Cure Tour

[converge241 0]

Time to get out the hairspray and black eyeliner again. Less than a week after headlining the Coachella festival in the Southern California desert, goth pioneers the Cure have unveiled plans for a full U.S. tour this summer.

 

The Curiosa Festival 2004 will feature the Cure headlining a bill that also includes three bands plainly influenced by Robert Smith and company: Interpol, the Rapture and Mogwai.

 

A second stage will also be part of the traveling road show, with Muse, Thursday, Cursive, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Cooper Temple Clause and Head Automatica rotating as performers.

 

The Cure formed in 1976, and only iconoclastic singer/songwriter Smith remains from the group's initial lineup. Simon Gallup, who joined the group in 1979, is the only other longstanding member in the current lineup. The group plans to release a new eponymous album on June 29, the band's first LP since 2000's Bloodflowers. The first single from the album bears the cheery title "The End of the World."

 

The tour kicks off July 24 in the unlikely tropical setting of West Palm Beach, Florida, and ends August 27 in Los Angeles. Venues have yet to be confirmed, and additional dates are still being added.

 

Dates for the Curiosa Festival 2004, according to a band spokesperson:

7/24 - West Palm Beach, FL

7/25 - Tampa, FL

7/28 - Nashville, TN

7/29 - Atlanta, GA

7/31 - New York, NY

8/1 - Camden, NJ

8/3 - Cincinnati, OH

8/4 - Cleveland, OH

8/7 - Boston, MA

8/11 - Detroit, MI

8/12 - Chicago, IL

8/14 - Dallas, TX

8/15 - Houston, TX

8/17 - Denver, CO

8/18 - Salt Lake City, UT

8/27 - Los Angeles, CA

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

[nl5xsk1 0]

Give me a joint or three, and a building full of sorority & goth girls, and I'm having a good time.

 

Thus, nl5 is going to the Cure show in Boston (although it's probably really in Worcester or Mansfield)

[Lord of The Curry 0]

No Canada?

 

Bullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllshit.

[converge241 0]

"Thus, nl5 is going to the Cure show in Boston (although it's probably really in Worcester or Mansfield) "

 

 

pretty sure Great Woods (refuse to say the other name) in Mansfield.

last few times in this area they hit great woods twice (once on Wild Mood Swings once on Bloodflowers) the orpheum (the bad-ass BCN xmas show with tanya donnelly where they dug into a lot of older stuff) centrum (wild mood swings)

[justsoyouknow 0]

They just announced on the radio that the Cure is coming through Phoenix on August 28th, but no sale date and no venue have been announced yet...so add that to your list of tourdates, please.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

Hopefully they add a Pittsburgh show. If not, I'll just have to drive to either Cleveland or Cincy.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Late visitor to the thread, but I'm going to be really interested to see Interpol and the Rapture in a festival-type setting. Fantastic in a club, and hopefully just as compelling on a big scope. I'm thinking that the Cure's audience will be the type of people who appreciate these smaller acts even if they're not terribly familiar with the catalog.

[converge241 0]

i cant wait to see thursday and the rapture, and the muse especially cause i always skip on seeing each of them the many times they have hit the local clubs..i have lucked out here..looking forward to interpol and mogwai as well..melissa should be good as well and i mean to me to have those as appetizers for the Cure is just insane

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

On Saturday, a friend of mine noticed that the Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa had released some new seats for the Curiosa Festival the next day. Color me shocked when I found out that we could get pit tickets. In an amphitheatre like this, the pit is not that big and pretty much ensures that you’ll be within 50 feet of the stage no matter what. $49.50 plus and an assload of service fees made it about $63 total, but I figured, what the hell, I haven’t seen a show yet this summer and I do love me some Interpol, like me some Cure, and enjoy me some Rapture.

 

No disappointments; this festival was fantastic. First of all, what a great idea to set things up so that performances on the main and second stage don’t overlap. I didn’t bother with the second stage too much except watching Cooper Temple Clause while I ate a hot dog, but a lot of people ran back and forth and caught all 8 bands. Good for them.

 

The performances were great. Mogwai was pretty uninteresting, mostly on account of their Slint-ish wall-of-noise not faring so well in a largely empty amphitheatre and the open air. The Rapture, however, really surprised me. Echoes is okay, but I mostly just dig on “Olio,” “Sister Savior,” and “House of Jealous Lovers.” Yet these guys made me a fan in one 30-minute performance. They’re a bunch of kids having a good time playing music and dancing around, and they sure love their cowbells and saxophones. Really fun, danceable, great stuff that took a lot of lessons from the excellent DFA remixes. Crowd was way into them, and the guitarist gets bonus points for running around on the front of the stage and using his guitar as a rifle with this oddly bemused “I can’t believe I’m doing something this cheesy” face. Hilarious.

 

For Interpol, I’ll just copy the PM I sent to Lord of the Curry with the recap:

Start counting down the days. Frickin' awesome.

 

Set:

Obstacle 1

Say Hello to the Angels

Slow Hands

NYC

Evil

Roland

Narc

Leif Erikson

PDA

 

This was my first time hearing "Evil." Holy shit, dude. Whatta song. The performance was light years beyond when I first saw them back in December 2002 in a club; then, they seemed kinda nervous, very restrained. They used to start every show with "Untitled," and now it looks like "Obstacle 1" is the kickoff track. That shift alone kind of spells out the direction they've gone - I'm pretty sure they understand that they have the potential to be extremely classy rock gods. They went on at 7:40 and played for 40 minutes, which was perfect - in Tampa, it was just in time for sunset. So you get Interpol with the sun going down, smoke and lights on the stage, and a 20 mph breeze making everything go crazy. The crowd was way into them, too; by the time they came on, there were probably about 5,000 people in the amphitheatre. The boys definitely made a lot of new fans and very much held their own as band #2 on Curiosa. After they played, I already felt like I had gotten my money's worth. Stack the Cure on top of that feeling, and it's a hell of a show.

 

So I was already happy. The Cure then put on a very good show to top it all off. I won’t call it great, because there were a few flaws. One, it could have used an injection of more ridiculously great pop songs – no “Just Like Heaven,” “Catch,” “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Close to Me,” or “Why Can’t I Be You.” Two, the end of the main set really trudged along, ending with one nondescript number and “The Promise,” which essentially amounted to 15 straight minutes of chugging semi-monotony. Intense, but not necessarily a good call when you’ve only got an hour and 45 minutes to play. Griping aside, it was a very good show. “A Night Like This,” a sinewy “Fascination Street,” a surprising “Jupiter Crash,” “In Between Days,” “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea,” and a bunch more, including a superb finale of “A Forest.” "M" was another nice surprise. But the greatest moment by far was the double-shot of “Pictures of You” and my favorite Cure song, “Lullaby,” which amounted to about 12 minutes of pure baroque pop joy. Great lighting to boot; most of the designs were pedestrian (let’s show a forest for “A Forest!” And green water for “Deep Green Sea”!), but “Pictures of You” was off-the-charts gorgeous both visually and aurally.

 

For $60, this was a steal. If there’s a show near you and you like any of these bands, go. Big-time recommendation.

[converge241 0]

cant wait, my friend

 

august 7th!!

[Guest cellardoor]

I almost peed my pants when I first heard about this tour.

 

I've seen The Cure, The Rapture, Interpol, and Cursive (who won't be on our bill ) already, but I'm looking forward to seeing them all again. I'm absolutely stoked to see Muse since I haven't gotten the chance to yet. Mogwai should be really rad, too.

 

The only thing that's going to royally suck is the ridiculous heat & humidity here in Texas. I'm -not- looking forward to that part.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Mogwai did a warm up show in my town on Friday. I thought they were pretty good.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

And I forgot to mention: there was a guy in front of me during the Cure set who had very obviously just done a few lines of coke and wouldn't stop trying to make friends. He *really* enjoyed the show.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I don't know if I ever mentioned it here at TSM, but I really hate the Rapture a whole hell of a lot.

[Guest cellardoor]

I don't know if I ever mentioned it here at TSM, but I really hate the Rapture a whole hell of a lot.

What's your beef?

[JangoFett4Hire 0]

so, do Mogwai not do any vocals in any of their songs?

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

I don't know if I ever mentioned it here at TSM, but I really hate the Rapture a whole hell of a lot.

I'll drink to that! And Muse can fuck the living fuck right off.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I thought only girls liked Muse, so that's neither here nor there.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

so, do Mogwai not do any vocals in any of their songs?

There's a couple of each of their albums that do, but the vox are usually buried low in the mix, so it's almost like it's not there at all.

[converge241 0]

Lost, Plainsong, Fascination Street, The End of the World, Anniversary, Lovesong, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Jupiter Crash, Pictures of You, Before Three, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Disintegration, One Hundred Years, The Promise

 

1st encore: M, Play For Today, A Forest

2nd encore: Going Nowhere

 

 

august 7th setlist ^^^

[Lord of The Curry 0]

That was quite the darn good musical show.

 

Head Automatica opened the show on the second stage. Meh. The lead singer was fronting like he was a rock star while singing which I wasn't feeling. The man was no rock star.

 

Mogwai after that on the main stage, good stuff, what I expected from them. No vocals, prompting many around me to speculate that maybe the mics were broken. The highlight of this performance was after they finished approx. 50 seagulls did a fly-by of the lawn section and sent us all scrambling for cover.

 

Cooper Temple Clause played the second after that, who rocked bells. I don't really know much about them currently other then they're British and have a somewhat electronica/industrial sound.

 

The Rapture played on the main stage after this. I wasn't really paying too much attention to them because I was talking with my friend. Some people got up and danced. They used a saxophone, which ruled. They looked like they were having fun.

 

Auf Der Maur aka Melissa Auf Der Maur up on the second stage. Not a bad set, her funky swaying movements while playing are quite asthetically pleasing in person. When the wasn't singing she was dancing around in a very sensual manner. Cheap pop when Melissa mentions she's the only Canadian act on the tour and we're the only Canadian stop.

 

Then we have INTER-FUCKING-POL on the main stage and the boys own the shit out of everything. They hit up some stuff from TOTBL (PDA, Roland, Obstacle 1) along with the new single "Slow Hands" and stuff from the upcoming release Antics. These kids are damn good.

 

Muse played the second stage after this but I opted for a beer and pretzel instead, remembering Inc's comments about how only girls listen to Muse.

 

Finally, The Cure takes the main stage. Pop of the night. T.O loves us some Cure. Awesome set w/ the crowd singing along to all the old favorites like Love Song and Killing an Arab and some new stuff mixed in which sounded good.

 

THERE YA HAVE IT

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

I thought only girls liked Muse, so that's neither here nor there.

Girls, followed my the majority of the Franz Ferdinand obsessed British public, excepting moi.