Out Of This World, Watching Me Fall, Want, Fascination St., The Last Day of Summer, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Pictures Of You, Shake Dog Shake, Where the Birds Always Sing, Edge Of The Deep Green Sea, Inbetween Days, The Snakepit, Sinking, One Hundred Years, Prayers For Rain, 39, Bloodflowers

1st encore: Cold, The Figurehead, Pornography
2nd encore: M, Play For Today, Just Like Heaven, A Forest
3rd encore: Jupiter Crash, Love Song, Boys Don't Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing an Arab.

Venue: the Sydney Entertainment Centre is a shit house venue for music. It was when it was first built and has
remained so  It's a concrete monolith, sterile environment where the only decent place to be is right at the front,
near the stage which luckily I was on the 2nd night!!!! The first night I was way up the side and back.  Up the back,
sound wise I may as well have been at home with the crappy CD player on.

Audience: 2nd night down the front they were great...right in there..singing along..screaming  yelling having a great
time.  First night. around me...not into the performance..they spoke all the way through bloodflowers...rrrrrrr... one
complained  my yelling was hurting her ears! Several of them must have severe medical problems  because they
were getting up and down, outside, back in constantly through the night destroying any possible mesmerising
experience for me.  These same people left before the 2nd encore. I was extremely envious watching Fuji and co.
grooving down the front

Band's performance : fantastic, fabulous, awesome etc as every one else has written..both nights...privilege to be
there !!! ..a criticism.. the thought did occur to me that it was a bit unwise playing "Killing an Arab" while there is
the potential for war in the middle east. Australia is a mutli cultural society and I'm proud of this...I did not sing
along as I felt extremely uncomfortable as one of the security people looked as he could easily have had Turkish
blood and the vast majority of the audience were white

Lighting and effects: ditto

Cure fans: I really enjoyed meeting you all!...thank you ..thank you

The Cure ...thank you for coming to Australia

I can not believe it. a few weeks ago I would not even have dreamed that I would see THE CURE live in Australia.

I'm just in Sydney . . .  a city you can not describe in simple words . . . I saw two concerts which was so great that
tears come to my eyes. The atmosphere, the sound, the people, the feeling . . and last not but least, the band itself.

Songs that means so much to me . .   " pictures of you " . . . my lovesong . . . " just like heaven" . . a song that will
always remind me to one special person . .  "faith, the loudest sound, all cats are grey, snakepit, boy's don't cry,
10.15. saturday night, killing in arab and many more . . . "

The concert  . . . I missing words. No setlist on this world can desciribe the feelings I leave in me right now.

I'm starting over with THE CURE! I've done it! THANKS

spezial thanks: my family and all my friends in germany and special thank on my friends here in Australia: DEE,
Matthiew, Keri, Dean and last not but least . . . PAUL ( thank you very much for the magic days in Sydney - i will
never forget . . . ) AND ROGER ! ! ! - thank you very much  for your invitation.

Out of this world - I think being close made all the difference - this was much better - and theres robert just 15
metres away!!! We were right in-between roger and robert. Im sure robert looked me in the eye quite a bit - quite
unsettling actually!!! Either during this or the next one, robert was complaining to the sound guy either his vocals
or guitar were too loud. He did this about 5 songs later too. Like the backdrop camera of jason.

Watching me fall - great live song - really kicks in the power of the cure after the ethereal beginning.

Want - great stuff again.

Fascination St - Robert got some screams for his guitar line - like in the show video.

The last day of summer -  it was almost dark as robert started to have a bit of a talk. He asked who was here last
night? Lots of hands went up. "allright then - well here's one none of you have heard anyway" (or something like
that!). As soon as I saw robert get the 6 string bass from the show video out I thought - yes, no open, different
stuff coming up.

If only tonight we could sleep - great image of a persian rug as the backdrop. I've always loved this song live.

Pictures of you - odd that robert ditched the normal 6 string bass in favour of a black one.

Shake dog shake - I am really surprised by this song, again. Its so good. Great lighting, really so very powerful -
the surprise of the weekend actually!

Where the birds always sing - very nice. Images were interesting - they were changing constantly which was
different. Ended with an image of a clown like person - "nothing ever dies". Robert had the black 6 string.

Edge of the deep green sea -  great stuff. Lots of hands in the sky this time - then a big smile from robert as he
said "yeah".

In between days -  Lots of dancing. At the end - "ah hah hah hah" looking to the sky as he always does.

The snakepit - "this is a weird one". Love the guitars on this song. The drums, as on a lot of the kiss me songs,
also are quite original and very tribal almost. Robert got the flute out. At the end he said "my best instrument".
big smile and a stick out of tongue at the end of this one J

Sinking - how brilliant! Definitely received that cure 2000 treatment like all the "old songs". I'd avoided getting
this on ecircles from this years dream tour, as I wanted to hear it live for the first time and be there. I actually
thought this was the drowning man at the start, as they used the same backdrop of shimmering water. I didn't
notice the microphone camera for a while - quite an "ethereal" effect. Robert played the guitar during the "if only
I could, if only I could" bit exactly the same way as the In Orange video. Robert added an extra bit at the end,
repeating the "the secrets I hide cut me inside make me weaker". Don't think robert sang the "remember" bit all
that high. So glad I heard this - definitely a favourite.

Prayers for rain - got a reasonable "rain" on this one

One hundred years - It reminded me of watching the in orange video - simon jumping around with those tight pants
on.

39 - This is where I threw my teddy up on stage. It was a tacky kangaroo I bought today. On it I had written
"Robert - you can keep this if u play TSDWAY, Andrew J". I didn't want to hit robert (!) so I threw it between
roger and robert. Roger noticed it come up. Quite tricky to time as there was lots of security at the front there. It
was like timing the guards in castle wolfenstein. Anyway, they didn't play a disintegration encore at all, so no real
chance of the same deep water. Oh well, I got a photo of me throwing the little creature anyway! I hope his flight
was enjoyable, and for a while he mingled on-stage with the cure, before a security guy trucked him off near the
drums. Must have been fun.

Bloodflowers - Most excellent again.

Cold - robert mentioned that it was hard to decide what to play. I was hoping for plainsong, and that teddy had
therefore done his job! He also goes this is "pop" just prior to this song. Hah. It looked like simon played the
"guitar line" in this one, as perry was over on keyboards - looking very thin these days young perry.

The figurehead - great to hear this one again - last time was in melbourne 92. Once again robert changed the line
to "I can lose myself in chinese art and australian girls" which got a huge roar. Image was a constant sculpture of
a "figurehead". I noticed again that robert plays the quite difficult arpeggios on this song. Robert said "kew - fuck
that song makes it come back".

Pornography - excellent sample at the start - very depechemodian, and sounded like a sample of a roaring crowd
(don't think it was us!). Robert got down low and mucked about with his pedals, and played guitar with a bottleneck.
How amazing to hear this. I have an "elephant fayre" tape where the played it. This was as good. I love these tribal
pornography drums. Robert really got into the "its too late" screaming it out - whilst playing up and down motions
with the bottleneck - excellent. As robert sang "I must fight this sickness" just a white light was on him as he
looked to the sky. At the end he waited for perry to move, and it was just him as the sample ran to the end, at which
point robert pointed his thumb down to signify the end of the sample - then off he popped (to urinate most likely, or
something like that!).

M - "going back even further in time - almost not possible - from the 17 seconds album, this song is called
mmmmmmmm" with a cute grin. Very dancy.

Play for today - Once again no joining in on the keyboard - noone seems to know about this. Quite a big roar for
it though.

Just like heaven - huge roar for this. Lots of dancing. Very bright pink lights. Lots of singing the lyrics.

A forest - great images being projected at the start of this one - straight from the original video. I must have been
right about roger being out of time at the start last night, as robert was facing roger as he was playing the opening
bit, and roger was smiling with robert. Big loud "again and again and again"'s from robert. Nice to hear robert do
the joy division riff at the end, like in show. That amazing flangy effect at the end of roberts playing was there too,
as expected. Robert sort of did the dancing thing with a smile just after simon went mad on the bass at the end - it
was funny watching them all turned to watch simon going pyscho.

Jupiter Crash - "very strange collection of songs to finish with". The robert started strumming jupiter crash, and
said "I say strangely" to himself more than anything. I noticed that the middle-8 break where robert sings
"meanwhile millions of miles away" that robert plays the chords the same way as on the web site tabs.

Lovesong - 'another single". I think the backdrop was the lovesong single. Robert wiped his hair away from his
face just like in the video clip - when they were all in that cave - 11 years ago! Robert on his black gibson (?) -
played the famous a minor chord shape as in the disintegration songbook(you'll note I play guitar to the cure a lot!).

Boys don't cry - knew it was boys don't cry as robert slowly played the intro chords to himself. Roger was getting
his own back at robert this time - he blew a kiss at him! Such as classic song. Robert gave roger an evil grin, after
roger played the tamborine into roberts microphone.

10:15 Saturday Night - ah the familiar tones of roberts stop start guitar. And then the huge bass and drums kick
in - excellent! Roger played some funny keyboards here - you know that effect where you just play all the keys
from top to bottom with your hand.

Killing an arab - what a great way to end. Lights were fantastic. Such an aggressive song - everyone was into it.
Quite a contrast with all cure members in black, and the lighting was white flashes and red (I guess to signify the
killing). Big smile from robert at the end - didn't really look like it would be the last time in sydney. Not the last
time for me of course - off to livid!

Other stuff

Volume - much better - this was probably as we were closer.

Mix - sounded perfect.

Drums - generally excellent - great sounding.

The antenna girls were there as last night. Very easy to spot during the dark, as their antennae (red and green)
light up!!! They mutated and popped up on the other side of the arena a bit later (green ones).

Roger - looked quite a bit around the stadium. Smiled for a guy who took a photo of him. Looked like he was
hopping into a pilsner-urquell at some stage. I think he sneezed all over his keyboard at one time! He spotted the
antenna girls and gave them an odd look. Someone blew bubbles towards him too, which invoked a similar "what
the f.?" look.

Perry - he has some very flashy guitars - a silver job which speckles. Still love his classy red gibson type thing.

Sum up - the perfect cure gig really. Thanks lads  I'll be interested to see how people compared the two nights.
The fact that on Saturday I was way back, sitting next to girls who only got excited for the singles (rarely then),
and had a bit of a headache (think I smoked too much) didn't help. Being so close tonight just made it so perfect.

Oh my God! What a night! They just seemed to enjoy playing so much and Robert was smiling and smiling. Roger
was too. They were unbelievable - even better than Saturday night (although I was influenced by having a far better
vantage point tonight and the acoustics were better for me). They played If Only Tonight We Could Sleep and I
was transported totally - delirious. Once again I am glad to have heard the Pornography material live - it meant
more to me live. I was repaid for waiting 8 (!) years to see them again.Thank you once again to Robert for
returning to Australia.

After M, Robert was smiling at Roger and went up to him and snuggled against his shoulder (something to do with
Robert allegedly being displeased with a previous performance of M???). Robert certainly seemed to be enjoying
himself - he had a little dance around, sheepish grin and all, during the intro to If Only and I noticed him smiling
many times throughout the night as he sang. Hands shot into the air during Edge of the Deep Green Sea and
Robert seemed amused by the predictability of it. He changed the words of The Figurehead to "I can lose myself
in Chinese art and Australian birds", which caused a lot of cheering. Robert seemed to relish singing 39 both
nights and the Bloodflowers and Pornography material in general.

The last encore was totally unexpected: 1) Jupiter Crash, 2) Love Song, 3) Boys Don't Cry, 4) 10:15 Saturday
Night and 5) Killing an Arab (don't think of a minimalist, spikey, sparse-sounding version of Killing - it was more
of an aural assault, with Perry and Robert's guitars screaming). I panicked when they finished the 2nd encore with
A Forest - I thought they were going to finish early. Robert introduced the 3rd and final encore by saying something
along the lines of "We have some odd songs to finish with", or words to that effect. Should I take the playing of
these songs as final proof that Robert doesn't intend for the Cure to tour again, and that he is, as he has said in
interviews, enjoying this tour and playing some old songs because it's the last time and he means it? I know they'll
probably never come back here, but I hope and wish in vain, despite all the lyrics in the Bloodflowers album that
make the concert seem like a farewell, Robert's comments in interviews etc etc. Ahh, how I wish I lived in the
Northern Hemisphere or that I had bought plane tickets for previous tours - it's so hard to let it go after waiting 8
years to see them again. They're playing so well and enthusiastically - why stop now? That's the point I supppose -
it's easier to play with passion when the routine is coming to an end.

I left the concert tonight high on nothing but adrenaline, totally satiated and yet hungry for more and more and
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