The Cure: Trilogy
| -Trilogy- -Live In The Tempodrom Berlin November 2002- |
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| Directed by | Nick Wickham |
| Produced by |
Robert Smith Daryl Bamonte |
| Written by | The Cure, ect al. |
| Starring |
The Cure Robert Smith Voice/Guitar/6 String Bass Simon Gallup Bass/6 String Bass Perry Bamonte Guitar/Keyboards Jason Cooper Drums/Percussion Roger O'Donnell Keyboards/Percussion |
| Music by | The Cure |
| Distributed by | Eagle Vision (US) / Fiction Records (UK) |
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Release date
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3 June 2003 |
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Running time
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223 min |
| Language | English |
The Cure: Trilogy (Live In The Tempodrom Berlin November 2002) is a double live album video by The Cure, released on two double layer DVD-9 discs, and later on a single Blu-Ray disc. It documents The Trilogy Concerts, in which the three albums, Pornography (1982), Disintegration (1989) and Bloodflowers (2000) were played live in their entirety one after the other each night, the songs being played in the order in which they appeared on the albums. Trilogy was recorded on two consecutive nights, 11–12 November 2002, at the Tempodrom arena in Berlin. A third, previous Trilogy concert in Brussels on 7 November was not used.
Robert Smith is quoted on the sleeve about the "trilogy" concept and its eventual execution:
"The albums Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers are inextricably linked in so many ways, and the realisation of this Trilogy show is one of the highlights of my time in The Cure."
Smith began arranging the concerts days after seeing David Bowie's Heathen Tour concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 29 June 2002, when Bowie played 10 of the 11 Low tracks consecutively (though not in album order), and the whole of the Heathen album in order. It was, said Smith, "the best I'd seen him on stage for years and years".
The two DVDs feature a letterboxed 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio and a choice of Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound or regular PCM stereo. Two interviews with the band are also included, though one is hidden and requires the specific manipulation of a DVD player's remote control to be accessed. Another hidden feature is the "mic cam", a camera mounted on Smith's microphone pole which, when accessed with the angle control buttons, shows him in a fish-eye view, singing.
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