The Cure will release a 2CD live recording next month of its full, 32-song set at the U.K.’s Bestival this past September, marking the first official live album from Robert Smith and Co. since 1993’s back-to-back Show and Paris releases recorded during the Wish tour — and the first time the band ever has released a complete concert on disc.
Although the band hasn’t formally announced the release, fansite Chain of Flowers points to an Amazon.com listing showing the double-disc Bestival Live 2011 release is scheduled for Dec. 6, and further confirms that the live album, to be released via Fontana and PIAS America, will feature the complete concert, including the 12-song encore sets (see full tracklist below).
UPDATE: The band has officially announced the release, which will benefit the Isle of Wight Youth Trust. Cover art is posted above, and the official tracklist is below.
To date, The Cure has released four live albums — in addition to Show and Paris, there’s 1984’s Concert: The Cure Live and 1990’s Disintegration addendum Entreat — but none of those releases has captured one single performance in its entirety.
The Bestival appearance (see video here) featured keyboardist Roger O’Donnell back in the lineup, and included only the second performance of “The Caterpillar” since the band’s 1984 tour (it last had been played during a 1991 taping of “MTV Unplugged”).
Smith also has said he plans to release a DVD of the “Reflections” concerts at the Sydney Opera House earlier this year, but that, “I suspect Live in Paris 2008 may beat it out,” apparently a reference to a film of The Cure’s March 12, 2008, concert at the Palais Omnisport de Paris-Bercy.
Tracklist: The Cure, Bestival Live 2011
CD 1
1. “Plainsong”
2. “Open”
3. “Fascination Street”
4. “A Night Like This”
5. “The End of the World”
6. “Lovesong”
7. “Just Like Heaven”
8. “The Only One”
9. “The Walk”
10. “Push”
11. “Friday I’m In Love”
12. “Inbetween Days”
13. “Play For Today”
14. “A Forest”
15. “Primary”
16. “Shake Dog Shake”
CD 2
1. “The Hungry Ghost”
2. “100 Years”
3. “End”
4. “Disintegration”
5. “Lullaby”
6. “The Lovecats”
7. “The Caterpillar”
8. “Close to Me”
9. “Hot Hot Hot!!!”
10. “Let’s Go to Bed”
11. “Why Can’t I Be You?”
12. “Boys Don’t Cry”
13. “Jumping Someone Else’s Train”
14. “Grinding Halt”
15. “10:15 Saturday Night”
16. “Killing An Arab”
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Contest: Win The Japanese Popstars’ ‘Take Forever’ 12-inch featuring Robert Smith
- Robert Smith to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: ‘Jason Cooper is The Cure’s drummer… bah!’
- The Cure to perform ‘Reflections’ concerts in London, New York, Los Angeles in November
- The Cure nominated for induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 2012 ballot
- The Cure at Bestival: Roger O’Donnell rejoins band for 32-song set (photo, video, setlist)
- The Cure’s Robert Smith vows to complete second half of ‘4.13 Dream’ album
- Video: The Cure plays 44-song ‘Reflections’ concert with Tolhurst, O’Donnell
- Milestones: The Cure’s ‘Standing on a Beach’ released 25 years ago today
- The Cure playing first 3 albums in Sydney with Lol Tolhurst, Roger O’Donnell
That’s great and everything, but I’m much more interested in a DVD release of “In Orange.”
Same here
The Cure? Snore.
Craig is still bitter ’cause he couldn’t get tickets to Justin Beiber.
Craig, then why are you commenting on a The Cure news item?
Wow! That is a fantastic set list! Can’t wait to hear this one!
Erm…
” marking the first official live album from Robert Smith and Co. since 1993″
Except Trilogy, released in 2002, features three complete albums performed in their entirety. “Festival” is a live release from 2005.
“but none of those releases has captured one single performance in its entirety.”
I’m not 100% sure but I think “Trilogy” did.
Yes, but those are DVDs, not live albums. The Cure has released films of complete shows (although Festival is not one of them), but this is the first live album of a whole concert.
I see, thanks, I didn’t catch the distinction.
(And I’d long-since forgotten that my “Festival” album was a DVD-audio rip; as is my NIN “Beside You in Time”. The ‘official’ format that stuff is released in becomes less and less relevant as time marches on, it seems…)
I’ll certainly be buying this