March 31st, 2000 - Valencia, Spain (Velodromo Luis Puig)
Out Of This World, Watching Me Fall, Want, Fascination St., Open, Where the Birds Always Sing, Shake Dog Shake, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Pictures of You, Maybe Someday, Sinking, Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Inbetween Days, Prayers for Rain, 100 Years, End, 39, Bloodflowers
1st Encore: Plainsong, Disintegration
2nd Encore: M, Play for Today, Just Like Heaven,
A Forest.
Soundcheck: Friday I'm in Love, Sinking, Cold,
Wrong Number, Out Of This World.
Show was 2 hours and 35 minutes long
(Thanks ThisDream & Manuel)
Review by Ale of Orient Ambulance
the songs were a lot more powerful than the
Madrid concert. the place was a lot more bigger and there were nearly
8000 people. the concerts will be supported
by back images projected in five screens, one of them bigger than
the others and behind Jason. the images are
VERY well selected. In sinking a little camera in Robert's mic foot
and films Robert's singing, in Fascination
St. are shop images at night, in where the birds.. appears a fantastic
spiral
with Romanic images and simbols, in 39 a digital
fire burns all during the song, in BF appears the flower icon, in a
forest various images of trees as if you were
liyng on the ground, in M a big M stands for the whole song...and
many psichodelic flashing colours on every
song. The concert was fantastic as it was a whole dream tour concert.
the madrid one was like a different stuff.
The most important point for these concerts, I think it is that the BF
songs
are GREAT in concert and I hope a live album
appears after the tour with most of them (I dream). Where the
birds was so powerful that I think it was
the perfect moment of the concert. as Maybe someday was the perfect of
the first one...OF COURSE, the other BF songs
are the best moments too, don't tread on me. I didn't think people
would be so frenetic when they sounded...
They played most of my favourite songs and
ones I wished (or "dreamed") to see live in my life. I won't talk about
every song again but some points. Robert changes
many songs lyrics and singing tempos. For example: he changed
in both shows the final lines of A forest
to "I WAS lost in a forest. I WAS alone" and for me It was great to notice
that sort of changes. It disappointed the
people's
reaction and made them return to the concert from the concrete
songs. In Just like heaven's "youuuu lost
and lonely...", Robert repeated 3 "you's" and it was funny. Robert also
said "Gracias" many times but spoke less "spanish"
than on Monday.
It was also very funny to watch the audience.
A guy that before it all started was saying that from Disintegration to
now they didn't make nothing right. and you
could see that the song he most enjoyed was Inbetween days ... I mean,
people that are SUPPOSED to like (mostly)
the dark stuff (in which category I don't get into, non other ones) get
more emotional with the popiest song in the
concert. I don't see how it can be explained. But you could see that man
transported 15 years before although it was
only for 3 minutes. It was funny and strange. As ALmodovar said "you
know, different country, different culture..."
the supporting group Love of Lesbian were fine,
but as they played only for 30 minutes I can't really say nothing.
They have a violin and the singer reminded
me of New model Army and Simple Minds. They could have some
elements of Sonic Youth and R.E.M., with two
guitars and singers at the same time...good but not perfect for me.
We talked to Chris White and he said Pink Pig
was a great tribute and that it have been many tributes in
a few
months, Some of them great. After the show
the Cure went into a bus to travel directly to Barcelona. My dream of
a long chat with Perry about Kubrick will
have to be postponed until we don't know when.