July 25th

"You can listen to 30-second low-quality clips of the remastered albums on amazon.com:

The Top: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GGSM7G

The Head on the Door: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GGSM76

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GGSM94 "

(Thanks Olivier)



"I found an amateur brazilian band called Doctor's Zé  in the youtube covering "Boys Don't Cry"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-C6FwXIfww&search=cure%20brasil"

(Thanks Rodrigo)



"On Friday's episode of The Soup (Fridays at 10pm on E!), the host was showing a clip of the MTV/MTV2 show "Why Can't I Be You."  His intro was along the lines of "It makes a much better Cure song/title than a show."

(Thanks Barbi)

July 24th

(Thanks Richard, Melissa and Hellonwheels4u)



(Thanks Hellonwheels4u)

(Thanks Stephanie)



Rhino Records and DJ's Qbot & Kamar present:

The Cure CD release party!!!!!
Wednesday August 2, 2006
Uptown Lounge
1136 W. Lawrence
10pm - 4am
NO COVER

Special Guest DJ : "The Legend" Dave Roberts from Planet Earth Chicago/Neo

Celebrating the re-issues of The Glove (Smith/Severin), The Top, The Head on the Door & Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

also presented by: chicagosuicideclub.com

Giveaways (CDS AND POSTERS) courtesy of Rhino Records (www.rhinorecords.com)

For more info:

www.djqbot.com
www.djkamar.com
www.planetearthchicago.com
www.rhinorecords.com
www.chicagosuicideclub.com

 

(Thanks Kamar and Kevin)



"not sure if anyone's mentioned the cover of 'catch' done by boy kill boy yet: www.myspace.com/boykillboy"

(Thanks David)



"I just wanted to let you know that I was at the Dashboard Confessional concert in Houston on July 19th and they used some of the lyrics from
 From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea in their song Remember To Breathe."

(Thanks Pedro)

"this evening (saturday 22) on french/german tv channel Arte there was the daily program called 'Le Journal de la Culture' (which as its name indicates is about what are the cultural events currently going on).  They had a brief report about the 20th anniversary of the open air and in the streets theatre festival 'Châlons Dans La Rue', Chalons Sur Saone, France.  During this report, surprisingly, they played about 15-20 seconds of the instrumental part of 'the empty world'.  Unexpected and thus always exciting..."

(Thanks FabienG)

"The West Australian today (Friday 21 July) reviewed the new Muse album, with a reference to Robert.
 
"Jim Morrison, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie and Robert Smith... portentous pop stars have been booming and yelping about some non-specific
Armageddon for four decades, but there's enough blood in the water these days for the melodramatically inclined rock diva to pick up a clear scent."

(Thanks Jo)
 

July 19th

(Thanks Wilco)



(Thanks Jason)



"There's a cover of "in between days" by a band called obligations in the new movie by maria ripoll "tu vida en 65 minutos" you can listen to the song here: http://tuvidaen65minutos.altafilms.com/
There's also another cover in the "music" section of the website by giulia y los tellarini."

(Thanks David)

"I am sure you have listed this one before, but in any case, I had a little surprise the other day while watching tv - a UK channel, I think.  I was zapping, as you do and I came across the second part of a David Gray live London show - Hammersmith, and his last song was "Friday, I'm in love".  It was pretty faithful to the original and not a bad attempt at that!! 
 So as not to be too lazy and I went and looked it up - the concert was 12/12/2005 - Hammersmith Apollo, London."
 
(Thanks The Sligoman)
 




(Thanks Exploding Boy)



"Yesterday afternoon, Monday the 17th at 1500 mst, NPR used about 10 seconds of "Anniversary" just before cutting to Market Place.
 
I guess these curespottings are kinda ho hum considering they are something akin to Name that Tune and because NPR uses Cure music fairly
often."
 
(Thanks CrystalS)

July 18th

(Thanks Steve)



"The Glove's Deluxe 2 Disc remaster of Blue Sunshine has been delayed. The new release date is 14/08 for the UK and 15/08 for the US."

Update: "Well, this is consistent with what Hispacure relayed from Universal Music Spain last week: the next 3 remastered Cure albums have been
pushed back to 14/08 (in Europe at least)."

(Thanks della&thebanshees and Olivier)



"Hey I just came across this website http://www.songwritingcompetition.com Apparently Robert Smith will be one of the many judges in the competition.  Good luck to all the enter."

(Thanks Jerbear)



"The Argentinian issue of Rolling Stone "Special Edition" (50 years of Rock Collection, number 7) is for The Cure's "The head on the door"...
and includes the CD of "Head on the door" (Argentinian 2005 edition). The magazine is very nice (16 pages with some good pictures)."
 
           

(Thanks BETO)



"my band Forgetting the Memory, did a cover of lullaby just thought you might want to check it out."

(Thanks Joshua)

"in between days....strange cover !! http://www.sunshiners.net/index_new-uk.html. reggae man !!!"
 
(Thanks Manu)



Eleven Reasons Why Syd Barrett Was Cool

Tuesday July 11, 2006 @ 06:00 PM

Syd Barrett, an original member of Pink Floyd and one of the true icons of the psychedelic late '60s, has passed away at age 60. Rather than dwell on the tragic passing of this amazing musical figure, we here at ChartAttack want to celebrate the great moments of this man's career. Without further ado, here are 11 reasons why Syd Barrett was cool: ...

# 10. Here's a list of just a few different bands and musicians he had an affect on: This Mortal Coil, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Cure's Robert Smith, Johnny Marr (formerly of The Smiths), My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, Primal Scream, Voivod, The Libertines, The Beta Band, Julian Cope, Robyn Hitchcock, The Flaming Lips, R.E.M., Mercury Rev, The Dead Kennedys' East Bay Ray, Camper Van Beethoven, Pearl Jam, Love And Rockets, Elevator To Hell, The Melvins, Transatlantic, Phish, Dream Theater, Graham Coxon (formerly of Blur) and former Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante.

Read the whole story online at: http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/07/1108.cfm

(Thanks Tempest)



"Well, here we go again, fellow Cure heads.

I propose to hold, for the 3rd year running, another Cure picnic at The Cure's Hanging Gardens location in Twickenham.

Come along, bring food, alcohol etc, but please do respect the gardens and dispose of your rubbish afterwards.  There are pubs along the riverside that we can dive into if the weather turns bad, but hopefully it will be okay.

Please see my flyer for details, and spread the word!"



(Thanks Birdmad Girl)



(Thanks Ben)



"Perhaps you've heard, but the astronauts on the Space Shuttle woke up this morning to "Just Like Heaven".  I saw the report on CTV Newsnet, where the anchor called it "Seems Like Heaven, by the Cure", but at least the music playing was right!

A quick google finds this report: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2197649

-- The crew awoke Sunday to a recording of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven," chosen by astronaut Piers Sellers' family. Sellers told Mission Control the song reminded him of "the wild, happy, drinking-beer years of my youth."

(Thanks Heather the buzzard and James)


"From a San Francisco Chronicle interview of "The Speakers:

1. The Speakers' music should be filed between:

The albums Peter and I listen to the most together are "Disintegration" by the Cure, "Birds of My Neighborhood" by the Innocence Mission, and "Vespertine" by Bjork. To us, if you know these albums, you can play "spot the influence" all over the Speakers' albums.

3. If you could collaborate on a song with any person, living or dead, who would that be?

Robert Smith. Karen Peris. Bjork. The new Three Tenors!

4. If a junior high school asked you to play a cover song at the next talent show, what song and school would you choose?

... I would actually love to hear a Cure song played by my junior high band played at the actual time we had begun to listen to them. Maybe "The Same Deep Water as You." That would be awesome.

Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/06/NSGUGJPILE1.DTL&hw=speakers&sn=001&sc=1000"

(Thanks Lenore)


" i was just watching "Terzake", a documentary show on Canvas, a flemish TV-channel. This time's show was about some phenomenon apparently called "fooding" ( some kind of new hype that makes chefs kind of ignore all common rules of "cuisine", or rather mix them all up )... Anyway, they
showed images of some kind of "fooding" private party somewhere in Paris, in some kind of basement. During one of the scenes at that private party, you could hear "Lullaby" playing in the background. The food seemed goddarned aweful b.t.w.."

(Thanks Laurent)


"sunday 9 July, I was watching Cold Case on french tv France 2, the episode was called 'pyjama party', season 2 episode 2, and a very long extract of lullaby was used.  check the previous cure News of COF and you'll see that 2 extracts were used last time.  thus, watch out for the next episode..."

(Thanks Fabien G)


"In our local paper's Friday entertainment section, there's an article about Dashboard Confessional.  They are talking about the lead singer, Chris Carrabba, and state, "Carrabba's croon, which still evokes a more technically proficient Robert Smith..."

(Thanks Diane)

July 4th

(Thanks Soledad)




(Thanks Gary)



"Katie Melua's cover of Just Like Heaven Is included on the CD on the front of this month's Q magazine. What more incentive to go out and spend £3.90?"

(Thanks Andy)

"Grant Lee Buffalo covers The Cure.
I know you posted a story on this, but here is the US site: http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=album.php&musicalGroupId=466&catalog_id=6848
This album has some great covers, performed by a great artist!"

(Thanks John)

"Just wanna let you know that Kitsune 's cover of Da Hype is now online on http://www.myspace.com/kitsunetsuki. we recorded it for the Pink Pig Project. i know you don't like the song but All About Eve's Julianne Regan is a fan of ours, so give us a try! ;) "

(Thanks Marco)



"I've recently heard two Cure vs. Snoop mashups at clubs in San Francisco, both featuring "Drop It Like It's Hot." The mashups are titled "Drop It Like It's Hot Hot Hot" and "Drop It Like It's Close To Me" (I'm sure everybody can figure out which Cure songs they're mixed with). I have been unable to find the tracks ANYWHERE! If somebody knows where these tracks can be purchased or downloaded, I would very much appreciate it."

(Thanks Jordan)



"In the next Michel Gondry movie "The Science of Sleep",  the room of Stephane (played by Gael Garcia Bernal) is decorated with The Head on 
The Door, The Top, and Three Imaginary Boys LP covers pinned on the wall.
A great hommage in an incredible movie, by one of the best filmmakers of our times. Awesome!"

(Thanks Francois)

"Robert's picture is in July Elle on page 59. The article is "How to Read a Music Review".  The Cure, Joy Division and Gang of Four represent Post-punk/Old School music in the guide and it's Robert's (Bloodflowers era) picture that represents them."
 
(Thanks CrystalS)