The Dream Tour

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)



Review by Alex

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).



Review by Christoph

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.



Comments by Andrzej

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..



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