Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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

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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

Monday, May 9, 2011

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:
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." 




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. 


1981-06-23 Arnhem, Netherlands - Evenementen-terrein bij de Rijnhal

The Cure live in Arnhem Netherlands
 Evenementen-terrein bij de Rijnhal 
June 23rd 1981 - The Picture Tour



This is an EXCELLENT quality recording of one of the earlier dates of the picture tour.
Little something to get you ready for the reflections show :)
This is digitized from a first generation tape, and the quality shows that.
The master must've been insane, because even the first gen sounds incredible.

Setlist:
The Holy Hour, In Your House, The Drowning Man, 
10:15 Saturday Night, Accuracy. The Funeral Party
M, Primary, Other Voices, All Cats Are Grey,
Three IMaginary, Boys, At Night
Fire in Cairo, Play for Today
A Forest, Faith

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FLAC Disc 2:

The Cure live in Paris, France - 1992-10-21 Audio Download

The Wish Tour live in Paris
Night 3, October 21st 1992
The Wish Tour, Night 3 in Paris France, at the Zenith to download.
The download links are down below all the reminiscing and pictures



Good setlist including The Big Hand and Forever. These were legendary shows. 
The Wish tour had improved by the time that it hit Europe, but the paris shows,
 while living in the showdow of some other performances (the finale in london and 
a few others) were still something very special. The three were recorded for official 
release by the band somewhat as a darker accompaniment to "show" So alot of great songs 
got their full glory over the three night @ the Zenith. Including a superb version of Faith 
on the night before. This, the third and final night, closed with one of the epic 
1992 versions of a Forest into Forever.

The quality on this recording is EXCELLENT.
You can find the download links closer to the bottom of the page
under the setlist and pictures.

I would like to thank the wonderful Autumn @ picturesofyou.us for allowing use 
of the photo at the top of the page. I would also like to thank Carl if he's still 
out there for sharing his photos of this show!

Setlist:
shake dog shake, high, pictures of you, lullaby, just like heaven, the big hand, one hundred years, apart, a letter to elise, doing the unstuck, let's go to bed, friday i’m in love, inbetween days, from the edge of the deep green sea, never enough, cut, end,
Encores:
catch, close to me, why can’t i be you,
m, primary, boys don't cry,
a forest, forever

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MP3:

FLAC Disc 1:

FLAC Disc 2:




View the full set of Carl's photos, CD covers, Adverts, An Article, and more at my photobuck album for Paris 92. If anyone else has pictures of this (or any of the three nights at the zenith) or any reviews. I'd love to see or read them, please get in touch!

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THE MUSIC HERE IS SHARED FREELY AND IS NOT FOR SALE NOR FOR ANY TYPE OF PROFIT. ALL MUSIC SHARED WITHIN THESE LINKS ARE AUDIENCE RECORDINGS OF INDEPENDENT ORIGIN. THERE IS NOTHING FROM ANY OFFICIAL RELEASE CONTAINED WITHIN THE LINKS. THE MUSIC HERE WAS RECORDED FOR FANS BY FANS WITH NO MONETARY ISSUES INVOLVED. THE MUSIC SHARED IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE NOR COMPETE WITH PARIS OR ANY OF THE CURES OFFICIAL RELEASED. THIS IS SIMPLY TO CELEBRATE THE CURE LIVE AND GIVE FANS A SECOND PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT WAS HEARD IN PARIS IN 1992. SUPPORT THE BAND. BUT THEIR RECORDS, CONCERT TICKETS, AND MERCHENDISE.