2008.05.09 Fairfax - Patriot Center (USA)

[Gothiczartan]

Hey guys...overall a really good show.  Very surprising considering it was the first show of the tour and they generally "play it safe" (a crowbi_wan quote) by playing the singles.

As I mentioned, the volume was nowhere near the level of Mexico City.

I have a ton of pics that I will upload early in the week.  I just got lost in Fairfax trying to get back to my hotel.  What should have taken 20 mins took well over an hour, and included help from VA's finest!  I am off to bed (I hope) so I can catch my train to Philly for the show tomorrow.

Special thanks to BC for posting the list I sent to him.  I hope you have unlimited texts Brian!  If not, let me know and I can email the songs instead tomorrow.

so where did you sit to get a good pics of them? anyone has video tape them can upload on youtube.

i'm sorry I didn't bring a camera with me. I remember enough what did they look like.

[j]

I was on the floor, Section 2, Row Q, Seat 1 (last row of section 2, Simon's side, about 8 seats to the right of DFC).  I was the guy that looked like he was wearing a backpack shaped like a security guard  .  I wasn't amused that the security guard was so close to me. 

[Mad Bob RJS]

Anyone who could tell us about the new song The Perfect Boy?
What it sounds like? Poppy, gloomy?

What was the mood of the band?

More Pics, sounds?

Thanxs in advance....

[japanesebaby]

'friday...': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvZAnvTW7qY

crap youtube sound of course...

anyway i can't help but thinking, what's wrong with the US audience? they stand and stare like statues, even the crowd on the very front is pretty immovable...

[Gothiczartan]

'friday...': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvZAnvTW7qY

crap youtube sound of course...

anyway i can't help but thinking, what's wrong with the US audience? they stand and stare like statues, even the crowd on the very front is pretty immovable...

I didn't care what did the crowd do at the last night show. I just most of all look at the band with my binoculars.

[japanesebaby]

'friday...': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvZAnvTW7qY

crap youtube sound of course...

anyway i can't help but thinking, what's wrong with the US audience? they stand and stare like statues, even the crowd on the very front is pretty immovable...

I didn't care what did the crowd do at the last night show. I just most of all look at the band with my binoculars.

well, i was just wondering how different the US audience seems to be compared to the european crowds: there seems to be so little movement in the crowd, so little visible response to the show that it almost looks like a dire straits crowd or something...
just pretty weird to me.

[Gothiczartan]

'friday...': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvZAnvTW7qY

crap youtube sound of course...

anyway i can't help but thinking, what's wrong with the US audience? they stand and stare like statues, even the crowd on the very front is pretty immovable...

I didn't care what did the crowd do at the last night show. I just most of all look at the band with my binoculars.

well, i was just wondering how different the US audience seems to be compared to the european crowds: there seems to be so little movement in the crowd, so little visible response to the show that it almost looks like a dire straits crowd or something...
just pretty weird to me.

when I was sitting in section 110 I've seen plenty of people dancing like they seemed to enjoy the show. the crowd is not that bad. I guess The Cure are more popular in other countries then the US.

[[labyrinth]]

Gothiczartan

how was The Perfect Boy?
i'm worried, since nobody on the net is talking about the new song, it seems so "anonymous" 

[j]

well, i was just wondering how different the US audience seems to be compared to the european crowds: there seems to be so little movement in the crowd, so little visible response to the show that it almost looks like a dire straits crowd or something... Embarrassed
just pretty weird to me.

You nailed it right on the head.  In general, the vast majority of US crowds only move during the pop stuff.  Case in point... people to my immediate right knew all of the songs, but pretty much just swayed a bit all night.  Once that last encore came on and Lovecats, WCIBY, etc was on, a couple of the girls really started moving (not that I really noticed! ).

I do have to say that some in the crowd were singing the whoa oh oh in the beginning of Play for Today, but having been to 7 shows in Europe I can say from experience that at times the singing is 100 times louder in Europe and the crows are into the dancing aspect more in the EU.

One thing that I noticed last night as well.  In comparison to other shows, there was a distinct lack of the goth/punk sector in the crowd.  There were alot of just "plain" people for lack of a better term.  It was as if they were playing at  a mall and the shoppers were watching them play.

[Gothiczartan]

Gothiczartan

how was The Perfect Boy?
i'm worried, since nobody on the net is talking about the new song, it seems so "anonymous" 

I didn't remember that song they play and I asumed most of the songs they have played are good.

I like the end of the world they have played.

[japanesebaby]

You nailed it right on the head.  In general, the vast majority of US crowds only move during the pop stuff.

...so, either 'friday' doesn't qualify as pop stuff () or the maximum movement was really pretty minimal.
but nothing new, really: i've heard many times that in the US people don't ever even raise their hands during THE moment in 'fteotdgs' - people often ask "what moment??" when you bring this up... and like you said, that they don't know how to sing along with 'play for today'.

Case in point... people to my immediate right knew all of the songs, but pretty much just swayed a bit all night.  Once that last encore came on and Lovecats, WCIBY, etc was on, a couple of the girls really started moving (not that I really noticed! ).

I do have to say that some in the crowd were singing the whoa oh oh in the beginning of Play for Today, but having been to 7 shows in Europe I can say from experience that at times the singing is 100 times louder in Europe and the crows are into the dancing aspect more in the EU.

It was as if they were playing at  a mall and the shoppers were watching them play.

mall people... huh, scary! :eek:

(i'm so glad i live in europe! )

[sullen]

Perfect boy was good, prob my fav new song so far, it's pop, but has nice structure.
I just got into it alot more than the other 3, or maybe it was all the beer.

i'd upload a sample, but i gotta pick someone up in philly in a few hours and got to get moving.

i will if the next hotel has wifi.

I got lost too J, this place is rediculous!!!!

[j]

Glad to see I wasn't the only one.  I think my GPS was lost as well!   :roll:

[[labyrinth]]

i was thinking "The Perfect Boy" could be the 4th single.
at the moment we know 4 songs (The Only One, Freakshow, A Boy I Never Knew, The Perfect Boy)
"The Only One" and "Freakshow" are already confirmed to be the first and the second single.
maybe it's a kind of strategy and it could make sense.
they play the 4 songs they're going to release as singles, so that the people already know them when they buy them.
and the other songs kept secret for the album!

but tonight we could have a confirmation or not,
i mean, if they play another new song.... i'm wrong !   

[lostflower4]

'friday...': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvZAnvTW7qY

crap youtube sound of course...

anyway i can't help but thinking, what's wrong with the US audience? they stand and stare like statues, even the crowd on the very front is pretty immovable...

I didn't realize that being an obnoxious, knock-everybody-over type crowd was really such a plus?  Believe me, I've been to shows like this in the U.S. and they are really not my idea of a good time.

Maybe these people are simply enjoying the music?  At least this is pretty much how I am when I go to a concert of a band I really like.

By the way, Robert has said in the past that U.S. crowds are pretty loud compared to a lot of other places — but maybe we just don't make asses of ourselves *during* the songs? 

P.S.  How can you blame anybody for a lack of enthusiasm with this setlist?