hello, i'm back from that thing, well i didn't get into the bastille opera
but i saw it on a big screen from a music store. it started with a recorded
interview with each member of the band, for ten minutes i guess, then little
bits of the mint car video and also some of what seems to be a video for
jupiter crash (the third single? that would be great!). then a few more older
videos and it was 17:15, the concert was beginning. same intro as in 1995,
and then:

want                      (still brilliant)
club america              (this sounds really good live!)
this is a lie
mint car
jupiter crash             (loud bass again!)
round and round and round
return                    (with guitars much louder than the keyboard)
trap                      (great guitar sound live)
treasure
bare

then it was the end of the set and they stopped broadcasting it but i suppose
they played a few encores. on trap simon's bass stopped working in the middle
of the intro so he had to change it really fast. so they played ten songs
(instead of the six planned) all from the new album, 45 minutes total.
and i wasted a tape recording the show on the stupidest radio station in the
world (skyrock), and when i came back home to listen to it it was just that
stupid dj speaking and telling jokes during the whole concert, aagh. i hate
him. right now he's still speaking live from the fnac store next to the
opera, waiting with hundreds of fans for robert to come for a live interview
there. here he is (i'm typing this while listening to it) and is going to
answer a few questions asked by fans. he thinks the concert was pretty good
except for that song when a technical problem happened (trap) and that it'll
be much better when they come back here (15 october). he thinks it's very
difficult to talk about best when you talk about music but their last album
is his favorite one to make and he couldn't wish for a better record to have
at the moment, he wouldn't change it. he says it's very difficult for jason
to replace boris because he's one of the best drummers in the world but that
jason is still very young and learing. he loves both of them. the last
question (people are screaming around him), he's trying to speak french to
explain why they're going to play a big venue here in paris in october
(12,000 people, that's big for an indoor concert in europe) rather than three
days in a row in a smaller one like they did in 92 at le zenith (4,000, where
the paris live album was recorded) and he says for the next tour they plan to
do that, that he likes doing smaller venues much better but that they
couldn't do it this time because they wouldn't have time enough. "c'est une
question de time mais le prochaine will be in three zeniths" (heeeee!)
they thank him and that's it, he's leaving now. the dj says he picked
up a girl in the audience to translate what he was saying to robert into
english because his own english was pretty bad and she explains it to robert
who gives her a kiss and leaves. it was the first cure concert of the year
in europe and the first after the new album came out!