Last Friday we went to see The Cure with Megan, Matias, and Emily. It was pretty good. I didn't like it as much as the Curiosa festival they did a couple years ago at Usana, but it was pretty good. The concert lasted three hours, and by the end Robert Smith said something like "Sorry, my voice is gone." It's hard to tell. I've never been able to understand him...
I haven't followed the band for a while, and the first thing I noticed when the concert started was that there was a different guitar player, that he was bald and that he was wearing shiny leather pants, high heels boots, and a fish net shirt. There was no keyboard, just bass, drums, guitar (the bald guy), and the second guitar by Robert Smith. The instrumentation made it so the songs sounded pretty similar to each other, and the songs from the techno era, such as "The Walk," sounded kind of weird. It was also somewhat disappointing that Robert was changing the older songs' melody, and in some of them he didn't even seem to be trying to get them right.
Overall the concert was really good. Not too many new songs, which was good. It was a pleasant surprise that they played songs from the first and second album (Boys Don't Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing an Arab, Jumping Someone Else's Train, etc.).
After I got home, I did some research, and I figured out that the bald guy was the old guitar player, Porl Thompson. I always thought that the good Cure albums (Disintegration, Wish, etc.) were good thanks to him, but now he's back, and their new songs still suck. I'm confused now.
I tried to record the concert, but it was so loud that the recording was ruined, even when I was holding my thumb to the microphone. But I did a quick search on YouTube and found a bunch of videos of the concert. This is my favorite. It isn't the complete song, but you can see the bald guy with the high heels pretty clearly:
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