The Cure - Live in Sydney 1981 (amazing audio/2022 upgrade) 

That drumming on my favorite song!! 🎵 “All Cats Are Grey” 🐈‍⬛

This recording is some of the best music I have ever heard so far as a middle aged man in 2024

We were there for this gig, me and whitey were about 15 y o my brother 13. Was a dreamlike hour or so, where we kind of woke up at the end and thought Wow! Got to go backstage and smoke a big doobie with Lil, Robert sitting quietly to the side looking distant, untouchable. True story.

This is The Cure that knocks me out!! The Dark Trio. The first three albums are incredible.. Stand up still after all the years..as good as the later stuff is, it's pretty much RSmith and Co. This took the three of them to pull off these songs,in most cases, better than the studio version... Lightning in a Bottle!!!

Quelle époque quand il faisait pleurer sa Jazzmaster !

If the Beatles have a dark brother, The Cure would be it. So good, it almost hurts!!

This version of the Cure is just life enhancing . As good a joy division at their best I suggest. And then along came lovecats. I lose the will to live if I ever hear it. Right up there with happy talk by Capt sensible or the absolute crime against humanity that is Mull of kintyre. I had the good fortune to see the cure and Siouxie and the Babshees on the same bill in Belfast. The night Robert Smith stood in for Steven Severin as the Banshees fell apart . It was probably the best gig I ever saw.

I love the old Cure sound …much more solemn than the later 80’s …great quality for live audio …thanks!

I used to have a cd bootleg of the cure in sydney 1981. Beginning of one the songs Robert says ''If your gonna gob and chuck cans F**k off home'' Brilliant.

This was performed at the Capitol Theatre, near Central Station, Sydney. The picturesque theatre would have been perfectly atmospheric for Faith and Seventeen Seconds performances.

The classic cure in all his splendor

charlotte sometimes absolutamente hermosaaa!!! 😍

Simply one of the best compilations of this band. And yes, the sound... no gimmicks, just pure...

Recording quality is outstanding! Thanks so much for this ❤

Best recorded early gig! Still in Love,till the end!

Despite its stylistic diversity, Cure was above all a composer of expressionist aesthetics, always close to drama, depth, anguish and the deep and tormented vision of life that seems to emanate from the metaphysics of man as of his very deep nature🔥🕊

The quality of the Sydney concert is awesome, The Cure have so many great early songs (A Forest, Other Voices, 10:15 Saturday Night, Charlotte Sometimes, The Holy Hour). This is just compulsively listenable...

This band rules. The end.

Nostalgia.... 😊

Thanks for posting this, what a great and very atmospheric concert, brings me back.

Probably the best version of a forest I've ever heard.

This version of Faith …. Gorgeous. Thank you.

Roberts wit is amazing one of the most influential bands in England

My favorite Cure album. Just listened late last night/early this morning. In a bit of a mood. Now I find this. Thank you. I have a copy of the L. A. Show, and I had the 12” Charlotte single now long gone. Thank you for this. Sounds good.

Killer show, killer sound. Thank you 🙏

the BEST band new wave !!!...

Fantastic stuff: thanks to the folks who made it sound this good and uploaded it.

Раннее The Cure великолепно! Оно со мной всегда. Спасибо

Would have loved to interview Porl before our magazine Procession folded. Anyway, this is amazing! Best to all - 1890 Media

Love the Cure 🖤

What a gem....Thanks for sharing it with us! From far their best period

The Cure are still a great band but I'll always prefer their early 80s concerts to their 2023 music. The energy and anger / edginess is overwhelming in the early recordings.

excelente the cure por siempre jamas lo dejare de escuchar

Thanks you saved me a lot of work 😊❤ i was there when the music was created , 😬 yep i am that old😇😎 Buddy René.❤😮

Amazing audio indeed....THANKS

I think I can safely say I have not heard this version of Forever. Again. This is pretty great version. Damn.

The Holy Hour... what a track.

Fabulous

I saw them here in New Zealand in 1980, and one of my friends saw them on this tour one year later, Brilliant

Another journey........ espectacular nivel mr pink eyes❤

Exelente audio y gran set list lo mejor de they cure¡!

Thank you for the diy-remaster compilation... that's so awesome ❤TheCure

Accurate introduction, this sound is just Perfect !

Thanks for posting, sounds superb.

köszönöm,ez gyönyörü!

Thanks so much for posting this - it's magnificent!!

Really a great contemporary document. Just think about how long ago that was and what a great set list there was, unbelievable .. The next step, for whatever reason, was towards the "Pornography" album - indicated for me with songs like "Charlotte Sometimes", "A Forest" or "Faith", which are brilliantly embodied here one after the other as a matter of course. Personally, I like their album Pornography the best because it embodies a sound that is second to none and that we loved incredibly much. Is there actually a proper biography about it that explains why they chose this musical style back then - I think there are some people who really know the history of the band .. Thank you very much for posting it 🖤🍷

This is FUCKING AMAZING!! Thanks a lot!

😮Amazing quality! ❤❤❤❤❤

The live version of Faith is the one on the B-Side of the Charlotte Sometimes 12" !

Fascinante realmente ❤🖤

Thanks a LOT!!

Wonderful 10 Star concert! Thanks for posting :).

Always nice to remember The Cure and their beginnings and that time in general, thanks for this....this is brilliant!

Incredible

Thank you so much to share it!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! 🌹

SENSACIONAL!!!

Yeaaah ! Great sound !

...thank you...

Awesome❤

Great!!!

Incredible quality - absolutely pristine sound! What happened to the missing tracks though?

The early eighties with loud contemporary advertisements.

This is horror music. I love it.

Esto es hermosamente oscuro nunca antes la oscuridad y el pesimismo tuvieron un soundtrack hermoso. The Cure del 79-82 fueron la mejor etapa.🖤

The year was 1981... Nineteen fucking eighty one... My god this is such a gem... Forget about any reunion show you have them at their best with good sound right here. The first 4 albums were the best by far...

Cure Sydney 1981 Live Synopsis: Sydney 8-7-81 (Canada Pre-FM/very dry) The Drowning Man/NA The Funeral Party (low keyboards) All Cats Are Grey (low keyboards, very little RS keys) Other Voices Faith (cleaner) Forever Faith Deluxe Edition The Drowning Man (Sounds Dry like Sydney pre-FM tracks) The Funeral Party (swapped verses, likely not Sydney but could be w/ cut & paste by RS) All Cats Are Grey (Arabian Dream, different keyboard note @4:26, not Sydney) Other Voices (different guitar, not Sydney) Faith (Sydney, possibly better mix) Forever (Not Sydney, not Paris '84) Arabian Dream The Drowning Man (Curiosity, Sydney, more audience source, use for matrix) The Funeral Party All Cats Are Grey (different keyboard note @4:26, not Sydney) Other Voices (Curiosity/not Sydney) Faith (Sydney, high gen) Forever/NA Curiosity The Drowning Man (Curiosity, Sydney, more audience source, use for matrix) Other Voices (Curiosity/not Sydney) The Funeral Party All Mine Forever ----------------------------------

Wow

Pensé si un recuerdo es algo que uno tiene o que ha perdido… y me sentí en paz. < > I thought about whether a memory is something you have or have lost... and I felt at peace.

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👍👍

Hey thats the Faith version from Charlotte Sometimes 12” 😀😀

Charlotte Sometimes, several months before it was released as a single

Rock on wich ya goth on!

...xxoo..

i just wished you'd have uploaded the entire set

Superokk

after 40 years cover clear!🥴

👁El ojo

Chants parfaits pour lire les formes subjectives des nuages et suivre d'un œil attendri les rainures des tiges des arbres; apprécier l'écriture complexe des branches imbriquées, goûter les couleurs de la décomposition de la lumière en gouttelettes d'eau dans un jardin, ressentir fortement le sol humide de la forêt ancestrale pour percevoir les traces des animaux du passé profond 🍍

How was it "upgraded"?

God bless Simon Gallup.

Is this in Sydney Australia or Sydney Canada?

what is that location?

Missing lol

Can’t hear Lol’s hi-hat properly.

Great to hear this, thank you - got to admit though, Roberts singing on Three Imaginary Boys is awful!

Sooo many ads. Ruins it.

mehh~

Roberts wit is amazing one of the most influential bands in England

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Roberts wit is amazing one of the most influential bands in England

Roberts wit is amazing one of the most influential bands in England