THE CURE

Coachella Festival, Indio, California Sunday, April 19, 2009

For an hour, the Cure were amazing. Alternating between the silvery guitar fantasias of the setting-appropriate “Underneath the Stars” and “Pictures of You” and shorter, poppier numbers like “Lovesong” and “The End of the World,” it felt as if Robert Smith and his fellow gloom merchants might deliver a masterful festival-closing set. Too bad they ruined the strong start by playing for nearly three hours, devoting too much of that time to aimless guitar jams.

Photograph by Luke Holwerda

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