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Post by lovecat on Apr 2, 2013 11:46:25 GMT -5
...on the way to Frankfurt. Flight goes tomorrow 7.30 am via Paris to Rio de Janeiro. I'm pretty excited.  And now let's pray all together for a non Greatest Hits Tour ;-) Have a nice and safe trip ! Wish you a fantastic concerts! |
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Post by curetradestaff on Apr 3, 2013 0:39:45 GMT -5
DG Medios: The Cure se acerca a Chile! La banda acaba de aterrizar en Brasil.Translation: "The Cure is coming to Chile! The band has just landed in Brazil!"
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Post by mauriciocure on Apr 3, 2013 10:18:24 GMT -5
Finally in America!!!
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Post by curetradestaff on Apr 11, 2013 10:14:50 GMT -5
Tim Pope
TOURING WITH THE CURE2013.04.11. 15:09 Well, seeing this is my 'first tour,' it might as well be with The Cure. I have filmed many concerts in my life - Neil Young, Iggy Pop, David Bowie (a few times), The The, 'The Cure In Orange' - but never quite anything like this and certainly never to this scale. I think we are going to have an exciting and amazing and insightful film at the end of it, filled with Cure music. The whole thing is fascinating to me and I am filming every second of it. The Cure themselves are being amazingly generous about allowing access with the cameras. We are capturing very intimate moments: what happens when a band comes off-stage, etc. Where do they go? What do they say? See the film when all this is finished and find out!!!! So far a few personal highlights for me have been... Well, first, the concerts themselves. The band are playing REALLY WELL I think. A mixture of 'tight' and still 'loose enough' to feel as if the songs were just written. (For me, I have many personal connections with the songs, as I made the videos!) As I am travelling with the band, some of the police escorts have been fun and recorded by me personally for you in 3D!!!! Meeting the fans has been lovely and so many of them have been very warm and welcoming to me in every town - which I did not expect. I have had an awful amount of photos taken with people I don't know. Possibly my least favourite moment so far was at the Asunción press conference, where I found myself suddenly (and unexpectedly) in the glare of the cameras and lights, when someone asked me what my favourite trees were in Paraguay. Well, the good news was that I had been out filming some trees that day. The band of course enjoyed thoroughly the moment of me being thrust into the spotlight and Robert captured it in 3D with a malevolent grin on his face I noticed later on the film I saw. My coy blushes will probably be very enjoyable in 3D. Anyway, must go... I am off today to film a slightly rainy Buenos Aires. Will be catching up with some more fans later and perhaps chatting with them on camera, etc. See attached the photo of Flemming, my cameraman, filming the press conference... and getting in all the shots of the other cameramen.
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Post by mauriciocure on Apr 12, 2013 9:41:28 GMT -5
It sounds like a great concert-band movie i´m to excite about all this
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Post by curetradestaff on Apr 15, 2013 14:03:41 GMT -5
Tim Pope
A PERFECTLY RANDOM UPDATE2013.04.15. 15:52 Today Santiago, Chile, tomorrow Lima, Peru. Excellent concert from The Cure last night. The audience loved them. It was very special. You could feel the atmosphere from early on. Me? I spent the evening inside a little caravan at the side of the stage, behind the speakers. The picture shows you what I see during the show. We are five concerts into filming, with another 3 more to go. Been very nice saying hello to the fans and everywhere I go I just hear people shouting "Teem, Teem." I loved seeing the Andes sneaking over the top of the stadium yesterday. Quite beautiful. A perfectly random update, but, hey.
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Post by curetradestaff on Apr 19, 2013 10:22:20 GMT -5
Tim Pope
FINAL PUSH2013.04.19. 13:58 OK, so the final push begins and we are on the home straight now with the tour. This time next week we will all be back home. It's been a fun if not slightly hectic journey. Feels like everything is a bit of a blur to me. It's been great meeting the fans and talking with them on camera. Quite humbling, actually. I know the band think this, too. We have loads of amazing footage 'in the can' - the gigs themselves, talking with people, atmospheric 'other stuff.' Some of the stuff at the gigs that my roving cameraman Flemming has shot is quite sublime. There is a shot of a woman at Santiago and she's standing right near the back of the arena with the band in the far background. So beautiful. People keep saying to me, 'When will we be seeing all this?' Really hard to say. All I know is it's going to take a hell of a time to look through everything and then edit everything together to tell the story of the tour and then to mix the sound, etc. Meantime, yesterday we said goodbye to Lima, Peru, next stop Bogota, Colombia...
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Post by mauriciocure on Apr 22, 2013 9:38:45 GMT -5
The end of a great LAmerican Tour!!!
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Post by curetradestaff on Apr 22, 2013 11:21:17 GMT -5
Tim Pope Was with the band 2 mins before gig when 5.9 earthquake struck. Filmed it all! Back home today! Thanks for the adventure SA!
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Post by curetradestaff on Apr 24, 2013 10:38:14 GMT -5
Tim Pope HOME AGAIN; CAN'T WAIT2013.04.24. 10:49
How lovely to be home again and to hear the peaceful sounds of the English countryside after my mad adventure with The Cure in South America. What an adventure it was, though. Amazing concerts; the warmth of the fans; the different towns. Oh, did I mention the police escorts everywhere? My favourite one for sheer freneticism and exuberance was perhaps Asunción, Paraguay. Though Mexico might be a close second. The bikes seemed to dart in between our vans like dragonflies, missing our vehicles by millimetres. Anyway, we lived to tell the tale. Like I say, I thought The Cure were on top form and Robert's voice just seems to get better and stronger. The part where he sings "again and again" in 'A Forest' gets me every time. It's like a whack to the plate of the chest. I would try and synchronise the movement of my camera crane to fit his vocal, getting it to pull away in a whoosh. Sometimes it worked, sometimes less so. We filmed 8 concerts and it was pretty difficult sometimes because of my lack of Spanish/Portugese. We caught the essence of the concerts, despite this. They're all there currently in some digital limbo land, ready and ripe for me to spend quite some time reaping them and manipulating them into a whole. Over a hundred hours of concert footage alone. Can't wait to get started. And we also shot loads of extra footage: the fans talking about their passion for the music, the 5.9 earthquake in Mexico City, the sound checks and rehearsals, 'with the band' on their trips to and from the shows. So far I don't even dare to think about how much good material we do have. Just what the fans wanted to see, it will be. I do not know at all how long it will take to put together. Watch this space for updates and I do appreciate that people are very interested to see what we shot, but PLEASE BE PATIENT and I can assure you there will be something... eventually.
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Post by mauriciocure on Apr 24, 2013 15:54:07 GMT -5
That would be great if they release one Bluray and CD of each concert!!!
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