TV
APPEARENCES :
Jonathan Ross Show : The Only One
(live)
Channel 4 : NME Awards
NME Big Gig live/interview
FEBRUARY
09th
Jonathan
Ross Show TV
First appearence of the year. The band played The
Only One live on the TV set and Robert sang the end of the track differently.
25th
NME
Awards, Brixton Academy, London
The
Cure were given the Godlike Genius award by
Tim Burton at the ceremony and played live for half an hour there (a kind
of greatest hits set). Robert Smith confessed (joking) he didn't know which
made him the most unconfortable : the God or the genius part.
26th
London, O2 Arena
(Shockwaves NME Awards Big Gig).
The festival
was set up by the NME Awards (also on the bill were
Franz Ferdinand, White Lies, Crystal Castle). The band's concert lasted
almost two hours and included new tracks not played during the 4Tour in
Europe the past year. For the statistics, at least one song from each of
the 13 Cure albums appeared in that night's setlist ("a trip through
time") and Primary was sung quite differently.
APRIL
17th
Las Vegas, The Palms, Pearl Concert
Theater
One-off concert since the band was in America for the Coachella festival.
A few technical problems (Porl's guitar) and some mistakes (In Between Days
intro, M) slowly led to some pressure on stage. Apparently,
Robert hurt his hand while playing The Kiss at the end of the first encore.
So the show was a bit shortened after that : Play For Today (more talked
over than sung properly) and
a short version of A Forest closed the evening.
19th
Indio, Coachella Festival
Almost the same main set as two days before (Wrong Number was played
instead of Want). Good mood. The first two encores were identical to the
Vegas show but then the band decided to try the "old school" songs
as a third encore. Robert warned the audience that they were told they just
had time for one song. A statement the group wouldn't comply with, in the
great Cure tradition... But the PA system got cut off after two tracks (somebody
dared to !). Surprisingly, that still wouldn't
stop the band who did Boys Don't Cry & Jumping Someone Else's Train,
(the much lower sound coming from their guitar
amps/monitors) with the crowd singing along.
All the power was finally cut as they were about to follow with Grinding
Halt (only Jason's drums could be heard at that point). Funny and odd ending
again that made Robert Smith to laugh, you can't always win...
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