The Dream Tour

April 14th, 2000 - Lodz, Poland (Sportova)

Out Of This World, Watching Me Fall, Want, Fascination St., Open, The Loudest Sound, The Kiss, Last Day Of Summer, Maybe Someday, Shake Dog Shake, Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Inbetween Days, Siamese Twins,
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, Faith.

Show was 2 hours & 50 minutes

Photos

(Thanks Darius)



Review by Darius

Every concert experience for me starts from waiting by the arena, so it was this time. We spent few hours by the
Sportova with another hundred of people. Even though the concert was announced as Sold Out a long time ago, it
was still possible to buy tickets for a small extra money. That's a very good thing in my opinion, 'cause it cut down
scalpers' profit.

For those who was interested in the music before concert - it was some classic melody. The same was played right
after the concert was over. They started with the same songs as everywhere else. "Out of this world" is really
good replacement for "Plainsong" as an opening song.  The band looked quite static and I would say even a bit
constrained. Even Simon was so static... You could see wrinkles on his forehead and a bruise under his left eye.
Sometimes during the concert I got a feeling that they were not playing as a band, just everyone was playing his
part. Well, this might be very subjective feeling. The most unexpected song for me was "The Kiss", which was
performed very exact from musical point of view, but not as emotional, as I expected. "Shake Dog Shake" and
especially "FTEOTDGS" was the turning point in the concert, and the rest songs sounded much better and were
fitting more each to another. After "Inbetween days" Robert said something like "it's enough of these ...
fucking radios" and then they started "Siamese Twins". The ending combination of End-39-Bloodflowers is very
successful, because each of the songs extended the previous one and sounded more and more intensive.
"Bloodflowers" was the best song from the new album. There were two encores and again there were at least
three pairs of songs which fit together both musically and lyrically. The band has some difficulties to start
Plainsong. Roger even walked to Robert and they talked about something. During Faith microphone went out of
order, so some part of the song was performed without singing. I was so happy that the crowd didn't express any
sign of dissatisfaction because of those things. The set list couldn't be better.

The light show was just perfect. Sometimes there was a very bright light was turned right to Robert's face. Then it
looked so white. Pictures projected on the back of the stage were excellent. Big M before "M", flaming fire during
"39", pictures like in "Forest" video during "Forest"...

Concert's set list was almost perfect. (Of course, there have some other preferences, like Push, or Blood, but they
wouldn't fit so much into set list) The best thing was this growing intensity during the concert.

Some additions about merchandise. In Lodz they were also selling chain with the little flower. On the back side of
the flower there is a text like "The Cure. Dream Tour 2000". There was also plastic chain with two plastic thin
plates with similar text on them. Black T-Shirts were also available both in V-neck and round neck.



Review by Giedrius

The show was great, but the sound quality could be better. Anyway, it was really cool. The biggest surprise -
"There is no if". It was kind of unplugged version. Jason didn't play and the rythm was programmed on Rogers
keyboard. Fantastic version. The funnies thing, then Robert announced: "The next song is Plainsong" and Roger
refused to play. He looked lost and asked Robert (I'm not sure about the right words,but the asked something like
that)"Should I be there?" Then Rob told him something and Roger with the grin on his face jumped to the
keyboard and started to play.
The worst moment was during the Faith. In the middle of the song Rob looked at the stage technicians and showed
some signs. Technicians quickly changed his microphone. I don't know why they did that, but the new mike didn't
work!!!!! Robert sang a couple of lines but noone heard it. It was a disaster. Then it started to work, but the whole
impression of this song was kind of ruined. And Perry had the problems with guitars too. In the middle of one song
he went of the stage and came back with another guitar. And before the another song (I don't remember exactly
before which one, but I think it was "Inbetween Days") Perry accidently stepped on the effect pedal and then the
stupid sound came :)))  Everything else was just great.


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