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The Cure – Baltimore MD (live review)

Published

8 years ago

June 26, 2016

Ron

The Cure bring back lush memories to a sold out crowd

Merriweather Post Pavilion -Baltimore Maryland, June 22^nd 2016

By Ron Senyo

The legends known as The Cure came to Baltimore, MD this evening and they brought a mammoth crowd with them. The 19,000 plus seat Merriweather Post Pavilion was sold out months in advance for the outdoor spectacular. The sea of people was a diverse mix from every walk of life. There were goths, old heads, emos, transgendered, and everything in between, yet the crowd was peacefully assembled for one reason, our undying love of Robert Smith and music of The Cure.

This night The Cure ensured that the throngs of people would not be disappointed. They performed nearly a three hour set with only a few short breaks between encores. They pulled songs from their expansive catalog that spans their nearly forty year career.

Throughout the night Robert was a man of few words. Only pausing briefly at the end of several songs to mutter “OK” before the band moved on to the next piece of music. Occasionally he uttered a few words, but mostly only to mention which album a particular song came from.

They started the set off with “Open” from the album Wish and quickly pulled the crowd into the their lush soundscapes of depression and melody. “Pictures of You” came in very early in the set, giving the crowd a taste of the hits that we all know and love. All 19K fans sang along with Robert as he crooned “I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you, That I almost believe that they’re real, I’ve been living so long with my pictures of you, That I almost believe that the pictures, Are all I can feel.”

Robert sounded amazing after all these years as he breezed through all the classics. I however did not fair as well. It was a hot and very muggy evening and I had to have one of the venue’s delicious frozen margaritas. Shortly after having indulged, I had to make my way to the restroom. As luck would have it, they played my all time favorite “Lovesong” as I was relieving myself. It never fails, when nature calls the song you want to hear most comes on. The saving grace was that with the crowd being so vast you really couldn’t get a good view of the stage. It was amazing to just be there in the moment and listening to the sweet serenade of Robert Smith.

From there I made my way to the merch. booth and was surprised that the shirts were only $25. I snagged one with Robert on the front and was quite pleased.

In total The Cure played four encores. Each one more epic then the previous. In the first encore we heard “Sinking” and “It Can Never Be The Same” which is a song I’ve always adored.

For encore number two they played “Shake Dog Shake” and then “Burn” which was featured on The Crow Soundtrack back in 1994. Listening to that made me shed a tear thinking about the lost life of Brandon Lee.

Encore 3 featured a few of my favorites with “Lullaby”, “Fascination Street”, and “Wrong Number”.

They saved the best for the forth and final encore. They delivered lots of fan favorites including: “Hot, Hot, Hot,” “Let’s Go to Bed,” “Close to Me,” and ended with “Boys Don’t Cry” which was a perfect way to bring the night to an end.

I would have loved to hear “Friday I’m In Love” but wasn’t going to complain because with the collections of songs The Cure has its difficult to play everything. The night was a perfect with such an amazing band; it has been far too long since I’ve seen them and hope they come back around sooner rather than later. Such an amazing band and in my opinion one the best front man of all time.

SETLIST:
Open
High
Pictures of You
Closedown
Kyoto Song
A Night Like This
The Walk
The End of the World
Lovesong
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
All I Want
Push
In Between Days
Just Like Heaven
Bananafishbones
Never Enough
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
End

Encore:
Sinking
It Can Never Be the Same

Encore 2:
Shake Dog Shake
Burn
A Forest

Encore 3:
Dressing Up
Lullaby
Fascination Street
Wrong Number

Encore 4:
Hot Hot Hot!!!
Let’s Go to Bed
Close to Me
Why Can’t I Be You?
Boys Don’t Cry

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Ron

Ron has keen eye for new talent, a love for the underground, and a tremendous passion for music of any genera. You’ll probably bump into him at a horror convention or some seedy club checking out the next need-to-know band.

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W.A.S.P. Album One Alive 2024 US Tour

Published

3 months ago

August 21, 2024

Josh Drespling

Hollywood, CA (August 20, 2024) — It is 2024, and W.A.S.P. is celebrating 1984! 40 years ago, the landmark debut album from W.A.S.P. was released on August 17, 1984, and the metal world was knocked on their ass!

The W.A.S.P. “Album ONE Alive” Tour celebrates the debut album by playing the album in its entirety, from start to finish.

To give the fans something every week to celebrate W.A.S.P. is giving away…

• 10 pairs of tickets a week for the length of the US tour.

• Silver Award – Blackie is also giving away each week of the tour two personal meet and greets in his dressing room. In HIS dressing room!

• Gold Award – One lucky fan will win Blackie’s personal certified RIAA award for the debut album.

• Platinum Award – And the Grand Prize, one fan and a guest will be provided airfare and a luxury Hollywood hotel to the final show in Los Angeles, meet the band and stay for the after show, end of tour party.

W.A.S.P. can only celebrate 1984 once and they want to do it big!

To enter all you have to do is visit and enter your email address:
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It was recently announced that Armored Saint will be replacing Death Angel on the tour. W.A.S.P. issued the following statement: “W.A.S.P. is pleased to announce that Armored Saint will now be joining the “Album One Alive” Fall 2024 U.S. Tour. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Death Angel will no longer be able to be a part of this tour. We all wish them the best going forward.”

Tickets and VIP packages available at WASPnati on.com/tour

THE ALBUM ONE ALIVE WORLD TOUR 2024 DATES:

10/26/24 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Fremont Theater*

10/28/24 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater

10/29/24 Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre

10/30/24 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre

11/01/24 Calgary, AB The Palace Theatre

11/02/24 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory

11/03/24 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory

11/04/24 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot

11/05/24 Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre

11/07/24 Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore

11/08/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre

11/09/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre

11/10/24 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre

11/11/24 Toronto, ON @ History

11/13/24 Montreal, QC @ MTELUS

11/14/24 Quebec City, QC @ Theatre Capitole

11/15/24 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre

11/16/24 New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom At Manhattan Center

11/17/24 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall

11/19/24 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theater

11/20/24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE

11/21/24 Stroudsburg, PA @ The Sherman Theater

11/22/24 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore

11/23/24 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore

11/24/24 Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live

11/26/24 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium

11/27/24 Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern

11/29/24 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues

11/30/24 San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theatre

12/01/24 Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum

12/03/24 Little Rock, AR @ The Hall

12/04/24 Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion

12/06/24 Albuquerque, NM @ REVEL

12/07/24 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre

12/09/24 Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre

12/10/24 San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues

12/11/24 Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort and Casino

12/12/24 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl

12/13/24 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield

12/14/24 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium

* No support acts.

About W.A.S.P.

Few bands in the history of rock n roll have ever incited the love, the hate, and the raw emotional effect this band has had on the world. From the very beginning, in the small venues of Los Angeles, California, and later to the numerous countries worldwide that banned these Winged Assassins from performing live, the band’s unique style of shock and rock caused religious organizations, local city councils, parliaments, and the Washington D.C. Senate to hold hearings in an effort to bar this group from selling records and trashing stages everywhere they played.

The band’s founding member, frontman Blackie Lawless, has led the group as its lead vocalist and primary songwriter since its beginning. His unique brand of visual, social, and political comment took the group to worldwide heights and sold millions of records alongside a legacy of sold-out shows across the globe for 4 decades.

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Josh Drespling

Josh is the Publisher and creator of Empire Extreme and it’s sister publication Kingdom Extreme Magazine. He is an accomplished writer, photographer and graphic designer. He is always conjuring up new ideas and has a amazing passion for the music industry and all the things that surround it.

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CD Reviews

Them Damn Kings “Shown With A Fist”

Published

6 months ago

May 20, 2024

Ron

Them Damn Kings from NJ just released a new single “Shown With a Fist”.
If you like your music in your face with a touch of old school rock and roll this is the band for you. It’s got gritty vocals and pounding drums adding in some killer guitar shreds.
It’s a song that you listen to when you want to get into a bar fight or want to drive your car really fast down the highway.
It’s worth a listen, check out the lyric video below with a little bonus guitar mortal kombat shred off.

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CD Reviews

Ashes to Omens “Feed Me More”

Published

6 months ago

May 8, 2024

Ron

Ashes To Omens are a band from Georgia who’s latest single “Feed Me More” has a great sound to it. It reminds me of bands around the mid to late 2000s. They have a good mixture of sound. The song is a perfect blend of hard rock and metal with the vocals very crisp and delivered with passion.

The song “Feed Me More” has a great melody and works well with the bands style and genre of music. It also is a great title to a song because after listening to it I wanted more of the band.

Some will say that it’s very radio rock/metal and sometimes I do have issues with that but I felt that this song even though it does have that feel to it, isn’t just a radio rock song for the sake of being a radio rock song. I think this single is worth a listen to and could possibly be a track that might make your playlist.

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