Director Cosimo Alemà talks about The Cure

In this article from Corriere Della Sera (English), Italian director Cosimo Alemà talks about his love for The Cure, and how their videos have influenced him. (Thanks fmjews)

Fun with numbers

I mentioned this on Twitter, but never posted it here. A fun way to track what the Cure have been playing on the SummerCure Tour, and where, and from which albums, is here at Setlist.fm. 48 different songs have been played. 16 have been played at every show. 5 have only been played once. The only album to not have a song from it played? Bloodflowers. :(
For most of you, this is probably the most boring thing in the world. But to us number nerds and setlist geeks, this is fascinating stuff. :)

Close Encounters Rock In Roma 2012

"I had the chance to take a pic with Jason after Roma show. The band was attending a lots of fans in a Stage truck inside the venue and Jason went out to find some friends. I just asked him to take a picture with him and he was very kind. We were waiting for The Cure outside the venue until 3 am and finally the band went but they did not stop outside of the ippodromo capenelle." (Thanks Marvin)

Close Encounters Vieilles Charrues 2012

Greg (@imaginaryboy75) with Roger at Vieilles Charrues.

Cure fans in Bilbao

From Bill: Just for fun, hardcore Cure fans in Bilbao.
Featuring Mauro, Bill, Nico, Gilles and Antoinette. :)

A bit more from Robert's Paleo interview

Le Matin (English) has a few more excerpts from Robert's Paleo interview. (Thanks David)

3 Questions for Robert Smith

From 24heures (English): Three Questions for Robert Smith of The Cure. (Thanks David)

The Cure at Vieilles Charrues 2012

Setlist: (Tape), Open, High, The Walk, The End of the World, Lovesong, Sleep When I'm Dead, Mint Car, Friday I'm In Love, Doing the Unstuck, Play For Today, A Forest, Bananafishbones, Pictures of You, Lullaby, The Caterpillar, Push, Just Like Heaven, Inbetween Days, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Trust, Want, The Hungry Ghost, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, End

1st encore: The Kiss, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Fight
2nd encore: The Lovecats, Close To Me, Let's Go to Bed, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry.

Huge thank you to David Fargier for the setlist after the webcast ended, and for all of his reports, despite the connection troubles tonight.

Reviews: Report Ouest (English) / Ouest France (English) / Le Telegramme (English) / France 3 (English) / France 3 (English) / David Fargier

Articles: Le Telegramme (English)  this says that the show was filmed & recorded for a possible live album.

Photos: Gildas Boubennec / Report Ouest / Robert (from Greg O'Ry) / Robert (front page of Le Telegramme, from David) / France 3 (Big Screen)

Audio: SummerCure (webcast rip)

Video (webcast): PAL DVD 2GB / Tape/Open / High / The Walk / The End of the World / Lovesong / Sleep When I'm Dead / Mint Car / Doing the Unstuck / A Forest / Bananafishbones (incomplete) - Pictures of You - Lullaby / Lullaby

Video: High / Lovesong / Sleep When I'm Dead / Friday I'm In Love / A Forest / Lullaby 1 - 2 / Just Like Heaven / Inbetween Days 1 - 2  / End / The Kiss - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep / If Only Tonight We Could Sleep / Report and fan interviews

Have a question for Lol?

From Lol on Facebook: "I'm going to do an interview with frank cronogue for his " it's a strange world " show so if you have any burning questions you wanted to ask me please send your questions: frankcronogue(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk  I'll do my best to answer as many as possible!"

Robert Interview with StageD

Robert's interview with StageD.

South American Cure tour plans!

StageD interviews Robert and he announces plans to tour South America next Spring, just after Easter! Says they will play Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela. But they will not play Ecuador, because he says people don't play Ecuador. :) More from the interview will be posted today.
Update: Part 1 (also on YouTube) of the 2 part interview has been posted.

They also have video from the Paleo show with Shake Dog Shake, The Walk, The End of the World.

Robert interview with RTS after Paléo

Robert Smith interview with RTS

The Cure at Paléo Festival 2012

Photo by Emmanuel Hungrecker

Setlist: Shake Dog Shake, The Walk, The End of the World, Lovesong, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Pictures of You, Lullaby, High, Close To Me, The Lovecats, The Caterpillar, Friday I'm in Love, Doing the Unstuck, Bananafishbones, Play For Today, A Forest, Primary, Want, The Hungry Ghost, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, The Top.

Encore: Boys Don't Cry.

Reviews: La Tribune de Genève / StageD (English) / Sylvain / David Fargier

Photos: Florian Aeby / Marsworld / Robert & Simon (Alejandro Perez) / Stéphane Cazalet

Video (webcast): Original source file (366 MB) / Complete 59 minute version / Shake Dog Shake 1 - 2 / The Walk 1 - 2 / The End of the World 1 - 2 / Lovesong 1 - 2 / Push 1 - 2 / Inbetween Days 1 - 2 / Just Like Heaven 1 - 2 / From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea 1 - 2 / Pictures of You 1 - 2 / Lullaby / High / Close To Me / The Lovecats
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Video: Shake Dog Shake - The Walk - The End of the World (pro-shot) / Lovesong / Push / Just Like Heaven / Lullaby / The Caterpillar / Friday I'm In Love / Play For Today 1 - 2 / A Forest / Want / The Top / Boys Don't Cry

Audio: SummerCure (webcast rip) / SendSpace (Webcast MP3 - 1 file, not separated)

Cure at Vieilles Charrues live broadcast

Direct Star (English) will broadcast 1 hour of The Cure's set at Vieilles Charrues on July 20th at 22:10. But those of us outside of France probably won't be able to watch it. (Thanks Johan, Giullaume, Eric, PicturesofCure)


Update: Looks like ARTE Live Web will be webcasting as well, so hopefully we can all view it there. (Thanks Alex)

Close Encounters Rock in Roma 2012

Roberta with Roger and Simon before the Rock in Roma show.
"while i was waiting for a friend of mine at the bar, i saw roger and simon leave the guest area so i stopped them for a photo... they were very kind, as usual. definitely i was very lucky!"
(Thanks Roberta)

New Robert promo photo posted

New promo shot of Robert posted on the band's Facebook today. Appears to be from the Andy Vella photo session in London from Jan. 19th of this year. (Thanks @TheCureMexico)

Robert on Roskilde 2012 special

Danish tv station DR2 had a Roskilde theme night, and there was quite a bit of Cure content. Let's take a look:

In this clip, Robert intros the special with "Welcome to a night of music & despair".

In this clip, we see interviews with fans, an interview with Robert (at 9:45 & 16:25), and the performances of Lovesong (6:18) & Just Like Heaven (13:48, though it starts while RS is speaking).

And at 53:00 in this clip, Robert Smith, hypnotist, tries to put the Roskilde 2012 special audience to sleep. (Thanks Sørens) http://ww

Looking for Porl Thompson paintings

From Alun: "Do you have any Porl Thompson pictures left for sale, or know anyone interested in selling any? I'm interested in buying any of his paintings - ideally from 100% Sky. Contact alunjohndavies(at)tiscali(dot)co(dot)uk"

SummerCure 2012 webcasts

As with Robert's recent interiews, I figured it would be good to collect all of the webcast links in one place, make them easier to find.

May 26th - Pinkpop 50 minutes - 35 minutes (YouTube)
June 1st - Primavera Sound / HD highlights
June 22nd - Hurricane Festival
June 23rd - Southside Festival
June 28th - Rock Werchter
July 5th - Roskilde (YouTube)
July 12th - Bilbao BBK Live Part 1 - Part 2 - Robert's solo set

July 14th - Optimus Alive (Plainsong / Pictures of You / The End of the World / Inbetween Days / Just Like Heaven / Want / The Hungry Ghost)

July 18th - Paleo Festival (Shake Dog Shake 1 - 2 / The Walk 1 - 2 / The End of the World 1 - 2 / Lovesong 1 - 2 / Push 1 - 2 / Inbetween Days 1 - 2 / Just Like Heaven 1 - 2 / From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea 1 - 2 / Pictures of You 1 - 2 / Lullaby / High / Close To Me / The Lovecats) / RTS audio broadcast

July 20th - Vieilles Charrues (6 songs, 31 minutes not from the webcast) / (Tape/Open / High / The Walk / The End of the World / Lovesong / Sleep When I'm Dead / Mint Car / Doing the Unstuck / A Forest / Bananafishbones (incomplete) - Pictures of You - Lullaby / Lullaby)

August 24th - Reading Festival (BBC3 Part 1 (on YouTube) / DVD on DIME / The Story of The Cure / Open - High / The End of the World - Lovesong - Sleep When I'm Dead / Push - Inbetween Days - Just Like Heaven / Just Like Heaven / Pictures of You - Lullaby / The Caterpillar - The Walk - Friday I'm In Love / Friday I'm in Love / A Forest )

Sept. 1st - Electric Picnic: RTE FM2 radio broadcast (Cure at 4:50:00) /  2FM (SummerCure blog) / 2FM (missing PoY) / 2FM (M4A)

And please visit the SummerCure 2012 blog for excellent audio rips from these webcasts. Great job, Secamfr!