Out Of This World, Watching Me Fall, Want, Fascination St., Open, The Loudest Sound, The Kiss, Snakepit, Maybe Someday, Shake Dog Shake,  Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Inbetween Days, Prayers for Rain, 100 Years, End, 39, Bloodflowers

1st Encore: There Is No If, Trust, Plainsong, Disintegration
2nd Encore: M, Play for Today, A Forest
3rd Encore: Faith (long with extra lyrics)

Soundcheck: Watching Me Fall, Cold, Like Cockatoos, There Is No If, The Loudest Sound.

Barcelona for me was the real beginning of the Dream tour, as before I "just" saw them playing in clubs
(Markthalle, Ancienne Belgique or La Riviera). The most amazing thing I have to mention first is the lightshow.
Well, you already read a lot about the special effects (e.g. Robert´s mouth is filmed with a small camera installed
next to his microphone), so I won´t describe them again. I just want to mention which songs where underlined
perfectly in my opinion: want (running sandclock(??)), 100 years (many pictures of dead people), snakepit
(beautyful colours - the whole stage is in motion), a forest (moving pictures of trees).
Coming to the setlist, it was rather a mixture of the Madrid gigs I saw - with two exceptions: "trust" and
"there is no if". I love both songs. Especially "there is no if" was a surprise, as it is the favourite song for my
girlfriend and me from Bloodflowers. It sounds different from the album rather like a "techno version" according
the opinion of a french friend of mine. During this song Robert lost the tempo, but I didn´t care....it was great to
hear this song!
Robert was in an extraordinary good mood: announcing some songs in spanish, stagewalking a lot etc. Well my
spanish friend told me that Robert´s spanish was more a strange mixture of italian and portugese. Anyway, I
understood, what Robert meant "cantone antigua"...J The best show Robert did, was during "Plainsong".
Apart of his obligatory stagewalking (including waving to the crowd and giving "airkisses" (english??)) he
signed a letter of a fan. I never saw him like this before. Taking the letter from out of the crowd,  signing it and
then going back to the fan, who was still in the middle of the crowd, which got mad by this.
Highlight of the gig was "faith" - my alltime favourite livesong perfomed just with a few red lights...very similar to
the Prayer tour! Robert lost his words after the third line and then added his own, which was wonderful. At the end
he sang something like: "I don´t care if you ever come home (5 times). How much of me you will never know?
How much of this, how could you ever know? And how beautiful you are. How beautiful you are. ......There is
nothing left but faith....."
A great final song for a great gig. So that was Spain - a very exciting week! I will never forget these 3 gigs, the
fantastic audience, the tons of tapas and the loveley Rioja vino tinto - one of my favourite redvines.
Especially Madrid was extraordinary - not only for the gig, also for some other more private reasons. So the
next gig for me will be Stuttgart. The first one im my home country. I hope it can stand the high level, which was
achieved quite fast.

"The Dream Tour in Spain has been memorable with five concerts around the country (two shows in Madrid,
Zaragoza, Valencia and Barcelona). I was  really anxious to see them again in Spain as I had not seen them since
A Coruña 8/8/98, and obviously I went to the five concerts. I have already been to 9 concerts (8 in Spain and one
in France) and I will never have enough.

The best concert of the Spanish Dream Tour was the first one in Madrid: All cats are grey, Open,...incredible! and
also Barcelona (first time of There is no if...). They performed fantastic setlist and the concerts were really
intense and long, that reminded me of the Wish Tour and the Prayer Tour...Zaragoza and Valencia were not so
good, but there were some surprises like  Pornography, M...
I have had the chance to see Robert and the rest of the group twice during this tour...pictures, signatures,...talk to
him for 3rd time is a great experience. I asked Robert why they've never played DOUBT? and Robert looked
at me and said: "NO EXPLANATION"....
The Spanish audience was very enthusiastic in all the shows, and they sold  out in three of them (both in Madrid
and Barcelona) I enjoyed a lot and has been like a dream for me....a great LP, a great tour....I am waiting for my
number 10 concert, maybe this next summer in Spain.....that would be a perfect number!!

Two hours and fifty minutes and the audience still wanted more. It was an excellent concert. For those who are
waiting for them: you won't be deceived, unless you expect poppy songs or improvisation. None of these things.
The music is professionally executed, if one closes their eyes it feels as if one were listening to the album. The
sound is accurate, the parts of the songs are performed exactly as in the albums (remember the first night in
Madrid Roger finishing All cats are grey with the odd and solemn notes of the piano or faith with Jason slowing
gradually the big drum). Every song is played with a metronome, sometimes hidden under a sound as if it belonged
to the song, sometimes hidden as a sampler which gives them the right rythm for the entrance. All in all the fact that
Robert feels like singing and these technical improvements makes a real show, even for those who are not so
immersed in the cure world or even for the ill-disposed  critics on the press. If your  expectations are high you'll be
disappointed: these performances are much more than you'll expect. True. Now, the music:

OUT OF THIS WORLD: I agree with many people, it's a weird way of beginning, but looking on the right side, it's
a slow song, to taste with no one around pogoing or yelling at your ear. "This is our last concert in Spain" he said,
and the music began.

WATCHING ME FALL: Eleven minutes of a song which gradually progresses and starts getting the audience into
the music. Purple lights, Perry's guitar really out loud, and Simon using pedals for some parts.

WANT: The upbeat starts to grow...

FASCINATION STREET: Here we are, listening to the seventh song of the Disintegration album, it's the first
great classical hit, it never deceives.

OPEN: Ten seconds of Tape and Simon starts. Porl's parts are really nowhere and this affects the song. It's weird
to see Roger playing the guitar. It's one of the few songs which doesn't get the level of the time in which it was
conceived. But Jason is incredibly great!

THE LOUDEST SOUND: It's the second time the play this song, but there's something missing there which
desn't allow me to label it as Great, but anyway, the way Robert sings it is worth it. It's strange, some people cried
when announced it because they loved it and some people showed their pout for the opposite reason.

THE KISS: Everlasting. I didn't want them to stop, the guitars never stopped, Simon never marked the end, Robert
never sang, until he sang, but the playing never stopped. Fulfilling.

SNAKEPIT: Green lights, Robert on the flute, real atmospheric, rare, we are dreaming: we are back  in 1987.

MAYBE SOMEDAY: Actually they were supposed to play Shake dog shake, but Perry started the song along with
Jason and Robert, which caused Roger's astonishment, so he turned round and told them so, but the song had
already  started and he had to change the program on his keyboard. He smiled though.

SHAKE DOG SHAKE: Quick, strong, Robert even lets go the shriek which is in the album.

FROM THE EDGE OF THE DEEP GREEN SEA: What to say. Incredible, so powerful.

INBETWEEN DAYS: Robert said: "Salvation, this is a single, it's called Inbetween days". It felt like a gust of
fresh air, a couple of poppy songs are good amidst all the world of long songs.

PRAYERS FOR RAIN: Different begining, excellente performance.

100 YEARS: So strong, the lights are perfect, we've been through several songs with long texts and Robert
remembers them all. Awesome.

END: Boris is not there... Nevertheless, this song will eventually be better, it needs running-in, but now it hasn't
achieved the 1992 power yet. If only Simon used a different sound, it seems a machine.

39: The same as End, but Robert's guitars are really loud and the song progresses in itself, and the images of the
flames on the screens behind them makes the song a great show.

BLOODFLOWERS: Despite some instrument missing, it really gets into us, it is becoming far better the more they
play it.

THERE IS NO IF: First time ever played, Robert didn't do a good entrance after the first half of the song (playing
with sampler may cause this kind of trouble), but we forgive him.

TRUST: Sweet.

PLAINSONG: Robert went to one side of the scenery and rised his arms and threw some kisses away, and the
audience applauded him fervently. Then, he took a paper and a marking pen from a fan on the first row and wrote
something on it and gave it back to the fan and 8000 people applauded this gesture.

DISINTEGRATION: Disintegration.

M: Beautiful.

PLAY FOR TODAY: Again, everyone singing along.

A FOREST: A forest. Short version, perfectly played. Nothing to reproach.

FAITH: My god, a third encore! Long version, extra lyrics "I care if you ever come home, I don't care if you ever
come" "How beautiful you are, how beautiful you are", Robert said. He started making it up almost from the
beginning! The song ended (like in the album), Robert said "Gracias" and the Dream Tour finished in Spain. Now
it's time for others to start dreaming. Enjoy it.

7:00 in the evening. I am walking towards the Sports Palace with a friend. There´s a hundred goth dressed people at
the entrance. I think i have felt it before.It´s the fourth time i am going to see The Cure live in Barcelona. I will
never forget the first time, eleven years ago (21 June 1989, what an incredible show that was !). My god i think, i
was only fourteen !. I just hope tonight they will reach the level of emotion they created that night with The Prayer
Tour. I don´t care if they play one song or another (though i would love Siamese Twins and M), i just want the
emotion.
At 7:45 i get into the venue. Cure fans must be mad i think. There are still three hours left. We are just 10 metres
from the stage. The sight is very good.
8:00: My friend has gone for beers. Two for each, there are still two hours left. We talk on girls and jobs, the usual
stuff.
8:45: Where the hell is the band that had been announced to play before The Cure? The ticketmaster has tricked
us, but i won´t ask my money back. I did not came here to see any fucking band apart from The Cure.
9:00: Surprise. The fucking band appears. They are Love Of Lesbians, a band from Barcelona. They play for half
an hour. I think they do a good job.
9:30: The Sports Palace is full. Everybody is already here, but we still have to wait.
10:00: Now we get Out of This World.

The first five songs are the ones you can imagine. Watching Me Fall sounds great live, much better than on the
record. The others are well done. We get to the sixth song: The Loudest Sound. The Kiss sounds powerful and The
Snakepit a bit boring. That strange thing that Robert is whistling sounds quite strange. Here I think Robert has
changed the original setlist. Robert and Jason start playing Maybe Someday, while Simon looks astonished at
them, as it had not been planned this way. Both Simon and Perry laugh about it. The other songs from now on
except Prayers For Rain are very well done. Prayers For Rain does not sound as well as I have heard it before. The
absolute highlight of the setlist is 100 Years. Just perfect.

First encore: At this moment I am sure that we are going to have a Disintegration encore. To my surprise, they play
There Is No If, first time ever they play this song. Trust is a nice complement to the previous one. Then Plainsong
and the best Disintegration I have heard.

Second Encore: Well, I will not have Siamese Twins, but here we have M. A great M is projected behind the band.
Loud singing in Play For Today by the audience. A lot of fun as always. A Forest. Nice projections of trees and a
very short guitar and bass solo. Well done. I tell my friend it is time to go.

Third Encore: But nobody moves, the lights don´t turn on and the band go out to play an 8 minutes version of Faith.
Great.

In my opinion this show was much better than the ones in Wish and Swing Tour, but could be a bit disappointing for
those who expect the Let´s Go To Bed style classics. The audience does not jump during the songs, except in In
Between Days and some of the encores. But the whole thing is really more powerful than ever. Many not Cure fans
told me after the show that although they didn´t know many of the songs, they had felt they were seeing an
extraordinary band. And I agree.