Out Of This World, Watching Me Fall, Want, Fascination St., Open, Last Day of Summer,Maybe Someday, The Snakepit, Where The Birds Always Sing, Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Inbetween Days, Siamese Twins, Prayers for Rain, 100 Years, 39, Bloodflowers

1st encore: Plainsong, Disintegration
2nd encore: Cold, Pornography
3rd Encore: Play for Today, Just Like Heaven, A Forest
4th Encore: Boys Don't Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killimg An Arab.

Soundcheck: The Same Deep Water As You, Lovesong, OOTW, Where The Birds Always Sing, a bit of Torture (Robert wasn' t there), Sinking, Fascination Street.

It was the second time i see a cure gig, the first was in 98 in Cernobbio (italy) and i must say this time was very
different for me. This time in Florence Robert seemed very happy but also very concentrated.....especially during
certain songs like watching me fall and disintegration. I liked a lot the images on the backstage..(the fire..during
39..) and also the rest of a band seemed to me in a good mood...especially roger o’donnell....he’s so cute...
For me the hilight was from the edge of a deep green sea...i started to cry ...i love that song..i think is absolutely
one of the best song i’ve ever heard in my life....and i want to dedicate that moment to a special person: Luca.

I know that I'm probably a romantic lover but, believe me, saturday night everything was really gorgeous. Ok,
they played nothing from Faith but it is impossible not to be on the seventh heaven after a setlist like this.
Maybe Out Of This World is not their best opening song but, to the end, it represents a quiet introduction to a
marvellous and involving show. At the beginning the voice was not optimally balanced with the instruments but
with Watching Me Fall everything was ok: over 11 minutes of powerful sound entered me through the bones.
Want, one of the few songs I love from Wild Mood Swings, was a fit continuation but in '96 they played it in a
more intensive way. Fascination Street and Open were good as usual but the crowd didn't start to jump as it
would have to do. Anyway the atmosphere was hot and, after The Last Day Of Summer (good enough) and Maybe
Someday (much better than on the album), The Cure gave me the first gift: The Snakepit, even more hypnotic
than ever.
Then they went on playing a nice Where The Birds Always Sing (I like it more & more after every listening),
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea (really, really, really perfect) and finally with In Between Days the
people began to jump, sing and cry in a just way.

From now on the show became absolutely unforgettable. Siamese Twins, one of my favourite ones, was extraordinarily intense and desperate, Prayers For Raaaaaaaaaaaaain shook me a lot for the feeling it spread all
around, and 100 Years, violent and sad, was the best played song in hte evening and I think it's impossible they will
play it better.
The first part of the show ended with 39 (great) and Bloodflowers, unluckily not so perfect (the voice was a little
hesiting and the sound a little confused).
The first encore started with Plainsong without the intro of the Swing Tour but however touching & lovely with
Robert walking to the borders of the stage, smiling to the crowd. Disintegration didn't sound like in Como '98
but anyway I enjoyed it.
The second encore represented for me a great surprise: Cold (wonderful in its deep darkness) and an unbelievable
version of Pornography, very loud and very very strong.
3rd encore: ooh oh oooh oh ooh everyone was singing and jumping during the excellent Play For Today, Just Like
Heaven, the excitement went on, A Forest, ecstasy in the whole arena.
4th encore: the real surprise. Boys Don't Cry, 10:15, Killing An Arab: delirium and rapture, it's useless to say
something else but that also the band seemed happy and satisfied after almost 3 hours of great music.
This one was my 5th Cure concert, the best one, but they said that nor album nor tour will follow.
NOTHING LEFT BUT FAITH.

After having seen them in Rotterdam i focused on seeing them again at the Werchter festival in Belgium. Then it
suddenly hit me: I can't wait that long! So i decided to use the Tax money i got back this year to fund an expedition
to the beautiful city of Florence. It took a car,  plain and train -trip, lots of hours and lots of money (The RaboBank
will not be pleased!) to get there. But you know what? It was F..k..G worth it! The crowd was way much better than
in Rotterdam. In Florence people were dancing and singing along with almost every song. The atmosphere was
great, it gave me goosebumps at times. My personal highlights: Prayers for rain / 100 years (nice lights) / Cold
(awesome) / Pornography / Edge of the deep green sea and the whole 4th encore (!). The only thing that sucked
was that i didn't get to hear Faith and All cats are grey. But hey, can't have it all! So Robert, if you by any chance
read this...  See you at Werchter!

Yesterday at Palasport (sold out) to see the concert there were 7000 (rumours said also 7500) really hot people.

At the end of the concert the most of the people was totally satisfied; lots of them, especially who saw the Cure for
the first or for the second time in his life, have listened the songs that expect and wanted to listen like, fascination
streets, in between days, just like heaven, boys don't cry, 10.15 sat. night and killing an arab.

For me it has been a good concert, with some moments of great feeling, and strong emotions for songs like the
snakepit,  Siamese twins, 100 years, cold, pornography, disintegration (also if this song could be played better).
This songs has been for me the highlights of the concert, and except the songs of the first part of the concert that
are played in all the dates of the tour, the rest were songs for a concert of "Saturday night" and also the
atmosphere was of a "Saturday night"  when everyone, go out,  want to have fun and dance without to think to
listen attentively.
At the end of the concert I felt, that something missed. It missed songs from Faith album, and for me this absence
was enough grave; I think this concert has been the only one (or one of the very few concert of this tour that they
haven't played any song from Faith).

Well now I hope to listen songs from the faith album tomorrow night in Rome.

I was in florence last saturday night!!!!

everything you could have desired from them, anything you could  have thought about them, they are more and
more of our collective imagination.

the show was unique and plenty of all emotional and best "mood" songs of Cure production.

what i know, is that among all those (i don't know how many!) who were there, something was familiar, a special
way of Robert's talking with their songs, with Robert's movements (he was very enjoable during Plainsong -
like a star!!!)

i think nobody can ask more from them. they have reached that point.........

i read about Milan concert, probably there was something specila in Florence, he seemed to be really at ease
while wandering in the scene.

fortunately, we're all OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!

As I’ve always been thinking, Out Of This World is not the best opening song and there was something in the
sound I didn’t like (a drum machine loop). However the show was perfect, all songs really well played, and fantastic
lights. Among the new song Watching Me Fall has been the one that more involved the crowd with everyone crying
“yeah” with Robert. I think people has been a bit cold in the first part (when The Cure are playing Fascination
Street, Want, From The Edge Of The Deep Green See you can’t just stand and stare the band: you have to
jump!!!) With In Between Days everyone started to understand what was to be done and the last songs turned the
palasport into a pandemonium.

The first real moment of the show was the triptych Siamese Twins, Prayers For Rain, 100 Years. Very emotional.
39 is not my favorite song but was better then the one on the record. Bloodflowers was ok.

Plainsong was without the loooong intro I heard during the swing tour, but it’s still a great song! Disintegration had
the bass distorted and a really powerful end.

Cold again was great but the real surprise for me was Pornography. I had never heard it live before, very violent
very loud (loud drums, loud bass, loud guitar and Robert screaming from the first to the last word).

Play For Today (usual chorus on keyboards) and A Forest (short version, people clapping their hands with the bass
in the final) had perfect lights and the audience really enjoyed them. The last three songs were a nice surprise even
if I hoped for Faith. But it’s ok.

So,after Maybe someday I don't remember exactly the songlist order
Remember Inbetween days all palasport jumping and singing,then a marvellously strong of From the edge of the
deep green sea,and then the best version of 100 years I ever listen to:expecially on this song proiections on the
wall behind the group were optimally associated with lyric;delirium!!!

Still Prayers for rain is an emotional song of violent sweetness.
I found 39 better than on the cd:live version gives the song a flaming desperation
Sorry for Bloodflowers:it is one of my preferences on the album but at the moment live version seems not
perfect:guitar solos vanished under a not very well coordinated rythmic session,and the voice of Robert is unsure
and hesitating

First encore is Plainsong.Robert walk to the borders of the stage,smiling silently.And I still feel like summer
1989,when I was seventeen.The same nostalgic feelings,the same disintegration. Less emotions for
disintegration:something was not good on the bass and noise covered voice.Not the same miracolous version as
the one I listen to in Sierre 1998.

Second encore very old fashioned songs:Cold and Like Coktatos.Some strange feelings in the auditorium.

After some famous surprises,even songs not usually played in this tour (affective gift to Florence?): A Forest,Play
for today and at the end the sequence Boys don't cry-10.15-Killing an arab.A gift also for me.

But now? I waited months and months for this evening.Now that it is gone what shoul I do?