Tickets
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/11003EDCDC868FD3?artistid=915776&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60
Venue details
General Motors Place is one of the most active entertainment venues in North America. Since it opened in September 1995, General Motors Place has attracted the biggest names in show business to its stage and has welcomed more than 10 million visitors through its doors. In all, General Motors Place hosts approximately 100 events each year, ranking it among the busiest facilities in North America.
Importante note: The Vancouver show is set up to only allow seating for about a third of the arena. See the picture below to see the seating arrangement. (thanks Brian)
Website : http://www.canucks.com/subpage.asp?sectionID=180
Capacity: 19,193
Venue photos
(http://media.ticketmaster.com/en-us/tmimages/venue/maps/van/19541s.gif)
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y125/crowbi_wan/IMG_1746.jpg)
Setlist: Open, Fascination Street,Alt.end, The Walk, The End of the World, alt.end, Lovesong, Sleep When I'm Dead, Pictures of You, Lullaby, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Hot Hot Hot, The Only One, Push, Friday I'm In Love, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Never Enough, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, End
1st encore: Lovecats , Let's Go To Bed, Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
2nd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
3rd encore: A Forest
End of show.
thanks Steph and Craig (CoF) and carycameron (curefans.com) for the correction.
Tickets on sale tomorrow. It looks like this one is going to be GA. When I pulled up the seating chart on Ticketmaster it shows no seats on the floor. Okay, I'm not too worried about getting a good spot now.
Nevermind that last statement. I was looking at this layout all wrong. It's actually setup like a theater. This should be interesting.
I'll be on the floor, row 5 8)
The venue will be arranged to look like this.
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y125/crowbi_wan/26_layout3b_1_1.jpg)
I really am grateful that European concerts have STANDING places...and not something like this...
Nevyn, Don't underestimate the intimacy of the venue. Great views Will be had by all. Even if there'a a giant in front of you you'll still be able to see. Plus everyone is close. im really looking forward to seeing what it looks like in person which should be very soon. Who knows, Maybe it won't live up to my expectations.
Not too many people are here yet. A good portion of the crowd is wearing black. More so than any of the other shows i've seen on this tour. Will it translate into a dark set?
Let's hope so! That can then feel free to translate into darker sets still for the 29th and 1st!
:D
Enjoy the show, Brian!
Crowbi - do you want to tell me, that you prefer LOOKING at these guys (especially PORL) than smelling the sweaty crowd, who do their best to die jumping, shouting, and doing other things, trying to get as close to the stage as possible?
So, what are your thoughts about the show? :)
Not much to say about the show other than robert got his voice back. Pretty amazing considering how bad it got yesterday. According to the setlist the faith encore would not have included other voices if played tonight. Curious if that one is just going to be played in the mainset now. Glad i made the trip bit this one was kind of a snoozer.
so, it was just ANOTHER boring show by The Cure ;)
Just came back from the show.
It was a standard set...no surprises. But for most here, this is the first time seeing the Cure since 1996 Swing Tour or first time ever. I would say the majority of the concert-goers were in late twenties-late thirties
The concert wasn't sold out even only using a third of the arena. It looked like a lot of people were buying merchandise so i'm sure they make some money there with the astronomical prices they charge.
- I was disappointed to see Open instead of Plainsong (as it never been played here before) or Underneath the Stars. And no songs from Bloodflowers
- Robert's voice sounded fine but said little between songs. He only introduced the new ones.
- Highlights for me were Push (always a favorite), 100 Years (first time live and i like the continuous war images), Old school encore (loved to hear Jumping and Grinding Halt)
- Fans started really getting into it after Friday I'm in Love and everyone was standing throughout the encores
- The pop encore sounded poor. It was nice to hear Lovecats but just sounds weird without keys. But it does give Robert a chance to interact with crowd more as he does not play guitar on most of them. Never Enough was the only other song where he only had the mic.
- At the end, Robert bowed appreciably to the crowd for about a minute
and then said "K, see you again" before leaving
here is a link to a review from the Vancouver Sun newspaper
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=8df7babf-5494-4dc5-983f-11cffb8c42c0
setlist requires a slight correction:
Alt.end was the third song played (after Fascination Street). The rest is in correct order.
there was also a review in the Vancouver Province newspaper
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=e14dea89-ee91-4aa5-a318-1a2bc9407440
Thanks for the reviews & links carycameron & crowbi_wan. Hope you both enjoyed the show even thought not much was different than previous shows they played so far. It's good to hear that Roberts voice is back too. :D
Quote from: carycameron on May 27, 2008, 16:45:11
here is a link to a review from the Vancouver Sun newspaper
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=8df7babf-5494-4dc5-983f-11cffb8c42c0
Thanks for the link, and I'm so glad the reviewer enjoyed hearing "From the Edge of the Deep Blue Sea" :roll:
Not one of the best setlists IMO. (but I would kill to have been there anyway!)
im worried that they still havent put a forest back on, i want to hear it live while im still young! grr..
see ya guys tommorow night at SJ, hopefully the cure will treat the bay area well once more
Quote from: DJscribbles on May 27, 2008, 23:58:35
im worried that they still havent put a forest back on, i want to hear it live while im still young! grr..
actually,
it's in!
look at the last encore ;)
Quote from: [labyrinth] on May 28, 2008, 09:34:43
Quote from: DJscribbles on May 27, 2008, 23:58:35
im worried that they still havent put a forest back on, i want to hear it live while im still young! grr..
actually,
it's in!
look at the last encore ;)
I bet this show rocked
Quote from: bearnutt0054 on June 08, 2008, 04:17:19
Quote from: [labyrinth] on May 28, 2008, 09:34:43
Quote from: DJscribbles on May 27, 2008, 23:58:35
im worried that they still havent put a forest back on, i want to hear it live while im still young! grr..
actually,
it's in!
look at the last encore ;)
I bet this show rocked
No, it didn't. It was the lamest of the 11 shows I saw this year. Antwerp was a hard one to top, but this did it. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad show. Just nowhere near the others.
Really? My family thought this show was much better than Sasquatch. Robert was in a much better mood and danced and had fun. At Sasquatch, he just stood there... This show had much better energy, in my opinion.
Not the best Cure show I've seen, of course, but my dad was BLOWN AWAY by it. And I'm forced to tell him, "It's got nothing on Everett."
I'll post pictures as soon as I get through my Sasquatch stuff (or maybe sooner...).
I guess it's because it was a shorter show, no surprises, that damn pop encore (the long version), and a forest with no songs before it. Yeah, Robert was having some fun and sounded waaaaay better than at The Gorge. Probably wanted to rest his voice some, too (thus a bit shorter show). I was expecting more, though. That intimate setup, not having played Vancouver since '96, and moving the Seattle show to the middle of the state just had me thinking that it would be something more than it was. Not a bad show, just not my favorite from the ones i saw this year.
I liked the pop encore, haha. I wish they would've changed things a *tad* more from the Sasquatch show. They probably did go with some safer songs due to Robert's condition. I mean, I imagine that the particularly emotional songs are extra straining.
I hadn't thought about the conditions surrounding the concert, but that's a good point.
My, I can't wait until my dad and sister see the band when they're all nice and healthy.
if i ever get to go on another concert, i hope that they will play jupiter crash because its one of my favs. if robert is healthier next time, i would like to see him dance a little more, but i guess simon rocking his bass to a forest makes up for dancing.
Quote from: music_feeds_my_soul12 on June 22, 2008, 04:03:21
if i ever get to go on another concert, i hope that they will play jupiter crash because its one of my favs. if robert is healthier next time, i would like to see him dance a little more, but i guess simon rocking his bass to a forest makes up for dancing.
I saw Jupiter Crash live :-D Bwahahahaha...