Around 2 pm we left Bratislava and we arrived to Brno at 15:30 thanks to our formula 1 driver Biba. We prepared ourselves for the concert in all possible ways like making ourself looking like vampires, screwing our hair with mascara and gel and of course drinking beer !



Around 19:00 a concert of annoying czech band Laura a jeji tygri (Laura and her tigers, but there were no tigers and no Laura) began and we went to get our place in the first rows, the best we got was a 2nd row, but it was good enough for us!







After a bit more then 2.5 hours of crap the cure came on stage opening with the amazing shake dog sake. The concert lasted almost 2 hours 15 minutes, and it was definitely one of the best concerts I saw from this tour. The setlist was incredible and included songs that weren't played at all on this tour, like push, strange day, like cocatoos and prayers for rain! Though the lights were quite lousy and the smoke didn't reach the normal level, the concert was unforgetable!

After the concert we met in front of our "mint car" with Sergey and Zuza , and Sergey told us that he has a plan and will tell us about later. Then we did chat with our curefriends. After we said bye to everyone, Sergey told us about his plan... Apparently he went to the office trying to see if he's on the guest list, and when he discovered he's not, he somehow found the chief director of mediaworld (the organizator of the festival). He discovered from him that the band is having a private party in one of the most exclusive clubs of Brno called "Faraon" with their crew, friends and some fans. After a short talk of Sergey with this guy, Sergey recieved 2 invitation for this party as press reporter, he couldn't recieve more because they were all given away already. So we started our way to this club, and after a short time we arrived there.

The cure didn't arrive there yet and we were trying to talk the doorman into letting in all 4 of us. We decided to get back in the car and think about a plan, we discussed many options, like paying money to the doorman, sending Sergey inside to get us invitations from there and many other things, until I saw a minibus coming. I jumped out of the car and ran towards the minibus, inside I saw all the band sitting and I got a shock, I couldn't move or talk, the only thing I could do is shouting "Sergey, Sergey!! Come here!!". While the band were getting out of the bus Biba, Sergey and Zuza came to the main gate, and the band was already getting inside. I shook Perry's hand and at that moment I got the idea of getting into the club in the crowd of the band and their friends. I started to walk and one of the bodyguards stoped me, I was lucky that the doorman didn't look at me at the same moment. So I stoped and called Biba to get into the club also, and when she came inside so the bodyguard walked away already and we walked completely into the crowd while Sergey is shouting "go go go" !

After a while Sergey and Zuza came in using their press invitations saying 'so we decided to go the 2 of us...' and we started to check the surface. All the band was standing at the bar and drinking beer surrounded by the crew and the bodyguards. I was trying to talk to somebody but Robert's bodyguard asked me not to do it and wait an hour until they will rest and make a time to talk with the fans. So we all were standing at the side talking between us and waiting. After something like 20 minutes we saw Jason standing out of the bar and talking to someone , so we came there and started to talk to him. He signed all of my tickets and then we talked about this summer tour. He agreed with me that the concert in Dresden was one of the best and that the festivals in Hildesheim and Cologne were not so good and too massive, I also asked him why didn't they play a long version of forest because we all were waiting for it, but he answered "another time". He thanked me for my opinion and went to get himself drunk with some of his friends. By the way, he stayed at that place until the early morning, and even when we took pictures with him an hour later, he only turned his head and made a Brad Pitt smile!

The next victim was Perry, we didn't talk too much because he had many people around him, I just said when Biba came towards us "here's my girlfriend" he gave a look on our twin wish t-shirts and ankh signs and said "I realized that" with a smile. Some girls were waiting for him at a table so he just signed our stuff, we took pictures with him and then he went away.



After Perry we found Simon, told him how great the concert was, got our stuff signed, took pictures as usual and then I saw Robert standing near some table and speaking with people. I stepped toward the table and got myself a very comfortable place right next to Robert. He was talking with all those people about the people in Hildesheim and Bizzare and he said he didn't like them at all and the Festival in Dresden was the best of the last ones! Then he turned his face to my direction and some girl asked him if they're planning to tour Australia, but Robert answered that they don't have such plans now but it might change in the future, I wanted to open my mouth at the same moment but some old Skandinavian fan asked about their plans to that part of Europe. Robert's answer was negative and I decided to use the moment and ask if they will come to Israel on the next tour but he said "proabably not" and then I started my talk with him. He was amazed to hear I'm from Israel and asked "and you came all this way?" I answered "yes of course" and asked him to sign my festivals tickets and he said "oh, 3 concerts, huh?" and signed with a melting smile! Then I said that a lot of people in Israel would like to see them, and he said "yes, I was there once with Siouxie" and I said "yes, there's a theory you don't come there anymore because your shoes got stolen." And he asnwered me "hehe, yea, I was sleeping on the beach and somebody did steal my shoes. It wasn't funny actually, I was walking 2 days without shoes, like a hippie, hehe". I told him that it was pleasure to meet him, he thanked me, we took photos, and then he was signing to all the rest of the people who were there.

We walked away a bit and we saw Roger and his girlfriend standing still at the bar, so as usual I got my tickets signed and we took pictures! We relaxed a bit after meeting everyone and getting pictures with everyone, so we sat at a table, drank a bit beer and Sergej signed Perry to come to talk with us. After a while Perry came and we sat around 5 minutes, Sergej had to give him a package, we took another picture and he went away. At this point we were satisfied and just missed a picture with Jason, so we came toward him once more as I said before, he was quite drunk already, so we took the picutres and left him with his drunk friends.

After 10 minutes of hanging around and blinding every member of the band with the camera flash the band left and we decided to follow them to the hotel. When we go to the hotel we saw the legendary redburn transfer truck and took pictures with it. While we were hanging outside the hotel, we noticed that people are standing and sitting at the 2nd floor of the hotel, and we recognized one person as Simon, and then he left and we saw Perry. I decided to get up there. Sergej and Biba didn't want to go for some wierd reasons though Roger's girlfriend was signing us to come up, so I pulled Biba with me and we got up there.

In the lobby of this floor were many fans talking with Perry and Roger. Roger did ask who will wake them up and Perry joked that Jason will wake them up! (As I said before, Jason stayed in the pub to stuff himself with Czech beer until the morning.) Roger left, and his girlfriend was looking after him with the elevator on each floor. We talked a bit with the fans and Perry wished us all goodnight and said "so see you next year". Perry went away and so did we, took the mint car and got back to Bratislava. Now our long Cure tour trip is over, of course until the next year!

(BS & FOG)