The Official THE CURE Must Get A Full Set Petition

[Edmontonian]

This is a petition in response to the Paul McCartney one.
The Cure are known for playing some of the longest sets humanly possible. Their shows usually last 3.5 hours.

Here is a typical Set List, this one is from 09.02.2008 Stockholm - Hovet (Sweden)

Intro:
tape

Mainset:
open
alt.end
a night like this
the end of the world
lovesong
pictures of you
lullaby
from the edge of the deep green sea
the only one
the walk
push
how beautiful you are...
inbetween days
just like heaven
a boy i never knew
if only tonight we could sleep
the kiss
shake dog shake
us or them
never enough
wrong number
one hundred years
end

Encore 1:
at night
m
play for today
a forest

Encore 2:
let's go to bed
freakshow
close to me
why can't i be you?

Encore 3:
boys don't cry
jumping someone else's train
grinding halt
10:15 saturday night
killing an arab



I, along with many other coachella-goers I'm sure, saw The Cure at Sasquatch festival last year. it was one of the most amazing shows I've ever seen. I stand by Porl Thompson as my pick for the most amazing guitarist I've ever seen, and that is over such greats as Clapton, Prince, Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) and John Frusciante (RHCP).

The only down side of the show was that they cut the set down to 2.5 hours. I know last year Roger Waters was given a 2.5 hour set, which has got to be one of the longest in coachella history. I am BEGGING GV to give the Cure MORE! here is their set list from Sasquatch:

May 25th, 2008 - George, Wa. (Sasquatch Festival at The Gorge)

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,
The Perfect Boy,
Hot Hot Hot,
alt.end,
Sleep When I'm Dead,
Push,
Inbetween Days,
Just Like Heaven,
A Letter To Elise,
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea,
The Only One,
The Walk,
Shake Dog Shake,
Never Enough,
Wrong Number,
One Hundred Years,
Baby Rag Dog Book

1st encore: A Forest

2nd encore: Boys Don't Cry,
Jumping Someone Else's Train,
Grinding Halt,
10:15 Saturday Night,
Killing An Arab

They had to completely cut out their 2nd Encore, including Close To Me which is arguably their sweetest song, and why Can't I be You? too! and they cut out most of the 1st encore too.
PLEASE give me the entire Cure experience!

8:30-12:00 MAINSTAGE!!!

[obzen]

x_________________________:thu

[JustSteve]

3 1/2 hours is not happening. just don't see it...

[Memorial_07]

I don't know about a set that long but I'm all for a 2+ hour best of

[M Sparks]

They had to completely cut out their 2nd Encore, including Close To Me which is arguably their sweetest song, and why Can't I be You? too! and they cut out most of the 1st encore too.
PLEASE give me the entire Cure experience!


As noted multiple times in the Cure Setlist thread, they do a different set every night. They were rotating 90 songs on their last tour. Cutting their time does not require them to cut any particular song. It's up to them as to what to play in their allotted time.

Also, I have never seen them play 3 1/2 hours. I'm sure they have, but it's not the norm. Last show I saw was a little under three and it was huge...like 35 songs. Time before that, it was 2 1/2, and they actually played well overtime. (Three encores including Forever- they got fined for breaking city noise curfew.) It was one of the longer shows on that tour. And in '96...again, a little under 3 hours (and that was with no opening act.)

That said they should get a 2+ hour set, because there's just too much material to mine there.

[Memorial_07]

2 1/2 hour set will probably be their maximum but at least 1 hr. 45 min. for them this year and that's fine


by the way, I didn't see the loudest sound or trust on either of those sets...

Please play them for Coachella!!!

[microcuts]

As long as their keyboard ban continues, I doubt they'll be playing Trust anytime soon. That song always required the use of two keyboards!

[mcskye]

I am pretty sure they are going to get bumped down by a bigger headliner on Sunday and will only have a 50 minute set, word on the street.

[Memorial_07]

the cure? 50 minutes?


:rotfl

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

How about certain Cure songs? I voted to have Burn in the setlist. Have their ever played it before?

[sbessiso]

I wanna hear "Screw"!

[zajaa]

i say 4 hours.

[obzen]

word on the street.

thats my thread-and you must be talking about Saturday,word on the street

[M Sparks]

How about certain Cure songs? I voted to have Burn in the setlist. Have their ever played it before?

That would be epic. I'm not aware of them playing it, though I'm sure it probably has at some point.

I know that they did not play it at all on the Swing tour, which would have been the first major tour after it came out.

They played "Want" on the last tour, which to me has a similar feel.

[microcuts]

How about certain Cure songs? I voted to have Burn in the setlist. Have their ever played it before?

Hmm, they've never played that song, interestingly enough.

[M Sparks]

I wanna hear "Screw"!

I was amazed to hear "Sinking " a few years back, but don't think I've ever heard "Screw".

[im so indie]

One question though:

Is it going to sound like this: :)

aNBJ1rBAlN8

or like this: :nono

YLCzMykpyto

[HandBanana]

Hey Cure Superfans, maybe one of yall can answer this....

Do they every play (the song) "Disintegration" live?

If not, WTF!?

Also acceptable and hoped for are "Cut" and "End" or "A Forest" or any of their sharper, darker stuff.


I'm willing to give them a chance, but if it's all gonna be marshmallowey Winky Dinky Doooo whimsical stuff like "Friday Im in Love" and other such bumflufferies, then Im not really sure I can be down.

[betao]

they'll get no more than 90 minutes, me thinks.

Roger Waters only got all that time because he was performing an album.

even Prince last year only got 75 minutes.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Hey Cure Superfans, maybe one of yall can answer this....

Do they every play (the song) "Disintegration" live?

If not, WTF!?

Also acceptable and hoped for are "Cut" and "End" or "A Forest" or any of their sharper, darker stuff.


I'm willing to give them a chance, but if it's all gonna be marshmallowey Winky Dinky Doooo whimsical stuff like "Friday Im in Love" and other such bumflufferies, then Im not really sure I can be down.


If I recall correctly they play Disentegration at Red Rocks last year....yeah they did...

21.05.2008 Morrison - Red Rocks Amphitheatre (USA/CO)
underneath the stars, prayers for rain, a night like this, the end of the world, lovesong, to wish impossible things, pictures of you, lullaby, maybe someday, the perfect boy, from the edge of the deep green sea, hot hot hot, the only one, the blood, the walk, push, friday i'm in love, inbetween days, just like heaven, if only tonight we could sleep, never enough, wrong number, one hundred years, it's over,
E1: plainsong, disintegration,
E2: freakshow, close to me, why can't i be you?,
E3: boys don't cry, jumping someone else's train, grinding halt, 10:15 saturday night, killing an arab

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

they'll get no more than 90 minutes, me thinks.

Roger Waters only got all that time because he was performing an album.

even Prince last year only got 75 minutes.

Prince got 2 hours man! He was schedule from 10:45 to end but he played until 1am.

[chiapet]

Edmontonian, if you thought Sasquatch was great, you are in for a thrill at Coachella -- the Sasquatch set was... not so great by their standards, Robert's voice and energy are usually much much stronger. I really think they are going to blow people away at Coachella... all those who have written them off as a middle-aged obsolete goth band.

At any rate, when I saw them in 2007, they played just shy of 3 hours. They could have played for 3 more ;)

[betao]

Prince got 2 hours man! He was schedule from 10:45 to end but he played until 1am.

yeah yeah. but the point was that he was scheduled for only 1 hr 15 mins.

and, you can't just tell prince to simply "stop playing". it doesnt work that way.

[microcuts]

Robert Smith is the same way as Prince, though. He even played until 12:30am back in 2004. I'm not sure if any other band played past curfew before that. He really is notorious for breaking curfew.

[microcuts]

I'm willing to give them a chance, but if it's all gonna be marshmallowey Winky Dinky Doooo whimsical stuff like "Friday Im in Love" and other such bumflufferies, then Im not really sure I can be down.

They're quite likely going to play a combination of pop hits and darker tracks. If they really are going to be promoting the "darker" half of 4:13 Dream, then probably leaning more towards the latter. But they're not going to step on stage at a festival and not play some radio hits.

[HandBanana]

I can hang with a mix, I just dont much care for most of the latter day hits.

[shmamber]

3 1/2 hours won't happen, but that's OK--it's Coachella, not their own show.

I saw them in San Jose in 2007 and they played for 3 1/2 hours too. I loved it!

[chiapet]

I can hang with a mix, I just dont much care for most of the latter day hits.

It is almost all early cure -- lots from the first album, lots from THOTD. They actually play a lot of Disintegration too (including the title track). They play some from Wild Mood Swings. The latest album sounds like an old Cure album :)

[HandBanana]

Niiiice.
Ill have to nab the new record.

Thx

[oyeloca]

DOIT!

[chiapet]

Here are the set lists for the two shows I saw in 2007-2008:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainofFlowers/oct0607.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainofFlowers/may2508.html

[shotglass75]

just hope they play this

FqRk3gGUhbg

[chiapet]

I've never heard of them playing that (though I imagine they must have back when the soundtrack came out). Would LOOOVE to hear Burn live.

[microcuts]

To give an idea of what to expect (i.e. practically anything), here's a complete(?) list of songs per era played on their 4Tour '07-'08:

Three Imaginary Boys (1979): 10:15 Saturday Night / Fire in Cairo / Jumping Someone Else's Train / Grinding Halt / Three Imaginary Boys ///// Boys Don't Cry / Killing an Arab

Seventeen Seconds (1980): A Forest / At Night / M / Play for Today ///// Forever

Faith (1981): The Holy Hour / Primary / Other Voices / The Drowning Man / Faith ///// Charlotte Sometimes

Pornography (1982): One Hundred Years / The Hanging Garden / The Figurehead / A Strange Day

Japanese Whispers (1983): Let's Go to Bed / The Walk / The Lovecats

The Top (1984): Shake Dog Shake

The Head on the Door (1985): Inbetween Days / Close to Me / A Night Like This / Push / Kyoto Song / The Blood / The Baby Screams

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987): The Kiss / Catch / Torture / If Only Tonight We Could Sleep / Why Can't I Be You? / How Beautiful You Are / Hot Hot Hot!!! / Just Like Heaven / Shiver and Shake

Disintegration (1989): Plainsong / Pictures of You / Lullaby / Lovesong / Fascination Street / Prayers for Rain / Disintegration ///// Never Enough

Wish (1992): Open / To Wish Impossible Things / From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea / Doing the Unstuck / Friday I'm in Love / A Letter to Elise / End ///// The Big Hand

Wild Mood Swings (1996): Want / Club America ///// Wrong Number

Bloodflowers (2000): Out of This World / Maybe Someday / Watching Me Fall / Bloodflowers ///// Signal to Noise

The Cure (2004): The End of the World / alt.end / Us or Them ///// A Boy I Never Knew

4:13 Dream (2008): Underneath the Stars / The Only One / Freakshow / The Perfect Boy / Sleep When I'm Dead / It's Over

--------------------
76 songs altogether.

[WhyTheLongFace]

3 and 1/2? No

2 hours? Signed

[HandBanana]

How can you have a beast of a song like "Cut" and not play it like all the time?

[redthreat]

x_________________________:thu

ditto.

sunday is all about the cure for me.

[punkydory]

I saw them at Sasquatch and I thought they were booorrring. I like The Cure...do not get me wrong....but jeez whiz...I was expecting something different I guess.

[M Sparks]

Robert Smith is the same way as Prince, though. He even played until 12:30am back in 2004. I'm not sure if any other band played past curfew before that. He really is notorious for breaking curfew.

When I saw them in 2004, they finished up the second encore, and on their way off, Roberts says something like "We might be back, hang on". They were back in a matter of a minute to play Forest/Forever.

I got the impression it was a "if we're already in trouble, we might as well keep going" kind of thing. They were already 15 minutes past noise curfew.

[hegemon]

play fucking

LAMENT


please

[echerrr]

Overrated.

[Trail of Dead]

saw them a couple of months ago

[JebusLives]

I really, really want to hear "Disintegration" (the song). It just destroys me... so sad.

[soundsvinyl]

Fuck no. Ill take a 60 min set, and stick to the hits. The new and last 4 cd's were garbage. The cure's time is 10years over already. And to say that their guitarist is better than all the others mentioned is fucking crazy. he is good but not even in the same ball park as the greats. Maybe if he starts laying some real leads and solos. No still not that good.

I think i might have rather of seen Jack Johnson.... and that guy sucks as a headliner.

[summerkid]

they'll get scheduled for 2 hrs and go 30 minutes over and i'm all for it god i wanted to see them so bad on this tour I love the fact that they are pulling out some of their older stuff now that Porl is back in the band plus it will be a completely different show than the one people saw back in 2004.

[brando4n82]

Whats with all these "Petition" for Headliners to get full sets, as if they'd get anything less?

[Memorial_07]

Everyone wants them to play for like 75+ minutes which will only happen for the Cure and McCartney and possibly MBV.

But a full set list is totally different

[soundsvinyl]

but if they do play Grinding Halt, Fire in Cairo, cut, a forest, lullaby, numb and all i want, that would be sick.... i'll probably just get a forest.... fuck they need to play the songs that everyone feels, not just the songs the fans like..... Money on Morrissey showing robert Smith up like always.

[sbessiso]

this thread makes me so giddy

[Memorial_07]

they will play lullaby.


If they don't, I'm going to slaughter them.

[summerkid]

a forest, disentigration, and killing an arab and of course some hits are all i'm asking for god this is going to amazing. I love you coachella. I just hope im not to worn out by sunday gotta pace myself i guess.

[sbessiso]

a forest, disentigration, and killing an arab and of course some hits are all i'm asking for god this is going to amazing. I love you coachella. I just hope im not to worn out by sunday gotta pace myself i guess.

This is my exact mentality summerkid. I'm ALWAYS dead by sundays, lucky for me ill pump my blood full of psychedelics to keep me going. I'm going to see Robert through dilated pupils and I cannot wait. About fucking time

weeeeeeeeeeeeee

[sacleonard]

I agree with most who say 2-2.5 hours. I predict a 10:15-12:00 official set-time, but then they will play 30-45 minutes beyond midnight. It will certainly be much different than 2004.

[imapixie]

don't know about Porl being the best guitarist of all time as someone mentioned before...he is awesome, but Prince really blew me away last year...but I will say that Simon is the best bassist that I have ever heard or seen live ;)

[microcuts]

I dunno, anyone that was picked up by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant has to be a pretty damn good guitarist...

[mschirmersf]

I'm sorry. I've seen The Cure 10+ times and when they play more than 3 hours you are usually counting the minutes to go home. It's a long, long time to be standing and dancing especially after 10 hours of hot sun and basically doing the same thing. Trust me. After a long day at Coachella a 2 1/2 hour tops set is going to seem perfect. It may even seem too long.

[Memorial_07]

considering last year about how much Prince went over they'll defintley be on top of how long each act is which is probably going to give the cure 90 minutes plus

[superfiction]

3 hours please.

[chiapet]

a forest, disentigration, and killing an arab and of course some hits are all i'm asking for god this is going to amazing. I love you coachella. I just hope im not to worn out by sunday gotta pace myself i guess.

I think you'll get those. Disintegration is iffy, but they play it often enough. :)

[faxman75]

90 minutes max please. I have a feeling that is the perfect amount of time. ;)

[CrimesceneCookie]

I don't care how long they play as long as it doesn't cause MBV to have an abbreviated set. The Cure put the festival to sleep in 2004, we left after 3 songs. And I like The Cure.

[chairmenmeow47]

the crowd certainly wasn't asleep where i was in 2004, tons of us were crowded towards the front excited as all hell.

i would just love to hear catch someday. i believe they played disintigration on the curiosa tour, but i could be wrong.

[jjbaldwi]

They played for at least 47 hours in 04. Don't worry they will play plenty long enough... zzzz

[microcuts]

They played for at least 47 hours in 04. Don't worry they will play plenty long enough... zzzz

You really do fail at life.

[sbessiso]

I can't believe it
I must be dreaming
She turns
The sound down
Says "I am heaving
This is a freakshow"
And I am screaming
She spins
The world round
I want to stop

[chairmenmeow47]

i listened to "kiss me, kiss me, kiss me" for the first time in years last night and forgot how awesome of an album it is. i wish the last few tracks of my copy didn't suck though.

[Iamjoeswastdlife]

I just heard a Cure song in a commercial for He's Just Not That Into You. How gay is that?

[imapixie]

I just heard a Cure song in a commercial for He's Just Not That Into You. How gay is that?

it was Friday I'm in Love wasn't it...that's the one cure song that I really can't stand simply for the fact that when it came out they played it 9,000 times a day on the radio and it is in too many movies!

[cr8vbeats]

yeah, that's true, but it's a classic 80's track no doubt

[heyeric]

Then I think you should start a PAYPAL fund account for all the "Coachella CURE goers" who want to pay the fine for curfew as well.

haha

[Memorial_07]

For Prince I would've done this.

I love the Cure, but sorry. I would NOT do that for them

[sbessiso]

I would

[TonyWonder]

I'd throw in a few bucks...3+ hours please.

[condenser]

Then I think you should start a PAYPAL fund account for all the "Coachella CURE goers" who want to pay the fine for curfew as well.

haha

I'd donate. I want a full set.

[jockeyfullofbourbon]

Did Prince going over effect the curfew? I saw his set and the part where he stayed too long was the best portion of his set.

[sacleonard]

yeah, that's true, but it's a classic 80's track no doubt

"Friday I'm In Love"
--- Wish, 1992

[nil_by_mouth]

It won't happen, but one can hope.

[lickety_spit]

i want to hear "six different ways."
they played "the lovecats" in '04,
which is one of my favorites,
and i heard some lady that had seen them 12 or 14 times say that was probably the second time they had ever played it live because it doesn't sound very good.
she was probably telling the truth because it didn't sound great at all,
but i was still happy to have heard it.

[M Sparks]

i want to hear "six different ways."
they played "the lovecats" in '04,
which is one of my favorites,
and i heard some lady that had seen them 12 or 14 times say that was probably the second time they had ever played it live because it doesn't sound very good.
she was probably telling the truth because it didn't sound great at all,
but i was still happy to have heard it.

They've played Lovecats at least 2 of the 4 times I've seen them, and maybe 3 times. It's not that rare. 6 Different Ways on the other hand...I thought maybe we were going see that in '04 because they were doing a bunch of HOTD stuff, but no...

Get yourself out of Havasu! (lived there from '74-'89...ick)

[lickety_spit]

They've played Lovecats at least 2 of the 4 times I've seen them, and maybe 3 times. It's not that rare. 6 Different Ways on the other hand...I thought maybe we were going see that in '04 because they were doing a bunch of HOTD stuff, but no...

Get yourself out of Havasu! (lived there from '74-'89...ick)

wish i could.
i gave it the old college try a couple of years ago.
didn't work out.

[mattpach]

I want to hear the cover of Foxy Lady off of Three Imaginary boys.

He started to play it at the Hollywood Bowl and stopped within 20 seconds.

[zajaa]

i would pay up to 23 dollars toward the fine if they promised to play at least 2.5 hours

[sacleonard]

Count me in for a contribution.

[far gone and out]

i've seen the cure 12 times and they always play for over 2.5 hours. the past few years they have taken to longer sets and the last tour (08) they played for about 3 hours a night.