"Just listened to Edge 102.1 all morning and unfortunately still no Cure date for Toronto. The 2 major concert announcements were The Tragically Hip & the Warped Tour!

I'm not giving up, just yet! *crosses fingers* "

(Thanks Bryan)

"Today on Italian newspaper "Repubblica" there is an interview with Robert:

It's 25 years that one imagines him as an artist that lives in the dark, tortured by amlethic doubts, tormented by unconfessed and unconfessable loves. Robert Smith, made his group, The Cure, the icon of "darkgeneration", the obscure generation, cloning a myriad of creatures all around the world that comb their hair like him, dress like him, listen only to what he listens. Three years far from the scenes haven't changed him. the same crispy hair falling on his eyes, the same lipstick ruining his lips, the usual necklace on the hairy chest deformed by follicolitis, a natural tendency to fatness that (this one too) his fans imitate with joy. And a new record coming, "The Cure", in stores from june 25th that the italian audience will preview in the two live apparitions at Imola's Heineken Jammin' Festival and Neapolis Festival, respectively 19th and 20th of june. He waits for us in the brightest of the hotel rooms, chosen carefully among the most anonymous around Gatewick. Light does not burn his skin, as he pretended for years, and neither irritates his iris, very little, green, that investigates like a small camera scrutinizing the interlocutor to grasp all his secrets in a few moments. Behind the mask of the eternal young anti-star, Smith is 46, lives in the British countryside, south of London, has a wife and no children. "It was a choice", he says, "we've got 25 nephews running around, it's more than enough to satisfy our natural parental needs. It may be egoistic, but the idea of fathering stil makes me feel unease".

Q1: what you have done in these last years?

A1: Thinking to myself and trying so hard to make me appreciate my artist work. for all my life i said to myself, I don't want to be 40 years old and suddenly find out that this work is like any other work. so I emerge from hiding just when I have the real inspiration without the obsession to wake up in the morning and say "oh no, I am still the Cure singer..."

Q2: have you find a different world compared to 2000 world when you composed Bloodflowers

A2: I don't think. The world is always the same, but the media are more aggressive and catastrophist, so the people perception of the world is more different. This idea of the black cloud that threaten the world is a convenient invention to produce fear because the fear produce audience. this is not my point of view. today I have less fear as much as two years ago. I refuse to accept this theory that the whole world live in terror, that around every corner there is a kamikaze ready to explode. As if the fate of the humans wouldn’t be the death. This is the greatest human fear, the fear of all the fears, that erase every other fear. In my humble opinion my country, Great Britain is going downhill along with all the Western world, but this is another matter. Talking about media I’d like to emphasize like the tabloid and television created the celebrity obsession, the idea that the celebrity is the more sublime conquest that the man can reach. If you are famous then you can do anything and your actions will be morally clear of blame. That’s what galls me, when my nephews tell me “what a blast your life!” not for what I do, but only because I am famous.

Q3: do you feel embarrassed for the millions of Robert Smith clones that you created?

A3: when I was young I have done something similar. Wearing a football team T-shirt is the same process: it suggests a sense of belonging. The dress and the make-up serve to say I belong to this tribe. It is in the human nature.

Q4: do you belong to a tribe in the past?

A4: Yes, I belong to David Bowie tribe. I was 14 when the Ziggy Stardust case exploded. I was too young, but I had an insane passion for Station to Station, that black and white tour with the projection of En chien andalou of Luis Bunuel. Bowie, Hendrix and George Best were my idols. Then it was Sex Pistols turn: the revolution for me and for my tastes in music.

Q5: do you watch TV?

A5: twice every week. I watch NYPD Blue and 24 on Fox. That’s all.

A breathless man with a overnight bag come into the room. He is late. He bustles about the combination and extracts from the bag a copy of the new record that comes directly from USA.

“I still have to listen the final copy” Robert says.

The music fills the room. The sun is setting, the atmosphere is right. On the thick and violent musical progression of the first song “Lost”, Robert sing in a painful crescendo: “ I can’t find myself, I can’t find myself, I’ve got lost , someone give me a hand”

(Thanks to Pietro and Michele for the translation)

"Just emailed Pure Fm (belgian radio). They told me they already diffused TEOTW 50 times because it was the top of the week (last week) and that from today until....undetermined, the single will be aired 2 times a day. "

(Thanks Alex)

"You have to add a new station in the list of radio stations that play the Cure's new single "The end of the world". It's a french one, called RTL 2. The single is played in the show "Pop rock station by Zegut". It's n°2 in the playlist. http://www.rtl2.fr/prs/prs.asp "

(Thanks Christophe)

(Thanks Pirat)

Update: The Cure will NOT be copying this gimmick.

"Just to let u know that disintegration came 48th in Q magazines 50 best ever albums by a british artist/group. 1st was definately maybe - oasis."

(Thanks Andy)

And here's a look at the button card (pdf).

From Tickets.com

The Cure

Wednesday, 8/18/04, 5:00PM MDT

USANA Amphitheatre

West Valley City, UT, USA

It is scheduled to go onsale at: 06/19/04 11:00AM MDT.

(Thanks Brian)

(Thanks Yuko)

"I'm selling some Cure CDs to help fund the upcoming shows:

Happily Ever After CD

Mint Car German CD single (with all 3 b-sides)

The 13th German CD single (with all 3 b-sides)"

(Thanks Jason)

"The latest Photoshop competition at Fark.com has a rather amusing Cure-related entry. The theme of the contest was to Photoshop a HomestarRunner character getting a real job. The whole thread can be found here:

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=969232&mode=voteresults

And here is a direct link to the relevant image: http://homepage.mac.com/fatratbastard/fark/cure.jpg"

(Thanks James)

" 1.) In the book Rock Fashion by Joshua Sims Robert Smith is mentioned two times: 1.)Make-up: (picture caption) "Robert Smith of the Cure, long-time exponent of Goth and well-known for his attachment to red lipstick, always applied slightly skewed" "Goths readily emulated the likes of Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith of The Cure by wearing shapeless black sweaters, violently back-combing their hair abd finally adding a pack of powder a slash of red lipstick (notable Reddest by Jane, Smith's lipstick brand of choice, seemingly applied blindfold." 2.)Hair: (picture caption) "Back-combed and hair-sprayed, the Goth hair of Robert Smith of The Cure." "Meanwhile, Goth's, among them The Cure's Robert Smith, self-cut, back-combed and black-dyed into a gracity-defying puff-ball without frontiers (when Smith cut it all off in 1986 the reaction of the MTV generation was almost comparable to that generated by Elvis' army cut)...."

2.) In Q Magazine's 50 years of Rock, The Cure has a two-page layout, from when Lol was still with them.

3.) In this month's Spin magazine (Morrisey on the cover), there is a small mention of the Coachella festival, with a picture of Robert.

and finally,

4.) They are airing commercials for the Move festival (Cure summer show in England) with "In Between Days" playing in the background."

(Thanks Kallie)

So if you would like to be included, just e-mail me and let me know which city or cities you want the info for, and I'll add you to the list.

"just want to let u know that teotw is on second position on vote page of rtl2 on of the most well known french radio here is the link to vote: http://www.rtl2.fr/prs/playlist.asp"

(Thanks Sylvain)

"I've just listened to the new single on "Rock FM" radio in Milan, Italy"

(Thanks Andrea)

"TEOTW is listed as a song to "listen out for" on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio One. Zane's show goes out on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights from 8-10 pm."

(Thanks Loudest Sound)

"TEOTW is up to #21 from last week's #25 in the "Thursday 30" on the Edge 102.1 in Toronto. http://www.edge.ca/station/sp_30.cfm"

(Thanks heather the buzzard)

"Just wanted to let you know that WCYY in Portland, Me is giving TEOTW plenty of play, but it hasn't made the top five at five yet.... Everyone should go to WCYY.com and click on top 5 at 5 and choose The Cure! That way everyone (myself included) will hear TEOTW on their drive home from work!"

(Thanks Nohome4us)

"Chicago: Q101 now have the single. Southern Illionois: WXLT 103.5 ( http://wxlt.com ) seem to have the single. Send your request to request@1035thex.com "

(Thanks Loudest Sound)

"The guys are featured with EOTW on Windows Media Player home page today. You can listen to the single following the link."

(Thanks Amy)

"Vote for the single:

http://www.weqx.com/equest.asp

http://www.wbru.com/music/12cuts.shtml

http://www.1077theend.com/playlist.asp"

(Thanks Loudest Sound)

"rockpalast is back! http://www.rockpalast.de/sendetermine/

awesome concert from the bizarre festival 1998

http://www.rockpalast.de/schatz/bizarre98/play2.html#cure "

(Thanks Henny)

"Yes AS dragon will be the first band (sick) but i'm really looking forward to hear OVERHEAD second band who's going to Play before our favotire band. It's a great band fan of the Cure and their first album "SIlent witness" is amazing. Highly recomanded"

(Thanks Martin)

Cure party in Poland:

"DIARY Of NIGHT Presents :

COLD ROSES | Cure Night 2.00 |

01.06.2004

club: GGOG

ul. Wajdeloty 12/13

GDANSK

start: 20:00

more info:

www.diaryofnight.gothic.pl

diaryofnight@o2.pl

(Thanks Agnes)

"Just saw a news clip on MTV News about the makeover of the lead singer of Evanescence (yuck) for some new video of theirs. They said she had been famous for "finding more ways to wear black than Robert Smith ever dreamed of." They showed a brief clip from Just Like Heaven."

(Thanks Elise)

"I have found Nashville and Columbia Curiosa tickets at ENCORE TICKETS.COM, TICKETSOURCE.COM, and GOLDEN TICKETS.COM. The tickets appear to be almost identical. "

(Thanks Papusz)

"Just wanted to let you know that people can listen to the excellent "Roundtable" on BBC 6 Music radio where they review TEOTW. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/presenters/andrew_collins/roundtable.shtml)

Hosted by fellow Cure fan, Andrew Collins, this week he is joined by guests Miles Hunt (of The Wonderstuff), music journalist David Quantick, and fellow BBC 6 Music presenter Clare McDonnell."

The single gets a good grade, but a few harsh comments about the band. Not as harsh as their comments about Morrissey though. : ) And don't believe them, the new Moz album is surprisingly good.

(Thanks Trevor)

"I think that the edge102.1 in toronto might be giving details of a cure stop in toronto on monday...

i got in an email from edge today:

This Monday we are announcing two HUGE concerts! Make sure you listen Monday morning to Dave Bookman (covering for Dean) and on Monday afternoon to Barry Taylor (covering for Dave Bookman) for these concert announcements. We're also announcing the next installment of the Edge Next Big Thing Concert Series on Monday. Trust me - you don't wanna miss these. Trust Me.

what else could be a HUGE concert ofther then curiosa?"

(Thanks Jeff)

(Thanks Robert)

Mon 21st June Milan, Italy (TV Studio)

Thu 24th June Cologne, Germany (TV Studi Koln)

Mon 28th June Paris, France (Paris Radio)

That's all I know for now.

"yesterday I went to Universal/Polydor in Paris to listen to the new album of the Cure... I spent 2 hours there and listened 2 times to the complete album. I have a lot of information about it... but my english isn't well enough to explain what i felt when i was listening. All i can say it's that album looks like Disintegration.

On the 12 songs that will be in the album on 29 june, 11 have a distortion guitar. The last one, going nowhere, is the only song made with a folk guitar. It's also one of the more sad songs of the album. The words are so sensitive... Robert's voice is so desperate... It's really a very nice song.

The opening song, Lost, is incredible. The sound is just getting lounder and lounder during all the song, from the first second, to the last one. Robert starts to sing normally and finish the song by yelling, like he was so angry!... wow ! what an awesome song !

The longest song of the album, The Promise, is AWESOME ! It reminds me of Disintegration (as long as Disintegration), a lot of heavy drums, nice voice and nice words... some quiet moment, then few seconds next, lounds sounds... that's also a great song.

On the whole, the drums during most of the songs sounds like Closedown (from Disintegration). Not a binary sounds, but a lot of toms sounds... and long intros.

That's one of the best album of the Cure. Could be the "heavy" sequel of Disintegration... his father in law : new producer, new sounds, but always the Cure touch !!!"

Naturally, I wrote back and asked about the lyrics, whether it was rock or pop, etc. :

"I took a lot of notes during the sessions. But all my notes are in my office. Sorry ! I'll email a longer "review" on tuesday.

All i can say, is that the songs sound rock, execpt maybe Never. For me, it's the least interesting song of the album.

Some songs sounds like SECRETS, but with a distortion 2nd guitar. Another one, sounds like THE KISS (with wah wah guitar solo)...

I'll send you more informations on tuesday.

About the lyrics, as my english isn't very good, I can't tell you anything about them... except Going Nowhere, very easy to understand. Just a dozen of sentences... sad lyrics, very powerfull. I was feeling so sad at the end of this song ! Like i was starting to cry. Really !

All i can say about the lyrics is the way Roberts sang them. Very implicated (is that correct ?) in all the songs. Really angry, yelling, shouting like at the end of the Disintegration song..."

Ok, but how does it compare to the 3 previous albums (BF, WMS, Wish):

"Better than Wish and WMS : it's a non commercial album !!!

Different from Bloodflowers...

As i told you, could be the sequel to Disintegration...but with heavy guitars..."

Sounds good to me.

(Thanks Nicolas)

(Thanks Luis)

"BigFM (http://www.bigfm.de) - a south-german radio station - is presenting the Cure Concert at Loreley and is running about four or five 1-minute adverts per day to promote it. Nothing special, though - Just the announcement and a Mix of a few Greatest Hits in the background.

They may play the new single also, I'll try to find out..."

(Thanks Chris)

"A good friend of mine works for a large promoting company in the area and I finally contacted him about the Curiosa tour. He said that the offers are out but NONE of the local promoters want to book the show. They don't feel that it will do well enough to justify the cost that is being asked. He said that his company considered booking the show for Bend, OR but then decided to back out. For some reason the OR/WA people feel that the show will bomb. Thats the story with the Clark County show as well, no one wants to take the risk. He said that people are still considering it though and he feels that someone will take it on after some pricing negotiations. Not very promising news but there is still some hope."

(Thanks Tara)

"FYE.com is giving away a signed Schecter guitar, a signed poster, or a copy of Join The Dots."

(Thanks Tom E.)

"Apparently there's a Cure track featured on the 'free cd' in the latest edition of Q Magazine. Though may be from a Glastobury appearance from either 1986, -90, or -95

http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.about.currentissue"

(Thanks Steven)

Update: The Cure track is just the acoustic version of 'A Forest' from the 'Greatest Hits' bonus disc.

(Thanks Martin)

"today on london, ont radio station fm 96 (www.fm96.com), during the resurection lunch, they played a "then and now" for the cure. close to me followed by the end of the world. i'm not sure but this may be the first time the new single was played on fm 96. they played maybe someday a handful of times when it came out but they've been kinder to the cure lately, perhaps they will play the new single more often?

more good news for canadian fans. if only we had tour dates. :) "

(Thanks Sara)

"Hello, I finally heard The End of the World on 101x 101.5 FM in Austin, TX!!!!!!!! It was right before the flash back lunch, and at the end of it, they played Friday I'm in Love. :)"

(Thanks Jennifer)

"Yellow alert in LA area... TEOTW has dropped from # 1 most requested song this week. Now it's # 2, just behind Morrissey. And has dropped from # 9 to # 17 on the most played list...."

(Thanks Antonio)

"TEOTW was #1 again on Y100 tonight (Thursday). Was #2 last night."

(Thanks Andrew)

"I’m again in deep trouble! ... i tried to book tickets to the spanish and the portugues festival this summer... my problem is the language… I’m swiss! I want to travel there for the two concerts and I need the tickets first… can anyone help me?! Thanx a lot! "

"Again Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails gave props to The Cure. In the access section of www.nin.com a fan from Bulgaria who recently relocated to the US saw The Cure in concert and looked forward to seeing NIN live. Trent responded" The Cure are great. I have seen them many times over the years and they're one my favorites". "

(Thanks Gary)

"In today's Boston Globe, there is a short interview with the music director of WBCN, Oedipus. This Sunday is the WBCN "River Rave" which is like all other radio station music festival shows. The line up is pretty poor this year with similar bands that played the WHFS Festival (I'll be going only because it is an excuse to drink many beers during the day!). Anyway, Oedipus is quoted as saying "I missed out on a bunch of bands that would have played our show if not for European festivals-the Beastie Boys and the Cure, to name two." Hmmm. I don't see that The Cure had any particular plans this weekend! Figures....I think they would have received a much better reception in Boston for a festival type show than they did in DC....oh well. Guess us fans in Beantown will have to wait till August."

(Thanks Mike G.)

"Last week they mentioned the cure on VH1's Best Week Ever. They mentioned how Morrissey, Prince, and the cure are all going back on tour. Then they mentioned how prince isn't going to play his "dirty" songs anymore because of his new religion, and someone said they hope the cure don't decide not to play any of their depressing songs anymore. haha."

(Thanks to Alex from Far From Words)

"My wife and I just got back from our honeymoon in the UK. We flew Virgin Atlantic and they offer several different stations of music to listen to while in flight. It was pre-recorded and looped. One of the stations called "VIP Lounge" played Close to Me. Ironically right after that they played How Soon is Now by The Smiths, but it was some sort of remix and sounded horrible. Close to Me was the original version, however. Couldn't think of a better way to end an absolutely magical honeymoon."

(Thanks Darqueelfe)

(Thanks José)

(Thanks Donnie)

From HITS Rumor Mill:

ONE OF A KIND?

Add the Wall Street Journal to the list of major news outlets that have taken note of Prince’s novel strategy of “giving away” copies of his new album at concerts, but then having them counted as venue sales by SoundScan—sales that are likely to keep Musicology (Columbia) in or near SoundScan’s Top 10 through the summer. (The HITS Album Chart does not reflect the controversial Prince venue giveaways/sales.)

In its report, the WSJ notes that other acts—including The Cure, which has a new album on Geffen due in June—are considering borrowing the Prince strategy to boost their apparent sales. U.K rockers Gomez are reportedly considering offering fans who attend their concerts the chance to buy their new album for $10. Meanwhile, Billboard will likely reconsider its position of including venue giveaways as sales if the situation arises again in the future, with a likely stipulation being that audience members must be given the option to buy the album or not.

The Cure

Geffen

album: The Cure

track: The End Of The World

Rock icons' 13th studio LP, 1st in over four years. Pomo radio continues to blow up. Added Q101, KTBZ. Spinning: WXRK, KROQ, KITS, WPLY, WHFS, KKND, tons more. Vid being shot at presstime. Curiosa Festival starts 7/24 in Miami. WHFest this weekend. Pepsi Smash upcoming. LP hits 6/29 shipping 300k. Mgmt: Daryl Bamonte

"I called Merryweather Post Pavillion, as I couldn't find very good tickets on the presale, and they said only a limited number of tickets were distributed through the presale, and there would be General Admission/ Floor tickets available for the regular onsale date. So if there is anyone else that couldn't find the seats that they wanted there is HOPE!"

BTW, looks like the ticket brokers didn't have any problems, just check Ebay.

(Thanks J.)

"you can pre-order it at http://www.musicaneto.com/disk_details.asp?disk_id=7213 for 70nis for a member and 90nis for regular custumers (which is about 15$ and 19$) and they say it'll be released by 7/15/04."

(Thanks M F)

And on June 30th in Sweden:

"I just read a promo sticker on "The end of the world single". The promo sticker was written in swedish and it said that the new album will be released in June 30th in Sweden. Not June 28th. Maybe it´s the same for the rest of Europe?"

(Thanks Bjorn)

"Here's an e-mail I got back from the Promotions Director at 103.9 The Edge in Phoenix. Hope it's true, but mad it's on a Monday!

-----Original Message-----

Hey Dan!

Yes the cure is coming here on August 23rd but that is all the info that we have available right now...if you want to check back in few weeks we should have more!

Jaime Burns

Promotions Director

KEDJ - EDGE 103.9 "

(Thanks Dan)

"Just a few words to tell you that A.S Dragon, a rock-garage-soul band (www.asdragon.com) will play before The Cure at the Musillac Festival in Aix les Bains on July 4th."

(Thanks Edouard)

"The End of the World seems to climbing pretty fast towards the top on most played list at WHFS (DC) and is currently at 19 http://whfs.com/most_played.php"

(Thanks spiggy)

"AT 9:40 pm KJEE radio in Santa Barbara played The End of the World"

(Thanks Liza)

"The End of the World is #3 on itunes Rock page today"

(Thanks Serena)

"They still haven't started playing TEOTW in Denver yet but I talked to one of the DJ's on KTCL 93.3 today and they said they're going to play it this weekend as a then and now deal. I'm still working on them to get it in their rotation. "

(Thanks Nate)

"The French and English version of my book about The Cure are now completly finished. I had the great chance to find someone for making the visual side of the book who's very talented : he's a Canadian fan and a professional designer working in music industry. I personnaly think it'll be the most beautiful book made about The Cure (and I don't speak about the text but only about the visual side). I managed to choose very rare pictures as I wanted something a bit special (not too many small and so-so pics but about 50 made in a bigger format).

For the French version, the lead-singer of Mickey 3D who always said he started music when he heard The Cure, very kindly wrote a small text I will print on the back-cover and I hope I'll have another text from an international artist.

As my aim was and still is to share this work with lots of fans all around the world, I was looking for people for other translations : a few fans are already working on Spanish, Italian and Portuguese versions but I still have difficulties to find someone who'd be ok to translate into German (if someone is interested : david.fargier@fr.smurfitgroup.com).

I'm desperatly looking for a beautiful picture from the 1996-97 period ; the whole band on stage or not would be perfect. One of Jason could also be great. It must be a high resolution one to be used for the printing.

I also wanted to keep this project as independant as possible, because without a publisher and stores fees, I'll be able to maintain a quite low price for such a book : that's why I decided to release the different version via a micro site we're working on and we'll get in touch with internet Cure fansites in a few weeks to give you all information."

(Thanks David)

"I’m planning a trip to Portugal because my very best friend has a big wedding party there on the 24th of july. Why not do the smart thing and also go to the Vilar de Mouros festival to see the band we all love most. J But here’s the problem: The Vilar website is absolute crap and I just can’t seem to find ANY info on the web about tickets and how to get there. You know anyone who might be able to help me? Thanx!"

"There were at least two mentions of the Cure in the latest Hits Magazine. One in the Vibe-Raters where they debuted at 13 (of 16). This is basically a chart that lets retail stores know what has a buzz in the industry but either hasn't been released yet or hasn't broken into the mainstream. There is also a full page ad for "The End of the World" using the album art."

(Thanks Ryan)

"In Q Magazine's June Issue(?): 100 Greates Gigs Ever List

#66 The Cure, Glastonbury Festival on 21 June 1986 (page 70)."

(Thanks kat )

"curiosa

a friend got his hands on sell sheets for the new album and they said they are bringing the festival to toronto & vancouver with more dates to follow in the late fall!

we'll see, but this is good news for us canuck cure fans!

video shoot

apparently the video shoot location was top secret, the staff were not even told of the actual location but rather told to meet at a certian time and place then taken to the set?

can anyone confirm this?"

This is pure speculation on my part, but could the full announcement have been delayed to add more shows in the fall? Possibly "Cure only" shows? How great would that be? Sort of makes you see Curiosa in a much better light, doesn't it? Now keep your fingers crossed that it's true. This could get very interesting. : )

(Thanks Bryan)

COF - Bruno's mirror

(Thanks to Hugh for the file and to Bruno for the mirror)

"Just to let you know that Radio One in the Uk will be giving the single it's exclusive first play tonight just before 9pm. There should also be a short phoner with Robert. They will be asking for feedback from the audience........ "

(Thanks Neil)

"I have been informed by a friend that Robert will be doing an interview by telephone on the Zane Lowe show on BBC Radio 1 here in the UK. Zane's show airs 8pm-10pm. Live streaming from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/index.shtml?logo

Doesn't mention it on the website at the moment though, so I don't know how accurate this is..."

(Thanks Jason)

Update: Well, it wasn't much. Just about 3 minutes or so and here are the highlights:

Was calling from Toronto, making the video.

Band thought the album title was tongue in cheek, only your first album can be self-titled.

Used vintage gear for the recording, same stuff from the first record.

This is far from the heaviest album, more mid-term. Starts heavy but moves into melodic by the middle, still a very guitar driven album.

Given this statement, some of the changes made to the tracklisting, and other things, it sounds like it will be more pop, less rock. Oh well, at least we get 'Lost' and 'The Promise'.

"Don't know if this was already brought up by anyone or not, but here are the scedules for xacobeo festival: http://www.terra.es/ocio/articulo/html/oci22615.htm

16 de julio

19:00 h. – 20:00 h. Starsailor

20:30 h. – 22:00 h. Muse

22:45 h. – 00:30 h. The Cure

01:15 h. – 03:00 h. David Bowie

looks like it's going to be a 2 hour show."

(Thanks Paulo)

(Thanks to Jerome at Plainsong)

"I was just reading the new issue of Time Out New York, and their feature story this week is on summer concerts. They do list the Curiosa Festival as playing Randall's Island on July 31st. So I'm not sure if the venue information is 100% confirmed (for all I know, they may have taken the info off your site!) but Time Out is usually pretty accurate when it comes to show listings. Unfortunately, they still don't have an onsale date listed or prices."

(Thanks Tom)

"The Edge in Phoenix, AZ announced on Saturday that The Cure will be here August 28th. And, a friend of mine says he has word that they will be playing Cricket Pavillion."

(Thanks Yvonne)

"The single is now listed in the featured Pre-Releases section on the intro page of the iTunes Music Store and also in the daily Top 100. Today it jumped from 80 to 52."

(Thanks Brett)

"I was watching The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn last night and he had Shalom Harlow on from the TV show "The Jury." She told the story about how before she was on TV she was a model. She said she got her break when a talent scout spotted her at a Cure concert!"

Yeah I saw that. Said that she loves The Cure and that she went with a friend to one of the shows when she was 15 and was "discovered" there. It was at the Toronto show on the Prayer Tour in 1989.

(Thanks Mark)

Password: lovecat / 9:30 Club link

Password: 991hfs / WHFS link

The Merriweather Post Pavilion is also supposed to send out a password in their e-mail, so we can probably expect another one by tomorrow (Update: no it's lovcat too).Anyway, here's how the prices breakdown:

GENERAL ADMISSION FLOOR/PIT $75.00

MAIN PAVILION SEATING $60.00

LOGE PAVILION SEATING $60.00

GENERAL ADMISSION LAWN $40.00

BTW, does anyone else find it pretty funny that the first Curiosa show to go on sale isn't even on the "official" list at thecure.com?

"We at www.idealcopy.com wanted to give you a heads up, that we are going to be lowering our price on the new Cure album, both regular CD and the CD/DVD. We probably won't be able to get this change completed until Wednesday May 26th, but just wanted to let you and your visitors know that The Cure is our favorite band."

(Thanks Chris)

"according to the official Indochine page - Indochine will take over MCM 05th June 2004 from 8.45pm onwards for Indo TV - included in that special will be an exclusive interview with Robert Smith

http://www.indo.fr/actu.htm "

(Thanks Dennis)

(Thanks Papusz)

"I've just phoned RTL2 radio station in Paris. The woman in charge, answered me, yes The Cure along with other artists (including Placebo and others) will participate for an accoustic show at the Olympia in Paris, the 30th of june. I insisted on the name the cure, just to make sure she was not mixing things up with Kyo which happens to be a french band. This special event will be a one day only event. The whole thing is organized exclusively by RTL2, so the tickets to win will only be available through RTL2 radio, and only on the phone (no mention about any internet way to win the tickets yet). The tickets will be distributed starting from next monday (31st of May) and during 15 days. The woman on the phone did not know how long this event would last. She was very kind in answering my questions. I hope i asked enough to satisfy anyone's requests!

Further information to come maybe next monday :)

What a YEAR! "

This has now been confirmed by official sources.

(Thanks Bill)

"Apart, for all it's soft and soothing tones, is uncompromisingly stark in its subject matter of a couple drifting (or even falling) away from each other. You can always rate the value of these sort of songs by whether or not they click with your own feelings when such things happened to you. So much of the modern rubbish in this vein completely fails to move me, especially all this purile f*** it nonsense that has been floating around the top of the charts like other unplesant things that are naturally inclined to float. Apart, on the other hand, clicks instantly. It is a magnificant song, and deserves its place up with the other greats of the genre such as All About Eve's own December, Mish's Butterfly on a Wheel, James' Walking The Ghost and Out To Get You, and of course St Etienne's Like A Motorway. Not forgetting the Sister's I Was Wrong to which Apart might actually be the antithesis to, both being songs of desolation, but one where the protagonist is long past caring, and the other where they care but can do no more.

In conclusion, these singles represent magnificent pieces of work and deserve to take their rightful place a the top of the charts. Whether the Great British Public are bright enough to agree remains to be seen, but Julianne, Andy, Toni and Ben can rightfully be extremely proud of their work either way. "

BTW, Ideal Copy are also carrying the singles in the US and have the best price at $9.49 each. Check the ordering page for the links.

(Thanks Paul)

"Just wanted to let you know that as of Monday The End Of The World is still No. 1 on Y100's Top 7@8 in Philly! I just got back from Atlanta yesterday and saw that it was No. 1 on Friday as well."

(Thanks Andrew)

"Teotw will be play on ouifm 102.3 paris radio station this afternoon around 18h25 paris time. It can be listen on the net www.ouifm.fr"

(Thanks Sylvain)

"You can vote for the new CURE single TEOTW on the french RTL2 radio website... Click here and... Vote ! http://www.rtl2.fr/prs/playlist.asp?classid=27465 The Cure are still in 6th position..."

(Thanks to Rodxxx at Your Tongue is Like Poison)

"There are five listings on E-Bay for the presale password to the Columbia, MD concert. Starting bid is $9.99. Very odd considering COF, WHFS, and the venue all give it out for free. Tix for that show are out of control too. You could pay around $70 (inclusive of service charges) and still be in the 42nd row far left or right of the stage. With the $50 one-hour HFStival set, and now a $70 presumably short Curiosa set, us DC fans are getting killed."

In case you missed it, the password is lovcat. If it changes, I'll let you know.

(Thanks crystallhell69)

"I don't remember if you already know this, but the web portal Libero.it says, in music article about the Neapolis Festival, that the show is going to be 2 hours long and the tickets will cost 31 euros http://musica.libero.it/primopiano.php?syn_id=120515"

(Thanks Pietro)

"Geffen.com has added "The Cure" (together with cover) under "upcoming releases" in his site's main page"

(Thanks Pietro)

Brilliant! (477) 33%

I like it. (335) 23%

Horrible! (276) 19%

It's ok. (224) 16%

I don't like it. (117) 8%

Total Votes: 1429

"This past tuesday 18th May, on French tv channel France 2 program 'Comme au Cinéma - Histoires Courtes' (that's about shorts movies), among other short films, they played one titled 'I'm an Actress' (by and with Maïwenn, France). So that's the story of a disturbed female film star wannabe who ends up pushing her 11 year's old daughter into casting against the young girl's will, who'd just want a normal simple life and her mother to stay home instead of going out to party with men all night. It's an around 20 minutes long film about the classic subject of an adult having one crap life and doing everything so that his/her child succeed where he/she has failed. To my taste it was average, not completely crap nor brilliant, but got one good point especially for one song in the soundtrack I liked and also the fact that the young girl was often wearing a 'boy's don't cry' t-shirt."

(Thanks Fabien G)

"Just wanted to let you know that I met Robert yesterday at Toronto Airport... He was so nice, even after having sat in a plane for two hours on the tarmac he took the time to sign my copy of "greatest hits" and even posed for a pic for me... He was absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!! "

(Thanks Tamara)

"I just heard on french radio RTL2 that they have few tickets to win for an accoustic show with different artists at "L'Olympia", Paris, 30th june 2004 !!! The CURE will be here ! No tickets for sale... All of them are invitations to win ! "

(Thanks to Rodxxx at Your Tongue is Like Poison)

Update: No, they're not:

"For the acoustic show in olympia, Paris, it's NOT The Cure but Kyo a french group with other french group."

(Thanks Sylvain)

"While in the city today I popped into HMV to enquire about the release date of a certain album. The lady I spoke to was a bit of a dill and appeared to doubt that I had my facts straight about the album being called THE CURE(ignorant biped).Anyhow she tapped away at her little computer for at least a minute or two and obviously couldn't find any info about it.Luckily my trusty offsider Risako had thought to browse the cd racks and came over to tell me about the message on the C rack that said the new album by the CURE being released 28-06-04 TBC.As with Dots recently the waiting is killing me. Its torture but its almost here."

(Thanks Swifty)

(Thanks Brad)

Not in the UK? No problem, use these ordering links.

Congratulations and good luck to Julianne, Andy, Toni and Ben!

Cure Presale

CURE-ious?

Playing happy synth-pop over melancholy lyrics with a uniquely fashioned frontman, The Cure became one of the most popular bands of the '80s. The godfathers of Goth will release their much antipicated new album, The Cure, July 29. The fascination continues as The Cure bring their Curiosa Festival 2004 to Merriweather this August.

WHFS 99.1 and I.M.P. Present Curiosa Festival 2004 featuring THE CURE w/ Interpol • The Rapture • Mogwai August 6 Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

Presale begins Wednesday, May 26 from 10am-10pm. Password is lovcat

There is a 4 ticket limit in the pavilion, 8 ticket limit on the lawn.

Regular public on sale Saturday, June 19th @ Noon through Ticketmaster

click here for the presale

(Thanks Ali)

(Thanks gurustuff)

"So here we go. The single is now on air in Belgium, on Pure FM. Last week, on wednesday, Rudy Leonet played it on his show, but as told by Eric ( I think ), he couldnt play the studio version but he played the Leno version - for stupid copyrights reason methinks. Then, starting last friday, TEOFTW became a "fresh" on Pure FM. Every week, they choose three songs to be played in heavy rotation ( one of the songs every hour, so you hear the song every three hours ). This week, they chose Cure, Sonic Youth (yay!) and Canadian singer Feist. So it's really great. Dunno about other radios here, but i'm quite sure they also play it heavily on Studio Brussel, as their playlists are always quite the same as on Pure FM."

(Thanks Olivier)

"The end of the world was played for the first time in Argentina. FM Rock & Pop 95.9 , in Buenos Aires. They talked about the "Curiosa Tour" and the new album. "

(Thanks Beto)

"Giant street posters for the Festival du Gaou are now displayed in the Toulon / Six-Fours area. See pictures here : http://jjcc.chez.tiscali.fr/curepress/affichesgaou.jpg"

(Thanks to Jerome at Plainsong)

"Today I happened to watch Best Week Ever on VH1. There was some breif talk about the Cure. They talked about how old bands are coming back this summer like Prince Van Halen , Morrisey and The Cure. Also on that show a few months ago they gave a downgrade to 311 for covering the Cure. "

(Thanks Coregirl)

"In the most recent issue of Rolling Stone (the one with Eminem and D12 on the cover) I found three Curespottings: On page 13, there's a story about Universal's CD prices with a photo of a boy in a CD shop. On the shelf in the picture you can see Join the Dots, Greatest Hits, and Galore, and then a few shelves down is Japanese Whispers. That was the most interesting Curespotting, but there's also a review of Coachella on page 18 with a picture of Robert, and then there's an article about music combining with sport and has a picture of Robert (page 70) in a Tampa Bay Lightning hockey jersey."

(Thanks Alia)

"the end of the world has debuted at #25 on the edge102.1 charts. there are request links at edge.ca"

(Thanks Jeff)

(Thanks bennion)

(Thanks MickelCure)

"I've just found out that Diário de Notícias (a portuguese newspaper) will start a new dvd collection soon, this time music dvd's, and between the 18 dvds there's The Cure's "Trilogy". Here it is what the advertisment they have in the newspaper says (sorry i don't have a scanner, i'll try to scan this soon): "DN brings to you the best concert's DVD collection that you've ever seen. There are 18 DVD's with the biggest names in music: Paul McCartney, The Cure, Eric Clapton, Tom Jones, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, INXS and many other "sacred monters" of contemporany music". To get these DVD's you have to buy DN (1 euro) plus 9.90 euros for the DVD, starting out May 28th with paul maccartney. In the page you can see the side of the Trilogy DVD, and it seems it's hard cover and not the threefolded digipack, and judging by the Paul Maccartney's cover of "get back" that is showing front, it might have a slight different cover. I will try to get more info about this edition as well as release date."

(Thanks Paulo)

"I'm trying to figure out what kind of guitar(s) Perry used on the Wish tour? I highly doubt its a Schector, but you never know? "

(Thanks -L.J.- )

Update: "From the September 1992 issue of Guitar Player Magazine, I found this under the Cure gear section of the article by Joe Gore: "Perry Bamonte who had taken over Porl Thompson's 6-strings chores, plays a '63 Bass VI (fender). A southpaw, he switches between left handed models (a (red) Gibson ES-335, an Ovation 12 -string electric-acoustic, and a converted right handed (black) Gibson Chet Atkins. All electric guitars were ran through Boss pedals to Peavey amplifiers" I also would add to the list, a left handed Rickenbacker 12-string electric that he can be seen using on The Show concert video."

(Thanks Frank)

"He was using a Gibson 335 for most stuff. He played a Fender bass VI, Ovation acoustics, as well. That's about it, he was usually on keyboards for Wish."

(Thanks Jeff)

"Perry used a Gibson Chet Atkins Country Gentleman converted right hand model (same type that Robert used/uses, but with a double cut away), a '63 Fender Bass VI(played upside-down),Gibson 335 & Ovation 12-string (left handed)"

(Thanks Joey, Pizza and Craig)

"In an article titled "Adam Duritz finds Cure in writing 'Shrek 2' song" in the daily oklahoman entertainment/music section, duritz shares that the new song "accidentally in love" was influenced by the cure.

he had written lyrics and then rexamined his work later, "i looked at it later, and i feel like the first verse feels like a Cure song to me."

he was talking about the cure's "just like heaven" and the first line "show me show me show me."

"it felt like that exuberant flow of words, an explosion of words. it's like someone who is experiencing that sort of joy and is about to lose it all."

(Thanks Richard)

"Here in Latin America we have a tv channel called Sony Entertainment Television, and in between shows and commercials they show entertainment information mostly about the Tv shows they have and the top 5 movies in the US. Among the news they are currently showing, one is about The Cure, the new album and the tour. I found it to be curious, since it is always stuff about pop. "

(Thanks Enrique)

"Edge 102.1 in Toronto really, really loves the Cure. This weekend they are doing a 'high school reunion' weekend, where each hour they play songs from a particular year (seems to be 80s and 90s). So far just this morning the Cure have made it on twice -- the hour of 1985 had "Close to Me", and 1992 had "Friday I'm in Love". Considering how many songs can be played in one hour, and how many popular songs there were in that whole year, it's quite impressive that they've already been featured twice."

(Thanks heather the buzzard)

"Just this second saw the most depressing Curespotting. Jonathon Ross' band "3 poofs and a piano" did a rendition of Friday I'm In Love on his Friday night with Jonathon Ross show. Nobody should ever have to watch that!"

(Thanks Ed andVicky)

(Thanks Julie)

"I just heard Alan Cross from Edge (edge.ca) in Toronto talking about his experience with Robert Smith during an interview they had in England. He said Robert was very chatty and extremely nice. He (Alan) didn't say anything about the gig in TO, so I sent him an email and he told me to 'trust him' as Robert told him face to face that they are coming to play here. However, he (Alain) told me it might be the 9th or 10th instead of the 8th, which makes sense as there is a good 7 hours of travelling from Boston (the previous curiosa date) to Toronto. During his comments this morning he said that The Cure is right now in Toronto for the TEOW video. "

(Thanks Luis)

"There was a blurb about the new album in the June copy of ICE Magazine I got today in the mail:

The Cure issues its first new studio album since 2000's Bloodflowers on June 29. The eponymous set is the band's first get-together with nu-metal producer Ross Robinson (Korn, Limp Bizkit) for his Geffen-affiliated I Am label. While the track list was not finalized as of press time, the following includes both working (designated by *) and finalized titles:

Lost

The End of the Word (first single)

Truth, Goodness & Beauty

I Don't Know What's Going On

Taking Off

Anniversary

This Morning

Us or Them

The Promise

Going Nowhere

Labyrinths *

Before 3 *

Precious Advice *

Jason #3 *

The enduring post-modern quintet debuted "The End of the World" on the Tonight Show and three more songs at its May 2 Coachella performance in Indio, CA. Guitarist Perry Bamonte tells ICE that singer/writer Robert Smith delivered three separate sets of songs for the demo sessions, with each subsequent set completely replacing the one before. Of the 40 songs written, only 20 were recorded, with those not appearing on "The Cure" planned as B-sides (reporting by Dayna Cramer)."

(Thanks Keith)

The Cure

Geffen

album: The Cure

track: The End Of The World

Rock icons' 13th studio LP, 1st in over four years. Pomo radio blowing up. Added WSUN, KROX, KKND, more. Spinning: WXRK, KROQ, KITS, WPLY, WHFS, tons more. Vid being shot at presstime. Curiosa Festival starts 7/24 in Miami. WHFest this weekend. Pepsi Smash upcoming. LP hits 6/29 shipping 300k. Mgmt: Daryl Bamonte

And every Cure fan's new best friend, Jordan Schur (the 6th Cure?), makes #6 on the HITS list:

#6 Jordan Schur - Geffen boss finds Cure for sales doldrums, experiances New Found Glory after refusing to Blink-182.

(Thanks SRV)

(Thanks Brad)

"There's a vote on Britains Channel Four. It's 100 Greatest Music Videos http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/pop_videos/index.html

The Cure's Close To Me is on there. Also there's a section where you can add your own choices, for videos that aren't listed. I don't think the final 100 have been decided yet."

(Thanks John)

"In the newest Spin Magazine (Karen O' of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the cover) Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes lists his ten favorite/most influential albums: in no particular order:

the cure - staring at the sea: the singles

pavement - slanted and enchanted

slowdown virginia - dead space

sunbrain - perfection lies

jackson browne - jackson browne

elliot smith - either/or

at the drive-in - in/casino/out

paul simon - graceland

john lennon - john lennon/plastic ono band

neil young - on the beach "

(Thanks Matt)

"Just heard the musical intro to Other Voices on CNN headline news."

(Thanks PrettyGirlonLI)

"I was listening to the local news radio in the car the other day (750 WSB, Atlanta, GA) and they have this commercial of Hennessy Cadillac dealership. In the background they played the instrumental part (beginning of the song) of “The Walk” from “Mixed Up” album.

I seriously doubt, that The Cure authorised the use of their song for the local dealership comercial even if it is Cadillac. The comercial is on the air for the second month already."

(Thanks Giedrius)

"Brandon Neil Ragan's new collection of poems dealing with his growing up in the "alternative scenes" of the eighties and nineties...( punk, new wave, goth, and so on ) has several references to The Cure. There is one poem called "Mope Culture" that has an entire stanza about Robert Smith. There are also sevreal references about "Listening to Faith". The book is called "The Grey Garden". What made me pick it up the book in the first place was the picture of the author on the cover totally looks like Robert Smith. Check it out"

(Thanks Brandon)

(Thanks Shelley)

"So I've been listening just today to Edge 102.1 Toronto (haven't listened in months) on the off chance of hearing TEOTW -- and just now, just happened to catch a 'preview' snippet of the interview with RS that they'll be playing in full at some time in the future (he said "coming up" with a premiere of new music).

In the preamble, the DJ said that one of the most-anticipated albums of this summer will be the new Cure, and he mentioned the Curiosa festival and many of the participating bands (though no news about a Toronto date).

The interview happened when their program director Alan Cross went to England this past week -- he met RS midnight on tuesday at Gatwick airport... midnight because Robert gets up at 5am and goes to bed at 8pm. That's what he said, I thought, but that doesn't make any sense, does it?

Apparentely Sigismondi (video director) is getting married, and they're trying to fit the video shoot in around that same time.

Anyway, the part of the interview they played just had Alan Cross asking about hair and makeup. "How long does it take to get your hair to look like that?" He said that actually he gets out of bed and it's like that... that it's only not like that when it rains, so he has to wear a hat. The secret is that he doesn't comb it out for months at a time... you have to sleep on lumps. He has shaved his head 3 times in the last 20 years, and feels like doing it again this summer -- but he's 'married to someone' who will leave him if he shaves it! The interviewer laughed and said something like "no, don't do that to Mary!"

Then he asked what make-up brand he uses -- which of course is MAC... MAC has promised RS that the makeup will remain intact even on the surface on sun... they're only missing a good black eyeshadow, which he intends to tell them at the next big meeting they have.

Robert sounded very light-hearted and chipper. Can't wait for the full interview!

Then they followed the interview snippet with In Between Days!"

(Thanks heather the buzzard)

"Just heard on Toronto radio Edge 102.1 CFNY that The Cure are confirmed to be in Toronto over the long weekend shooting the new video. The director is reportedly getting married in Toronto and they plan on shooting in between activities. I'll be keeping my eye open for the band all weekend."

And yes, I know the sell sheet said London, but things have changed since they put that together.

(Thanks John)

"The official site for festival vilar de mouros in portugal has been updated. It confirms the Cure: www.vilardemouros.com"

(Thanks Andy)

Pre-order links

And good news for German fans. Not only will you get the "sure to be best Cure show of the summer" at Loreley, but AAE have just added more live dates:

26.6. - WEINHEIM (Café Central)

27.6. - HAMBURG (Logo)

29.6. - BERLIN (K 17)

30.6. – FRANKFURT (Sinkkasten)

"someone at my old company just emailed me and said geffen was up last week and played them 4 tracks of the new album...he couldn't remember the names other than the single...he described the songs as a cross between head/door and disintegration."

(Thanks Jeff)

"There was a listening of The Cures new record in Copenhagen last monday (10th of May) too. They played them 4 tracks of the new album, Problaby demos, said the people at the Norwegian record company Universal. He was waiting for 4 track cd very soon . . I cant wait . .. Also "The End Of The World" Promo cd has come and will soon be played on Norwegian radio stations : ) "

(Thanks Lars)

" http://www.wnrn.org/ have the single and are playing it. 434 979 0919 webcast= http://www.wnrn.org/music/wnrn.asx "

(Thanks B.N.)

"I just wanted to update you on 95.5 WBRU in Providence, RI playing "The End of the World". It was added to the playlist as the Screamer of the Week, which is basically the best new song of the week. It was also #3 on 12 Cuts Above the Rest, their weekly show of the most requested songs of the week."

(Thanks Kerri)

"WXRT Radio Chicago will be playing TEOTW as part of their New Releases Thursday feature today."

(Thanks Lenore)

"Hey just wanted to give you a heads up, I finally heard the studio recording of the new single ! It aired at 3:30pm (est) here in the TampaBay area on 97X FM Radio (97.1). After the song the DJ talked about Curiosa and the line-up, they also mentioned The Cure has a date set for the 25July04 but NO venue has been mentioned and tickets should go onsale very soon,keep listening."

(Thanks Shane)

"the end of the world is now being played at edge102.1 in toronto, and you can request it here:

http://www.edge.ca/station/sp_requests.cfm

and also vote for it in the thursday 30 countdown here: http://www.edge.ca/station/sp_vote_30.cfm

the edge request line for phone is: 416-872-EDGE (3343)"

(Thanks Jeff)

TEOTW single is also available at Walmart.com for $0.88. As long as you have WMP 9 you can burn it to CD. http://musicdownloads.walmart.com/catalog/servlet/AlbumServlet?id=483539 "

(Thanks Brad)

(Thanks Greg)

"We can find a DJ-mix with Eminem-Sonic Youth-Smashing Pumpkins-The Cure on http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/lancelockarm/ Well interesting…too much Eminem !"

(Thanks Yan)

"There will be a cure party in leipzig (germany) this saturday (22.05.04). it will include a "b-side-special" and lots of live-versions from good-quality sources. the club is called "trixom / trinity" and the adress is "haertelstrasse 21, 04155 leipzig". here´s a link to the flyer: http://www.dark-sounds.de/jpg/cureparty_mai2004.jpg for more information anyone might contact me at this adress: darksounds@gmx.de"

(Thanks Michael)

"Hanging out with my Mom at lunch about twenty minutes ago (Wednesday, May 19), she has the television on, watching the ABC soap "One Life To Live" and "To Wish Impossible Things" was played as the background music... The character of "Vicky" was thinking about her husband through flashbacks while the song played in its entirety, the song loud and clear. I sat there slack-jawed through the whole thing- it was PERFECT. Sigh."

(Thanks Mike, Kevin and Elise)

"Yesterday I caught The Hanging Garden videoclip playing on Flipside program on channel VH1 Europe. Funny how they always put the wrong date. The date for Pornography was 1892!"

(Thanks Claudio)

"There was an article in this morning's Sacramento Bee about a possible Curiosa tour date in Sacramento. Here is the article written by David Barton:

Will a visit from the Cure help soothe a hot Sacramento summer?

The Cure, which reunited for a bill-topping appearance earlier this month at the Coachella Music Festival, has announced portions of a U.S. summer tour that sounds like Coachella Revisted: Supporting the Cure on the main stage will be Interpol, The Rapture and Mogwai, with such coachella veterans as Muse, Cooper Temple Clause and Cursive on the second stage. The tour was announced last week, but the closest date promised so far is in Los Angeles. We're crossing our fingers for a Sleep Train Amphitheatre show, which is not out of the question, according to those in the know. No official confirmation yet, though. As soon as we know, you will. "

(Thanks Mariano)

"WFNX 101.7 fm here in Boston, who are playing TEOTW, are giving away a trip this week to Curiosa July 24 in West Palm Beach. You pretty much have to be a listener here to win though since they don't webcast. Wish me luck!"

(Thanks Justin)

The Cure

Listen to the new single "The End Of The World" in Real Player or Windows Media Player!

The Cure will be headlining the Curiosa festival as well as 11 European Festivals this summer, click here for tour dates. The Cure will release their new self titled album in stores June 29!

www.thecure.com

"The Greatest Hits DVD is up to #49 from last week's # 50 in the Greek Top 50."

(Thanks Pietro)

"From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38099-2004May18.html - review for the new Morrissey You might need to register to read the article, its free.

"You Are the Quarry" isn't just his finest work in more than a decade, it's the high-water mark of the new wave of '80s revivalism, which has been heavy on quick-buck reunion tours (the Cure, the Pixies) and light on quality product."

Hmm, exactly when did the cure officially break up? "

(Thanks Greg)

And here's one I found in a Morrissey review at New York Metro:

"Emotional stasis has always been central to Morrissey’s persona—he famously told an interviewer, “I don’t want anything to interfere with this state of dissatisfaction”—and Morrissey’s peers like the Cure face the same sort of expectations from their fans. But the Cure’s Robert Smith has held onto his romantic worldview while transforming his band into expansive, almost psychedelic rockers. Morrissey doesn’t try half as hard, content to play his own caricature, alt-rock’s Woody Allen. On his great 1992 single “We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful,” Morrissey winked at how his sudden fame was received by admirers. But it isn’t success that makes Morrissey hateful; it’s his turning of adolescent inadequacies into a crass road show."

(Thanks Ryan)

(Thanks Audrey)

(Thanks Jon)

"I have been told that the cover artwork has been done by one of roberts nephews or nieces / porl's kids, he gave them all the chance to submit something (and the white swirly image with 't h e c u r e' inbetween the swirls was done by porl!!!)"

"On 89x radio in Detroit TEOTW is now # 8 on their "Hit-List", and in heavy rotation. Morrissey has dropped out of the top 20."

(Thanks Patrick)

"Hey just want to let you know that here in New Jersey several stations have been playing "The End Of The World", I just heard it on G106.3, but my friend told me he heard it on 95.9 the Wrat, and a station that plays all current pop music B98.5. That last one scares me, the Cure on a pop staion (pop as in rap, and Britany Spears, NSYNC etc...Whats the world coming to!!"

(Thanks -L.J.- )

" wluw 88.7fm (Chicago) has teotw in its new release rotation. they are great on playing requests. request line is 773 508 9589 and if you listen on-line at wluw.org the aol instant messenger is wluwdj. you can also hear it for sure and more cure ion destination unknown monday nights @ 10pm cst."

(Thanks Kamar)

"So The End of the World was once more at the top of the Top 7 @ 8 on Y100! What do you say everyone? Go to the Y100 website on a daily basis and flood the site with email requests?"

(Thanks Andrew)

"Detroit radio 2 has added it as "the 7 slam", a song they pick to "slam" to listeners for a solid week. This week it's TEOTW. "

(Thanks Patrick)

"PureFM (National not local radio station, i made that mistake last time) will broadcast TEOTW tomorrow afternoon in Rudy Leonet's show, version Jay Leno. Universal postponed the shipping of the promo cd until next week because Thursday and Friday this week are bank holidays here... BUT they will air the radio edit of the single from Friday on already thanks to "our" FMQB version... Big thanks again to Rudy Leonet and Fanny from PureFM for trying to play the single asap in Belgium..."

(Thanks Eric)

"Here in Spain Radio 3 played the single for the first time last week, I don't remember if it was Tuesday or Wednesday."

(Thanks Eric)

"Just to let you know the 2 promo singles that were on ebay have been pulled off.. i assume by ebay "officials".. i was watching them to see how high they got, and now they both read "this item may no longer be available".. i just thought you might like to know."

(Thanks Lisa)

Update: "When I worked at WEA, an advance of ‘Bloodflowers’ showed up on Ebay. They had only distributed 10 or so in the whole country, all to Elektra bigwigs, so they knew where to look for the culprit. Lo and behold, it was a bigwig in LA, who had given it to a friend for the sole purpose of selling it. The dude got fired, and Elektra made some sort of deal with Ebay. Now almost immediately when something is marked as “cure”, Ebay checks it out. If it’s a promo, it’s gone. A friend of mine tried to sell cure promos a year after the bloodflowers deal, and he was told by the ebay people to take them off auction. "

(Thanks Brian)

"This one was pretty disappointing. Not that i expected God knows what, but the whole history of the band was filled with so many errors i can't recall right now, it made me want to go and become a presenter just to tell history as it went.

the things went pretty basic, with the girl plainly telling the chronological events and showing videos in between. videos shown were boys don't cry, the lovecats, in between days, close to me, wciby, just like heaven, catch, lovesong, pictures of you, this "making the video" of lullaby, friday i'm in love, a forest from orange (2 greatest hits-like series in a row in 2 days, i've had my dose for at least a month!)

the best parts were the very beginning and the end. in the beginning they showed interesting clips, like short ones (10-15 seconds) from several interviews & lives; among the others: roger from the WMS E.P.K., this is a lie from the adrenaline club, london gig in 96, one of the very early live shots that are in the staring at the sea video tape, a 89-90 fascination street live snippet (leipzig maybe?), and a clip where they were in a room rehearsing something with a guitar and a toy piano (from the 96 era maybe) (no, that's not play out).

the end was the part about the collaborations: she first showed two clips from interviews of 99 and 01, where rob said he wanted to do this kind of stuff (different from usual cure-like songs, etc..) and named junkie xl (which, in her opinion, came AFTER junior jack), junior jack (she said it was a massive club hit and that he is the hottest dj around), tweaker and blink 182 ("the most discussed collaboration of the last years"!). then quick appearances by junkie xl and blink themselves, saying how much they love the cure, how they wrote the song with robert in mind... probably the same interviews you have already reported months ago. they also said their latest single ("I miss you", a kinda slow ballad) is directly inspired by "The caterpillar". I don't see all these similarities!!!! :-)

a strange fact was that she passed through the 90s in 1 minute. i understand the 80s were far more important both commercially and maybe artistically, but everything from wms to join the dots was only quickly mentioned, and that was strange. she didn't even talk about the new album (probably this was recorded before the details spread, ie before may)."

(Thanks Pietro)

"I was searching the net for some software synthesizer that could emulate the sound of Roger's Moog Voyager in the new single "The end of the world" when i got into this site : http://www.arturia.com

Looking at their products, i saw a picture of one happy user that seemed familiar to me... There is a short interview with him, including a (recent?) picture with Robert Smith.

here is the direct link: http://www.arturia.com/en/interview3.lasso"

(Thanks Ronaldo)

"A french project called Nouvelle Vague has made a cover of A Forest. The concept of this project is to do some covers of new wave (Nouvelle Vague in French) songs. http://c.giudicelli.free.fr/nouvellevague.php"

(Thanks Yan)

"I've just seen 'Football Factory', the forthcoming British film about football hooliganism and a 4 minute instrumental version of Fascination Street is played during the film although is not listed as appearing on the forthcoming soundtrack LP (according to amazon.co.uk)."

(Thanks Ian)

"Retrocrush.com has a cool “best parts of songs” thing, and the intro riff from ‘killing an arab’ comes in at #42….

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2004/coolsongs/42.html "

(Thanks Brian)

"Read in Epok, the Fnac Store Magazine about Kyo, a kind of boy rocky band not awfull, not terrible, that they were listening to Massive Attack, Archive, The Cure and Pink Floyd. That could mean they'll be able to release a good record, in the way that Blink 182 released a far better one than their previous..."

(Thanks David)

"A friend of mine had told me about a site called BastardPop. Apparently it's a music genre where someone takes two or more artists and...overlaps the songs. It may not sound like it would be all that great, but some of the songs are pretty good. Anyway, I decided to see for the hell of it if they had any Cure related material. So I searched for it by just typing in cure, and it turns out they did, three of them. You can't forget to mark the box that says 'description' when you search, you won't get all the results by clicking 'title'. There is one song on there called "Dance With Cure (Who Loves Me)" and it's a mix of "Friday I'm In Love" and Whitney Houston. The next one is called "I'm Sorry Mr Smith" and it's a mix of "Lullaby" and "I'm Sorry Miss Jackson" by Outkast. The third track is called "Maddona I'm In Love", a mix of "Friday I'm In Love" and Maddona, obviously. I just thought I would let everyone know, since I had never seen this before on any Curespottings or anything."

(Thanks DPG)

"http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/

And Can I Get an Extra $25,000 for Cure Tickets?

Reader Clay Young points to this great instance of your tax dollars at work: In 2002, the Department of Education approved a $273,000 grant to Blue Springs, Missouri to study why kids there were "going Goth."

According to the KSHB Action News account, town officials ended up spending "only" $132,000, but even then the money was misspent:

What's more infuriating to some is that with all the money spent, Blue Springs still wasn't able to complete what it set out to do. The town hall meetings to educate people about Goth dangers didn't happen. They were replaced by a video documentary and website on Goth and counter cultures. The training sessions for 5,000 people reached 1,200. And as for those assessments and therapy for kids in need, not one child was referred. Maybe some of the leftover $$$ can go to studying the the dread meance of the Hippy Hippy Shake, which we understand is every bit as popular among kids today as Goth rock."

(Thanks Josh)

" It's nothing like I thought it was going to be, I was under the impression, dark and heavy, I kinda had THE KISS in my head of the sound. Of the 5 songs I heard, none of them had the layered intro to songs, the songs were straight ahead Cure rock songs. Nobody will be upset with what Ross did, it sounds amazing and Robert is doing things with his voice I've never heard. This sounds like no other Cure album, the subject matter reminded me a lot of WISH. There is a song that could become another JUST LIKE HEAVEN. It's the record that had to be made to put the cure back in the spotlight, I sat there with chills the whole time. Once you hear the single you know what I'm talking about, the single is fucking great!!!!!!!!!!

These are not confirmed song titles.

The End of the World

Back On (this song is the darkest of the ones I heard, someone described this one as the disturbing song, Robert's voice is on fire on this song)

Before 3

Taking Off

Strings (the JLH sorta song, this could be a big single) "

Like I said, the album has changed since then, but at least you get a sense of what might be coming. Strings is now (I Don't Know What's Going) and Back On is now Lost. Are you all keeping track of this? There will be a quiz at the end of the semester. : )

(Thanks Donna)

Update: It looks like Truth Goodness and Beauty has been dropped from the US album (but WILL be on the UK version - so lame!), Jason #3 is now called Never, Precious Advice might be alt.end and This Morning will be the b-side on the TEOTW single.

There are only 11 tracks on the US cd. I guess the bonus track (Going Nowhere) is exclusive to either the vinyl version, the Japanese cd or both. It's all very confusing, but it looks like you will have to buy multiple versions of the album (at least the UK and US versions) to get all of the tracks. Forget the artwork, here's something worth bitching about.

Of course the decision to use it as the cover was made by an adult, so that's fair game. : )

(Thanks to Rob from The Laser's Edge)

01 LOST

02 LABYRINTH

03 BEFORE THREE

04 THE END OF THE WORLD

05 ANNIVERSARY

06 US OR THEM

07 alt.end

08 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING) ON...

09 TAKING OFF

10 NEVER

11 THE PROMISE

BONUS TRACK IS #12: GOING NOWHERE

(Thanks to Wilco at Goth City)

(Thanks Jane)

"At last some info about TEOTW in Europe. I asked our best local radio here in Belgium "PureFM" about the Promo version of TEOTW. It seems that the european version has been delayed 2 weeks. They will receive it on Friday and play it from then on."

(Thanks Eric and Fanny from PureFM)

"105.3 The Spy in Kingfisher/Oklahoma City, OK is playing The End of the World. I was getting ready to call them because they keep playing the new Morrissey single Irish Blood, English Heart, and I had not heard the new Cure yet. Well, when they played the new Mozzer yesterday they immediatly followed it with TEOTW! I about died. I had to sit in my car after I had arrived home to finish listening. Looks like my telepathy worked."

(Thanks Kevin)

"Erik Dennison of "Sunday Night Vinyl", Real Radio 104.1 Orlando, finally played ' The End of the World ' on Sunday 16th.. also mentioned the WPB & Tampa dates as well the June 29th release date & upcoming remasters."

(Thanks Jeff)

"Apparently the requests to 97.3 to play "TEOTW" have worked, they broke down and played it. Just heard it. So, don't give up on them yet, keep working on them!"

(Thanks Pyra)

"I was just listening to the "Top Alternative" on AOL radio and they just played TEOTW. They also play a lot of Cure on the 80s, New Wave, and all of the indie channels."

(Thanks Asa)

Lost (277) 27%

The Promise (276) 27%

Before 3 (258) 25%

The End of the World (211) 21%

Total votes: 1,022

"Tonight on Rodney on the Roq on KROQ in Los Angeles, Rodney played a song by a band consisting of members of the Cure, Rooney and some other band. I couldn't understand what the name of the band was...Franz Dots, Bronze Dots ?? The song was called "Dead Wrong". Do you know which members of the Cure are in this band and any additional information about them?"

(Thanks Jackie)

Update: "The band name sounds a lot like an entry you had about Roger last month (4/19), although it may not be the same thing: Roger works with Frausdots: "I just thought you might be interested in knowing that Roger O'Donnell recorded some keyboards on my bands upcoming album. My name is Carl Tapia and I play keyboards in a band called Frausdots on Sub Pop Records. Brint Rademaker, the singer/songwriter/guitarist for Frausdots (Brint's bands also include Beachwood Sparks , and The Tyde) is friends with Roger O'Donnell and he was nice enough to lend his talent and creativity to our music. The album is titled "Couture, Couture, Couture" and will be released by Sub Pop Records here in the US in September. We also have a limited edition CDEP being released by Houston Party Records in Spain in June. "

(Thanks Lenore and Sugar)

(Thanks Natalie)

"have you seen the album art yet? it's awesome, it's a crayon/water color drawing by a little kid maybe 3 or 4 years old. it looks like something that would be hanging in a kindergarten class on white lined paper, it has 4 figures (all totally different sizes and styles) on it and the heart with an eye and wings. The Cure dips across the top in black with a yellow star around the "C". Then under that is the cure written again in red marker.

I'm guessing the middle figure (which is the biggest and mostly black with scarlet alien type eyes) is Robert, with stick arms and legs."

(Thanks Laura)

"Monday, at 2100 CET, MTV Italy will air "A night with: The Cure", a special hosted by an MTV presenter, that will talk about the band's history, the new album, robert's recent collaborations and will show the lullaby's video "making of". And obviously, they'll show various music videos from the past."

And a Monography Zone review:

"So, as expected, it was just an hour of videos, closely following the greatest hits tracklist (and this was expected, too). The videos were, in order: Boys don't cry / A forest / Let's go to bed / The walk / The lovecats / Inbetween days / Close to me / Why can't I be you? / Just like heaven / Lullaby / Lovesong / Never enough / Friday I'm in love / Mint car / Cut here / Just say yes.

I have to say JSY was a nice surprise, it was fun to see that video again! : ) And now, on with "A night with", tomorrow on MTV Italy at 9 pm!

(Thanks Pietro)

(Thanks Jason and Larry)

"There's a Cure mention in the latest edition of MOJO magazine (Morrissey on cover) Don't know what it is though, could be news about album http://www.mojo4music.com/html/mojo_new_issue.shtml "

(Thanks Steven)

"It looks like WHFS is playing up the Cure leading up to the HFStival. There is a clip from TEOTW they play during ads "New Music First...The Cure...<clip>". I've heard this three times now. They also played the entire single yesterday afternoon at least..."

(Thanks Jofny)

"There is news concerning a new tribute which will be released in the summer on Equinox Records with bands like Icon Of Coil (“Killing An Arab”), The Fair Sex (“The Walk”), Bloodflowerz (“In Between Days”)…that sucks a lot…"

(Thanks Yan)

"Yesterday a french group from the south of France played in Pau (their and my place) ; they are called KALIGARE and the singer is named Franck Basly . They are much influenced by The Cure ; they were "hard to the core curefans" when I knew them at school and their way to play and sing is so stamped by Robert and the guys! You probably know them because they were contacted by FTC Records in the States for a Tribute to The Cure called "Strange as angels". Yesterday they finished their set (last encore) with All cats are grey as on the Tribute record. Fantastic version with their own backdrop video (little chapel in the snow in the mountains... B&W pictures). Here are links to know them better...

http://www.ftcrecords.com/ and http://www.chez.com/kaligare/

And here is an audio/video file: http://site.voila.fr/obliqueproductions/siteoblik_kaligare.htm "

(Thanks Patrick)

"The Cure were mentioned on the hungarian VIVA television's news section yesterday, about the fact that the band release their new album without 'knowing the title'. the report announced that the producer is Ross Robinson, and the sound would be ( should be) not too cure-ious because this fact. During the news the lullaby video was the surpsrise...( oh 89 :-) ) "

(Thanks Cureme)

"Last night on Channel 104.9, the Bay Area alternative station out of San Jose, CA, after playing "The Lovecats" the station made an announcement that all they knew was that the Curiosa tour would be making a Bay Area stop sometime in August (but that's all they knew), and as soon as they had more information, it would be released immediately. Thought that might be useful to know."

(Thanks Patrick)

"The spanish magazine " El País de las Tentaciones" wants my site "A Cure Of Bloodflowers" (http://acureofbloodflowers.iespana.es) send them questions for an interview with Robert Smith in London next tuesday. If you want....send your questions before Tuesday 10:00 am (GMT+01:00) to my site. (vierkof1@excite.com)"

(Thanks Jesus)

"Today i received a mail from Jesús (webmaster of a cure of bloodflowers),a spanish cure fan site! this guy received a mail from a journalist called IKER SEISDEDOS...this journalist works for the most important spanish newspaper EL PAIS! and next tuesday EL PAIS is going to do an interview with Robert smith in LONDON! so the journalist told to Jesús that it was a good idea that for this interview cure fans make some questions