2008-02-16 Berlin - Velodrom (Germany)

Mainset:

Plainsong
Prayers For Rain
Alt.End
The Only One
A Night Like This
The Walk
The End Of The World
Lovesong
To Wish Impossible Things
Pictures Of You
Lullaby
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
The Drowning Man
Push
Just Like Heaven
Primary
A Boy I Never Knew
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
The Kiss
Never Enough
Wrong Number
One Hundred Years
Disintegration

Encore 1:

At Night
M
Play For Today
A Forest

Encore 2:

The Lovecats
Let's Go To Bed
Freakshow
Close To Me
Why Can't I Be You?

Encore 3:

Three Imaginary Boys
Fire In Cairo
Boys Don't Cry
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Grinding Halt
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Jason Cooper
Porl Thompson

Songs played: 39 (23 | 4 | 5 | 7)

Day of the week: Saturday
Tour: '4Tour 2007-2008'

Attendance: 9'500
Capacity: 9'500
Sold out

thanks to: Chain of Flowers

A Forest
Maybe Someday
Signal To Noise
The Lovecats
The Drowning Man

thanks to Tof

thanks to Bernhard

2008-02-18 Tagesspiegel

2008-02-18 Berliner Morgenpost

2008-02-18 Berliner Zeitung

2008-02-18 Die Welt

2008-02-18 FAZ

2008-02-18 TAZ

"Sonic Seducer" | from JC Moglia

Photo links:

Photos by marsworld

various songs

Arte "Eye on Berlinale" pre-show interview without Robert (starts at 4:29 min)

Two weeks before the show the venue was changed from 'Arena Berlin' to the larger 'Velodrom'

The story goes that Robert urgently needed to go to the dentist shortly before the concert.

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list of recordings may be incomplete and could contain wrong informations

65 Days of Static

itsaperfectday.info

Venue address:

Paul-Heyse-Straße 26
10407 Berlin

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Venue related links:

The Cure appearances at this venue:

2008-02-16 Velodrom

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1981-12-21 "John Peel Session"
2014-12-21 London

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