(007895) The Cure 2023-06- 20 & 21 (2 NIGHTS) Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (FLAC)

The Cure

Madison Square Garden

New York, NY

June 20, 2023 (Tuesday)

support: The Twilight Sad

24bit

Taper: j.mart

Source: DPA SMK4061 > DPA d:vice MMA-A (+12dB, no HPF) > Apogee Metarecorder (24/48) > iPhone 13 Pro

Mastering: Adobe Audition > Izotope Ozone 10 (EQ, MB compressor, maximizer, dither/resample 16/44.1) > TLH (FLAC 8)

01- intro

02- Alone

03- Pictures of You

04- A Fragile Thing

05- Kyoto Song

06- A Night Like This

07- Lovesong

08- And Nothing Is Forever

09- Three Imaginary Boys

10- Burn

11- Push

12- Play for Today

13- A Forest

14- Shake Dog Shake

15- From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea

16- Endsong / encore

17- I Can Never Say Goodbye

18- It Can Never Be the Same

19- At Night

20- Plainsong

21- Disintegration / encore

22- Lullaby

23- Six Different Ways

24- The Walk

25- Friday I'm in Love

26- Close to Me

27- Why Can't I Be You?

28- In Between Days

29- Just Like Heaven

30- Boys Don't Cry

TRT: 2h:43m:40s

Notes: Great to see The Cure on this side of the pond! I wish I could make the entire NYC run, but this is probably it for me. I'm usually keen to listen to any bands' new material live, but I'm not very impressed by these new songs. On the plus side, the visuals and Simon's bass playing were amazing on this show. First nights are usually a warm up so I'll be following setlist.fm to see if they bring out more oddities to the setlists. It was great to hear Three Imaginary Boys and the Plainsong/Disintegration encore. I think this is a pretty good capture of the night. There's some crowd noise here and there, including some screamers that I tried to mitigate through spectral cleaning the best I could, but far from terrible.

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The Cure - Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY

June 21, 2023

audience master

Edirol R-09 w/ 2 audio technica mics (1 pro 7a & 1 at8531) > wavelab 6 > TLH >

make torrent 2 > dime

SBE corrected

I had a long clapper to my left. She clapped longer than most after a song was over

and she would raise her hands a little over her head to do it most of the time so

her clapping was right next to one of my microphones. I ponderously removed many of

her individual claps except where it interfered with Robert's banter or music inbetween

songs. Otherwise it was a loud rambunctious crowd even where I was sitting in the 200 level.

And the people behind just could not shut up throughout the whole show. You hear them sometimes.

setlist

01-Alone

02-Pictures Of You

03-A Fragile Thing

04-A Night Like This

05-Lovesong

06-Nothing Last Forever

07-Like Cockatoos

08-Burn

09-If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

10-Charlotte Sometimes

11-Push

12-39

13-Fascination Street

14-From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea

15-Endsong

16-encore break & intro to >

17-I Can Never Say Goodbye

18-Want

19-Shake Dog Shake

20-One Hundred Years

21-A Forest

22-encore break & intro to >

23-Lullaby

24-The Walk

25-Friday, I'm In Love

26-Doing The Unstuck

27-Close To Me

28-Why Can't I Be You?

29-Inbetween Days

30-Just Like Heaven

31-Boys Don't Cry

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