Rock Press (February 1996)

Tiresome, but so what?

It were two and a half hours of pure delirium for the fans that waited anxious for the great night. The Apoteose was full. The police just confirms ten thousand people, but perhaps all they were close to the stage, once the heat was unbearable and to move it was almost impossible.
With portuguese sentences written in the palm of the hand, Robert Smith communicated very badly with a public that, no wondering about what he said, applauded everything.
Two and a half hours of new music, successes and things as "Three Imaginary Boys" from 79, of the which a lot of people nor remembered anymore. Two and a half hours... perhaps have been too long. At the three hours of the dawn, when Robert Smith declared not to stand anymore, the public, exhausted, sighed alleviated and sat down in the ground.
Perhaps that whole fatigue have been liven up with the choice of a more lively set list . The excess of not very known songs did a lot of people left of there front earlier and installed there behind, where the screen and the fresh wind were the best option. Endless versions as "A Forest" didn't help to improve the pain in the foots of the people who was standing up there, at least, ten hours.
Most of the present public was there to see the band. Many were in Maracanănzinho nine years ago, in the peak of the band, The Head On The Door time, even so many of the present people were still children in 1987.
Most of the successes was for the bises. Ten songs played in the bises as "Boys Don't Cry", "The Walk" and other hits.
(Tatiana Tavares)

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