“TOTALLY CURED in LONDON” 
-The Cure in London, England-
Place: Wembley Arena Stadium
Date: Thursday 20th March 2008
Start time: 8 pm
End: at about a quarter past eleven
Total time: more than 3 hours!
… The day was grey, cold, windy and rainy. I arrived to Wemblay Park Station at about six. It was one of those days you would have prefered to stay at home watching tv and eating chocolates! But I had the ticket and I had to go! The Cure started on time and lasted more than three hours as in Barcelona show. The concert was BRILLIANT. The interaction with the audience was different. I think they feel at home, so they feel less pressure maybe. Robert didn´t speak much to the audience and songs as “The Blood”, that they always perform in Spain, it wasn´t played. I liked to hear “Strange Day”, which sounded pretty different and weird at the beginning. The setlist was similar in general. No big surprises…The sound was much better than in Bcn and they also displayed a big screen with pictures and drawings for each song. The audience wasn´t particularly gothic neither. I waited another kind of “scene”. I arrived to the conclusion that we are living in a society where ideals are dead. Anyway, I had a great time! There were tall english guys and girls in front of me. I was at the middle of the rink more or less, so it was difficult to see the band. I raised my hand to take pictures. Everybody did the same! Times have changed… concerts are now some kind of digitilized events… I rushed to catch the train and do all the underground combinations to arrive to my hotel. Wembley seems to be at “the end of the world”… but it was fantastic to have been there, it is a great stadium! C´mon, yes, the guys are very hard working and they try to keep the same style and magic with the audience… I think the audience and society in general has broken the spell, and that is the pity any old school sensitive fan feels in the concerts.
Anyway, I am pleased, it was another dream that came true. I was at the perfect place at the right time and had a great chance to see this band at home. Let´s try to fool ourselves saying the surrounding circumstances weren´t important enough… The Cure spell will live in our memories forever, when you dressed all in black and killed to have a red lipstick in your hands…
Approximate setlist:
1. Plainsong
2. Prayers For Rain
3. A Strange Day
4. Alt.End
5. A Night Like This
6. The End Of The World
7. Lovesong
8. To Wish Impossible Things
9. Pictures Of You
10. Lullaby
11. From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
12. Hot Hot Hot!!!
13. Please Project
14. The Walk
15. Push
16. Friday I’m In Love
17. Inbetween Days
18. Just Like Heaven
19. Primary
20. A Boy I Never Knew
21. Shake Dog Shake
22. Never Enough
23. Wrong Number
24. One Hundred Years
25. Disintegration
Wembley Arena London, England
Encore 1:
1. At Night
2. M
3. Play For Today
4. A Forest
Encore 2:
1.The Lovecats
2. Let’s Go To Bed
3. Freak Show
4. Close To Me
5. Why Can’t I Be You?
Encore 3:
1. Three Imaginary Boys
2. Fire In Cairo
3. Boys Don’t Cry
4. Jumping Someone Else’s Train
5. Grinding Halt
6. 10:15 Saturday Night
7. Killing An Arab
Concert lasted 3 hours and 18 minutes.
