Agitated Public, Static Band

For some the best rock show that Porto Alegre already saw. For others, The Cure is just a studio band, that doesn't work very well at the stage. But everybody insisted on checking the mysitic english band closely. As it was expected. Lol Tolhurst, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson and Boris Willians, with the god-demon Robert Smith in the center, maintained for whole time a static posture. But Bob Smith, unlike what imagined, communicated with the public among each music, saying thing that practically nobody understood, but everybody applauded frenziedly.
Gigantinho became a true pressure cooker. Full up, thrilled. Hundreds of people, that fed the hope of getting an concert ticket, surrounded the gym even if with the tickets sould out since Thursday. The police also had a lot of work to contain the crowd...
The organizers also had problems with the justice. A supervisor sentenced Poladian Produções after saw the several children's presence in the gym. But in the bleachers and in the floor, indifferent to those problems, about 14 thousand people danced the whole time, squeezed, vibrating to each new music pulled by Bob. Cure presented twenty-three songs, among them "Strange Day", "Kyoto Song", "Charlotte Sometimes", "The Walk", "A Night Like This", "100 Years", "Close To Me", "Give Me It" and "In Between Days" (the most applauded). They also sung the polemic "Killing An Arab". For five times during the show, Cure left the stage, faking that the show had finished. Naturally, the public demanded the turn of the group, that was done in a triumphal way.
Bob Smith and his friends left their mark in Porto Alegre. And today has more. An advice: arrive early in Gigantinho to avoid pushes and to get the best places.
(Juarez Fonseca - March/87)