The Cure: Austin 2016
Review
TAPER’S NOTE: I wasn't sure how this would turn out. I
think it's better than I expected, but there are a few minor issues that I will
describe.
I don't normally like to keep the intros,
but I left most of this one because of the audible voices complaining about
people standing up despite having seats. This explains all the noise in the
intro of "Out of This World". I was all situated with my recorder and
hadn't anticipated standing up. I had to do some adjustment. Sorry. (The
"needs to be louder" comment was presumably referring to the music;
it certainly wasn't directed at me.) The subsequent cheering is in reference to
Robert Smith finally turning around to face the audience.
I edited the encore breaks and outro, as
is my preference, but made sure to keep all of Robert's banter. The break
between the third and fourth encores is so short, though, that I left that one
in.
Everyone in my section suddenly started
sitting down in the middle of "The End of the World". (I guess I'm
not the only one that doesn't like that song.) At about :42 you can hear the
sound noticably change as I too sit down, although there is not any mic handling
noise. There is, however, mic handling noise between a few other songs, but
very rarely during the songs themselves. I did my best. The audience stood up
again in the middle of "A Forest", but you can't really tell when I
stood up as well.
Other issues:
Someone near me sneezes in the middle of
"Never Enough" (about 1:29 and 1:31).
There is an annoying loud burst of
audience cheering during the "Hello?" outro of "Wrong
Number" (about 5:18).
There are a lot of guest vocals from the
women next to me. Thankfully they are on key and not too loud. However, they
are just about always present. They even knew the words to the b-sides.
Lastly, Robert teases a song after
"In Between Days", but I cannot tell what it is. I can rarely
understand his banter as it is, but after he sings a line or two, he says,
"I tell you, Austin's getting to me."
Song
list
1.
Intro,
Out of This World, Pictures of You, Closedown, A Night Like This, All I Want,
Push, Last Dance, Lovesong, Just Like Heaven, This Twilight Garden, Lullaby
2.
Fascination
Street, Screw, The End of the World, Want, Us or Them, The Hungry Ghost,
Prayers for Rain, Bloodflowers, Encore Intro, Step Into the Light, Shake Dog
Shake, Never Enough
3.
Wrong
Number, Hot Hot Hot!!!, Close to Me, The Exploding Boy, In Between Days, Doing
the Unstuck, Friday I'm in Love, Burn, It Can Never Be the Same, A Forest, Boys
Don't Cry
Audience recording, Quality +8
Live at Frank Erwin Center, Austin, USA.
13.05.16