ROSKILDE - July 1st, 2001 - Roskilde, Festival field Pic1 Pic2 Pic3 Pic4 Pic5

Out of This World, Watching Me Fall, Want, Fascination Street, Open, Trust, Maybe Someday, Shake Dog Shake, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Kiss, End, 100 Years, 39, Bloodflowers

Encore: Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, A Forest

I can tell that I was very impatient to see The Cure again. I didn’t even hesitate to go to Roskilde by car, and I found that driving 13hrs was ok. So, the first thing that impressed me was how clean Denmark was. I arrived on the festival site on Sunday morning, bought my one-day pass, and got inside the festival area. My first intention was to locate the orange stage, where The Cure had to play at 10pm. There already were fans waiting there at 11am !

A fans-meeting was organized at 2pm, and I of course went there. I met several cool fans, and being part of that community, even for a afternoon only was really pleasant. I thank here all the guys I met there for having made that sunny afternoon so pleasant and fun (Thanks to Cheryl, Stefan, Dennis, Stephane, Nico, Marie, Stephanie, Chris, and all those guys from Finland, and all those who I forgot the names…).

We all moved before Patti Smith's concert started to wait in line in front of the fences. I decided to go on the right part of the stage (in front of Simon & Perry). So the long wait started, and having to listen to Patti Smith reading peotry doesn’t help…So finally, after she covered pearl Jam's alive (in memory of the people who dies last year during Pearl Jam's set), she left the stage, and the fans were allowed to get inside the pit.

Once again, long wait, and finally, the first notes of that Adagio came…The atmosphere was really quiet, but I felt that people had waited too long to see the Cure there in Denmark...The band finally showed up. Robert was dressed with some sort of dark reddish suit. Simon had his hair cut, and was wearing a white towel on his belt.

The show started like a normal Dream Tour show : Out of this world, Watching me fall, Want, Fascination Street & Open…The backing tape stopped during the intro of Want, and had to be restarted. It surprised a lot of people who didn’t know that the band used such things…The very first surprise was Trust. Robert said something like a change of mood, so I suppose that it was not in the original tracklist. The show went on…From the edge…with Robert still staring at the stars when he sings looking at he floor…, and a real high peak was the Kiss. It was really intense and aggressive, and that song is really perfect when they play live…

The main set stopped with the usual Dream tour songs : End, 100 years, 39 & Bloodflowers. All the songs were played perfectly, and Robert seemed to be really happy to be there.

The first (and last encore) was really poppy, with JLH and Inbetween days, and was definitely too short. Anyway, I cannot complain : they played 2 hours of an intense and beautiful show, and even if the audience was really quiet (once again comparing to the French audience), it was a perfect day in Roskilde, with a brilliant - but short - performance by The Cure…