The Cure

Festivals vs Tours

OK....

Lets look at this....

The Cure used to play at ( and sell out many) very large stadiums as headline acts, with 1 or 2 supporting acts.

Now, it seems as though they play a bunch of European festivals, where they play in front of lots of people, but not all of whom necessarily bought tickets and went to see them.

I'll do more research, but as a point... the 1989 Disintegration tour played Meadowlands Stadium, New Jersey seating capacity 76,000

The 2004 The Cure tour played Camden Tweeter center, capacity 25000

more research and posts to follow...

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A big stink was made how they sold out the Beacon so fast for Reflections last year.... 3 days in 30 minutes?

Well, the Beacon has a capacity of just under 2900.

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And if we look at contemporaries - Depeche Mode 2001 tour played MSG (2 dates)cap 19,500 and Jones Beach cap 15000

Bloodflowers in New York played Roseland ( which admittedly would have been very cool to seen them there) cap up to 3200, and Jones Beach cap 15000

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Festival: The Cure? YouTube search, ooh I like that... Get blown away by performance at festival...New generation fan :)

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unearthed wrote:
Festival: The Cure? YouTube search, ooh I like that... Get blown away by performance at festival...New generation fan :)

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You're only speaking shit like a drunk in a bar

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unearthed wrote:

dmscheuer wrote:
{q a=[[unearthed]]}Festival: The Cure? YouTube search, ooh I like that... Get blown away by performance at festival...New generation fan :)

Lol

Come back when you have something to say{/q) />
You're only speaking shit like a drunk in a bar

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Oops, sorry. Quoted you before you could edit asshat

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dmscheuer wrote:
Oops, sorry. Quoted you before you could edit asshat

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unearthed wrote:

dmscheuer wrote:
Oops, sorry. Quoted you before you could edit asshat

I'm on my phone xoxo Leah

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Sorry to get you flustered, time for your tablet

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unearthed wrote:
Sorry to get you flustered, time for your tablet

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I can write what I want, I'm a fan. You after all are passionate about freedom of speech, so here it is.

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Sure you can, but every time you reply to the thread, you bump it to the top. So you are promoting it, even if you don't like it.

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Lolol

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Anything to add to the thread topic, or just more nonsense?

Do you find anything to refute my posts? Or do you think you're being funny?

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Your thread is basically about the declining popularity of The Cure. They have just been asked to headline festivals! I'd like to give them a cheer for such a long and still fruitful career. Go The Cure!

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My thread is about touring versus festivals.

You can derive what you want from it.

The Cure used to play long tours and sell out huge stadiums. And release really good sounding live recordings.

Now they play a few festival dates. And sell poorly performed and mixed live recordings.

And oddly enough, the newer festival recordings have fewer and fewer "new" Cure songs, by far more older, 'classic' Cure songs.

What conclusions might we take from this?

I'll be back tomorrow, have to work in th AM

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I read your last post on the 'Jason' thread so you go ahead and play wolf in sheeps clothing. I'm looking forward to your continuation and I promise i won't interrupt you again.....,.

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asshat?

festivals are convenient for them.
they can still sell a zillion seats here in the US (in most regions)... but its got to be a logistical nightmare to set-up a Cure tour. And without the financial backing of a big record label, it has to be funded privately. Luckily, they still have the star-power to fill seats, so its not as if its very risky.

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dmscheuer wrote:
A big stink was made how they sold out the Beacon so fast for Reflections last year.... 3 days in 30 minutes?

Well, the Beacon has a capacity of just under 2900.

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I thought this thread was about where you prefer to see the cure, not how many seats they can fill? so in response to that, tour every time, and I would much rather see them play in smaller venues than stadiums or arenas, larger venues are ok but everything sounds better- to me anyway- in somewhere like the RAH, sorry to interrupt your debate I'll leave you to it....

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I personally would prefer to see the Cure play in arenas, etc, and not at festivals. With festivals, you get a lot of people there for other bands playing the same day, and it's not 'Cure enough' for me ;-) Plus, I like proper toilets, not stinky port-a-loos!

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cats_n_cheese wrote:
I personally would prefer to see the Cure play in arenas, etc, and not at festivals. With festivals, you get a lot of people there for other bands playing the same day, and it's not 'Cure enough' for me ;-) Plus, I like proper toilets, not stinky port-a-loos!

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not festivals for me. I prefer not to see any other bands than The Cure for 3 hours.

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manfredmezza wrote:
not festivals for me. I prefer not to see any other bands than The Cure for 3 hours.

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Always I prefer a extense tour in a closed venues. The festivals are ok in summer, but are a really different atmosphere... The greatest concerts always will be in a long tours in closed venues, never in summer festivals. This is my personal opinnion...