Open Letter To Robert Smith
Dear Robert Smith,
We went to see The Cure at the Hollywood Bowl last night and wanted to address a few things to you.
Firstly: we totally appreciate your enthusiasm.
I mean who does 3 hr shows with so much gusto?
You even look and dress exactly the way you did in 1987.
Tyler and I were very excited to finally see you live and he even drove down from San Francisco for you so we can see The Cure together.
You were my imaginary friend when I was a troubled teenager and I know that you would have understood how rough life can be and you even dedicated a song to one of my favorite books by Camus.
You have made many amazing songs for us, and we appreciate that, too.
Don't we look happy and excited about the show?
And we were not the only excited ones:
The girlies to my left seemed to have a blast.
Here's my first question though:
WHY 23 Set Songs? And out of all the songs you've written, why this crappy selection?
We liked 2 or 3 out of the main set at the most but we hoped that you saved the good stuff for your encore.
This guy doesn't seem to be very sure of that judging from his expression:
The people behind us froze after the 3rd song and left after the 5th.
The Set List:
1.Underneath The Stars
2.Prayers For Rain
3.A Night Like This
4.The Walk
5.The End Of The World
6.Love Song
7.Sleep When I'm Dead
8.To Wish Impossible Things
9.Pictures Of You
10.Lullaby
11.From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
12.The Perfect Boy
13.Hot Hot Hot
14.The Only One
15.Push
16.Friday I'm In Love
17.In Between Days
18.Just Like Heaven
19.A Letter To Elise
20.Never Enough
21.Wrong Number
22.One Hundred Years
23.Baby Rag Dog Book
Tyler gave up after song 13 and slept through a couple I believe.
The encores :(13 MORE Songs? WTF?)
Encore #1:
-If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
-The Kiss
Encore #2:
-At Night
-M
-Play For Today
-A Forest
Encore #3:
-Love Cats
-Let's Go To Bed
-Freak Show
-Close To Me
-Why Can't I Be You
-Boys Don't Cry
Dear Mr Smith : Are you still sure that Boys Don't Cry after 3 hrs of this?
Out of 36 songs stretched over 3 hrs you have played one that I love, and the only reason we didn't leave earlier was because of the Hollywood Bowl tandem parking.
But no worries - you'll be our hero always , but in the future we'll stick to our MP3 play list on iTunes.
We're more B-side kinda people , ya know .....
We wish we could have seen the Berlin show 2 months ago, but at least we'll have it on video....
We went to see The Cure at the Hollywood Bowl last night and wanted to address a few things to you.
Firstly: we totally appreciate your enthusiasm.
I mean who does 3 hr shows with so much gusto?
You even look and dress exactly the way you did in 1987.
Tyler and I were very excited to finally see you live and he even drove down from San Francisco for you so we can see The Cure together.
You were my imaginary friend when I was a troubled teenager and I know that you would have understood how rough life can be and you even dedicated a song to one of my favorite books by Camus.
You have made many amazing songs for us, and we appreciate that, too.
Don't we look happy and excited about the show?
And we were not the only excited ones:
The girlies to my left seemed to have a blast.
Here's my first question though:
WHY 23 Set Songs? And out of all the songs you've written, why this crappy selection?
We liked 2 or 3 out of the main set at the most but we hoped that you saved the good stuff for your encore.
This guy doesn't seem to be very sure of that judging from his expression:
The people behind us froze after the 3rd song and left after the 5th.
The Set List:
1.Underneath The Stars
2.Prayers For Rain
3.A Night Like This
4.The Walk
5.The End Of The World
6.Love Song
7.Sleep When I'm Dead
8.To Wish Impossible Things
9.Pictures Of You
10.Lullaby
11.From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
12.The Perfect Boy
13.Hot Hot Hot
14.The Only One
15.Push
16.Friday I'm In Love
17.In Between Days
18.Just Like Heaven
19.A Letter To Elise
20.Never Enough
21.Wrong Number
22.One Hundred Years
23.Baby Rag Dog Book
Tyler gave up after song 13 and slept through a couple I believe.
The encores :(13 MORE Songs? WTF?)
Encore #1:
-If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
-The Kiss
Encore #2:
-At Night
-M
-Play For Today
-A Forest
Encore #3:
-Love Cats
-Let's Go To Bed
-Freak Show
-Close To Me
-Why Can't I Be You
-Boys Don't Cry
Dear Mr Smith : Are you still sure that Boys Don't Cry after 3 hrs of this?
Out of 36 songs stretched over 3 hrs you have played one that I love, and the only reason we didn't leave earlier was because of the Hollywood Bowl tandem parking.
But no worries - you'll be our hero always , but in the future we'll stick to our MP3 play list on iTunes.
We're more B-side kinda people , ya know .....
We wish we could have seen the Berlin show 2 months ago, but at least we'll have it on video....
posted by Beatrice Neumann at 6:09 AM
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