2013-04-21 Ciudad de México - Foro Sol (Mexico)

 

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Jason Cooper
Roger O'Donnell
Reeves Gabrels

Songs played: 50  (25 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12)
Set length: 256 min
Set time: 20:37 - 00:53

Day of the week: Sunday
Tour: 'LatAm2013 Tour'

Attendance: 57.304
Capacity: 57.366 ?
Gross sales: $3.406.216

• Longest The Cure concert so far. 4 hours, 16 Minutes.
• Most ever number of Songs played at a The Cure concert. 50 songs.
• During the concert, the Mexican fans sang the typical Mexican birthday song 'Las mañanitas' for Robert.
• There was an earthquake just before the concert started.
• Up to this point, it was the The Cure concert with the largest audience, namely 57'304, surpassing 1989-09-08 Los Angeles.

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The start of the concert was delayed because an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 occurred at 20:17 local time."It was Robert Smith's birthday, and we were about to play a gigantic show at a soccer stadium in Mexico City," he says. "Minutes before showtime, the band lined up behind the stage for some photos. My wife, Susan, was the photographer.
"As she was snapping shots, we noticed something strange... She was rocking back and forth, as if she were on a boat. But we were also rocking back and forth, but in the opposite direction - she would go left, and we would go right. It was incredibly bizarre."
That's when the band realized they were in the middle of an earthquake.
"The audience started yelling and screaming, and for a moment it seemed as if things were going to get crazy," Gabrels says. "But then everything calmed down, and we were faced with a decision whether we should play or not. The audience stayed in their seats.
"Robert looked at me like, 'Reeves, you lived in California, so you're used to this. Will there be aftershocks?' I told him I didn't know - you can never predict these things."
The promoter asked the band to wait 30 minutes to see what was going to happen, and so they retired to their dressing room and hung out. After an unremarkable half hour, the group decided the worst was over and that the show would go on. "We walked out onstage and everybody started screaming again," Gabrels says. "But this time it was because they were excited to see us.
"Despite the shaky - literally - start, the show came off without a hitch; in fact, the group turned Smith's birthday into a true celebration and played for over four hours without a break. "We played every song we knew," Gabrels says. "My attitude was, 'If I don't die having sex, I'm going to die onstage.'"
After the gig, the guitarist was informed that there were a few aftershocks while the band was onstage, but he never felt them. "It just goes to show you how things can turn on a dime," he says. "I thought this could have been a bad show - or that it wouldn't have happened at all - but it turned out great."

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