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The Cure's concert at New York Radio City Music Hall - 06.21.08

Setlist:

Adagio For Strings (Intro), Out of This World, Want, alt.end, The Baby Screams, The End of the World, Lovesong, A Letter To Elise, The Big Hand,Pictures of You, Lullaby, Catch, The Perfect Boy, Kyoto Song, Other Voices, The Only One, Hot Hot Hot, Sleep When I'm Dead, Doing The Unstuck, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Charlotte Sometimes, The Hanging Garden, One Hundred Years, Bloodflowers

1st encore: Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
2nd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
3rd encore:A Forest, Forever

YouTube Videos:

Why Can't I Be You (Robert in the balcony!)

Pictures Of You

Other Voices

Lullaby

Photo By: Lynn

Bruce Willis... A 'Die Hard' Fan of The Cure?!

According to reports I've read on COF, Bruce Willis is attending The Cure show tonight in New York's Radio City Music Hall!! How totally exciting!!

The Cure's concert at New York Madison Square Garden - 06.20.08

Setlist:

Underneath The Stars, Prayers For Rain, A Night Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, To Wish Impossible Things, Pictures of You, Lullaby, Fascination Street, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Perfect Boy, Hot Hot Hot, The Only One, Wrong Number, The Walk, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Friday I'm In Love, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Shake Dog Shake, Charlotte Sometimes, One Hundred Years, Baby Rag Dog Book

1st encore: If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, The Kiss
2nd encore: Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
3rd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab

YouTube Videos:

Photo By: jlbnyc

Setlist:

Tape (intro), Open, Fascination Street, A Night Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, Want, Pictures of You, Lullaby, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Kyoto Song, Hot Hot Hot, The Only One, Charlotte Sometimes, Torture, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Us or Them, Never Enough, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, End

1st encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
2nd encore: Three Imaginary Boys, Fire In Cairo, Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab

YouTube Videos:

Photo By: Tippy13

06.20.08 Friday's New York show Live on Fuse TV!

Robert posted on the official site that Friday's show at New York ( June 20th ) will be recorded and shown live on Fuse TV! Check the links for details!

The Cure's concert at Charlotte - 06.16.08

Setlist:

Underneath The Stars, Prayers For Rain, A Night Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, A Letter To Elise, Want, Pictures of You, Lullaby, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Perfect Boy, Hot Hot Hot, The Only One, Wrong Number, The Walk, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, How Beautiful You Are, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Shake Dog Shake, Charlotte Sometimes, One Hundred Years, Baby Rag Dog Book

1st encore: The Holy Hour, Other Voices, Drowning Man, Faith
2nd encore: Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
3rd encore: Boys Don't Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab

This concert was filmed by HDnet. It will be scheduled to show on this channel's Concert Series program hopefully very soon. Whether or not it will be the whole show is yet to be determined. From reports I've read, they filmed the entire evening. *keeping fingers crossed!* Since the security was pretty tight, no cameras were allowed in. But thank goodness for cellphones!

Photo By: mdots

Review of this show: Charlotte Observer

The Cure's concert at Atlanta - 06.15.08

Setlist:

Underneath The Stars, Want, A Strange Day, The Walk, The End of the World, Lovesong, To Wish Impossible Things, Pictures of You, Lullaby, Fascination Street, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Other Voices, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Doing The Unstuck, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Kyoto Song, Hot Hot Hot, The Only One, Charlotte Sometimes, Signal To Noise, One Hundred Years, Baby Rag Dog Book

1st encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
2nd encore: Lovecats, Let's Go To Bed, Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
3rd encore: Boys Don't Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab

YouTube Videos:

Lullaby

Photo by: Andy C.

Freakshow CD Art - Very 'Freak'ish!

Here's the front disc art for Freakshow:

And here's the official video for Freakshow:

The Cure's concert at Sunrise, Florida - 06.13.08

Setlist:

Plainsong, Prayers For Rain, alt.end, A Night Like This, The Baby Screams, The End of the World, Lovesong, A Letter To Elise, Want, Pictures of You, Lullaby, Maybe Someday, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Friday I'm In Love, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Never Enough, The Only One, Signal To Noise, One Hundred Years, Disintegration

1st encore: If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, The Kiss
2nd encore: Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
3rd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
4th encore: A Forest

YouTube Videos:

From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea

Photo By: bluheron

The Cure's concert at Tampa - 06.11.08

Setlist:

Underneath The Stars, Prayers For Rain, Fascination Street, The Walk, The End of the World, Lovesong, To Wish Impossible Things, Pictures Of You, Lullaby, Catch, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Kyoto Song, Hot Hot Hot, The Blood, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Shake Dog Shake, The Only One, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Baby Rag Dog Book

1st encore: Lovecats, Let's Go To Bed, Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
2nd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
3rd encore: A Forest

YouTube Videos:

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Photo by: KittyDew

The Cure's concert at Houston - 06.09.08

Setlist:

Intro (Adagio For Strings), Out Of This World, Want, Fascination Street, A Night Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, A Boy I Never Knew, Pictures Of You, Lullaby, Maybe Someday, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Perfect Boy, Kyoto Song, Hot Hot Hot, The Only One, The Blood, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, How Beautiful You Are, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, A Letter To Elise, Us Or Them, One Hundred Years, Bloodflowers

1st encore: Plainsong, Disintegration
2nd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
3rd encore: A Forest

YouTube Videos:

Pictures Of You
Lovesong
Inbetween Days
Just Like Heaven/A Letter To Elise

Photo by: shilbalam

The Cure's concert at Austin - 06.08.08

Setlist:

Open, Fascination Street, alt.end, Torture, The End of the World, Lovesong, The Big Hand, Pictures of You, Lullaby, Catch, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Figurehead, A Strange Day, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Doing The Unstuck, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, The Only One, Signal To Noise, The Hanging Garden, One Hundred Years, End

1st encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
2nd encore: Three Imaginary Boys, Fire In Cairo, Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab

YouTube Videos:

Photo by: Angelicate

The Cure's concert at Dallas - 06.06.08

Setlist:

Underneath The Stars, Prayers For Rain, A Night Like This, The Walk, The End of the World, Lovesong, To Wish Impossible Things, Pictures of You, Lullaby, Fascination Street, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Friday I'm In Love, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Shake Dog Shake, Never Enough, The Only One, Wrong Number, The Baby Screams, One Hundred Years, Baby Rag Dog Book

1st encore: Three Imaginary Boys, Fire In Cairo, Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
2nd encore: Lovecats, Let's Go To Bed, Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
3rd encore: A Forest

My Videos:

Underneath The Stars (youtube)

For the higher quality version, click here

Prayers For Rain (youtube)

For the higher quality version, click here

coming up... Lullaby

I'll post more soon... Enjoy :)

My Review:
This is my 7th time to see The Cure and I can honestly say this show is one of the best... I was very pleased they played nearly every song from the upcoming album. The most memorable had to be Underneath The Stars... Robert's voice was simply incredible... the conviction and emotion he emoted drew the huge crowd in. The fans were particularly loud during the popular songs (Just Like Heaven, Push, Inbetween Days, etc.). Porl was very animated with his guitar... doing lots of spinning movements... Simon, always active on stage did all his usual lunging and hopping moves! Jason was great as always...his head popping in and out through the drumset... his hair standing on end! And then we come to Robert... he smiled throughout the night as the fans were giving him lots of love... he danced quite a bit, to which the crowd screamed even more! Robert talked some in between songs... one of the things I remember was in reference to the new album... I didn't catch every word, but from what I could make out he seems very proud of the upcoming album. I'm glad I was there to experience the new songs live... It was also awesome hearing older songs like To Wish Impossible Things, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Fire In Cairo and Grinding Halt! I was fortunate to have excellent 2nd row center seats... got lots of video and photos... Once I get it all edited, I will be posting them here... I want to thank Robert, Simon, Porl, and Jason.. my sisters Carole and Chris, and the wonderful fans at the show. It was a night to remember and a show I'll never forget.

More photos to come.

Be patient as I get the videos ready. It will be well worth the wait believe me! :)

The Cure's concert at Phoenix - 06.04.08

Setlist:

Underneath The Stars, Want, Fascination Street, A Night Like This, The Walk, The End of the World, Lovesong, The Big Hand, Pictures of You, Lullaby, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Figurehead, A Strange Day, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, The Only One, Hot Hot Hot, Wrong Number, Signal To Noise, One Hundred Years, Baby Rag Dog Book

1st encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
2nd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab

YouTube Videos:

The Big Hand

Inbetween Days

A Night Like This

Photo By: Kirk Jarvis

The Cure's concert at San Diego - 06.03.08

Setlist:

Plainsong, Prayers For Rain, A Night Like This, The Walk, The End of the World, Lovesong, To Wish Impossible Things, Pictures Of You, Lullaby, Fascination Street, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Perfect Boy, Hot Hot Hot, The Only One, The Blood, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Shake Dog Shake, The Baby Screams, One Hundred Years, Disintegration

1st encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
2nd encore: Lovecats, Let's Go To Bed, Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
3rd encore: Play For Today, A Forest (extended intro)

YouTube Videos:

Lovesong
Just Like Heaven
Pictures of You
Fascination Street

Photo By: allsoarty

The Cure's concert at Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium - 06.01.08

Setlist:

Out of This World, Pictures of You, Fascination Street, alt.end, A Strange Day, The End of the World, The Baby Screams, Love Song, Sleep When I'm Dead, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Lullaby, The Perfect Boy, Kyoto Song, The Only One, Push, How Beautiful You Are, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Us or Them, Signal To Noise, One Hundred Years, Bloodflowers

1st encore: Plainsong, Disintegration
2nd encore: "Simon would like to dedicate this next song to Lol and Michael. Says he can play it much better (without them?)"Three Imaginary Boys, Fire In Cairo,Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
3rd encore: "Cause I'm not sure how to play Happy Birthday, we'll do this instead." Faith (with Happy Birthday to Simon mixed in and 2Late extra lyrics)

YouTube Videos:

F A I T H !

Photo by: davidgagne

The Cure's concert at Hollywood Bowl - 05.31.08

Setlist:

Underneath The Stars, Prayers For Rain, A Night Like This, The Walk, The End of the World, Lovesong, Sleep When I'm Dead, To Wish Impossible Things, Pictures of You, Lullaby, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Perfect Boy, Hot Hot Hot, The Only One, Push, Friday I'm In Love, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, A Letter To Elise, Never Enough, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Baby Rag Dog Book

1st encore: If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, The Kiss
2nd encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
3rd encore: Lovecats, Let's Go To Bed, Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You
4th encore: Boys Don't Cry

YouTube Videos:

Photo By: pushdwnstairs

Photo By: birdmadgrrl

Happy Birthday Simon Gallup!

Today Simon celebrates his 48th birthday. From all of us here at beachofstone.com, we wish you the best!

As with other concerts that have occurred on his birthday, Robert has always found a way to sing happy birthday to Simon during a song. It should be a very special evening at the Shrine Auditorium!