La Cure at the Zénith de Toulouse: the legendary group swept away everything in its path
In very good vocal and musical form, Robert Smith continues to impress with his hypnotic repertoire. More than 10,000 spectators, well-behaved but more fascinated than ever, accompanied his return to the Zenith with The Cure, Sunday November 13.
A week after Sting, it’s another legend who settled at Zenith sunday evening for an evening full of emotions and memories: The Cure and son Chief Robert Smith. A packed house, and even packed, as long as the 10,500 fans are distributed to Robert Smith’s group never stopped him throwuh son love – “I love you too”, declared in return the singer with crimped hair to an enamored fan, adding to excuse his modest level of French that these words are international). Mdocument from the 80s and 90s, The treatment had not performed in Toulouse for 22 years and we felt thatimmense expectation couldn’t be disappointed – and she wasn’t. Rarely have we seen a concert go up crescendo with so much power and violence, until it explodes on the second encore and its unstoppable series of stainless hits: “Lullaby”, “Close to me”, “In Between Days”, “Friday I’m in Love” and the diptych “Just Like Heaven”/”Boys Don’t Cry” as a final thrust – ohn knows bands who would kill to have written only one title of this caliber. The public, bewitched by the pfirst levels of the concert – which started to the sound of torrential rain (welcome to Crawley) – ended wildly and, if we did not see many clones of Robert Smith, we witnessed impressive pogos stamped 1979 in pit. The nostalgia factor kicked in, and the six musicians have revisite conscientiously all the eras of their glorious catalog (with perhaps a little too much importance given to the titles of the very dark “Pornography”, from 1982), from tense and heavy post-punk (“A Forest”, “Cold”) to the most radiant pop of the second encore. Worn by the monstrous bass of Simon Gallup which beat like deaf against the chestsThe Cure delivered a Position of almost three hours. Fans will have had grit to grind with qother new securities (“Alone”, “I can Never Say Goodbye”, “And Nothing is Forever” and “Endsong”), four poignant ballads who will for sure rstart discussions on the forums at to propose from next album, “Songs of a Lost World” – The Cure’s last album dating back to 2008. If perfection is not of this world, it will rarely have been so close to us only sunday evening : the power of the son, vsare songs who surprisingly didn’t take any rides, the crazy charisma of Robert Smith and his ever so moving voice will have swept away everything in their path and we left around midnight sounded and happy. Let’s not wait another 22 years to see each other again.