4 Play Tour
| Tour by The Cure | |
 The Cure performing in Cleveland, Ohio on 18 June 2008 during their 2007-2008 World Tour | |
| Associated album | 4:13 Dream |
|---|---|
| Start date | 27 July 2007 |
| End date | 21 June 2008 |
| Legs | 4 |
| Number of shows | 64 |
| The Cure concert chronology | |
4 Play Tour is the name of The Cure's 2007-2008 concert tour. It began with their first concert in Japan in over 22 years at the Fuji Rock Festival on 27 July 2007 and ended at New York City's Radio City Music Hall on 21 June 2008. The entirety of the 4Tour took place before 4:13 Dream was ultimately released, despite postponing the North American leg of the tour from Fall 2007 to Spring 2008 in order for the band to complete the album.[1] However, the singles "The Only One" and "Freakshow" were released during the final leg of the tour.
An appearance in October 2007 at San Francisco's Download festival and a trio of concerts in Mexico City were the only remnants of the band's originally scheduled North American leg. Every show except a planned stop in Seattle was able to be pushed back to the end of the tour intact, with several additional cities also being added to the new itinerary. While the band were unable to successfully reschedule the Seattle show, ticket holders for the canceled event at the KeyArena were offered free entry to the band's upcoming headline appearance at Washington state's 2008 Sasquatch! Music Festival.[2]
A total of 76 songs were performed across the tour, with every one of The Cure's 13 studio albums being represented by at least one song. Most shows clocked in at or near the 3 hour mark. A show in Paris particularly stood out with a performance of 42 songs lasting 3 hours 35 minutes.[3]
The lineup consisted of Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper, and Porl Thompson.
65Daysofstatic was the opening act for the European and North American legs of the tour.
Songs performed
- 10:15 Saturday Night (Three Imaginary Boys, 1979)
- A Boy I Never Knew (unreleased song from The Cure sessions, 2004)
- A Forest (Seventeen Seconds, 1980)
- A Letter To Elise (Wish, 1992)
- A Night Like This (The Head On The Door, 1985)
- A Strange Day (Pornography, 1982)
- alt.end (The Cure, 2004)
- At Night (Seventeen Seconds, 1980)
- Bloodflowers (Bloodflowers, 2000)
- Boys Don't Cry (single, 1979)
- Catch (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
- Charlotte Sometimes (single, 1981)
- Close To Me (The Head On The Door, 1985)
- Club America (Wild Mood Swings, 1996)
- Disintegration (Disintegration, 1989)
- Doing The Unstuck (Wish, 1992)
- End (Wish, 1992)
- Faith (Faith, 1981)
- Fascination Street (Disintegration, 1989)
- Fire In Cairo (Three Imaginary Boys, 1979)
- Forever (1980)
- Freakshow (4:13 Dream, 2008)
- Friday I'm In Love (Wish, 1992)
- From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea (Wish, 1992)
- Grinding Halt (Three Imaginary Boys, 1979)
- Hot Hot Hot!!! (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
- How Beautiful You Are... (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
- If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
- In-Between Days (The Head On The Door, 1985)
- It's Over (4:13 Dream, 2008)
- Jumping Someone Else's Train (single, 1979)
- Just Like Heaven (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
- Killing An Arab (single, 1978)
- Kyoto Song (The Head On The Door, 1985)
- Let's Go To Bed (Japanese Whispers, 1982)
- Lovesong (Disintegration, 1989)
- Lullaby (Disintegration, 1989)
- M (Seventeen Seconds, 1980)
- Maybe Someday (Bloodflowers, 2000)
- Never Enough (1990)
- One Hundred Years (Pornography, 1982)
- Open (Wish, 1992)
- Other Voices (Faith, 1981)
- Out Of This World (Bloodflowers, 2000)
- Pictures Of You (Disintegration, 1989)
- Plainsong (Disintegration, 1989)
- Play For Today (Seventeen Seconds, 1980)
- Prayers For Rain (Disintegration, 1989)
- Primary (Faith, 1981)
- Push (The Head On The Door, 1985)
- Shake Dog Shake (The Top, 1984)
- Shiver And Shake (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
- Signal To Noise (b-side from Cut Here single, 2001)
- Sleep When I'm Dead (4:13 Dream, 2008)
- The Baby Screams (The Head On The Door, 1985)
- The Big Hand (b-side from A Letter To Elise single, 1992)
- The Blood (The Head On The Door, 1985)
- The Drowning Man (Faith, 1981)
- The End Of The World (The Cure, 2004)
- The Figurehead (Pornography, 1982)
- The Hanging Garden (Pornography, 1982)
- The Holy Hour (Faith, 1981)
- The Kiss (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
- The Love Cats (Japanese Whispers, 1983)
- The Only One (4:13 Dream, 2008)
- The Perfect Boy (4:13 Dream, 2008)
- The Walk (Japanese Whispers, 1983)
- Three Imaginary Boys (Three Imaginary Boys, 1979)
- To Wish Impossible Things (Wish, 1992)
- Torture (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
- Underneath The Stars (4:13 Dream, 2008)
- Us Or Them (The Cure, 2004)
- Want (Wild Mood Swings, 1996)
- Watching Me Fall (Bloodflowers, 2000)
- Why Can't I Be You? (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
- Wrong Number (single, 1997)
Tour dates
Success
- Top 100 North American Tours 2008: #85[4]
- Total Gross: US $10.8 million
- Total Attendance: 186,268
