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Bestival Live 2011
Live album by The Cure
Released	2 December 2011
Recorded	2011
Length	140:40
Producer	The Cure, Keith Uddin
The Cure chronology
4:13 Dream (2008) Bestival Live 2011 (2011) Torn Down (2018)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(77/100)
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
BBC Music	(favorable)
Consequence of Sound
Drowned in Sound	(7/10)
Entertainment Weekly	A−
Pitchfork	(5.8/10)
PopMatters
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Bestival Live 2011 is a live album recorded by English rock band The Cure during Bestival 2011 music festival in September 2011. It was first released in Germany on 2 December 2011, before being released in the UK on 5 December 2011. It is the band's first live album since Paris, which was released in 1993.

All profits from the sale of the album went to the Isle of Wight Youth Trust.

Reception

Ned Raggett of Allmusic gave the album three and a half stars and felt the album was "an understandably honest reflection of the Cure in the popular mind as their commercial high point recedes further into the past, but given Smith and the band's other contemporaneous activities, it's an incomplete portrait."

Popmatters praised the album, saying. "They've written material that holds up through the looking glass of time, and Bestival is ultimately a testament to a band running through the hits with some level of gusto and verve, making them seem fresh and exciting so many years removed from their gestation."

Pitchfork gave the album a score of 5.8, and criticised the fact the band chose to change the title of "Killing an Arab", due to controversy, ""Killing an Arab" was misinterpreted by the same people Smith lashed out against on Cure's very embarrassing political rant "Us or Them" as being racially insensitive post-9/11, but it's just profoundly depressing to hear the song rendered all but completely meaningless when the mass setting should make it all the more resonant." and thought, "the Cure feel like less of a band than a traveling museum or theme park celebrating their past with the occasional new exhibit or ride to stoke interest. In other words, a completely user-driven experience en masse"

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Plainsong" – 5:10
2. "Open" – 6:53
3. "Fascination Street" – 4:58
4. "A Night Like This" – 4:10
5. "The End of the World" – 3:40
6. "Lovesong" – 3:35
7. "Just Like Heaven" – 3:47
8. "The Only One" – 4:14
9. "The Walk" – 3:31
10. "Push" – 4:37
11. "Friday I'm in Love" – 3:34
12. "In Between Days" – 2:58
13. "Play for Today" – 4:06
14. "A Forest" – 6:35
15. "Primary" – 4:20
16. "Shake Dog Shake" – 4:44

Disc 2

1. "The Hungry Ghost" – 4:48
2. "One Hundred Years" – 6:50
3. "End" – 6:11
4. "Disintegration" – 8:31
5. "Lullaby" – 4:43
6. "The Lovecats" – 3:50
7. "The Caterpillar" – 3:56
8. "Close to Me" – 3:37
9. "Hot Hot Hot!!!" – 3:34
10. "Let's Go to Bed" – 3:36
11. "Why Can't I Be You?" – 3:27
12. "Boys Don't Cry" – 3:05
13. "Jumping Someone Else's Train" – 3:11
14. "Grinding Halt" – 3:11
15. "10:15 Saturday Night" – 3:41
16. "Killing Another" – 3:37

Personnel

• Robert Smith – vocals, guitar
• Simon Gallup – bass guitar
• Jason Cooper – drums
• Roger O'Donnell – keyboard

References

1. ^ "Critic Reviews for Bestival Live 2011". Metacritic. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
2. Raggett, Ned. "Bestival Live 2011 – The Cure". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
3. ^ Hocknell, Tom (2 December 2011). "Review of The Cure – Bestival Live 2011". BBC Music. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
4. Kivel, Adam (9 December 2011). "Album Review: The Cure – Bestival Live 2011". Consequence. Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
5. Leedham, Robert (8 December 2011). "The Cure – Bestival Live". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
6. Schwartz, Missy (16 December 2011). "Albums: Dec. 16, 2011 (The Cure, Bestival Live 2011)". Entertainment Weekly. p. 83. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
7. Cohen, Ian (6 January 2012). "The Cure: Bestival Live 2011". Pitchfork. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
8. Houle, Zachary (31 January 2012). "The Cure: Bestival Live 2011". PopMatters. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
9. "The Cure : News : CURE - BESTIVAL LIVE 2011". Archived from the original on 5 December 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
10. ^ Bestival Live 2011 - The Cure | Album | AllMusic, retrieved 13 October 2024
11. Bestival Live 2011 by The Cure, retrieved 13 October 2024
12. Cohen, Ian. "The Cure: Bestival Live 2011". Pitchfork. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
13. Album Track Listing

External links

• Bestival Live 2011 at Metacritic

• The Cure live albums
• 2011 live albums