Thursday's gig was supposed to be a celebration for The Cure's Godlike Genius Award at the Shockwave NME Awards - which they fully deserve. In truth, it was just a shorter-than-usual Cure gig, with a particularly attractive support line-up.
It started with White Lies; I missed most of their set, only entering the arena during their last song. They seemed OK live, and as I quite like their album I will definitely go see them in a smaller venue when they next play in London.
That is not going to be the case for Crystal Castle, though. These guys are hyper-hype, and I must say that Iwas quite intrigued by them, having heard that they play some 'crazy electro stuff', which sounds like my kind of music. To be honest, their music is indeed quite good, but god-damned that singer is terrible! Either we couldn't hear her vocals at all, or she was just yelling incoherent phrases in her microphone. Bad, really bad.....
Franz Ferdinand were at their usual standards, extremely tight sound and really good performance. Plus, I really like their latest album, much more than the two previous ones, so I'm really looking forward to seeing them in a decent-size venue in two weeks.
Finally, The Cure's gig was very much like last year's show at Wembley: A bit boring during the main act, with the few highlights of 3 Imaginary Boys, Shake Dog Shake, A Forest, 100 Years and Want. But things really took off during the Encore, when they played most of the Boys Don't Cry album. Overall, the gig lasted 2 hours, which is a bit short for The Cure's standards, but I'm not sure they're worth a 3 hours show any more.
So, to summarize, The Cure deserve their Godlike award, even if in truth the supporting acts stole the show. As it should be for a band that started in the late 70's....
My poor recording of The Cure playing 100 Years:
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