Tetchytyke
Veteran Member
And as good things come in threes, I'm off to London this weekend to see The Cure at Wembley Arena on Saturday- not quite my choice, but my wife adores them, and I'm very happy to tag along- and then Placebo (who really are my choice) at Manchester Arena on Monday night.
The Cure on Saturday were brilliant, on stage for over 2 1/2 hours, Robert Smith's voice hasn't changed a bit, plenty of energy. Fantastic.
Placebo were a little bit flat, sadly. They were note-perfect, so much so I couldn't quite shake the view they were miming the music (though definitely not the singing), and the Manchester Arena was way too big for them. The upper tier was curtained off and the lower tier was probably only about two-thirds full, so there wasn't much energy from the crowd and it ended up feeling a bit like watching them on telly. They'd have been much better off playing the Apollo, to be honest, the Arena was simply much too big for them. A bit disappointing, really, although after a heavy weekend in London and on a Monday night maybe I was a bit flat too.