The Cure: Reflections – Getting tickets
13 May 2011I got tickets today for what should be a pretty historic show by The Cure.
Vivid is an annual Sydney festival of the arts and culture. I’m already going to see Spiritualized play their seminal space-rock album Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space.
Then it was announced that original members of The Cure would be re-joining Robert Smith and the rest of the band to perform two special shows at the Opera House for Vivid: namely, playing the band’s first three albums, Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds, and Faith. All together, each night, complete and in a row, with the members who recorded each record playing.
They say that this is a one-off event for the festival. I’ve never been the world’s biggest Cure fan, but I couldn’t miss this.
I managed to get tickets for me and a mate today, for the second night’s show. It was tricky: the Opera House’s web server was definitely not ready for the onslaught of fans. I’d given up after an hour and a half, but careful Twitter monitoring alerted me to a new link the Opera House put up later in the morning. It seems I was pretty lucky, as lots of people didn’t get tickets (and, judging by the times they believe the show sold out, didn’t spot the new links for ticket).
The shows are May 31 and June 1. Expect a monster review on June 2.
