Hello from the cheap seats at Wembley Arena. Saw Duran Duran here when I was 10. Saw The Cure here when I was 16. Saw Duran Duran here when I was 30. Now about to watch The Cure here at the age of 49. I am only watching two bands at Wembley Arena. #lifeplans 
Random thoughts from watching The Cure tonight.
1. Bob was in an amazingly chatty mood to the extent of trying and failing to crack a few jokes. "It's why I sing" he said after his last one fell flat. We forgave him.
2. At Night is now a beast of a song. In fact all the early...
1. Bob was in an amazingly chatty mood to the extent of trying and failing to crack a few jokes. "It's why I sing" he said after his last one fell flat. We forgave him.
2. At Night is now a beast of a song. In fact all the early...
... songs now sound like beasts. Play for Today sounded epic.
3. The new stuff is okay. We got four tonight. Blood Red Moon is my favourite.
3. The new stuff is okay. We got four tonight. Blood Red Moon is my favourite.
4. Bob's voice is in fine fettle. I got the feeling Disintegration was in a lower key - he struggled with the high stuff in that, but everything else was great. I heard he had a cold recently, but you wouldn't know.
5. The band is superb, but Push and A Night Like This stuff did sound a bit flabby. Reece is a genius, but he still doesn't quite do what Porl/Pearl could do.
6. There was a hell of a lot of up beat stuff. From memory the run in on the second encore was The Walk, Let's Go To Bed, Friday I'm in Love (introduced as 'A new one, with a country sound') Close to Me, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Boys Don't Cry.
7. Bob seemed really, really happy. Throwing shapes, taking the mic off the stand and singing to the wings and taking the standing ovation at the end with the stage to himself you could tell he was just thrilled to be there. Not the Bob of old.
8. How can two bottles of water and a diet coke at Wembley Arena cost more than £12? That's ridiculous. Pleased the band kept the official merch at £20 a t-shirt. Could have been a lot more.
9. A Forest used to get a run out as the penultimate or antepenultimate song (or certainly towards the end) - they knocked it off in the first half of the show. Afterwards, Robert said something like. 'It's always fun to play, that one, even after all these years.'
10. Best surprise for me was 'Burn' (after 'At Night'), which I've never really liked. Camera stuck on drummer Jason Cooper throughout and it was mesmerising.
Anyway 10 out of 10 stars. Amazing. Am going back tomorrow.
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