The Cure

Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY

Setlist

  1. Out of This World
  2. Watching Me Fall
  3. Want
  4. Fascination Street
  5. The Last Day of Summer
  6. Maybe Someday
  7. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
  8. In Between Days
  9. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
  10. 39
  11. Prayers for Rain
  12. One Hundred Years
  13. Bloodflowers
    (encore break)
  14. A Strange Day
  15. A Forest
    (encore break)
  16. The Figurehead
  17. Disintegration

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