Live Performances
During concerts, songs from Seventeen Seconds are typically grouped together and only played during the encore, as it has grown to be a fan favorite. Common Seventeen Seconds based encores are "M", "Play For Today" and "A Forest". "At Night" is sometimes also included; the other six songs have not been played recently; however, "In Your House" appears on the 1993 Paris album, along with "Play for Today" and "At Night", and it was also performed during a charity gig in 2004. The Cure did, however, perform the song "Seventeen Seconds" as an opener to a festival in Europe in 2003; "Secrets" has not been played since 1985, and "Three" has not seen a performance since the original Seventeen Seconds tour in 1980, but since 1981 the band sometimes closes concerts with "Forever", a lengthy, mostly improvised piece based on the music of "Three".
In 2011 The Cure performed the album in its entirety over two dates for the Vivid Live festival at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia. The performances, billed as The Cure: 'Reflections', were recorded for potential DVD release.
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