Out of This World, Watching Me Fall, Want, Fascination St., The Last Day of Summer, Maybe Someday, Edge of the Deep Green Sea, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, 39, Prayers For Rain, 100 Years, Bloodflowers

1st Encore: A Strange Day, A Forest

2nd Encore: Figurehead, Disintegration.

Well, my boyfriend and I made it to the show and…what can I say? I have been to 8 Cure shows and this was the
most emotional, intense, powerful, and absorbing show I have ever seen. I was brought to tears more than once.
They played, among others, Prayers for Rain, Disintegration, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, A Strange Day,
100 Years, Figurehead, and A Forest. I was completely taken away.

The show started late. We got in line at 4:30 and were finally let inside at 7. We spent the next 3 hours in quiet
anticipation, waiting for the show to begin. During this time I watched as, first Perry then Jason and then Roger,
each walked onto a private balcony to the left side of the stage and looked down on the crowd, while socializing with
family and friends, un-noticed by most of us on the floor.

Finally, at about 10 o’clock (maybe even after) they came on stage and began, opening with Out of This World and
Watching Me Fall, then Want (I'm not as fond of WMS, but Want really is quite a good song). I was (barely)
standing just in front of Robert and Simon, about 7 or 8 heads from the stage, so I had a really great view (when the
guy in front of me wasn't shoving the back of his head into my face). Robert looked a lot less tired than he had the
night before at the signing, and had his usual make-up on, of course. A friend of mine had given him a bracelet at
the signing and when she noticed that he was wearing it on stage I think she nearly passed out. I didn't jot down the
set list but they did play Fascination Street, At the Edge of the Deep Green Sea and 39, which were all excellent
and made me wonderfully dizzy.

It was such an intensely emotional show. During 100 years, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers Robert was crying. It
seemed that the entire band felt really connected with the crowd, enough that they were comfortable slipping into
such a deeply haunting and profoundly evocative mood. None of them seemed to really want to stop playing, Robert
especially. I have been waiting for so long for a show like this. At the end of the show I was emotionally drained and
physically exhausted, but feeling very satisfied. Finally I didn't leave a show wishing they had played one other
song, or wanting the mood to be just a little bit different. I have absolutely loved each Cure show I have been to,
but this one was overwhelming, moving, and incomparably meaningful.

In the current Rolling Stone the reviewer of The Cure's new album 'Bloodflowers' rambles off that the Cure are
once again reminding the world that they are a singles band... that the other tracks on their albums are simply
filler... obviously this person still listens to KROQ and is dying to hear the new No Doubt record. The new album
may not reach the perfection of 'Disintegration' and it may not scream like 'pornography' but landing
somewhere in-between isn't a bad place to be.

Having only visited San Francisco once prior to this voyage I knew very little about the Fillmore other than what
scraps of history I've been fed by Grateful Dead fans here and there over time (working in a music store has
its negative points). The Fillmore turned out to be a beautiful venue (once you got inside of it) with a large wood
floor and a balcony off to the side (where from time to time as the crowds filtered in from 7 until 9:30 you could see
various members of the band looking out over the audience). Perhaps the best news before the show started was
that the Detroit Rock City Kids had been let into the show (let's just say these 4 guys went through hell in hopes of
seeing the Cure play) and that was only one of a few miracles (how did I ever get a ticket in the first place being
one of them)...

Once the band came on... the world stopped spinning and for the next two hours I was caught in rapture. I expected
the show to be good, the idea of seeing the Cure in a small enviroment is nothing short of a fantasy come true. I
didn't however expect to walk away thinking that up until this point I had never really seen the Cure play with
everything they've got. The new material pushed out with more emotion than the album suggests and I couldn't
help but think that this was what won fans over during the 'pornography' era shows. Robert coming out and giving
himself over to the music, to the moment. You could almost see the lipstick dripping from his eyes... The set
was simply brilliant and the reviewer from the Rolling Stone wouldn't have known any of the words. Obscure tracks
dominated the set (who would have thought 'Figurehead' or 'If Only Tonight We Could Sleep' would ever
resurface?) with only Fascination Street jumping out for the radio junkies who bought 'Galore' and sold off the rest
of the backcatalogue.

The band wasn't the tightest that I've seen them but Jason seems to have found his place within the line-up and
Perry's guitar skills have seemed to improve over the Swing shows and Simon and Roger were in typical top form.

Yet the strangest detail within the chaos was that the band seemed to be enjoying the performance as much as
those watching it. Perhaps through all that hopelessness Robert and company could sense that they were doing
what they do best... and that makes me the luckiest Cure fan in Utah because I was there to see it all.