i wanted to blog yesterday but i was WAY TOO TIRED. so the cure concert was.....

well darth and i left around 1 to head out to lovely devore, ca and we didn't actually park and get out of the car till around 3:30. that's right people it took over 2 hours to get there and most of the traffic was getting into the place and parking the car. once that was said and done it was a good 20 min or more hike to the venue (cause we parked ass far in some dirt lot) in the freaking hot sun. it was so hot .... blech. once inside we were faced with a huge crowd of people buying food and merch. so we made our way to our seats which were 10th row but seriously so far off to the side :( that we got an angle view most of the time but we were close. the pit rail/fence was less than 20 ft from us.

when we got there we had already missed dashboard confessional ... sorry mac ... so we just got to see from fountain of wayne and on. yea i was so not impressed by fow at all ... after that was marc a. from soft cell who was alright, of course the fans went wild for tainted love, then interpol came on and played a pretty basic set, i don't understand why they are so liked. then the psychedelic furs came on ... who i am currently really really into now. though richard, the leader singer, tripped and fell over some stage equipment i think they sounded great and seemed like such nice chaps. :) after them was the violent femmes and they were pretty cool but i'm not really into their music, then echo & the bunnymen who were really good as well. then it was hot hot heat, now put in mind i saw them at the troub. with dorkus on my b-day earlier this year and now they are the third act on the main stage for kroq's inland invasion. yea you can tell i don't think they are worth that position but i guess kroq thought they were. they played an okay set ...eh pretty forgettable. the only part i really loved was someone was screaming "you are not robert smith" ha ha ha. then it was time for duran duran and let me tell you ... as much as people loved the cure .. they LOVE their duran duran. the crowd went crazy for them ... crazy. they were really good and played a lot of the popular / fav. songs like oridinary world, save a prayer, come undone, notorious, rio, and ended with girls on film. while they were doing girls on film i raced to the front of the pit fence/ rail and squeezed my way in so that i would have a good view for the cure. all the security there was pretty relaxed cause i think they got tired of fighing people off. we has to wait about 25 mins till the cure came on but once they did .... it was so great. they opened with 10:15 sat. night which i had a feeling they might do considering they played that on the kilborn show on thurs and it was a sat. night around 10 pm :) i won't get into the rest of their set list but they played a lot of their more popular songs like 100 years, just like heaven, pictures of you, inbetween days, lovesong in album order. during the end of bloodflowers, the security people for the pit didn't even care anymore who was going in and out so i snuck my way into the pit and stayed there for the three encores the cure did ... :) it was soooooooooo amazing. i was so close to robert and the boys :) (sigh) when they did plainsong and disintergration i almost died. robert concluded the night by saying SEE YOU NEXT YEAR ... YOU HEAR THAT HOUSE MEMBERS .... the cure (my boys) are coming back next year :). all in all the whole night was wonderful and unforgettable.

however i can't say that about the audience. they were unbelievely ghetto, nasty and disrespective. some people around me had the nerve to heckle at robert and the boys and others were leaving the pit once they didn't recognize the cure's popular songs ... booo to them. the audience was so annoying and lame ... you could tell they were made up by stupid people who listen to kroq but only like linkin park, queen of the stone ages, incubus and other stupid acts. i was reminded when i went how much i despise kroq held functions cause the people that attend and the way kroq conducts themselves is beyond terrible. i do not remember having such a bad time or experience at coachella and that venue had more people and bands.