The Cure - 2016-10-29 - Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna), IT (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Cure
Unipol Arena
Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna), Italy
2016-10-29

[GP069dm]

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source: AUD (see location below) > Church Audio CA-14 Cardioids > Church Audio battery box > Edirol R-09 (24-bit/48.0 kHz, LINE-IN, rec. level 30/30) > SDHC Panasonic RP-SDM04G
location: South gallery, row 15, seat 69 (about 60 m from the stage, 15 m left), hat-mounted mic
transfer: SDHC Panasonic RP-SDM04G > HD > Audacity 2.1.2 (editing, see below) > CD Wave 1.98 (track splitting) > r8brain 1.9 (44.1 kHz resampling/very high quality 16-bit dithering) > TLH 2.7.0.172 (level 8 compression) > FLAC

generation: master (no optical media extraction)
taper: Giuseppe Pastorelli [G.P.] (doublec)

Mainset:

01 [1:54] *** intro ***
02 [4:55] Plainsong
03 [7:14] Pictures Of You
04 [4:23] Closedown
05 [4:17] A Night Like This
06 [4:35] Push
07 [3:14] In Between Days
08 [4:45] The Hungry Ghost
09 [4:35] alt.end
10 [3:35] The Walk
11 [4:53] Primary
12 [5:09] If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
13 [4:44] Shake Dog Shake
14 [4:11] Charlotte Sometimes
15 [3:36] Lovesong
16 [3:57] Just Like Heaven
17 [7:48] From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
18 [5:35] Prayers For Rain
19 [8:35] Disintegration
20 [3:15] *** encore break 1 ***

Encore 1 (E1 "Seventeen Seconds encore"):

21 [6:01] At Night
22 [3:34] M
23 [4:02] Play For Today
24 [8:06] A Forest
25 [2:26] *** encore break 2 ***

Encore 2 (E2):

26 [5:12] Want
27 [3:00] Never Enough
28 [5:03] Fascination Street
29 [6:32] Burn
30 [2:19] *** encore break 3 ***

Encore 3 (E3):

31 [4:59] Lullaby
32 [4:14] The Caterpillar
33 [3:39] Friday I'm In Love
34 [3:04] Boys Don't Cry
35 [3:33] Close To Me
36 [4:36] Why Can't I Be You?

Total running time [2:45:50]

WAV 16-bit 1.63 GB
FLAC 16-bit 940 MB

Tape story:
The venue is the main arena in Bologna (actually Casalecchio di Reno) formerly known as Futurshow Station and PalaMalaguti I had a seat at the left of the first level gallery in front of the stage at about 60 m from it Very quite people around me (except for the third encore, of course...) The sound of the recording is excellent Several late arrivers with seats in my raw passed in front of me during Closedown, others left their seats during the first encore break and came back during At Night, resulting in temporary muffled sound in both tracks (30+10 secs)

What about the show?
It was my fourth The Cure show (the others were all in the Milan area in 1992, 2008 and 2012; 2008 and 2012 were also taped) A very enjoyable concert with an excellent screen and light show quite uncommon for The Cure A possible "setlist of my dreams" with the "Seventeen Seconds encore", Charlotte Sometimes and also IOTWCS debuting in the European Leg of the 2016 Tour (neglecting 7 pre-1982 tracks!!!... never in this leg) Happy Birthday to Roger was sung at the end of the first encore break

Technical notes:
- The total running time of the recording was 2:47:06; I have cut the first 52 secs and last useless 24 secs reducing the master to 2:45:50.
- I have amplified (+5.5 dB on the left channel, +4.5 dB on the right channel) and slightly compressed (-12 dB/1.5:1) the whole recording and faded-out the last 10 secs
- If you burn to audio CD, you will need 3 CDs (CD1: 01-13; CD2: 14-25; CD3: 26-36)