Music
The Cure Live in Sydney report
The Cure played two concerts in Sydney this week as a part of the Sydney Vivid Live Festival – and fans were certainly not disappointed. The concert lasted just under an incredible four hours each night, with the band playing a whopping total of 44 songs.
This include their first three albums in their entirety (Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds and Faith), and then 3 unforgettable encores consisting of 14 songs. The concerts were played at the Sydney Opera House, the first time The Cure had played in this smaller venue which only holds about 2500 people.
What was interesting was the reuniting of former keyboardists Lol Tolhurst and Roger O’Donnell, who I have not seen live for quite some time. That added a nice nostalgic touch to the performance.
What songs were played? Well, check out this playlist and tell me if you’re not impressed:
The Cure ‘Reflections’ playing in Australia for Vivid Live
Woohoo – announced today. The Cure are coming back to Australia for vivid live festival in Sydney. Playing on the 31st May and 1st June, it’s sure to be be pretty special, especially considering ‘what’ they will be playing.
They will be playing three albums in their entirerty – namely Three Imaginary Boys (1979), Seventeen Seconds (1980), and Faith (1981). Any die hard Cure fans will absolutely love the playlist. There’s nothing better than songs like 10:15 Saturday Night, A Forest or Play for Today being played live.
Look at the line up of who will be appearing – Awesome to see Lol Tolhurst back for this tour:
Three Imaginary Boys (1979)
The Cure Trio: Robert Smith (voice & guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums)
Seventeen Seconds (1980)
The Cure Quartet: Robert Smith (voice & guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O’Donnell (keys)
Faith (1981)
The Cure Quintet: Robert Smith (voice & guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O’Donnell (keys & percussion), Laurence Tolhurst (keys & percussion)
The Cure are playing at the Opera House which is unusual and new to the band, but I noticed that the performance will be recorded for distribution and broadcast so expect to see DVDs released in the future. Pity their other Oz tours from years back haven’t been recorded because they have done some good ones – hang on, all of them have been good! And it is being advertised as a 180 minute concert.
Can’t wait for this, and look for another post here after the concerts to report how good it was as I’m definitely going!
Adam Ant hints at reunion
The latest 80’s band/singer to possibly announce a comeback is Adam Ant. Adam (born Stuart Leslie Goddard), will be doing a solo tour this and next month, which is his first in 15 years. He is being backed backed by his new band, The Good, The Mad and The Lovely Posse.
He hinted on the reform of the original group, telling News of the World: “Some of the Prince Charming lineup will be back – if they can make it through boot camp. I’m a hard task-master.”
Obviously no dates and locations have been set as yet, but watch this space.
Who can forget this 1980 classic:
“Do us all a favour”, Adam 🙂
Culture Club to reunite in 2012
Boy George has confirmed that Culture Club will reunite in 2012, and will do so with a world wide tour. This is great news for fans of this ‘new wave’ (?) group of the 80s.
Why next year? A couple of reasons – George is touring solo this year on his ‘Here and Now’ tour to promote his new album, and next year marks their 30 year anniversary as well as 10 years since their last reformation.
In 1981, Boy George occasionally sang with the group Bow Wow Wow under the stage name “Lieutenant Lush”. But after this formed his own band with ‘Kissing to be Clever’ their first album release.
Culture Club are probably best known for singles from their second album in 1983 (Colour by Numbers), namely ‘Church of the Poison Mind’ and ‘Karma Chameleon’.