June 28th

From PR Newswire

"Alongside Angels and Airwaves, Suretone releases for the remainder of the year include The Pink Spiders' debut album "Teenage Grafitti" (produced by Ric Ocasek) which will hit stores on August 1st. You can catch the Pink Spiders on this summer's Warped Tour. Next is Rooney's sophomore album due out in early September. Rooney will join Kelly Clarkson as her main support for her summer tour. New Found Glory follows Rooney with an album due out on October 10th. Look for them to start a massive headlining tour in September. Later in the year Suretone will release Weezer's greatest hits that will feature several new tracks. On October 31st, Halloween, Suretone plans to release a new studio album by The Cure."

(Thanks Spencer)

"Just a little something I heard while listening to cfny 102.1, a Toronto station that I am thankful for here in buffalo, the DJ stated the cure
is slated for an October 31st release of their newest work."
 
(Thanks Erick)



PB.DE: Artistically seen, were you happy with the direction the band took in the last two years of your membership? Obviously there were tensions in the band around the recording of the last album.

Perry: I have to say that I always preferred to see the positive side, and I sincerely believed that The Cure still had the potential to put out a really great album, but it was often hard to sustain that belief.

PB.DE: Why?

Perry: Usually because of choices made concerning what the band should do, what songs should be released, the way the band was being marketed, etc. It often felt like these decisions belied a lack of confidence and led to compromise.

(Thanks Grace)



From The Toronto Star

"In addition to mixing forthcoming CDs by Newfoundland singer Damhnait Doyle and Edmonton band AA Soundsystem, Michel is fiddling with a solo effort by long-time Bowie guitarist Earl Slick.

"He's had Bowie and (the Cure's) Robert Smith guest sing on it," Michel says. "He wants me to sing a tune on it, too. But he's not happy with the tracks, so he's asked to me fix them up. I've been tearing apart these mixes. I've got 10 tracks of Bowie stuff. It's a blast."

(Thanks Tempest)



(Thanks Fab G, Lenore and Stephen)



"Be sure to get the next Cure Reissue Promotional Poster (only from the Idealcopy.com) when you buy all 3 via this link:
 
http://idealcopy.american-data.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MU-CURE-3PACK-02

Offer good for the first 300 orders, so be quick!
 
You can also get the Import Versions with the different packaging if you prefer those, as well as The Glove's Blue Sunshine 2CD."
 
(Thanks to Chris @ The Ideal Copy)



"I thought it was important to tell you that The Cure "Lost In the Labyrinth" bootleg DVD is an exact copy of The Cure DVD bootleg "Out of the Woods"; it has a different title and DVD artwork but, otherwise, is a duplicate. Some Cure fans are about to pay twice for the exact same product."

(Thanks Snap)



"I'm sure everyone knows about youtube, but this guy has some amazing cure videos - http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=tubeculthero"
 
(Thanks Ryan)



"Looks like Grant-Lee Phillips covers Boys Don`t Cry on his new album "Nineteeneighties" which is out for sale the 26th of June, at least here in scandinavien . .here is a link ; http://www.platekompaniet.no/cdproduct.asp?id=COOKCD380, there are covers of The Smith & Echo & The Bunnymen here also amongst other well known artists.".

(Thanks Lars)

"Germany's currently most successfull band Wir sind Helden played a very upbeat cover of "Why can't I be you?" yesterday at the sold out Southside Festival in Neuhausen/South Germany. A great version thanks to the sexy voice of Julia Holofernes and a 3 piece horn section. Nice to
see 30.000 teenages jumping around and singing along to a Cure song this summer."
 
(Thanks Ingmar)

"Heard this in a club the other night!
http://www.phonicarecords.co.uk/detail.aspx?ID=13144
http://media.phonicarecords.co.uk/prdj03_1.mp3"

(Thanks Ronan)



"Cleopatra Records informed me that the book will be release on September 19th in the US. They'll probably sign a deal for a UK/Irish release too.
We're still looking for help in publishing Italian, Spanish and Portuguese versions. Could you post this request?"

E-mail David if you can help.

(Thanks David)



www.numbersnightclub.com

THE CURED

A cure Tribute Concert - featuring:

Anguish in Exile
Nervewreck
Slivered
The Cure'd: a dark tribute

All Ages.
21 & Up....$10 Under 21...$15
Doors at 9PM

"On my way in to work this morning, the dj was going through a list published by Guitar One on the top 10 songs to play to your significant other if you want to "get some."  While Led Zeppelin, Goo-Goo Dolls, and Extreme were a few that made the list, The Cure's Just Like Heaven came in at #4.  I thought this was pretty funny, and figured many fans alike would find this rather amusing as well......not to mention Robert and the guys!"
 
(Thanks Jen)

"June 22, 2006 at 11:25pm EDT, during "The Daily Show" on comedy central there was an ad on for the JetBlue website which made some not too flattering reference to Robert Smith- and posted a reworked photo of him with his eyes blurred out."

(Thanks Laura)

From the Washington Post

"In October 2004, the Scottish-born Tunstall was touring England, playing keyboards in the punk-folk band Half Cousin when she got a call from the popular BBC live music television show "Later . . . With Jools Holland." Could Tunstall, who had been working on her first album, possibly fill in on 24 hours' notice for the American rapper Nas, who had to cancel at the last minute?

And, just so she would know, the other performers that night would be Anita Baker, Jackson Browne, Embrace, the Futureheads -- and the Cure.

"So I got off the tour bus, went back to London, jumped in the shower," Tunstall recalled recently from her home in St. Andrews, Scotland. "And suddenly I'm in the studio, watching Robert Smith, going, 'What a [expletive] god' . . . and I'm next!"

(Thanks Tempest)

"A little curespotting: sunday 25 June, french tv channel France 2 played an episode from the series 'Cold Case' ('Aaires Classées' in french, episode titled 'la reine déchue' ('the fallen queen'?)).  During this episode, they played a long part of 'just like heaven', and, a while later, an extract from 'pictures of you'.  Two extracts in one episode!  It was great."

(Thanks FabienG)

"About 15 seconds of the musical intro to Pictures of You was used during one of the Katie Couric retrospect on her last day of the Today Show on May 31. Not much of a spotting, but once again somebody at NBC shows some good musical tastes. :) "
                                                                                                   
(Thanks Cheryl)

"Bits of 'Burn' are being using in a trailer for Smallville on either E4 or More4 here in the UK."
 
(Thanks James)

"Here is just a little curespotting, dating back from November 2005.  in the british magazine Bliss there is a 4 pages article about fearne Cotton (which  seems to be an interviewer in the UK), and she is photographed lying on her bed surrounded by plenty of records among which the 12" of 
'the lovecats'."

(Thanks Fabien G)

"I am going to be in Houston visiting next week. I am trying to find my friend Nancy Leon (and her husband Aaron Cain). For some reason we have lost touch numbers, e-mails have changed.  If  there is anyway you could post a brief SOS would be great.  If you can help me just direct them to boortzband@yahoo.com"