The Cure: London 15.11.11
Review
"REFLECTIONS" sees an evolving
line up of band members past and present playing the first three Cure albums
live in their entirety - from the punchy, offbeat, starkly unadorned songs of Three
Imaginary Boys (1979), through the increasingly shadowy and quixotic pieces of
Seventeen Seconds (1980), to the singular melancholic grandeur of Faith (1981)
- in a truly extraordinary concert experience.
Part 1: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason
Cooper
Part 2: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason
Cooper, Roger O’Donnell
Part 3: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason
Cooper, Roger O’Donnell, Laurence Tolhurst
Encore: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason
Cooper, Roger O’Donnell (partial), Laurence Tolhurst (partial)
(Info from Cure-concerts.de)
The
sound over this recording is great, really good, the concept of Reflections is
very interesting now what about the performance, over the slow songs the
performance is great, but mid tempo or faster songs were played slower and
without the energy necessary (No guitar effects), very clear in special on Doubt or the faster songs from first album,
also nobody knows what happened with Porl and why he refused to be part of this and got out of the band, but Robert brought back Roger to the band as guest first and as
permanent member, even having Tolhurst the same night on same instrument, at the end Lol was just a guest for these shows, and Roger is now again (Sadly) a permanent member of
the band.
World
war fades out at the very end.
Song
list
1.
Part
1: 10.15 Saturday Night, Accuracy, Grinding Halt, Another Day, Object, Subway
Song, Foxy Lady, Meathook, So What, Fire In Cairo, It's Not You, Three
Imaginary Boys, The Weedy Burton, Part 2: A Reflection, Play For Today,
Secrets, In Your House, Three, The Final Sound, A Forest, M, At Night,
Seventeen Seconds,
2.
Part
3: The Holy Hour, Primary, Other Voices, All Cats Are Grey, The Funeral Party,
Doubt, The Drowning Man, Faith,
3.
World
War, I'm Cold, Plastic Passion, Boys Don't Cry, Killing An Arab, Jumping
Someone Else's Train, Another Journey By Train, Descent, Splintered In Her
Head, Charlotte Sometimes, The Hanging Garden, Let's Go To Bed, The Walk, The
Lovecats
Audience recording, Quality -9
Live at Royal Albert Hall, London, UK 15.11.11