Show

In April 1992, The Cure realised its fifteenth album, Wish. Immediately the disc entered in the first british chart position, it arrived in the second position in the American charts and began to place successive hits in the Tops 5 of all the countries. While the posicions burned in success, The Cure set on fire the stalls of several parts of the planet. In nine months of tour, promoting Wish, the band came for an audience esteemed in more than a million people, in over a hundred shows for North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Robert Smith, The Cure singer/guitarist/composer /big boss,decided then to commemorate the success with the band fifteen years of existence and the incredible mark of more than 22 million discs sold in the world, with a double album - Show. The disc had to capture the whole drama, the hysteria and the power shows. And Show gets to satisfy Smith fully.
Recorded at Palace, of Auburn Hills, in Detroit, USA, the double album gathers the largest hits of the band career and the highlights of the live presentations. The two presentations in Palace, for more than 30 thousand spectators, were also registered by 16 cameras of the managing Aubrey Bennett's team. The two hours duration of the video contain six music more than the album, and both definitively represent The Cure aggressiveness and intensity at the stage.
Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Boris Willians and Perry Bamonte, complete The Cure that in Show tear in memorable performances the successes as "Inbetween Days", "High", "A Night Like This", "Lullaby" and "Friday I'm In Love". Besides the ethereal climate of "Trust" and the great "From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea", the video brings as well pearls of The Cure repertoire as the classic "Boys Don't Cry" and songs as "To Wish Impossible Things" and "Forest".
Show is despaired, dense, abissal. It is like Robert Smith. Like The Cure. It is a show!!!
(PolyGram - november/93)