoinette, Nico, Mauro, Gilles, Rani, Frédéric, Bill, Sandrine, Stéphanie and a few others I met : you made my Cure nights and day as much as the concert ! I feel proud to be European with so wonderful, simple, accessible, caring people you are and I see at every single why The Cure made you different. Love, guys.
Someone told me that Eden Gallup was seated on the balcony and Marcel talked a few minutes with Jason, who seemed glad and relaxed but had to run away when the crowd noticed he was there. Simon and Roger showed up to just before Crystal Castle went on stage. This band is amazing, playing rock, singing punk on techno tunes. Powerful, brilliant, drinky... a good success for them. I would have loved to better hear the singer's voice but it was a very good set.
Then we had to wait about one hour before The Cure got on stage. The venue was packed for good but I don't know if it sold out or not. I'd say there were about 16-18000 attendees but I have to check (if I can because in Italy reliable figures about capacities and attendances are quite hard to find).
Those who read my posts yesterday may have thought I was completely drunk with an pill in my stomach every 2 minutes. But it wasn't the case. The whole set was perfect, the Roman crowd one of the best public I've ever seen.
Robert's voice was clear and expressive. He changed a few lyrics on 'One Hundred Years' and 'Let's Go To Bed', danced a bit during 'Lullaby' and the 3rd encore. We got almost every song we could have dreamt of. It's the best concert I've seen in my entire life and I've seen hundreds ! The boys were enjoying every second of it and Reeves is a good challenger for the 'old 4' who played incredibly well, especially Jason. The next time I read something bad about him, I'll be a Buddha wearing a Mona Lisa smile. Robert was on a cloud, as we say here in France, and I'm sure he knows how above this concert was.
But maybe they can do even better, who knows? So see you in Bilbao!
Hi
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David wanted to add this to his review:
Delete"And yes, Robert like any other artist likes to hear some noise. Sometimes some Cure fans put "their nose up", disgusted by all those stupid people singing and applauding like hell. It's just a kind of snobism. Robert talks about the need of the public answer while on stage in a recent interview. So make some noise!"
just watching gives me shivers...hoping to catch a live performance this year...would love to hear ltgb live..something just so fun about that stupid unrhymithic song that makes you want to dance...very touching version here...sooo sweet...the band is great, the man is amazing! my heart is melting.
ReplyDeleteps...it is the 20th anniversary of my seeing the cure live..wish, miami, 92..looks like this performance was on par, but nothing will ever, ever, ever top that 3hours of my life...not even the rest of it.
ReplyDeleteoops meant lgtb.. let's go to bed...oh,my, must do that now...always, d.
ReplyDeleteNot to say that this show wasn't amazing, but the setlist appears to be with the same songs they've been playing. Only thing that looks different is that they've done a really nice encore and didn't exclude one encore set over another. Even seems they planned to play later with some Pornography songs as I've read up there.
ReplyDeleteOther than that...
I arrived with my Italian chum Valeria as Crystal Castles finished their set and found it surprisingly easy to get pretty close to the front. It was "fucking hot" as Robert described it and Italians do love a cigarette, so I felt like I was being slowly smoked like a kipper!
ReplyDeleteThe audience was much warmer and jovial than English ones, I have seen the Cure live six times before in London. When bottles of water were being tossed into the sweaty crowd much hilarity and cheeky banter ensued.
The concert itself was absolutely brilliant, 36 songs played, over three hours. I felt very lucky to hear SDWAY played live and adored Bananafishbones. Robert seemed incredibly happy, dancing about and making cute facial expressions, etc. Simon was in very high spirits, doing some rock-God, guitar hero poses and raising his bass guitar to the drums/ Jason in tribute at the climax of The Kiss. Jason's drumming was phenomenal, really on it and dullards who continue to moan about him just need to go to a concert and experience the power of it live, not base their ill-founded judgements on Youtube videos. I would have taken more videos with my internet enabled telephone but it was incredibly annoying to have one's view blocked by a sea of glowing phones and even in some cases an iPad! All in all, it was a great night and the band played with passion and verve, Robert's voice is as strong, if not stronger than ever. Roll on Wish re-release and new material from the band I say! Grazie mille a mia amica Valeria, x. Chas
Finally back from a very hot Rome and what a 48 hrs or so. The Cure were simply magnificent, helped by a great venue & crowd that were totally up for it. We (me & my brother Joe) got in around 6ish and were standing a few feet from Jason during the Cranes, as mentioned elsewhere, he left after a couple of songs. Both The Cranes & Crystal Castles were good. Having seen The Cure numerous times this was certainly one of the finest shows I’ve witnessed & having the extra guitar made a big difference. The Kiss was the highlight for me, but it was all good, all very very good.
ReplyDeleteI confirm also live it seemed to me that Robert had the fence a few notes ... I think the first time for 30 years now .. footnotes: On the stage reserved for guests under the grandstand where I............the small child of Simon Gallup the singer of Cranes
ReplyDeleteJason Cooper .. during the execution of the above Cranes was sitting in my guest area to 20 feet away from me .. 5 minutes until we started to get closer .. and is gone.........
But the only one to present to 2.00 PM at the car park greeted very friendly and helpful
unfortunately .. then they turned on the Mercedes vans they are empty .probably disappeared to another exit, memorable concert ever seen so much feeling between Robert and the Italian crowd as usually, one of those, Conegliano 2002.........
I mean on 5.19 TSDWAY
DeleteGig was great, not the 'special' set-list some of us were expecting but it certainly didn't disappoint in atmosphere, quality and quantity. You can check out my photo's here : https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.462717983752564.111331.339065959451101&type=1
ReplyDeleteGood stuff Andrew - I'm in pic 21 with my brother!
ReplyDeleteHi Craig !
ReplyDeleteHere's an EXC AUD boot (flac):
http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/the-cure-2012-07-09-rome-it-aud-flac-144005.html#post1018475