Vintage Video: The Cure in Glasgow 1984

Slicing Up Eyeballs' Vintage Video for the week is The Cure performing live in Glasgow from 1984.

Robert judging ISC again

Robert will once again be a judge for the International Songwriting Competition. (Thanks David)

Roger reviews Mac OS X Lion

Just for you Apple disciples/cultists, Roger has reviewed the new Mac OS X Lion for Side-Line.

Peter Murphy on Robert & The Cure

From Spin:
You've been called the Godfather of Goth. What does that make Robert Smith?
Robert Smith is like my pale elder brother, with a no-image vibe when he was in the early Cure. They were an interesting early 4AD [Records] type with no ego, whereas we immediately [hit the scene] saying, "Fuck you -- this is the theater of Iggy and Bowie. We're here." We spurted. We ejaculated. And in the petit mort, the little death after ejaculation, we split up. Around then, the Cure were obviously losing their caché -- and suddenly I see pictures of Robert Smith with high black hair, lipstick, and badly applied eye makeup with black clothes. I'm thinking, Okay, all right, so he's now goth, right?

It's so bad to be lumped in with the Cure?
Actually, the Cure were cool. They made very cool alternative pop music. Robert's bloody talented. It's just that Joy Division was closer to Bauhaus than anybody else. (Thanks Kate)

The Cure are one of the Q 25

Q magazine is celebrating their 25th anniversary by selecting the Greatest Act of the Last 25 Years, and The Cure have made their short list of 25. You can vote here by creating your own list of 25. You just have to drag and drop the artists around the grid, then submit it. (Thanks JC, Jeremy, and Barry)

'This Must Be the Place' clips & poster

Here's a clip (or try here) from that Sean Penn (with Robert Smith inspired look) film, 'This Must Be the Place'.
(Thanks @badassdigest and WallyD)

Update: Reviews from Variety and indieWIRE. And some French articles at Yahoo and Cinemovies.
(Thanks AndrewV127 and David)

Update 2 (6/27/11): Here's a look at the poster. (Thanks Jr Huato)

Update 3 (7/13/11): Here's a new trailer for the film.

If you have no idea what this is all about, read my previous posts about it here and here.

Fascination Street plays Hard Rock Seattle

Fascination Street are playing at the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle, WA on July 16th. (Thanks Jarbee)

Cure sessions in Amsterdam

Carol & Peter from Bettie Serveert, along with others, will be doing a Cure session (which I assume means Cure covers) on July 8th in Amsterdam. (Thanks Anne-Frank)

Update: Video of the band doing 'A Forest', 'Let's Go to Bed', 'The Caterpillar', and 'Close to Me'. And some photos from the show. (Thanks Anne-Frank)

Sven with Robert at Reflections

Sven sends a photo of himself with Robert after the first Cure Reflections show in Sydney, and shares some very nice thoughts about the shows. (Thanks Sven)

Win Bestival tickets

The Guardian is giving away 20 pairs of tickets to Bestival. Must be a resident of the UK to win.

The Accureacy on YouTube

The Accureacy, the Cure tribute band from Greece, have an official YouTube page - "You can find videos from our latest Unplugged session (Underneath The Stars and Just Like Heaven, maybe more eventually) as well as clips from all our live appearances." (Thanks JP)

Roger O'Donnell's Quieter Trees

A reminder that the debut performance of Roger O'Donnell's 'Quieter Trees', a musical suite inspired by David Hockney's painting, 'Bigger Trees', will take place on July 2nd at Morley College in London at 3PM. Admission is free. I hope everyone who can, will go out and support this very special event for Roger. Please note that Roger will be not be performing at this event, it will be performed by the Centre for Young Musicians.

'10:15 Saturday Night' (Glastonbury 1990)

BBC 6 Music aired this last week on their Glastonbury Archive Sets program. Starts at 36:33. (Thanks JC/Perfect.Murder)

The Curse plays Las Vegas tonight

The Curse-Tribute to The Cure
Thursday-June 30th 2011
House of Blues-Las Vegas (*21 & Over*)
Doors @ 6:30pm / The Curse @ 7:30pm
With: Blasphemous Rumours (Depeche Mode Tribute)
Pre-sale Tickets for under $10!!

'Close to Me' #18 on NME Top 100 videos list

NME has put together their list of the 100 Greatest Music Videos, and The Cure's 'Close to Me' comes in at #18. (Thanks Aaron)

The Sorrowful Putto of Prague

Update: Roger has written a song entitled 'Evensong' for the comic's soundtrack.

"The current issue of The Sorrowful Putto of Prague webcomic features a special Cure theme. The Latin title 'Disintegratio' gives a slight clue as to the inspiration for the comic.

A new page will be uploaded every Friday over the coming weeks and there will be a few Cure lyric references for people to spot and a special Cure plot twist, so Cure fans should keep their eyes peeled. Here's a direct link to the first page of the issue, and those wanting to be reminded of updates each week should sign up to the Twitter/RSS link options.

The special issue of the comic came about thanks to a Chain of Flowers appeal last year. From that post writer James Stafford found Cure fan Raluca Moldovan." (Thanks James)

'Underneath the Stars' auction

The official site has details of the June 25th Music Icons auction featuring two digital artworks created by 'Underneath the Stars' and signed by Robert.

For more info on the prints, see the story I posted on March 11th.

Update: You can watch the auction, and bid, live online. Sold! Lot 221 went for $1,900 & 222 for $2,750.

Anyone want a Curiosa festival?

Consequence of Sound thinks The Cure should do another Curiosa. Not as a tour this time, but as their own festival. Anyone really want that? I'd take that over nothing, but I'd much rather have a proper Cure tour. (Thanks Heron)

Robert's 'Reflections' mixtape

Update 2: You can now download it from Modular.

Update: Robert posted about this on the official site and added "HERE ARE A FEW SONGS WE USED TO LISTEN TO AS WE DROVE AROUND A SMALL WORLD IN A SMALLER VAN...sigh"

And this from the comments: "EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A CAT?...BUT NOT SURE ANY ONE OF US REMEMBERS THE EXTENDED MIDDLE BIT?!! RSX"

From Modular:
THE CURE - ROBERT SMITH'S REFLECTIONS & INSPIRATIONS
As the dust settles from those once in a lifetime The Cure: Reflections shows performed at the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Live 2011 - we've got something truly special to share with you today.

We asked Robert Smith what he was listening to as he worked on the first three masterpieces from The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds & Faith.

He came back to us with this very special mixtape, a collection of 10 songs that had an impact on him while he was making The Cure's first three albums. Take a listen (also on Facebook).

Compact Space album launch

Hope everyone will go out and support Daryl with this:
Compact Space "Nameless" album launch at the Planetarium in Hamburg, 23rd June 2011. A limited number of tickets are onsale now. (Thanks Daryl)

Note from Daryl: "Some sites listing this as a "concert". It's an album playback w/ CS visuals, Planetarium lights & band in attendance, but no live performance."

Update: Here's the artwork for Compact Space's 'Push Push' digital EP. And the 'Push Push' video is up on their website. Congratulations, Daryl!