The Cure live at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, Ca. (April 19th, 2009)

Underneath The Stars, Prayers For Rain, A Strange Day, alt.end, The End of the World, Lovesong, To Wish Impossible Things, Pictures of You, Lullaby, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Perfect Boy, Wrong Number, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Shake Dog Shake, The Hungry Ghost, Disintegration, One Hundred Years, It's Over

1st encore: If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, The Kiss
2nd encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
3rd encore: Three Imaginary Boys, Fire In Cairo, Boys Don't Cry (PA system cut off), Jumping Someone Else's Train, (all power cut off) Cure try to play Grinding Halt (Cure forced to end early).

Show started at 9:50pm. Forced to end at 12:40am.

Show notes:
2:46am - Me(Craig): "Fucking legendary show! Thanks for trying, Robert! Cure forever!"
12:53am - Paivi/Spiggy: "They did cut Robert off. He continued playing and singing up until he dropped the guitar to the pit. On some VIP I think. He was in very good mood until this cutoff."
12:44am - Andy: "I shouted 'FUCK ROBERT PALMER FUCK ROCK N ROLL!' the cure would not go down without a fight, Robert is a saint! im walking back to the car, I blame wrong number!"
12:43am - "they were still playing after monitors were cut but only jason could be heard at that point. he tried so hard. i truly believe he would have given us faith."
12:42am - Andy: "robert sang grinding halt to the crowd. I was wrong about it being played earlier. robert made a gesture as "i gave it my best". threw his guitar on the floor"
12:41am - Heron: "That was so hardcore"
12:40am - Andy: "God bless his soul"
12:39am - Andy: "they pulled the plug it seems, sound is coming from stage monitors. now monitors are cut."
12:36am - Andy: "fans are singing for robert as im sure the festival cant hear him. screens are off and so is music only hearing from monitors on stage Goldenvoice has fucked up"

Plug has been pulled, Robert refuses to stop playing!

12:33am - Andy: ""three imaginary boys and he said they told him they could only play one more song, he said "ha" to that"
12:25am - Andy: "simon ended A Forest as he should! Robert improvised the ending and even danced as simon ended the song"
11:18pm - Heron: "The sound is excellent tonight, great mix and very clear."
10:51pm - Heron: "Robert really likes this song (Wrong Number). He was dancing and smiling during the intro."
10:15pm - Heron: "No tech glitches so far"
10:10pm - Heron: "Before alt.end, Robert said I eternally love you"
10:00pm - Heron: "Robert wearing the fur collar hoodie he swore he wouldn't wear again LOL."
9:58pm - Heron: "Simon rocking the very tight phts tonight. Sound is perfect and eyeryone looks happy and together."
9:50pm - Heron: "Here come the waves"
9:46pm - Andy: "simons tech did a sweep on the audience with a small camera. good to know its for the cure and not coachella"
9:39pm - Andy: "its cooled off significantly but doesn't seem to help to have thousands of people around you with no shoulder room"
9:35pm - Andy: "simon's tech while checking simon's bass played a bit of 'its over'"
9:31pm - Andy: "at simon's side, no cure peeps just new ones. really squished"
9:16pm - April: "I am side porl 3 peeps deep i am packed like a sardine"
9:10pm - Andy: "loudest concert in the world they have been screeching nonstop for the past 15 mons it feels. its just noise, feels like an earthquake. i havent texted because my fingers were in my ears, this text now hurts. I so so so underestimated peoples precautions"
8:58pm - Heron: "MBV VERY VERY EFFING LOUD"
8:52pm - Xuan: "OMG I'm so glad I brought earplugs. MBV sounds like Enya with a jet engine. It's an endurance test to see the cure."
8:26pm - Andy: "I'm really enjoying this, they are just too loud."
8:11pm - Andy: "Getting to the rail was like climbing a building, its better if you don't look down. There are probably thousands behind me."
8:00pm - Andy: "My bloody valentine on now and yes they are loud. Not necessarily at rail, but close, met some cool people. One from costa rica. Gonna smoke some weed with them. Yes!"
6:28pm - Andy: "I'm in!"
6:06pm - Andy: "Just got here with April, walking to the gate, hot already. This is the total opposite of the Kimmel show on Dec 15th."

It's so late, and we have far to travel in the morning but I have to say just a few things about tonight - they pulled the plug on the big speakers first so you could barely hear the Cure play. That was during Boys Don't Cry. The crowd sang along to the whole song anyway. They turned off the big video screen during Boys Don't Cry but the Cure kept on playing and we kept on singing. Then when they started JSET we sang along as well. When they finally cut power to their monitors during Grinding Halt, that's when they quit. We have video from the crowd of all this, I am so sorry that I won't be able to upload it all before we get home. We have a long drive ahead of us, but I will get everything we have up online just as soon as I can when we get back home. I am SO glad we came to Coachella and that was the most punk, hardcore thing I've seen them do. It was brilliant and I love the Cure so much for what they did on Friday and tonight. Both shows were excellent and well worth the trip. I spoke to both Darren and Keith afterward and Darren promised that he would give it to Robert as soon as possible. So it is in safe hands and I am confident of it's destination. Long live the Cure and thanks a million once again to Craig and all the CoF peeps that make these shows so special to attend.

- Heron

I was there. Couldn't update on my phone. Insane end to a show. This was my 11th Cure show and I have never, ever seen anything like the end of this show. Robert & Co. just didn't give a fuck about the curfew. It was awesome. The PA system was cut off during BDC. We sang it for Robert! We could just hear the drums and the guitars from the monitors on stage. Then we all sang Jumping as well (have to admit that I didn't know all the lyrics but I was trying my best.) Then he started another song which I now know was Grinding Halt, but at that point the video screens were cut and then they cut the monitors. Robert kept playing it for a bit and then gave up. Epic! Too bad they cut the power. I think he was going to come back for a Faith encore after the old school one! At least we were hoping in my area.

Coolest thing about the gig? We were standing right next to Amanda Palmer, who was singing along to every word. She was super nice and super fun to rock out to The Cure with (and her set yesterday was badass.)

Good night. No real surprises in the setlist for me, but UTS was gorgeous. POY was delightful. And I don't think I've ever seen TIB live before. Good show! (and yes, WAY better than May 2, 2004 at Coachella.)

- ctodd