South american tour announced! !!

Yeah! And MX city! :):):)

Via thecure.com:

The Cure ‘LatAm2013 Tour’ includes the following stops:

April 4 th 2013 – HSBC Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ONSALE 10:00am Feb 19th

http://www.livepass.com.br/

April 6 th 2013 – Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil

ONSALE 12:01am Feb 18th

http://www.livepass.com.br/

April 9 th , 2013 – Jockey Club, Asunción, Paraguay

ONSALE 10:00am Feb 18th

http://ticketshow.com.py/

April 12 th , 2013 – River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Agentina

ONSALE 12:01am Feb 4th

http://www.livepass.com.ar/

April 14 th , 2013 – Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile

ONSALE 11:00am Jan 30th

http://www.puntoticket.com/

April 17 th , 2013 – Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru

ONSALE 11:00am Feb 1st

http://www.tuentrada.com.pe/

April 19 th , 2013 – Simon Bolivar Park, Bogotá, Colombia

ONSALE 10:00am Feb 1st

http://vive.tuboleta.com/

April 21 st , 2013 – Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico

ONSALE 11:00am Feb 11th

http://www.ticketmaster.com.mx/

The Cure - Robert Smith (vocals and guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O’Donnell (keyboards) and Reeves Gabrels (guitar) - return in 2013 on the back of a run of 19 major European summer festival 2012 headline spots, which began at Pinkpop in May and ended at Eire's Electric Picnic in September, and included epic sets at Roskilde, Werchter, Hurricane, Maxidrom, Les Eurockeenes, Vieilles Charrues, Reading and Leeds along the way.

The Cure’s Robert Smith says;

“We are deliriously happy to be coming back to South America at last – we have been away for far too long! We will be playing 3+ hour shows, and have every intention of making this the most memorable Cure Tour EVER!”

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South american tour announced! !!

Yeah! And MX city! :):):)

Via thecure.com:

The Cure ‘LatAm2013 Tour’ includes the following stops:

April 4 th 2013 – HSBC Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ONSALE 10:00am Feb 19th

http://www.livepass.com.br/

April 6 th 2013 – Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil

ONSALE 12:01am Feb 18th

http://www.livepass.com.br/

April 9 th , 2013 – Jockey Club, Asunción, Paraguay

ONSALE 10:00am Feb 18th

http://ticketshow.com.py/

April 12 th , 2013 – River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Agentina

ONSALE 12:01am Feb 4th

http://www.livepass.com.ar/

April 14 th , 2013 – Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile

ONSALE 11:00am Jan 30th

http://www.puntoticket.com/

April 17 th , 2013 – Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru

ONSALE 11:00am Feb 1st

http://www.tuentrada.com.pe/

April 19 th , 2013 – Simon Bolivar Park, Bogotá, Colombia

ONSALE 10:00am Feb 1st

http://vive.tuboleta.com/

April 21 st , 2013 – Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico

ONSALE 11:00am Feb 11th

http://www.ticketmaster.com.mx/

The Cure - Robert Smith (vocals and guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O’Donnell (keyboards) and Reeves Gabrels (guitar) - return in 2013 on the back of a run of 19 major European summer festival 2012 headline spots, which began at Pinkpop in May and ended at Eire's Electric Picnic in September, and included epic sets at Roskilde, Werchter, Hurricane, Maxidrom, Les Eurockeenes, Vieilles Charrues, Reading and Leeds along the way.

The Cure’s Robert Smith says;

“We are deliriously happy to be coming back to South America at last – we have been away for far too long! We will be playing 3+ hour shows, and have every intention of making this the most memorable Cure Tour EVER!”

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The Cure to play Argentina in early 2013

The promoter says it is confirmed.

More here:
http://www.cronista.com/controlremoto/Alegria-dark-el-3-de-abril-llega-The-Cure-a-la-Argentina-20121212-0012.html

25 years waiting. Congrats to argentina if this turns out to be true, you guys have waited literally a lifetime to see the cure live again.

More news as it develops!

10 years ago today, Berlin 2002, November trilogy shows

Seems like yesterday..... But its been ten long years since a dream come true for many of us happened. Would like to hear your thoughts and memories of these shows ten years after.. Pictures are always great too.. Post here or tweet me http://twitter.com/curelive Gonna dig through my archives and post something nice in remembrance. For now heres Plainsong from the dvd.

Bataclan 96 video

Thanks to curevideo for posting these!

The Cure live in Nantes France 1989-07-04

The Prayer Tour

Live in Nantes, France

1989-07-04 Palais de la Beaujoire

 

Continuing with the 7 date run through France in Early July 1989, taking it to the next date from where we left off at Bordeaux on July 3rd 1989, here is Nantes on July 4th 1989. The quality is good, not spectacular, but it sounds good. The version of Faith is tremendous and clocking in at over 15 minutes long.

Setlist:

plainsong, pictures of you, closedown, piggy in the mirror, a night like this, just like heaven, last dance, fascination street, lovesong, charlotte sometimes, the walk, a forest, inbetween days, the same deep water as you, prayers for rain, disintegration,

Encores:

 lullaby, close to me, let's go to bed, why can't i be you,

m, hot hot hot, three imaginary boys, boys don't cry,

homesick, untitled, faith

Download Links:

nantes flac.zip - 974.6 MB

nantes mp3.zip - 335.6 MB


Lyrics to Faith:

Oh, then you say and it's light outside
And you say again
And it's light outside
And go out to look... at what she...
At what she...
The mirage we shared

All the colors in my hand
Said things you
I'll stay inside of you

And my hand touching yours...
And my fingers still like the way it should
I reach your eyes

Say... if only you can be my friend
If only you can be my friend
Said that and she looked at me
Turned around like she wants to leave
If only you can be my friend
If only you can be my friend

Look... in stone face
To make a sign... make you mine
I can show you that
Show you that

Make you mine
Make you mine
Show you that
Show you that
Make you mine
I can make you mine
I can make you mine
I can make you mine

There's nothing left but faith

1980-04-20 Boston - The Underground

Another show to reflect upon.

The Cure live in Boston, MA (AKA Allston, MA)

April 20th 1980, The Underground.

This is a soundboard recording and the mix is very nice.

Quality needless to say is EXCELLENT.

Setlist:

Seventeen Seconds, Play for Today, Three Imaginary Boys, 

Fire in Cairo, Grinding Halt, In Your House, 

Subway Song, M, 1015 Saturday Night, Accuracy

At Night, Boys dont Cry, Jumping Someone Elses Train

Another Journey by Train, A Forest, Plastic Passion

Killing an Arab, Secrets, Seventeen Seconds*

*Second version of 17 seconds sung with completely different lyrics.

"Twenty One Years, A Measure of Life..."

Download links below:

Typo on my part this show is 1980 NOT 1981, 

please change it after you've downloaded to not add any confusion.

FLAC DOWNLOAD:

1981 AlstonFLAC.zip - 387.5 MB

MP3 DOWNLOAD:

1981-04-20 alstonMP3.zip - 150.9 MB

Alot of legends about this show....

Read some of the stories below:::

(thanks to cure-concerts.de and impressionofsounds.com for the words below)

from 'Ten Imaginary Years':

Robert: "My 21st birthday happened in Boston and after the gig, Bill and the four of us got taken to some art media event by this guy who was making a video of us. We had some drugs. I remember a TV and a set of homemade videos and we got bored and insisted this bloke drove us back to our hotel so he took us in his Beetle - the five of us and his girlfriend!"

"It was a little cramped so i got out and sat on the bonnet - it was about five in the morning so we thought we'd take the risk. Bill then decided to drive and went the wrong way round a roundabout without thinking. When he realised it, of course, he just kept on going round, laughing insanely and then he got hysterical, got a flat, slewed across the road and i fell of the bonnet."
"I tried to change the wheel - I don't know why I was doing it - but I couldn't understand why the hubcap wouldn't go back on so I started kicking it, and it was only a few seconds later, when the pain suddenly reached my brain, that i realised the reason the hub cap wouldn't go back on was because my thumb was traped underneath it. I'd just reduced it to pulp!"

"After that we drove to New York overnight but ended up in Cape Cod because Bill had taken a wrong turn! We eventually arrived at the airport just in time to catch the plane to get back to London for Top Of The Pops." 

From Impression Of Sounds:

A few hours from Robert's birthday. The show was filmed by local art students. On the last encore, Robert Smith played some chords from Object to please somebody in the audience requesting the song. He also improvised the lyrics on Seventeen Seconds (from the encore) refering to his own birthday ! "21 years / A measure of life". The song was also dedicated to Mission Of Burma (on the same bill).

The odd facts of the night were the problems with delay pedals on 10:15 Saturday Night and especially on A Forest vocals, the echo not fading at all. After the show, Robert broke his thumb while changing a van's wheel on the way to the airport !

from 'A Visual Documentary':

21 APRIL 1980
The Underground Club, Boston. It is Robert's 21st birthday, and to celebrate, the band come on stage almost an hour and a half late. Robert then breaks his thumb changing the wheel on the van on the way to the airport.