They're playing here (Zürich) on Wednesday night and I want opinion of people who've seen them before. I only like a couple of their songs and actually find R. Smith's vocals nauseating at times, but... I'm sucker for live music. Should I go?

I'm gonna go next friday in Rome!

I saw them in a stadium in Toronto in the 90s. The more 'pop' stuff worked, but the slower murky numbers really were hard to get thru.

The band's playing was very good, but the band could not hold the crowd's attention for anything but the 'hits'.

They played in Copenhagen a couple of weeks ago. I didn't go, but the reviews I read were all really good.

I recall reports saying they played for three hours, doing more than 35 songs.

I've seen them three times, a few years ago, and those concerts are still the most boring I ever saw, I nearly fell asleep, literally.

The third time I went I even took a paperback, went to the bar and sat there till the concert ended. I had to go to the shows to accompany a few disabled people and was actually looking forward to it, as I like a lot of their songs, but performance-wise it was lacking everything.

In comparison, here's a few examples of concerts that I enjoyed over the past few years: Radiohead, U2, The Who, Sonny Rollins, David Bowie...

Never saw them, but brought up with their music
& know they pulled half million audiences in latin america in the 80s.

I like The Cure,but I have never seen him live. I've always wondered how thier stuff would translate live and I have heard mixed things about thier live shows.

one of my 1st gigs was the cure at Wembley in 89

played for almost 4 hours!!! it is still one of the best gigs that i have ever been to.

yes they do play about 35 songs a night. so you do get all the hits plus album tracks from across there career.

I'm going to see them at Wembley next month. can't wait!!!!

if you can then do go.

Last two shows this tour in Poland were about 190 min. Each show is full of songs from one record for ex. In Warsaw it was almost full Disintegration and Pornography , in Katowice it was Wish album night. I heard there will be dvd from Warsaw, there was lots of cameras and Smith was talking a lot which is not very usual. I saw Cure during Bloodflowers tour and they were awsome. I think it is one of those unique band which is always worth to see and you can expect suprises from Smith&Co.

Only minus is but lipstick at men has ran out off fashion?
(Dont misunderstand me, I REALLY l-u-u-u-r-v'em)

Can you help me?
I'm trying to find any relation beteween Cure and the Stones...
I read some time ago that Robert used to make some Stones versions when he started to play, but that's all.
Thanks

There is no apparent relation. That why it says "OT" in the title of the topic, meaning "off topic", so that you can skip this thread if you're not interested.

There is a relation: There are some people here who love the Stones but also like to go to other bands concerts.

Nooooo!
You don't understand me.
I saw the OT, and this post makes me think about the relation between both bands, so, better than start another treat (something like: OT: Relation between the Cure and the Stones)... I used this one.
Many thanks anyway.

Cross-dressing (at least Stones did like 1967-78)
Walkin on the edge.. ?