Out Of This World, Watching Me Fall, Want, Fascination St., Open, Last Day of Summer, Pictures of You, Where the Birds Always Sing, Maybe Someday, Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Inbetween Days, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Siamese Twins, Prayers for Rain, 100 Years, 39, Bloodflowers

1st encore: Plainsong, Disintegration
2nd encore: Lovesong, Play for Today, Just Like Heaven, A Forest
3rd Encore: Boys Don't Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab.

Soundcheck: Faith (just Roger and Jason for about 2 minutes), All cats are grey (just a few notes by Roger),
Homesick (just a few notes by Roger) [the rest of the band finally comes out], Where the Birds always sing,
Pictures of You (first 2 minutes), If Only Tonight we could sleep (first minute), Out of This World, Pornography.

CURE CONCOCTS FEEL-GOOD SHOW

 There was nothing depressing about The Cure concert at Mars Amphitheater.  Sure, most of the crowd wore
black, but they happily danced, swayed and sang  along as Robert Smith, the band's guiding force, led his crew
through an ethereal but musically solid set.

 Though his onstage patter was limited to thank-yous and song titles, Smith  mirrored the audience's upbeat mood
despite The Cure's traditional downbeat  lyrics. The rest of the band was in high form, too. The current lineup,
together for the last quarter of The Cure's 20-year existence, was almost telepathically tight.  Drummer Jason
Cooper established a groove that the rest of the band filled  admirably. Bassist Simon Gallup was rhythmic and
melodic. Perry Bamonte  played the majority of guitar solos, but doubled some parts with Smith, who often took
the lead when his vocal responsibilities allowed. And Roger O'Donnell stuck  mostly to the keyboards, but
strapped on his six-string guitar a few times during the evening.

Despite all that, this was clearly Smith's show. Solos were strictly in service to  the songs, and not opportunities
for individual expression. But the audience would hardly have wanted it any other way.

The Cure opened with Out Of This World from their latest CD, Bloodflowers, which  provided most of the material
for Saturday's concert. The show may have been the band's last South Florida appearance, as Smith is billing this
tour as The Cure's farewell trip. But he's reported to have said the same thing several times before. If  this time
it's true, the band is going out on a high note. Reviewers have hailed Bloodflowers as The Cure's best recorded
work, and their live presentation, if Saturday's sold-out gig was any indication, has reached a genuine and very
positive peak.

It was a cold day in December 83' when my brother pulled me into his room and told me to listen to this song.....
The crackling sound of needle and this deep base was very weird.... Killing An Arab was the song and for 2:22 I
stood there in all.... 17 years later the last song I will probably hear from them in person was Killing An Arab...
Just got back from The West Palm show and All I have to say for the people who are Cure Fans go see them....
They started just after 8pm and went for 2 hours playing A fantastic Set... They started off off w/ Out Of this
World... Magical..Watching me was next... To watch Robert Smith start off sooo peaceful but by near the end of
the song you felt his emotions..Want was next and for a Wild Mood cut I was Very Impressed.. The two songs
that stood out were If only tonight we can sleep and Siamese Twins were in my opinion to be the best.. The freaky
show on the screen mixed in w/ the The orang/red light show made If only my fav... Siamise Twins on the other
hand was A cure fans dream... It sounded like the studio version but better... So crystal clear and Roberts voice
would melt anyone heart... And Prayers for Rain was a pleaser... He hit the "rain" for it seemed like a minute(8
sec) Never crackled nothing....
The First Encore was Great...Plainsong was the ticket and When the band was on stage getting ready Robert was
nowhere to be found...They started the song and A glowing teeth Rob appeared to the side of the stage looking
down at us blowing us kisses and waving......Truly His way of "saying goodbye" Letting people touch him and
giving him roses was a first to see him willingly take it from a fan.... he got up waved to us and played the best
version  i have ever heard him sing it..(even better than The Prayer tour in 89) Then came disintegration..Nothing
else to say except Feeling....

Second encore was the debut of Love song they played that was not played in Europe... And Play for today was
great too...The forest short(not the 15 min ones in the past) but perfect....

Third Was Boys Don't Cry 10:15 Saturday Night and Killing an Arab.....  Classic Ending......... After the Music
stopped the feed back stopped from the AMPS Robert stayed on stage and just waved to us..... Very classy of
him......

The show was Great.... Sound voice lights were perfect....They some problems w/the volume of their
instruments........The crowd(EST 11,000-12,000) were into it... oh course there were some idiots there talking
interrupting and shit but but in a nut shell they were cool......

This was my 10th time seeing them 85, 86, 87, 89, 92, 92, 96, 97, 99, 2000 I ve seen them when they were
unknowns and now to see the emotion from the crowd and from the band was full circle for me... I know The Cure
will tour again someday... until i have 10 memories I won't forget....

If you are a cure fan then please go support them..... if your just a average cure fan, go see them anyway... If it
your  first time or the 10th, GO SEE THEM!!!!!!!  Adrianna Saint you missed a great Concert.. My friend John
says Thanks......

I've waited a few days to write this simply to read what others felt about the show. You all now have the set list in
hand and know that it was simply an incredible show. We can all Wish for our "Perfect" setlist, and mind you,
some of my favorites were not included ( e.g. "M") But C'est la Vie! We had them for almost three incredible
hours of fantastic music. Those of you that nit pick finite details of EVERY SINGLE SHOW.....need to remember
what you are there for and remember how it all started. JUST BE HAPPY! Who cares about the people around you,
who cares if Perry screws up a chord....who cares!!!  Enjoy it, as it may be the last time you will ever hear ANY of
this live!

 It's 7:00 pm sunday nite, just got back from west palm and thought I would voice my oppinion..Well I thought the
West Palm Show was wonderful.  Siamese Twins alone would have left me feeling pleased especially played along
with IOTWCS, Prayers for Rain and 100 years.  I loved the way they changed the show. I got a different
perspective on the light show since we were further back.  There was more to see than I saw in Atlanta, I think I
was too close and over to one side for a good view of the lights in Atlanta.  I thought the crowd was a little better
than Atlanta, but not much.  There was one group of people in front of Simon and Perry that seemed to have their
attention, throughout the show, they were gesturing in that direction. I would have loved to hear a pornography
set as well, it hopefully will come in NO Monday or Tuesday(especially for Craig and Nadine). I would like to add
one note.  This is obviously going to be and adventure for the next 4 weeks.  I love them playing outdoors, but I
am really looking forward to seeing Watching Me Fall in pitch black at the Saenger, being played early in daylight
does not do the song the justice it deserves, that is definitely the most hardcore song on Bloodflowers.  To anyone
sitting in section 8, if you thought you saw a snake slithering through the seats, you were not hallucinating(at least
not then).  A snake decided he wanted to enjoy the show was slithering about. We determined it was not poisonous
and I quickly escorted him out of the venue.  This was sometime during the encores, from that point on I was a
littled confused, I mean who expects a snake to crawl up to you at a Cure concert.  I guess it made for that much
more of a memorable experience, I felt like Snakepit would have been appropriate.  As to peolpe not standing,
they were standing during the encores(on the seats) from fear of the snake. As for myself I never left, never sat
and never stopped dancing the whole show, it was a blast.  When I reflect on this, I realize how quickly two shows
are gone and me makes me sad to think that this might possibly be the end.  I guess this is the reason for this
journey I am undertaking.
DON'T...................................STOP

West Palm started off promising.  I mean, they had people directing traffic and parking.  However, it made very
little sense to let people in the gates around six and not allow them into the seats or the green until almost an hour
later.  More food and beverage vendors, but that proved to be horrid later on, as I will soon explain.  There was
also at least one more shirt in the merchandise.  A younger crowd was to be seen.  Many of which would end up
being out past curfew.  And just as many jocks and straight-types (excuse my stereotype) as Atlanta.  Our seats
were better than last time, and you could hear the soundcheck from where we had to wait, though you couldn't see
them.
  Before and up to Fascination Street was much the same as before.  But still great.  And when they began Pictures
of You, the crowd was on their feet.  Through my tears, I looked up and behind and saw the lawn was a mass of
standing, swaying fans.  I was not the only one weeping.  I had never heard "If Only Tonight......." live so that was
such a treat.  After Plainsong, the crowd was a frenzy.  I don't remember too much from then on except sweat,
tears, actually hearing Killing An Arab (which I *never* thought I'd hear live -- yes, I know that dates me!),
awesome lights, and Robert <dreamy grin>
  For the most part, and by the other reviews, I suppose this was only  a phenomena particular to section 6, but by
the encores, the energy and noise of the amphitheatre was overwhelming.  The concert itself was, for myself,
a fitting end.  If it really is the end.  I found myself getting a bit teary-eyed here and there for reasons beyond the
lyrics.  I pray this will not be the last time I see them live.
  Now for the bad things.  First off, the people who sat to the right and bottom right of us.  I must've been stepped
on twenty times by drunken half-dressed sorority chicks who couldn't have possibly even known who the Cure was.
At one point, I asked one of the guys who persisted in walking in front of me whenever prepared to take a photo,
why he just wouldn't bring the whole keg and sit it next to them in the seat.  Because of this person, I missed a
prime photo of Robert with his arms outstretched.  And groups like this were sprinkled everywhere in the reserved
seats.  It's odd how there seem to be more tru Cure fans on the lawn than in the reserved seats.
  The (stereotype alert!!!!) kindergoths were out in full force that night. The kind and caring cops and staff who so
helpfully guided parking and directions were absent when we left.  It took over an hour to get out of the parking
lot.
  Maybe I'm not as finicky as some people, but, for the most part, I enjoyed the concert.  Just being there, in a
much cleaner and organized enviro than the Atlanta show, and being able to partake of The Cure live, minor
mess-ups and all, was enough to send me to my Marriott hotel bed tired and satisfied. I only hope that everyone
who will be able to attend the rest of the concert can be as happy as I was.

 P.S.  If anyone there noticed a silly girl in black & white stockings, and a red & black veil that would be yours
truly.

I was quite disappointed while reading the comments of the Palm Beach show. This was my first Cure concert so,
perhaps I'm not that qualified to speak about such things as sound and lighting but, I will say that the band
was phenomenal!
    Being lucky lucky enough to have great seats, we arrived just a few minutes before the band took the stage.
After getting past the "nazi security", everything was perfect. As for the crowd not being "into it"...from where we
were sitting, I had a great view of everything. I  remember looking back into the crowd and just seeing it
undulating. The roar was deafening  Around us, everyone was dancing and singing at the top of their lungs. I
remember the end of Prayers for Rain when Robert just held that last "rain" forever! The crowd went NUTS!
And, the end of 100 Years...it seemed like it would never end. The guitar work was PHENOMENAL.
    I really wish people weren't so harsh. The all-around mood was definitely  a positive one. They played for 3
hours! Everything was beautiful! I couldn't  imagine a more perfect evening. Every performance has slight
imperfections...that's part of the charm.  So, technicalities aside, it was a magical evening ...actually, it was "Just
Like Heaven" !!!
    Thank you so much (Cure) for such a BEAUTIFUL performance. My first show  will always be an AMAZING
memory.

 The Cure's performance last night was phenomenal!  Except a few botched notes by Robert during "The Last
Day of Summer"  and few forgotten lyrics, they couldn't have performed any better.  Besides, a Cure concert
wouldn't be complete, and would lose a little bit of its appeal if you didn't hear robert making up some lyrics off the
top of his head as he forgets what he should really be singing.
    This was my 2nd cure concert.  I drove 10 hours from Atlanta (which I saw 2 days previous to this one) and I was
very happy to see the setlist change as much as it did.  Some of my personal highlights would be hearing "last day
of summer", "pictures of you", and "where the birds always sing" back to back.  And later "if only tonight we
could sleep" and "siamese twins" back to back.  And right before playing Siamese Twins robert announced "I
think this is the first time this song will be played in america.  Its called Siames Twins".  And I was there to be a
part of it.  It was stunning!  This was the song that I voted for on the Cure's contest and was very glad to have
heard it live.  But the biggest surprise of the night is when they unveiled "Lovesong" in the 2nd encore with
Robert saying "This is the first time we'll play this song on this tour...it's called Lovesong".  What a treat to have
been part of that too.  The crowd went wild!   I must say I was just a little bit disappointed to hear Peel Sessions
final encore...but it was still a great performance.  After hearing pornography in soundcheck, and seeing that
most of the songs they played in soundcheck they were playing in the concert, I was hoping for the Cold-A Strange
Day-Pornography Encore.
    The disappointment of the night was the crowd.  For the most part they just weren't getting into all of the songs
that much.  People down front (first 20-30 rows) were cheering loud...but in the upper seating section where I was,
they just seemed like they were killing some time hoping to hear just a few singles.  These 2 guys in the row in
front of me weren't even paying attention half the time, and were just talking amongst themselves.  The crowd
didn't get loud until they started with "pictures of you"..and finally most of the people in the upper sections got out
of their seats.  And then after the song was over they just sat back down.  I think I inadvertently made the 10 or so
rows behind me stand up for the entire show because there was no way I was sitting down through a Cure concert.
The crowd really only cheered hard and loud when they were playing singles/pop songs (i.e. Pictures of you,
inbetween days, just like heaven, etc.).  And I just wonder if Robert decided on the Peel Session final encore just
gauging from the crowds' repsonse to earlier songs.   However, the fans in the first sections seemed to be really
getting into it.  When songs were introduced most of the cheering was coming from down there and from my mouth.
    But these 2 Cure shows were definitely an unbelievable experience.  Out of the 2 nights I got to hear 35 different
songs performed live.  So if there is anyone reading this now not knowing if they want to spend the money and time
to go see them live....I tell you it is something you will not regret.  I drove almost 1600 miles round trip to see these
two shows and it was WELL WORTH IT.  And I'm going to see them one more time in Columbia Maryland on
June 17th which will add about another 900-1000 roundtrip mileage.  I only wish I had the time and money to see
more concerts.

The show was an unmitigated disaster. The band didn't arrive until 6:30, just as the audience was being allowed
into the venue. On the one hand, this was great as it allowed those of us along the edges of the structure to watch
soundcheck (security wouldn't let us take our seats); on the other hand, they obviously didn't work out all the
kinks.
As an aside about the audience, it was disturbing to note that, despite the fact that the band were clearly visible
during soundcheck, only about a couple dozen people bothered watching  them. I kept expecting people to get
excited  and yell out to the band, but most everyone there seemed disinterested. This was only a harbinger of the
nightmare to come. The show started off on time (8:15) with solid performances of OOTW and WMF (despite what
I assume will be a standard problem of over half the audience not being in their seats at the start of the show).
Then it fell apart with Want, as Perry began having major problems with his guitar that  recurred until the last few
songs of the main set and threw off everything. I kept wishing they'd stop the set and fix the problem, but instead
they tried to play through it and as a result we got very poor versions of FS, Open, POY, FTEOTDGS, etc.
Making matters worse, the audience was worse than the one in Atlanta. They cheered much louder for the pop
songs and the cuts off Disintegtration, but they almost completely ignored IOTWCS, Siamese Twins, a strong
version of 100 Years, and most of the tracks from Bloodflowers. And, disturbingly, the band gave them what they
wanted, adding Lovesong to the '17 Seconds' encore (will we ever hear M?) and substituting BDC-10.15-KAA
for the planned 'Pornography' encore. While Atlanta was intense and spiritual despite a lackadaisical audience,
West Palm Beach was a typical pop rock success, the sort of show that I would have enjoyed so much more if I
wasn't  painfully aware of what they're really capable of.
I'm going to every show on this tour, and last night's developments truly  have me worried. Will the band fight the
audience's expectations and play the more intense material, or should we be expecting FIIL, Lullaby, WCIBY,
etc. to be creeping into the set as the tour goes on? Is it always like this?

I have discovered that living in Florida has repeatedly given rise to matters of poor circumstance.  In this case, it
was the fact that the Cure played only one concert in the entire state, in a less-than-central location.  And such was
my disappoinment-- the first opportunity (for financial reasons) for attending multiple dates was rendered useless
(by practical ones-- namely accessibility).

The concert was performed at an unassuming enough place-- the MARS Music Amphitheatre, someplace between
the dingy extremities of the South Florida urban sprawl and the middle of nowhere.  I had always hoped for a more
suitable location in which to see the Cure-- perhaps a velvet-walled theatre in New Orleans or a Lancashire abbey,
but once again I was a victim of poor circumstance and bad timing.  Comparing the experience (and not the
performance) to the previous tour, I must say that indoor shows work better.

Pre-concert music was provided by a duo called Since the Accident, although it's debatable whether or not one
would be referring to the 'duo' as the sequencer and drum machines that provided most of the sound: goth
synth-pop with overtones of the Orlando scene, straight out of the Visage days.  And in any event, it's nice to be
refreshed in my imagination of what Europe must have sounded like in 1985.

Having read Nadine's journal for the Atlanta show, I can fully empathize with her disappointment with audience
etiquette and behavior.  The show began after a curtailed tape of Barber's Adagio for Strings and continued
over at least the first three songs before people had settled in at all. Keeping aside the 'concert' phenomenon of a
collective identity of individual decisions to breach any and every form of civility (especially at merchandise booths
and post-concert parking lots), it isn't too much to ask to respect the performers and the rest of the audience
enough and arrive on time.  Sadly, this is something I will remember-- the 'Chinese opera' forum for open
discussion whilst a concert is played.

But what a show it was!  The playing wasn't much different than that which I heard on the last tour; the differences
were elsewhere and usually more subtle.  Lighting was effective, using the projector displays of static images and
swirling shapes that we've grown fond of.  And of course there was everything else that has come to institutionalize
the ritual-- Robert talking (although less and less, it seems), Robert forgetting lyrics, etc.

The primary set was Bloodflowers-heavy, with only 'There Is No If...' and 'The Loudest Sound' not performed.
Clean, sleek versions of Out of This World and Watching Me Fall progressed into Want, which has changed in
character since its performances on the last tour and seems to merit a place in the live repertoire.  The set
continued on, well-played and well-appreciated, displaying nothing remarkable in terms of programming but
a warm and satisfying mastery in terms of ensemble and performance.

The support of the new material turned to the past in the second half of the set.  Inbetween Days and If Only
Tonight We Could Sleep were played with all of the comfort and liberty of reciting the alphabet, adding the wonder
of memories to an engaging.  Then it was Siamese Twins, the unheralded masterpiece in the art museum,
the forgotten moment of dreams.  This was for me the gem of the concert, bathed in red lights and velvety
blackness, rich with all of the nuances that shine within it on the album version (guitar harmonics rising from open
fifths, the tritone chords, and a genuine ache managing to be heard through deadpan brilliance).

An atmospheric (and welcome) Prayers for Rain was followed by a faithful-to-the-original One Hundred Years,
with pounding drum machine and ugly, snarling guitars.  The closing tracks of the Bloodflowers album ended
the set, shaping the ever-changing emotional nebula of Robert's progress of maturity into a hot and powerful finish.
Bloodflowers was carefully understated until its end, lessening the brooding, angry richness of the
Pornography-esque guitar line.  The true moment of intensity came during the repetition of the break, when
delicate colors and soft lights erased facial features and showed only an estimation of figures.

Each encore had its own character and sense of balance: the first with the airy, suspending majesty of Plainsong
and the anger of Disintegration; the second with its collection of well-polished Cure classics; the third with
its retrospective sense of wisdom and display of a mature and developed praxis of emotions and memories.  I
had taken particular delight in discovering previously that All Cats Are Grey-- one of my dear favorites--
was being performed on this tour.  I had hoped for that and more from the vault (e.g. Faith, Figurehead, Sinking,
perhaps even Piggy in the Mirror), but my (slight) disappointment in not hearing them live was easily
overshadowed by the reward and splendor of such a well-performed, engaging concert.

After spending much of the day traveling from Kansas City to Palm Beach, I was anxious to see my first US
Dream Tour concert.  I and the crowd were not disappointed! Highlights included a searing version of " Watching
Me Fall, a very well played " Where The Birds Always Sing " and a melancholy " Last Day of Summer." Older
favorites that were played quite well included " Siamese Twins," " If Only Tonight We Could Sleep " " Plainsong"
and "Disintegration. " The encores were Plainsong, Disintegration, Love Song, Play For Today, Just Like Heaven,
A Forest, Boys Don't Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, and Killing An Arab...probably the best I have ever heard this
song played!

This was my seventh Dream Tour show ( Madrid (2), Barcleona, Zaragoza, London, and San Francisco )and it
ranks as one of the best. The crowd, about 10,000 seem to be very into the show and the band seemed to be in a
good mood.

Do not miss this tour! It has to be the best ever!