Thursday, December 25, 2014

Joyeux Noël





Merry Christmas and the happiest of holidays to you all!


The Cure - Merry Christmas Everybody 
(Wembley Arena - Dec. 9th, 1987)


Siouxsie & the Banshees - Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant 
(Dec. 15th, 1982)  

Originally posted at Thecure.com (Dec. 2001)







"I don't believe in religions. Instead, I believe in Father Christmas and fairies in the woods!" - Robert Smith 2012

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Presents for the Simon fans :)

A video posted by mars marsworld (@mars_marsworld) on


A video posted by mars marsworld (@mars_marsworld) on


A video posted by mars marsworld (@mars_marsworld) on


A video posted by mars marsworld (@mars_marsworld) on


A video posted by mars marsworld (@mars_marsworld) on


And some others - Roger 1 - 2 , Robert & Reeves (guest appearance by Simon), That song I don't care for (the lime green thing), my 3rd favorite Cure song (Charlotte), Lovesong,
(Thanks @Marsworld)

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The Cure at Hammersmith Apollo (12-23-14)

Dec. 23rd, 2014
Eventim Hammersmith Apollo in London, England
Doors 6:30 PM / And Also The Trees 7:10 - 7:43 / The Cure 8:07 - 11:14

Setlist: Shake Dog Shake, Kyoto Song, A Night Like This, Wailing Wall, The Caterpillar, The Walk, Sleep When I'm Dead, A Man Inside My Mouth, Bananafishbones, Push, Inbetween Days, Friday I'm In Love, Doing the Unstuck, Pictures of You, Lullaby, Birdmad Girl, Lovesong, Just Like Heaven, Like Cockatoos, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Want, One Hundred Years, Give Me It

1st encore: The Empty World, Charlotte Sometimes, Primary, The Top
2nd encore: Three Imaginary Boys, M, Play For Today, A Forest
3rd encore: Piggy in the Mirror, Never Enough, Fascination Street, Wrong Number
Robert on the 3 shows: "It's been fun. I know I'm not supposed to say that, but it has."
4th encore: Dressing Up, The Lovecats, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry, Hey You.

End of the 3rd and final show of this terrific 3 night stand. Thank you, Cure! You were fantastic! Bravo!

Setlist changes: Sleep When I'm Dead, Friday I'm In Love, Doing the Unstuck played for 1st time at this set of shows. alt.end, High, Before Three, Hungry Ghost, Let's Go to Bed not played tonight.

Again, huge thank you to JC/Perfect.Murder for going above & beyond for 3 nights in a row. You are a star, my friend! Thank you,thank you,thank you!
And thank you to , , , Julie, and everyone else who helped tonight. I appreciate it so much!

Videos: Intro & some of Shake Dog Shake / Shake Dog Shake / Kyoto Song / A Night Like This 1 - 2 / Wailing Wall / A Man Inside My Mouth 1 - 2 - 3 / Friday I'm In Love 1 - 2 / Pictures of You / Lullaby / Birdmad Girl / Want / Give Me It 1 - 2 / The Empty World 1 - 2 - 3 / Charlotte Sometimes / The Top 1 - 2 - 3 / Three Imaginary Boys / A Forest / Piggy in the Mirror 1 - 2 / Never Enough / Fascination Street / Wrong Number / Close To Me /

Photos: Marsworld / Aaron Law / 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - 32 - 33 - 34 - 35 (PomPom Gurl) :) - 36 - 37 - 38 - 39 - 40 - 41 - 42 - 43 - 44 - 45 - 46 (Lily Gallup enjoying her dad's show, Simon spotted her, big smile) - 47 - 48 - 49 - 50 - 51 - 52 - 53 - 54 - 55 - 56 - 57 - 58 - 59 - 60 - 61 - 62 (setlist part 1) -

8:05 - Lights are out.

8:03 - Perfect.Murder: Now on PA Crystal Castles' 'Not In Love' (Non RS version)

7:59 - @marsworld: Music of Cranes jewel RS mix now! So lovely I met Alison yesterday!

7:58 - Perfect.Murder: Playing some Cocteau Twins and Cranes over PA now.

7:48 - Photo from @snuffybear: Clearing the stage

7:47 - @Emile_MW: PA now playing The Carpenter's 'Yesterday Once More'.

7:07 - Perfect.Murder: PA playing Billy Corgan & Robert's cover of 'To Love Somebody'.

For the 3rd night in a row, the wonderful, brilliant, hilarious, and always so helpful JC/Perfect.Murder will be providing the live setlist reports. Can't thank him enough!
I'm also looking for backup tonight, in case of bad connection, battery issues, etc, so if you can help, I'd really appreciate it. Email me at craigatcof (at) gmail (dot) com or @CraigatCoF on Twitter. Thanks!

At this point you pretty much know what you'll be hearing tonight (or do you?), so no worries over what might be or could be, just go and enjoy every single second! These are very special shows, and if you are lucky enough to attend, you should savor every single song. Hell, just sing and dance until you can't sing and dance any more. Just have a blast! Thank you to The Cure, the crew, all of their families, and everyone else involved in giving us all such wonderful shows! A Very Merry and Happy Christmas to you all!

Monday, December 22, 2014

The Cure at Hammersmith Apollo (12-22-14)

Dec. 22nd, 2014
Eventim Hammersmith Apollo in London, England
Doors 6:30 PM / And Also The Trees 7:11 - 7:45 / The Cure 8:04 - 11:12

Setlist: Shake Dog Shake, Piggy in the Mirror, A Night Like This, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Bananafishbones, The Caterpillar, The Walk, A Man Inside My Mouth, Wailing Wall, Three Imaginary Boys, Never Enough, Wrong Number, Birdmad Girl, Lovesong, Like Cockatoos, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Kyoto Song, alt.end, Want, The Hungry Ghost, One Hundred Years, Give Me It, The Top

1st encore: The Empty World, Charlotte Sometimes, Primary
2nd encore:  M, Play for Today, A Forest
Robert: "It used to be easy to decide what to play. People would ask for that dripdripdrip song" Plays intro of 10:15... "This is a Disintegration-type encore - but the happy side of Disintegration. What do you mean 'boo'? Look behind you!"
3rd encore: Pictures of You, Lullaby, Fascination Street
Robert: "Reeves has agreed to pay the curfew fine tonight. Here's the last Top song"
4th encore: Dressing Up, The Lovecats, Close to Me, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry, Hey You.

Thanks again to JC/Perfect.Murder for the setlist reports tonight.

Changes from Night 1 - added Push, Inbetween Days, Fascination St. Removed Before Three, High, Let's Go To Bed.

Videos: Compilation of bits / Shake Dog Shake / Piggy in the Mirror / A Night Like This (Reeves solo) / Push / Just Like Heaven 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / The Caterpillar / Three Imaginary Boys / Never Enough / Birdmad Girl / Lovesong / Like Cockatoos 1 - 2 / The Caterpillar / A Man Inside My Mouth 1 - 2 - 3 / Wailing Wall 1 - 2 / From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea / Kyoto Song 1 - 2 / Want / Hungry Ghost / One Hundred Years / Give Me It / The Top / The Empty World 1 - 2 / Charlotte Sometimes / A Forest 1 - 2 / Pictures of You 1 - 2 - 3 / Lullaby 1 - 2 / The Lovecats 1 - 2 / Close to Me 1 - 2 - 3 / Boys Don't Cry / Hey You 1 - 2  

Photos: Marsworld / Guillaume / Mauro Melis / Bill Soragna / On Nights Like This Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 / Sound of Violence / Aaron Law / Chris Ollis / Mauro Melis / 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 -

From Antti: "Another epic night! Bumped into Alison from Cranes during the gig. She is so lovely. "

From Journey to the Center of My Record Collection: "Just got to the apollo. Could see the merch stall through the door and it's the same t shirt as last night so a fair bet that we get a similar set."

JC/Perfect.Murder will be providing the live setlist reports again tonight, but for the first time in ages, Olivier will be not be at the show. :( So if anyone would be willing to be backup tonight, I'd really appreciate it. Email me at craigatcof (at) gmail (dot) com or @CraigatCoF on Twitter. Thanks!

And don't get all mad and upset if the show is similar to last night. The t-shirts make it very clear (Top artwork, dates for all 3 nights on it) that these are Top 30th anniversary celebration shows, not Trilogy 3. Don't expect Head on the Door in full tonight. Unless you get there and see a HotD t-shirt for sale. :) Would love to be proven wrong, though! Just lower expectations a bit, and don't complain if they don't do HotD tonight, and Kiss Me tomorrow.

Have a wonderful time tonight!

From lalocuramorena: The queue for tonight's Cure show at 10am.

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Warning about touts at the shows

From @chriswhite65 - "please warn fans ticket tout/scalpers out side with fake tickets do not buy any."

From @JanieBigWeb - "please let everyone know touts selling FAKE tickets outside Hammersmith tonight. Beware."

The Cure at Hammersmith Apollo (12-21-14)

Dec. 21st, 2014
Eventim Hammersmith Apollo in London, England
Doors 6:30 PM / And Also The Trees 7 - 7:45 / The Cure 8:07 - 11:16

Setlist: Shake Dog Shake, Kyoto Song (last played June 21st, 2008), A Night Like This, alt.end, Wailing Wall (last played Nov. 17th, 1984), Bananafishbones, The Caterpillar, The Walk, A Man Inside My Mouth (1st time ever played), Close to Me, Lullaby, High, Birdmad Girl, Just Like Heaven, Pictures of You, Before Three, Lovesong, Like Cockatoos (last played Sept. 6th, 2004), From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Want, The Hungry Ghost, One Hundred Years, Give Me It

1st encore: The Empty World (last played Oct. 17th, 1984), Charlotte Sometimes, Primary, The Top
2nd encore: Dressing Up, Piggy in the Mirror (last played Dec. 17th, 1997), Never Enough, Wrong Number
3rd encore: Three Imaginary Boys, M, Play For Today, A Forest
Robert: "We're probably going to overrun a bit but pfft it's Christmas"
4th encore: The Lovecats, Let's Go to Bed, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry, Hey You (last played March 5th, 2004).

A million thanks to JC/Perfect.Murder and Olivier at it's a perfect day for the updates tonight!

Soundcheck: Piggy in the Mirror, One Hundred Years, Stop Dead, A Night Like This, the intro a few times, Like Cockatoos
(Thanks Perfect.Murder and Geoff)

Videos: Intro/Shake Dog Shake / A Night Like This 1 - 2 / Wailing Wall 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 / The Walk / A Man Inside My Mouth 1 - 2 - 3 / Close to Me 1 - 2 / Lullaby 1 - 2 / Birdmad Girl 1 - 2 - 3 / Just Like Heaven 1 - 2 / Lovesong 1 - 2 / Like Cockatoos 1 - 2 - 3 / From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea 1 - 2 - 3 / Want 1 - 2 / One Hundred Years 1 - 2 - 3 / Give Me It 1 - 2 / The Empty World 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / Charlotte Sometimes 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 / Primary 1 - 2 / The Top 1 - 2 - 3 / Dressing Up 1 - 2 / Piggy in the Mirror 1 - 2 - 3 / Never Enough 1 - 2 / Wrong Number / Three Imaginary Boys 1 - 2 - 3 / M / Play For Today / A Forest 1 - 2 - 3 / The Lovecats 1 - 2 / Let's Go to Bed / Why Can't I Be You? / Hey You 1 - 2   

Video clips: Shake Dog Shake / Wailing Wall / Man Inside My Mouth / Like Cockatoos / Charlotte Sometimes /

Photos: GuillaumeOn Nights Like This / Aaron Law / Olivier / Matthew North / BrucieBonus / 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 -  / Soundcheck (from Erin Lang) / Crowd waiting to go in (From Matthew North)

Articles/Reviews: The Guardian / Music Times / Diffuser / Spin / NME / Gigwise / Coeliacboy / Slicing Up Eyeballs / Consequence of Sound

JC/Perfect.Murder will be providing the live setlist reports tonight, and Olivier will be posting updates at it's a perfect day (and let's hope he's busy filming lots of rare songs!). And as always, if you'd like to help, please do! Email me at craigatcof (at) gmail (dot) com or @CraigatCoF on Twitter. Thanks!

Two specific requests - photos or descriptions of Cure merchandise, and of any new stickers on Simon's bass. :)

Have a wonderful time tonight!



Hammersmith Apollo merchandise

From Olivier: "Hint, hint!"

Here's the back. (Thanks @Nemi

And some more shots from Andreas at cure-concerts.de. And close-ups of the badges here.
(Thanks Autumn)





Roger on MultiTracks app

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Robert & Brian doing 'Lovecats'


Robert Smith, Brian Cox, Hackney Colliery Band - 'The Lovecats' (Hammersmith Apollo 12/20?/14)