Plainsong, Before Three, Fascination Street, The End of the World, A Night Like This, Inbetween Days, Jupiter
Crash, Pictures of You, Lullaby, alt.end, A Strange Day, Lovesong, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep
Green Sea, One Hundred Years, Us or Them, Disintegration

Encore: The Promise, Going Nowhere

"Roger was sick, sat the whole show, left for 100 years."

Show was 1 hour & 43 minutes.

(Thanks to Olivier and Stephan for the setlist)
 

Translation of the review in Belgian newspaper Le Soir (July 3rd, 2004) :

When old people are teaching
 
It's not yet tomorrow that The Cure will give us it's own version of  "God's Twilight".  Thursday night, Robert
Smith was participating for the 5th time at the Werchter festival,  equaling REM's record.  With his band, he
could just have been contenting with doing a classical "best of", to make nostalgics happy.  And add some new
songs of the new album, to stay "professional".  Nothing of all that : the Britannics have conviced curious people
and strong fans. Buzz off "a forest" or "Boys don't cry" ! those emblematics titles that had great impact in the
new wave of the 80's.  In place of that, The Cure offered a very well built set : each song add something to the
ambiance of the previous one., in a crescendo where large instrumentals parts were made.
Beginning with "Plainsong" and "Before 3", the band doesn't let a lot of place to the pop breathings that were
brought someday  with "Why can't I be you" or "Friday I'm in love".  And when "100 years" appears, 22 years
old, the ambiance became incandescent, accentuated by the red lights.  The setlist give a large place to
"Disintegration".  A major album, one of their best (we already seen it at Forest-National during the Trilogy
concert).  "Fascination Street", played early, is still distiling the same rage again.   "Pictures of you" and, later
"Love Song"  are somptuous.
Ok, Robert Smith shows his demons, always the same.  Between two songs he drinks his beer.  His stoutness and
his make up gives him some apparence of a sad clown.  But some smiles are reheating :  those he's doing to his
musicians, thoses to the camera's on the Lullaby's chorus (Spider man is having me for dinner tonight). The band
looks then more united than ever, at the right place. The new songs ?  AT the right place too.  The guitars's riffs
more rock listened on the cd are accentuating the words, not really "pink".  On "The Promise" by example with
it's fascinating despair.
On this recycling time, The Cure stay an atypical band.  Hard, of course to not became nostalgic. But it was really
no question of a dusty apparition thursday night.

(Thanks to Alexandre for the scan and translation)
 
 

Pictures and review at Go For Music.

(Thanks Eric and Stephan)
 
 

There's an article on www.lesoir.be : http://www.leguide.be/Guide/musiques/page_5377_232732.shtml

Here's a translation :

Tuesday evening, Robert Smith came for the fifth time at the Werchter festival, equaling the number of
appearances of REM. With his band, he could just  have  played a classic 'best of' show, just to please the
nostalgics. And play some songs of their latest album. But none of that happened, and the brits convinced a
number of curious people in the audience, plus all the fans.

No 'Forest' and other 'Boys Don't Cry', these emblematic titles that marked the new wave of the 80's. Instead of
that, The Cure played a judiciously chosen set (...).

Starting the set with Plainsong and Before Three, the band is not leaving much space for pop songs like Why
Can't I Be You and Friday. And when 100 Years is starting (22 years old now), the atmosphere becomes
incandescent (?).

The setlist leaves a large space for titles of Disintegration, a must have album, and also one of their best albums -
as we could convince ourselves about it during the trilogy show in Forest National.

Fascination Street played early in the set is once again giving this fantastic rage. Pictures of You and, a little
later, Love Song, are somptuous.

Ok, RS is still with his demons, always the same ones. And, between two titles, he's drinking some beers. His
overweight and makeup are giving him the style of a sad clown. But there has been smiles that are giving warmth
: the ones he is exchanging with the other band members, the ones to the cameras on the chorus of Lullaby ( the
spider man is having me for dinner tonight ... ). And the band seems with those even more strong together.

The new titles ? They also deserve their place in the set. (...)

In these times of recycling (the new wave is back), the cure is still an atypic band. It's obviously hard not to be
nostalgic. But it was surely not a dusty appearance, this thursday night ( meaning it can't be compared with the
return of the eighties bands like duran duran and co ).

(Thanks Olivier)
 
 

Around 13.00 i drove to Belgium (alone...no-one i know really likes The Cure so most of the time i have to go
alone to concerts).
The first few acts really didnt impress me but i have to say: Pink was/is really good !! I mean she really sings
live very well. But that wasnt the reason why i drove all the way to Belgium. I WANT TO SEE THE CURE !
Finally it was time: they started with plain song, one of the greatest openers of all time. The sound was in my
opinion very good, but at  this time i had a couple of beers.....
I really like the new album so i was very pleased to hear the promise, going nowhere, us of them etc.
But the greatest suprise was: A night like this and jupiter crash.
I cant wait to see them in november at the ahoy in rotterdam (i know for sure they will play then.)
It was a very good concert.

- Marco
 
 

I got back yesterday. Got me 2 T-shirts: The white, swirly logo and the one with the purple heart. I also found a
big posterflag of Robert close-up around The Top era, got it from one of the small shops on the road between the
campsite and the concert grounds :)

About the concert: That show was amazing :o

I was standing to the left around the third row. The crowd were mostly assholes around me, so much that I
"accidently" *grin* elbowed someone in the face after being pushed for the third time by some drunk bastard.
Robert was very shy again when he was "greeting" the audience during Plainsong (opener). He was almost
begging to stop cheering and applauding while making "please stop!" gestures with a little shy smile on his face :D
Looks like he had a little haircut as well.

They've played for a total of +/- 2 hours and it was a pretty good setlist. A lot of 'Disintegration' songs like
Plainsong, Pictures Of You (together with some tears), Lullaby, Fascination Street, Lovesong and Disintegration
(started great, but seemed a bit held back throughout the rest of the song). They've played MANY songs from the
new cd: Before Three, The End of the World, alt.end, Us Or Them, The Promise and Going Nowhere.
Other songs were Just Like Heaven, Inbetween Days, FTEOTDGS, Jupiter Crash (!!!), A Night Like This, A
Strange Day and One Hundred Years (and some tears again). Roger seemed a bit ill, he put on his coat halfway
the show, and he disappeared during One Hundred Years. Cheers to him for playing this gig! I've heard Perry was
sick as well, but it didn't show at all. He was rivaling Simon jumpwise! :D

Their encores were The Promise (he had a bit of technical problems with this one I think, he was making "up"
gestures to the soundtechs) and Going Nowhere. Especially that last one was amazing, was a really emotional
moment; Me and my girlfriend Wendy are 1 year together as from July 2nd :) It was a little after 12pm so it
couldn't be more perfect. I'm glad I could share this concert with her.

He closed the whole thing with the words "See you sometime later this year", so I have hope that the rumours for
Vorst in october are true. We both took a lot of pictures, and will send them to CoF when they're done.

Brilliant :)

- Dave
 
 

Excellent concert at Werchter, but the end of the main set was filled with technical problems : during 100 years,
Robert had a problem with his guitar during the closing guitar solo. His guitar was taken by a roadie during Us
or Them for repair. Then came disintegration, and that song needed the use of that guitar too. And apparently,
the problem was still there because Robert was unable to perform his guitar parts properly, ending the song by
simply making noise with one cord instead of playing his solo. They then stopped for the main part of the concert,
no playing The Promise as usual. They came back for the encore, and played The Promise after a break of less
than 2 minutes, just the time for a roadie to fix it again.

Highlights were a very nervous "night like this", Before Three (also excellent live) and The Promise. alt.end
was also a good surprise and was not as bad as you all think (no, don't throw stones at me)

The other "special" thing of this concert was Roger being visibly ill. He was sitting for the whole show, and also
playing sometimes out of pace or even making mistakes, which is not usual at all with him. It didn't seem to
annoy Robert, because they were laughing at him with Simon. Roger even left during 100 years, and only went
backstage very often during breaks between songs, coming back on stage just a few seconds before his part
starts. During From the Edge, it seemed a very tiring task for him to play that piano note in pace with Jason.

No "suprise" track were played, but I suppose it had to be a "business as usual" concert due to Roger's state.
The crowd was cool and had a lot of Cure fans, easy to check when they play FTEOTDGS : the Cure fans are
the one "putting their hands to the sky" when requested ;-)

During Going Nowhere, Robert was looking at Roger, with a big smile, when Roger played his wonderful piano
parts, just like if  he wanted to say "seems you're not dead yet Roger !". At the end of going nowhere, Robert
said goodnight, so we knew the show was over.

It was nice to see that Robert looked relaxed, even though he had multiple reasons to be upset.

Looking forward for this autumn concerts : I've hope due to Robert's "see you later in the year" at the end of
"Going Nowhere".

- Eric Florkin
 
 

Good solid cureshow (it was my 5th). Robert seemed to be enjoying it a lot. He was actually having a couple of
(Belgian) beers during the show. The band made a very selfconfident impression on me. Heavily Disintegration
dominated set with hits and new songs blended in. I was impressed with the very powerfull vocals of Robert. You
wondered if he would hold out during the new stuff live....well he did !! After Disintegration I saw Robert giving a
sigh of relieve but he came back with an incredible powerfull performance on The Promise.

Roger looked more and more like a zombie during the course of the show and must have had a bad fever. Played
his parts great though...
Apart from great performances of Before Three and A Night Like This  (which one was never one of my favorites
but came close to A Forest now) I liked a very slow, majestic version of A Strange Day a lot!!
New elements were out of tune psychedelic guitar jams (The Kiss style like on Trilogy DVD) during 100 years
guitarsolo part and Disintegration guitarsolo part... Or was Roberts guitar really out of tune and did he make the
best of it??

"thank you, good night. See you later in the year" he promised us. Very good show only surpassed by Zillo 2002
and off course Berlin 2002.

- Luuk
 
 

Yesterday, it was the 18th time that I saw The Cure.  I don't know why, but I didn't feel excited.  And the concert
was a good answer to my feeling.
No great surprise (excepted a night like this).  Robert seemed to be tired, very tired at the end of
"Disintegration",...  No particular remark.  We"ve seen better festivals (in 2002, in Carhaix, for exemple, or in
95...)... OK, a festival is NOT a concert...

The sound was pretty good and the light show as usual.  Still proud being a Cure fan, a bit disappointed... till the
next concert,

- Sébastien
 
 

Very happy to go back to Werchter for the third time (90,95,04) The crowd is still the same very good and noisy
as usual in festivals !!!!!

' Plain Song' Great opening    its remind me from the prayer tour 15 years ago
'Before 3' a little bit too slow but one of my favorite from 'the cure lp'
'fascination street' perfect as usual
'eotw' good and perfect voice from Robert
'a night like this' perfect pop song for a festival
'in between days' the song was carry by JASON,SIMON & ROBERT the others were away maybe looked at the
sky to see the planes???
'jupiter crash' NO I SAID NO we don't cross 2 differents countries for this one get off of the set
'pictures of you' perfect ( disintegration era save the set again...)
'lullaby' please stop to try this extended version played it normal
'alt end' very nice and very clear enough powerful
'a strange day' wake up you're on stage only Robert was in
'just like heaven' anyway every Cure fans like this good for a festival
'from the edge' i've just waiting for this one it's allways perfect  powerfull & beautiful
'100 years' a little bit different Roger leaves the stage but still good and the drums more louder than the drum
machine that's good
'us or them' that's a really good one with enough anger from Robert
'disintegration' maybe my favorite the sound was really good except than Perry never replace Porl on this one

encore break
' a promise' BRILLIANT !!!!!!!!  perfect live song
'going nowhere' well i really enjoy this one when i listen this one..alone, but what about FAITH to close ????

Anyway we drive all the way from Paris to Werchter for the CURE again.
The show was not the best one ,but, the new material is really good and if you are the chance to catch the band
live , just go it's really worth it. It was my 37 Cure concert and i want more .

- Frederic
 
 

Had the pleasure of seeing the band at Wercher yesterday.
Great set. Enough pop songs to please the crowd.  Nice to hear Jupiter Crash again. Something was really
screwed up with the sound of the guitars though. I don't know if it was because we were standing on the right hand
side of the stage, but Perry's guitar was really loud and we could hardly hear Robert's. Also Jason's most outer
right cymbal was silent to us. Was hoping to hear Lost, but I guess we'll have to wait till October. The new songs
sound great live. The bass and drums on these really sound energetic. Very impressed with Jason's improvements.
Hope he can also use it to upgrade some of the old work. I love the energy and anger in Us or Them. Also the
Promise was very powerful. Good to hear and feel Mr. Smith screaming his lungs out.  I'm glad that the band is
finally back on track again. The rumour that something is about to change (again) worries me though...

- Hans
 
 

The Werchter show was a very good mix of joyful and heavier songs. The set started with Plainsong which
was a very good opener. Before Robert started singing he greeted the audience from every corner of the stage
(as he often does). The show was very good but I 'd rather would have seen the M-Play for today - A Forest
encore. When Robert came back on stage he mentioned something like "I've changed... I'm still in the mood"
And he carried on with playing The Promise which is a bit in line with the three heavier songs at the end of the
first set. So I presume the band changed the encores at the very last minute. Nevertheless this was a very good
show, better than the last one the cure played in Werchter during the Dream Tour. I hope they will be back in
Autumn (as Robert mentioned).

- Stephan Vanlommel
 
 

I would like to admit some revieuw from the werchter-show yesterday evening.
But before i do that i also would like to say that i really like the new album, it has got that powerfull impact and i
love to play i very (yeah very very) loud so i can sing and scream allong the hole album through. Hearing some
nem songs live was good, the sound is ok and when the audience all would appreciate it the vibe would be great
"the promise" was everything i exspected from it, it just took me to an other level and made me forget my
trouble. The other song where played on a good level, highlight for me: plainsong (everything felt so cold), a
strange day (yes it really is), lovesong (love for every cure fan), just like heaven (just for my "i"), one hundred
years (powerful as hel) and as i said before "the promise and finishing with going nowhere" was super ok!!!

I 'm really looking forward to see them indoor. I think that the atmospfeer indoor is better for the cure and cure
lovers. At the festival i had the feeling that many people wanted a "greatest hits show" and when they didn't get
that they started to talk instead of keep listening and enjoy the thing they were doing.

finally i would also like to say that many people spontanoiusly started talking to me (some laughed at a less
plessend way) because of my hair (robert style)! i was surprised that i was almost the only one. Where did all the
others go?

Lots of love and hopefully we will meet again indoor,

- Bert
 
 

Before the show started, TMF filmed already the setlist for a few seconds and showed this on the big screens so
everybody could see it. So stupid, no really surprises anymore...
They started with Plainsong, Robert standing at the edge from the stage. Simon gave a kiss to the picture on his
Ampeg, a picture from his kid. Roger was sitting down on a chair. During One Hundred Years he left the stage, so
it was a raw, powerfull version without any keyboards.
After Going Nowhere Robert said "See you later this year", so they certenly come back to Belgium. For the rest
no surprises in this set, missed Closedown, surprised they didn't start with Lost, but that will be for the concert
later this year (7 October in Brussels???), on the other hand, Plainsong is a good opener (perhaps the best one)
and I don't like when it's played in the midle of the set or as an encore.
It was a good concert, not the best one that I saw from The Cure (I saw them in '89 at Wembley on the third night
and I think I never will see such an amazing good concert again).

- Stephan