April 12th, 2000 - Prague, Czech Repulic (Paegas arena)
Out Of This World, Watching Me Fall, Want,
Fascination St., Open, The Loudest Sound, Shake Dog Shake,
Last Day of Summer, Maybe Someday, Edge of
the Deep Green Sea, Inbetween Days, Sinking, Prayers
for Rain, 100 Years, End, 39, Bloodflowers
1st Encore: There Is No If, Trust, Plainsong,
Disintegration
2nd Encore: M, Play For Today, Just Like Heaven,
A Forest
3rd Encore: Faith (8 minutes with extra lyrics
"Some day, Some day")
Show was 2 hours & 45 minutes
(Thanks Andrzej)
Photos (on Cave of Black Ghosts) / Photos (on Muzikant)
i don't want to repeat what the others already
said, so just some more information:
* the whole band was feeling cold during the show, especially roger,
who was smiling and making gestures
all the time until he finally put on
some sort of jacket
* the audience was great, although there were not as many hardcore curefans
as i expected there. however,
i would say 5000-8000 much rather than
4000. (peages arena was half full).
* and the show was incredibly perfect, especially edge of the deep
green sea, 100 years, all bloodflowers
songs and encores. during the first encore,
when they played trust and plainsong, i had to hold back tears, actually.
too bad they play the same set for almost
each show now. it's better to just see one show then because it's
certainly not as emotional when you
see the same thing for the 6th time. it doesn't matter as much with bands
like
depeche mode, who did the same on the last
tour, but the cure...
* as for the suicide affair: noone noticed it during the show. the
victim was a policeman, more specifically
A SECURITY GUARD and NOT a fan, and the suicide
had most probably absolutely nothing to do with the concert
- at least that's what the psychologist said.
the atmosphere was NOT gloomy. the audience was going crazy
especially during the second half of
the show and even most non-curefans seemed to love it. emotional is the
right
word i think.
also the reviews in press differ, there are basically two groups:
a) the serious reviews. (MF Dnes, Lidove noviny,
etc, etc) and all of those i read said the show was great. they
admired the band for playing pracically
whole bloodflowers and almost none of the poppier tunes and still
succeeding in driving the audience mad.
b) the tabloid reviews. (Blesk, etc.) who had
some demonic photo of robert, "suicide" in the headline (MF Dnes
did not even mention the suicide in their
review of the show - they had a separate article on this topic) and
concentrated on words like "blood", "death",
"despair" & "depression".
and finally, the april issue of the czech Rock
Report had a two page article about the band (or better to say about
robert) with a lot of pictures. the
article was quite good, it focused on bloodflowers and robert's struggle
with the record company (concerning galore).
I`m a Cure fan from Eastgermany. Yesterday
I was to the very fantastic Cure-concert in Prague. The Paeges-Hall
is very large, but only the half of the hall
was free for the concert. Circa 5000-8000 fans came to the concert.
After a wonderful slow intro the lights go
out and the band come on stage. They began the mainset with "Out of
this world". After a short "Hello!" from Robert,
they going on with "Watching me fall". The light- and videoshow
was very beautiful. Not to large but also
not to small. Only fantastic! My private highlights of the mainset were:
"From the Edge of the deep green sea", "Shake
dog Shake", "Open" and "Want". The band-members played
very good and sometimes very extreme. It was
great! The first song of the first encore was my highlight of the
whole show. "There is no if..." was so full
of emotions of Robert, and the crowd began to clap with their hands
together. This was a dream at the Dreamlandtour!!
And then came "Plainsong", the next great song. On the
beginning of the song, Robert came on the
front of the stage and smiled to his fans. Up this point, the fans were
so
hot, that everybody in the hall could feel;
"This will be a unbelievebale concert!".
With "Trust" and "Disintegration" end the first
encore. The second encore began with the old number "M". At
"Play for Today" the growd began to cry like
in a footballstadium. Robert was a little bit surprised and smiled.
After an amazing "Just like heaven" the encore
end with an fantastic " A Forest". On the video-walls you could
see a green forest. Very beautiful. Robert
go from the stage with a little " Thank you!" and at the end of the
stage he was a little bit dancing. The crowd
put their hands and cry and cry and cry....... and The Cure came back
for their last song "Faith". Robert sang this
song very emotional and as the music end, he said only;
"Thank you, thank you, thank you. Good night!
Thank you!"
You see, it was for me a very fantastic evening
and I think also for the band was it an great concert.
The show was great, there was around 4000 or
5000 "happy" people.The show was 2:45 long (They started at
20:15). And I think the atmosphere was perfect,
I hope for The Cure too (At the end, Robert said: Thank you,
thank you, very very much, thank you very
much and Goodnight...). The highlights of the night for me was The
Last Day of Summer, Trust (Roger improvised
very good), 100 Years (perfect lights), A Forest and Plainsong
Maybe I´ll write something more, now
I´m full of emotions..