Before Three, Fascination Street, alt.end, The End Of The World, Just Like Heaven, Play For Today, A Forest

Encore: Boys Don't Cry (not broadcast on MTV)

Show was 35 minutes.

(Thanks to Pietro, Marco and Andrea for the setlist)

This is my story:
I won two tickets for the Coca-Cola live in Milan but I had no intention to go because I live very far from Milan
and the groups who had to perform there didn't interest me.
But two days before the show MTV revealed that the special guests were... THE CURE! I decided instantly to go,
since I had missed the two shows in Italy (Imola and Naples).
I had the luck to be in the front row,  the performance of the Cure was short but very brilliant. To tell the truth,
not so short, 35 minutes when instead I thought they'd played only one-two songs.
I was pleasantly surprised when they began with Lost, a song I love already very much, followed then by another
of my fav songs: Fascination Street!
By the way Robert was late and the staff of MTV was worried, while the other were already there very soon, when
I  arrived at seven Jason and Roger were on stage talking with  technicians.
At the end of the gig Robert seemed disappointed he could not play more, and he almost apologized with us. It
seemed really finished when they came back on stage and played Boys don't cry.
They played three songs from the new album and they really seemed at the best of their form. This is the second
time I see them after Conegliano in 2002, and I really didn't hope to see them this year!

- Deepwaters Dark
 
 

Short but nice.
MTV free gig for CocaCola with giveaway tickets (if you bought the drink you could win). Until Monday only
PHOENIX ASH and ARTICOLO31 (one of the worst but most popular italian bands) were scheduled.
I have no idea how all the cure fans have managed to get the tickets, but believe me the atmosphere was like a
real CURE gig. At the beginning the crowd was calm and still (even during FASCINATION) listening to new
songs. With HEAVEN people woke up, but as soon as PLAY4TODAY began everyone went mad, singing along
oooh oohh ohhh oohh ohh ohhh (at this point I understood that the crowd was real CURE hardcore fans)
Forest with all the 'Parco Sempione' trees and the green light was touching as usual

Then the presenters came on stage announcing the show was over, but after a short break we saw Robert coming
back saying: "we've got 3 minutes more" and they played a fantastic BOYSDONTCRY with all the crowd dancing
madly jumping pushing screaming and laughing... very nice feeling

- Remo
 
 

I saw the Cocacola live show on TV...and I wished I were there!!! The Cure performance has been OK, they had
the right verve and the sound in tv was ok. The setlist was rightly representative (good choise of the old stuff,
maybe not the same about the new songs - my favourite new songs are Labyrinth, Before three, I don't know
what's goin on, Taking off, Anniversary and The promise: they only played Before three).

I'd really like to see them live again this year!! Will they come back in Italy?!

- Francesco
 
 

I'm really tired, 3 concerts in 5 days... I'm not so young to do all this things without problems....

We were really lucky, we had no pass, but as we live very near we said: why not? And we went to the Castello
My husband, a no fear man, started to ask around, in a polite way, for two passes and he has been so lucky to get
them from a very kind man of the security. Thank you!
We waited for the Cure sitting on the grass, drinking a free Coca cola, than, when all the supporter finished, we
tried to reach the front following a very big and drunk boy shouting: "GO away you! We want to see the cure,
you don't like them, GO away!" Thank you boy!

I believe that MTV is really useless, but the concert was really well organized! The sound was perfect, we could
perfectly hear Robert's guitar, and the stage was very tall so we could see everything very well...
We knew that the concert had to stop at 12,00, and we were ready for a short playlist, but it has been very
intense. There were really a lot of hardcore fans, those 30-years-old still dressing in black dancing and singing so
happy for the chance of this concert. Those men of the security were watching at us smiling while we welcomed
every song with a huge roar, i think it was a nice show!

At the end of "a forest" Robert asked for one more song, but the organisation said no, maybe a question of
time. But the crowd started to shout, saying OUT! OUT! and offending introducers, with  16,000 little fingers
shaking in the air. I think we were incredibly angry and maybe somebody feared us!!
We saw Simon coming back and than the rest. They started playing Boys don't cry and the crowd started to dance
wildly... it was really a joy! A show too short but we were so satisfied !
 

last two things...
this afternoon we tried to get the pass by calling MTV, we did not get them (of course, as we are two simple
nothing-breathing-on-planet-earth), but we were surprised to listen to The end of the World as we waited to be
connected to the right person...

- Serena & Sergio
 
 

The band got on stage at 23.05 circa; they played for 32-33 minutes. Setlist was:

Before three, Fascination Street, alt.end, The end of the world, Just like heaven, Play for today, A forest

After a forest Robert said "i think we have to finish here" but then he added "wait a minute" and got off stage,
so everyone hoped for him to return for an encore; but then the tv hosts came on stage and said it was all over
and the broadcast stopped : (

in the short interview before the show, Robert didn't say much: he talked about the Naples show, where they
could play as much as they wanted, and so they kind of rehearsed the more new songs as possible. he said
they're gonna cut down some songs to settle on a shorter set for the next festivals, though. Then he was asked
about the reaction among the audience to the new songs: he said there certainly was a part of the audience who
wanted to get into the new stuff, but that there was another part who wanted the old hits and that they had to mix
the two components. he said that right at the time he was making the interview, they had not decided yet the
setlist: they were pretty much agreeing on the new songs, but had still to talk for the old ones to be played.
That's pretty much all for what concerns the interview.

The audience was good, afterall: i feared much worse. There was indeed a great participation.

the "supporting acts" were bugo, phoenix, ash and articolo 31."

- Pietro
 
 

This it what was broadcasted MTV here in Italy:

Before 3
Fascination Street
Alt. end
The end of the world
Just like heaven
Play for today
A Forest.

Then they faded but I could see that Cure came back for encores and they were playing Boys don't cry

All the broadcast will be on www.pogopop.it in a few minutes

- Lorenzo Contucci