"Then when they came out for BDC a blonde girl dressed in a long black dress came out with them and exuberantly danced and shook a tambourine on stage with them through the whole song, WEIRD."
(Thanks Dave)
Update: "It was Zia McCabe from the Dandy Warhols, from Portland, OR. She plays keyboards for them."
(Thanks to IcingSugar for the answer)
(Thanks Dave)
Update: "It was Zia McCabe from the Dandy Warhols, from Portland, OR. She plays keyboards for them."
(Thanks to IcingSugar for the answer)
Which side of the stage was she standing on?
ReplyDeleteA mystery indeed.
ReplyDeleteI was talking to a guy the other day who went to a Cure gig in the late '70s (or early '80s maybe) and he told me the support act was some woman who came out on stage, sat on a stool and screamed for 20 minutes before leaving again...
Maybe Robert just likes strange women.
Stalker? My impression is that it is someone who won a competition or a really really really lucky fan.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Stevie Nicks had stumbled on stage thinking the band was about to launch into "Tusk"
ReplyDeleteAlastair - *ROFL*
ReplyDeletethat was me.
ReplyDeleteIt was Zia McCabe from the Dandy Warhols, from Portland, OR. She plays keyboards for them.
ReplyDeleteso she just asked robert, "can i come dance on stage to bdc?" or did robert ask her?
ReplyDeleteand do you think robert would let ME do that?
ReplyDeletejust let me know if you want me to do that, robert.
She was playing tambourine and not just dancing. I think the cure should raffle off the chance to do the same thing at every show because she looked like she was having the best time ever.
ReplyDeletei'll play whatever instrument they want me to. i'm not saying i could play it well, but i'm sure i can bang a tambourine around. and i can dance cool, so there's no prob there. i dance a bit old style 80s, but it's not goofy at all.
ReplyDeletelet me know, robert!
At last someone replacing Roger at the tambourine !
ReplyDeleteah.... a while back if anyone remembered, robert smith was promoting the movie DIG! its about dandy and bjtm. he loved that movie. i have it and it is cool. pete from brmc is was in bjtm so it was cool to see it!
ReplyDeletebjtm?
ReplyDeletewait, sorry, i saw that movie - or most of it. the brian jonestown massacre.
ReplyDeleteI'm friends with the band manager, Lee. I love this band!
ReplyDeleteThe movie, Dig! was excellent. Zia used to play keyboards topless. The new Dandy Warhols album came out last week, it's excellent.
ReplyDeleteGee, I sure say "excellent" a lot!
ReplyDeleteI remember see the Dandies back in the mid nineties. I did see a show at La Luna where she played half the show topless.
ReplyDeleteOne more thing....if I recall correctly, The Dandy Warhols opened for the Cure in Europe somewhere. I don't remember when but it had to have been at least 6 years ago. So there appears to be a history between Robert and the DW's.
ReplyDeleteThink it was the 2002 festival tour. Kinda sure the Dandies were on the bill. Also saw Robert at the Bowie gig (Royal Festival Hall) in 2002. The Dandies were Bowie's support act.
ReplyDeleteI second the Zia McCabe ID: looked like her to me.
ReplyDeleteShe was dancing like Molly Ringwald in Breakfast club, and playing tamborine bout as well as Roger.
Good thing it wasn't just random fan pick. Only about 1 or 2 thousand jealous RSX fan-girls in the audience to contend with though -
;)
Kinda wonder if this is some sort of in-joke at Roger's expense.
When did Zia get maried to Nick?
ReplyDeletecourtney once hit on me at the hard rock cafe casino in vegas. it was during the radio music awards. i got a free stella artois out of him.
ReplyDeletethat same night? i kicked sheryl crow in the shin. highlight of my existence.
Haha seriously? I love the Dandys & her!
ReplyDeletekicking sheryl crow makes you awesome.
ReplyDelete:)
robert, i gotta tellya. it FELT awesome.
ReplyDelete"I was talking to a guy the other day who went to a Cure gig in the late '70s (or early '80s maybe) and he told me the support act was some woman who came out on stage, sat on a stool and screamed for 20 minutes before leaving again..."
ReplyDeleteI think that must have been american poetress/singer Lydia Lunch, who was invited by Robert to open for The Cure in some 1981 and 1982 tour concerts, if I´m not mistaken.
She recorded, among others, the "Queen of Siam" album, in 1980. I wonder if the line "the queen of Siam in my arms" (from the "Just one Kiss" lyrics and also carved in the "Let's go to bed" vynil, if I´m not mistaken) is about her. Does anyone have a clue about this? According to the "Never Enough" Cure biography, Lydia and Robert once had a sort of special relationship, with a personal book/diary travelling back and forth between them along the years...
revolt, THAT is fucking intriguing! i have no idea about it.
ReplyDeletebut if it's true...
Sofia: Well, I am not suggesting anything... or...maybe I am, actually. It´s just that this kind of 'coincidence' certaintly leads to one starting to think... well, very specific thoughts! :D
ReplyDeleteAnyway, that etching thing referred to the LGTB UK 12'. On the other hand, regarding the 7', according to http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cure/singles/letsgotobed7.html:
"The UK version (w/ Just One Kiss) has "Three for a girl" etched into the groove on the a-side, "Seven for a secret" etched into the b-side. Both lines from the Magpie nursery rhymes."
Which are intriguing too...
Anyway, "Just one Kiss" has always been one my favourite "sort-of-obscure" Cure songs and I think I just started developing a small obsession about this...
Revolt, thanks for your explanation; I've never even heard of Lydia Lunch before but I feel a little bit of research coming along now...
ReplyDeleteStigmurder:
ReplyDeleteLydia Lunch is sort of a legend of the underground New York no-wave movement... A really radical girl, I would say.
I actually don´t know much about her work, I think the only CD I own with her is the Sonic Youth "Bad Moon Rising" album, of 1985. She sings in one of the tracks, "Death Valley '69", which I think is just about the best song on that album... But Sonic Youth have far stronger recordings, IMO.
revolt, i loved teenage jesus and the jerks when i was younger so all of this is really fascinating to me. also since i used to go by the name 'the queen of siam' on cure messageboards (referencing just one kiss (also one of my favorites). and only that as i had no clue about the lydia lunch connection).
ReplyDeleteof course as a curegirl fan the mere suggestion of anything other than robert + mary alwaysforever is weird. totally naive, i know...