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The Cure bring The Prayer Tour to the RDS: 17 years on

  • 15-07-2006 05:41PM
    #1
    nlgbbbblth
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    15 July was a Saturday in 1989 just like it is today.

    The Cure were in town and it was scorching. Not good news for the black-clad, mascara-streaked, hairspray-soaked temples among us. I hadn't slept a wink the previous night. Excitement to the power of one hundred - attempts to quench same were in the form of trips to 7Eleven and a dawn flit to Sandymount beach where we watched the tide go out.

    We walked up Sandymount Avenue in the searing sunshine and into Simmonscourt. The atmosphere was highly-charged with expectation. Shelleyan Orphan gave us a competent set, Shatter being the highlight. All About Eve came next and Julianne Regan wore a see-through white dress. I thought she looked amazing.

    The Cure finally came on stage to Plainsong. The crowd surged forward and I temporarily lost my friends in the crush. I found them a few songs later during A Night Like This when I went to take a breather. They were at the right hand wall where a guy had fainted and was being stretchered off by St John's Ambulance men.

    By the time they concluded with Faith, almost three hours had passed.
    Exhausted but happy. 'The best concert ever' we agreed amongst ourselves as we walked home. Not that we had been to many.

    Seventeen years (as I sit here listening to Entreat) and hundreds of gigs later it's still number one.

    Plainsong
    Pictures of You
    Closedown
    Kyoto Song
    A Night Like This
    Just Like Heaven
    Last Dance
    Fascination St
    Lovesong
    Charlotte Sometimes
    The Walk
    A Forest
    In Between Days
    Same Deep Water As You
    Prayers For Rain
    Disintegration

    Lullaby
    Close To Me
    Let's Go To Bed
    Why Can't I Be You

    Hot Hot Hot
    A Strange Day
    Three Imaginary Boys
    Boys Don't Cry
    Homesick
    Untitled
    Faith


Comments

  • #2
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    I saw this thread and thought they were playing, you owe me a small heart failure.


  • #3
    Morlar
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    Think I was at that gig - man you have a good memory !

    The best ones from back then for me was nick cave and the bad seeds in the sfx (I think) circa 92, also sonic youth supported by nirvana in dun laoghire.


  • #4
    Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Toast


    This is up there with the person who bumped the 3yr old Foo Fighters thread. Curse you!


  • #5
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Read the thread title again.

    Naturally it's posted today because of the relevance of the date,


  • #6
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Morlar wrote:
    Think I was at that gig - man you have a good memory !

    The best ones from back then for me was nick cave and the bad seeds in the sfx (I think) circa 92, also sonic youth supported by nirvana in dun laoghire.

    yes, Nick Cave was touring Henry's Dream then.

    The Sonic Youth / Nirvana one was August 1991. Top Hat.
    It's funny that anytime someone mentions they were at this gig, loads of people disbelieve them.

    If everyone who said they went to the gig was lying then the place would have been empty. Which it clearly was not.


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  • #7
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    nlgbbbblth wrote:
    Read the thread title again.

    Naturally it's posted today because of the relevance of the date,

    I assumed you meant they were re-touring it 17 years on. Besides, I'm full of painkillers, leave me alone. :p


  • #8
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,043 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    /sigh I was too young to go to that gig.

    But thank you for the recollection I have compiled that list as my play list for next while.


  • #9
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    looking at the thread title i thought The Cure were coming back to play another gig :(


  • #10
    honru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭honru


    It wasn't me! wrote:
    I saw this thread and thought they were playing, you owe me a small heart failure.

    Same here. :eek:

    Still, nice read. I've got Entreat aswell nlgbbbblth, the gigs that year must have been amazing... and what a setlist!

    As for a Cure gig in the future, there are plans for a European tour later this year... if the band have the new album ready to go by then. I would definetly expect an Irish date or two.


  • #11
    SprostonGreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    Nice one nlgbbbblth, I was there too. Me and my mates got a chartered coach no less, up from Sligo. I still have the bootleg tapes purchased on O'Connell bridge months later.

    My still have the ticket too.

    Can you remember some different songs that they played at the following days gig? Piggy in the mirror is the only one I can think of.


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