The Cure, Dublin

[Snare]

I know a good few from MI were going, any here?

Looked up the names of the support bands today but never heard of any of them. Anyone ever heard them? I.e. is it a complete waste of time heading in early??

[Pentagrimes]

Only seeing this now but that was a great gig. Nice varied setlist, good mix of the classics and some more random choices. I've loved that band since I was a kid and I'd never seen them so it was a great thing to finally see 'em, specially as I got to bring the daughter (who also loves them) too. Total shivers down the spine finally hearing the intro to "A Forest" live for me.

In terms of supports, Just Mustard are fantastic anyway, loved their set, Ride reminded me why I didn't really care about them back in the day bar a song or two, and the Twilight Sad were a relatively good stadium Indie band with a fucking shockingly pretentious frontman who pissed all over the tunes.

[Snare]

Yeah I really enjoyed it myself. I was dreading it after seeing their Sydney Opera House setlist the week before which was more for the purest - they had started with 50 minutes of demo material. Thankfully they changed it to include A Forest and Boys Don't Cry amongst others.

Predicted heavy rain held off thankfully but it was bloody freezing! I'm sure skulling ice cold cider probably didnt help! Oh and the ice cream I got from Muiris's gang definitely didn't help!😀

[Snare]

Oh yeah, fair play on bringing the daughter. My brother named his daughter Rhiannon after the Fleetwood Mac song and she loves them. He always promised to take her whenever they came back to Ireland. So a few weeks ago he was all excited coming home to announce he had bought 2 tickets for their concert this week. Yeah he couldn't wait to head with his buddy Paul and bought the 2nd ticket for him!  Sure having a daughter at home called RHIANNON and tell her all the great news wouldn't trigger something at all until she screamed blue murder!! 

[Bogmetaller]

Oh yeah, fair play on bringing the daughter. My brother named his daughter Rhiannon after the Fleetwood Mac song and she loves them. He always promised to take her whenever they came back to Ireland. So a few weeks ago he was all excited coming home to announce he had bought 2 tickets for their concert this week. Yeah he couldn't wait to head with his buddy Paul and bought the 2nd ticket for him!  Sure having a daughter at home called RHIANNON and tell her all the great news wouldn't trigger something at all until she screamed blue murder!! 

Haha that's hilarious! Was at the show myself last night - kinda tick them off the list job but they were OK I suppose!

[Carnage]

Didn't see a dedicated Cure thread so this might as well go here...

Got a few of their deluxe reissues in the post yesterday (Three Imaginary Boys, The Top, The Head On The Door & Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me), and was listening to the Disintegration one earlier while I was scanning them into iTunes. Such a class band, no matter how much their sound changed over the years they've always been so identifiably 'them'. Some of the demo tracks alone on Disintegration are better than most bands' polished final products, but the album itself is immense.

That Glastonbury show in 2019 is one of the best I've seen (on TV, fuck going to Glastonbury itself) - a perfect setlist, they played out of their skins and looked like they were enjoying it for once.

[astfgyl]

Was only listening to these lads lately and the penny dropped after years. Have barely scratched the surface beyond liking disintegration about a decade ago and lately heard pornography and listened to an old live gig on youtube. I hadn't realised that they had such a post punk style and was meaning to try them from the beginning soon enough. Recs?

[Carnage]

Everything up to Wish is brilliant IMO, that's not much help I know. I would say go for Boys Don't Cry over Three Imaginary Boys (their debut) - there's a few duds on the latter and the former is the U.S. version of it with a few non-album singles swapped in for those duds.

Seventeen Seconds, Faith & Pornography probably have a mostly post-punk sound so dip into those if that's what you're after.

Get Staring At The Sea, an excellent compilation from 1986, odds are you'll know most of the tracks on it. Concert, Paris and Show are all great live albums.

They're patchy from Wild Mood Swings onward IMO, though Bloodflowers and the s/t album are both pretty good.

[astfgyl]

Sound for that. I'll start at the compilation so and see where I end up from there. Hopefully there will be a few decent tunes in it

[Carnage]

This is excellent, from around '84/'85. Good mix of their early stuff:

https://youtu.be/gVS9EFUMUts

That Glastonbury show in full (audio only, the video was taken down):

https://youtu.be/tIZzaxSWCyQ

[Emphyrio]

They can be very patchy and their upbeat stuff I find very annoying. Love Cats? C'mon, terrible. But...when they're good, they are superb. Disintegration being the obvious highlight. Pornography is good, as is the self-titled. Other good stuff scattered throughout but ya, a lot of dodgy stuff.

[Kurt Cocaine]

They can be very patchy and their upbeat stuff I find very annoying. Love Cats? C'mon, terrible. But...when they're good, they are superb. Disintegration being the obvious highlight. Pornography is good, as is the self-titled. Other good stuff scattered throughout but ya, a lot of dodgy stuff.

Ah heer lad... there's no better tune cook to, or wash the dishes to, than Love Cats.... 

[Emphyrio]

Ah no man. I hated it as a kid, and grew to hate it even more when I heard what they were capable of writing. 

[Kurt Cocaine]

G'wan.... start humming it in your head....
G'wan... G'wan... G'wan...

[Emphyrio]

It already happened so I put on Pat Kenny.