Classic live Cure (and more) on BBC Radio

"On BBC Radio 6 last night(01/07/09) Gideon Coe played 4 Cure songs live from Camden Palace in 1985. You can catch the program on the BBC IPlayer. Listen from 1h 59 minutes in. Songs played were Charlotte Sometimes, Close to Me, Primary and The Walk. Good old times!
Also on the BBC iPLAYER check out 6 Music at Glastonbury Adam and Joe's Glasto Gold, they played Inbetween Days from the BBC's Glastonbury vaults. Listen in from 56minutes 50sec. They even have Robert's picture on!!
And check out Jools Holland Monday 29th June 2009, listen in from 42minutes 50 seconds. Jools interviews the singer from Bat for Lashes and played Disintegration. She mentions covering A Forest and how much she likes the band.
So i made the mistake of typing "The Cure" in the search bar of the BBC's iPlayer and found another song. Inbetween Days was played on Richard Allinson's show on saturday 27th June. Listen in at 2.06'. He mentions people with wild hair." (Thanks JC)

Curespotting

MB has a brief mention of Robert in a Lady Sovereign review. (Thanks April)

Twentyfourbit has a mention of Robert in another "free music" article. (Thanks Heron)

Consequence of Sound has an article that mentions The Cure's contributions to the Marie Antoinette soundtrack. (Thanks April)

Tony Hawk asks Tom DeLonge (Blink 182) about working with Robert (it's the final question). (Thanks AndytheCurefan)

Goodbye to Classic CoF...for now.

"Say goodbye on a night like this..." After 13 years of hosting the Classic CoF website, Compuserve is pulling the plug on their Ourworld publishing and hosting servers, starting sometime tonight/tomorrow/soon (did they forget to pull the plug? : P), and the old CoF website will be gone from the net. But you will still be able to access much of it via the Internet Wayback Machine, and I will put the entire site up again, once I find a new home for it, but that might be a while. So thank you to Compuserve and everyone who contributed to CoF, read it, enjoyed it, and found help & info on it, over the last 13 years. It was a blast! Most of the time. ; ) Goodbye old friend, you served us well. : )

Update: Just to be absolutely clear, the only thing going away (and not for too long, everything has been saved locally, and will be uploaded to a new home soon-ish) is the old CoF site. This one will still be here and will be updated all of the time, just as it has been for the last year and a half.

More on The Cure Live in Paris 08 film

The rights are held by Europe Images, and here's their page for the Cure show. Note that the show was filmed in HD and 5.1 audio, was directed by Laurent Hasse & Thierry Villeneuve, is a co-production between Sombrero & Co, Lost Music Ltd, and Virgin 17, and is available as a 90, 60, or 30 minute program. (Thanks to Jörg for his great detective work)

Cure covers

The Drowning Man - Caroline Weeks. (Thanks Loes)
A Few Hours After This by Evan Voytas. (Thanks Michele)
Boys Don't Cry - Norman Palm. (Thanks Calmin)

Cure Live in Paris at Wien Film Festival

Update: The film will also be shown on Aug. 16th.
(Thanks Monghi)

There will be a showing of The Cure Live in Paris 2008 at the Film Festival 2009 auf dem Wiener Rathausplatzon on July 7th. (Thanks Samuel)

Justin Kennedy talks about The Cure

Justin Kennedy (Army Navy) talked with OC Weekly about seeing the Cure's Troubadour show. (Thanks Heron)

Official site update

Update: Never mind. This isn't new. Just new to me. : )

So that's what all of that login nonsense was about, they've updated the store. Lots of new (old) stuff is available again. At least I think that's what the update was. Haven't checked the store in a while, so maybe its been that way for a month or so.

Cure split with Universal

While there still hasn't been any official word from TMU or The Cure about the split rumor, it does look like "the ties have in fact been apparently cut" and The Cure are no longer on Universal's active roster. (Thanks Friend of CoF)

Cryfest Championship of the World!

Black Cat DC and FYM Productions

MTV Live: The Cure in Rome on Palladia

Palladia will be repeating MTV Live: The Cure in Rome on Wednesday night/Thursday morning at 2am eastern, and on July 5th at 11pm eastern. (Thanks April)

New Cure website and forum

There's a new Cure website and forum up called Cureuphoria. Very nice! Congratulations and best of luck, Gian!

Cure covers

Jeannie D covers Inbetween Days. (Thanks Jeannie D.)

Think Twice Records have posted two new Cure covers - A Night like this by CISSKEY and Disintegration by SJUKDOM.
(Thanks T. @ A Pink Dream)

Update: Full Coachella webcast

Update: And now, an NTSC DVD ISO - Demonoid & Pirate Bay and a PAL ISO - Demonoid & Pirate Bay. (Thanks AndytheCurefan)

Here you go - Demonoid and Pirate Bay. And split into 3 RARs - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3. Or watch it on YouTube. (Thanks to AndytheCurefan, Ariel, Zoe, Aaron, and everyone else who helped put it all together)

If you need it as an MPG - Part 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
(Thanks Pussycat)

Get the MP3 of the full webcast (Thanks GloomyRemy).

Mark Reeder reworks A Forest

Mark Reeder's MySpace update says that he has reworked the Robert/Blank & Jones version of A Forest, and that it will be included on his new album, Reordered, which is due out this summer. There's also mention of it on New Order Online.
(Thanks Ryan)

Cure cover

"Just to let you know that Nouvelle Vague – the French band that specializes in bossa-nova-style covers of punk and new wave songs and that covered A Forest on their first album – is currently on a mini tour in the States and the very first song of their set (so far) is a cover of 100 Years. I mentioned to guitarist Olivier Libaux after the concert that I was a bit stunned that they opened the concert with this track and he replied that he likes to start with this song because it’s like “a cold shower”. " (Thanks Yanic)

New Cure book in France

There's a new Cure book out in France, "The Cure, 30 ans de réflexion", and you can win a copy at A Pink Dream.
(Thanks Toberr)

"Please" 12" mixes

"Remember that not-so-bad 2007 collaboration of Robert with Paul Hartnoll (The Orbital)? I just stumbled across three remixes of that track that were not included on the original maxi-cd, one was made by Paul Hartnoll himself. Not really spectacular, but maybe of interest for the die hard fans." (Thanks Ingmar)

French Mixed Up set for sale

"I have the rare french 5 mixed up cd set for sell on eBay. The buy it now price is only $150. I hate to sell it, but i am in need of money right now." (Thanks Craig)

Curespotting

CDWOW is having a Friday I'm In Love sale today.
(Thanks Greg and Thomas)

"Simon Armitage's beautiful documentary on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was part of BBC4's excellent poetry season - it featured 'A Forest' by The Cure as Armitage made his way across a now-industrialised landscape to greener pastures."
(Thanks Hellboy69)

"This weeks Outrageous Fortune (tv show in New Zealand) featured 3 lab rats called Robert, Simon & Lol, who were testing a new ecstasy type drug. They even specified Lol was the control rat, because he was the drummer! I'll see if can divx up the scene for you, because it's really funny." (Thanks Nick)

From NME: Morrissey's 50 Most memorable Quotes and Most Vicious Put Downs (Moz on RS / RS on Moz). (Thanks Cloudberry)

Remember that shoegazing documentary, Beautiful Noise? Looks like it's finally getting closer to a release. (Thanks Heron)

More from the CoF audio archives

Happy 13th Birthday to/from CoF.
Robert on BBC 5 Live (Sept. 30th, 2004)
Robert on BBC 6Music (Sept. 2nd, 2004)
Robert on Live 105 (Sept. 2004)
Robert on 107.7 The End (July 13th, 2004)
Robert on 91X (July 2004)
Robert & Ross on Head on the Cure radio (June 5th, 2004)
Robert on BBC Radio 1 (May 26th, 2004)
Robert on KROQ (recorded April 30th, 2004)
Robert on France Inter (Jan. 22nd, 2004)
KROQ Inland Invasion Cure party stories (Sept. 2003)
Robert on KROQ (Aug. 18th, 2003)
Robert's Vieilles Charrues press conference (July 20th, 2002)
History of New Rock (Edge 102 - June 2002)
Robert on XFM's Highjack (aired Dec. 2nd, 2001)
The Cure on the Simon Mayo Show (BBC2 - Nov. 26th, 2001)
The Cure live acoustic session (with Boris) on Europe 2 (Nov. 23rd, 2001) - Cut Here, Mint Car, Lovecats, Boys Don't Cry, Friday I'm In Love, Why Can't I Be You?
Robert on KDGE - Part 1 / Part 2 (Nov. 16th, 2001)
The Cure on XFM (Nov. 13th, 2001)
The Cure on The Janice Long Show (BBC2 - Nov. 12th, 2001)
Robert on Couleur 3 (Nov. 12th, 2001)
Robert on Channel 104.9 (aired Nov. 10th, 2001)
Robert on KENZ (Oct. 23rd, 2001)
Robert on The Zone (Oct. 16th, 2001)
Robert on WOXY (Oct. 16th, 2001)
Robert on AOL Music Station (Oct. 2001)
Robert playing DJ on Triple J radio (Oct. 14th, 2000)
Robert on KROQ (Feb. 19th, 2000)
Robert Talks About TheCure.com (Sept. 1997)

Robert Triple J DJ (Oct. 14th, 2000)

A blast from the past...Robert playing DJ on Triple J radio in Australia on Oct. 14th, 2000 (Robert's set starts at the 4:46 mark, with the wonderful The Heart of Saturday Night by Tom Waits). And as he's demonstrated a few times over the years, he's very good at being a dj/radio host, and I wish he'd do it more often. Anyway, enjoy it, and I've posted the transcript of the show in the comments section.

Reminder: Roger update

As many of you know, Roger is now a Rock & Roll manager. : ) He is managing The Machetes, and the band start a UK/London tour tomorrow, May 28th, and it continues through June 28th. Roger will also be guest DJing at a few of the shows. So check out their tour dates here, and go support them if you get a chance.

New Cure tattoos

Some new Cure ink for Shauna Sometimes, Crystal, Audrey and IrishCure.

Cure on PS3 Vidzone

"The Playstation 3 Vidzone service launched last night (free music videos on demand in Europe) and it seems to be stocked quite well with Cure videos. Started the day with a bit of Gone, Primary, The Blood (I have never seen this video before! why is it not on any video compilations? was it not released in the UK? Nope, only in Spain - Craig), Mint Car, and then Dear Prudence (Siouxsie only has 3 tracks up at the moment very poor compared to the Cure's 20). There are a few labels not signed up yet by the looks of things - no Depeche Mode at all, but I would assume that will change and expand quickly." (Thanks Chris)