New Secrets For September CD

Matthew North's band, Secrets For September, have a new release out, The Festival EP, and it features 2 new versions of the tracks Roger played on, 'To Behold' and 'Upside Down', along with 2 more tracks, 'Traces' and 'Reflections'. You can buy a copy here or here, or pick one up at their upcoming shows.
Also, please vote for them to get a chance to play Green Man Festival. Thanks!

Maximum interview with Robert

Update (6/18/12): Here's the video interview and report on the show.

New interview with Robert from Radio Maximum (English) Robert sounds very happy with the show. They say they'll have video of the interview and show up soon. (Thanks @Goshmac)

The Top at Hultsfred

The Cure -  The Top (Hultsfred 2012)
And another version here. (Thanks Amanda/Foolsdance)

The Cure at Hultsfred Festival 2012

Photo by Herman Dahlgren for Rockfoto.

Setlist: (Tape), Open, High, End of the World, Lovesong, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea ("Sound broke down"), Three Imaginary Boys (brief version, "only played until sound came back"), The Hungry Ghost, Play For Today, A Forest, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Pictures of You, Lullaby, Bananafishbones, The Walk, Friday I'm in Love, Doing the Unstuck, Trust, Want, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, End

1st encore: The Top
2nd encore: Dressing Up, Lovecats, The Caterpillar, Close To Me, Just One Kiss, Boys Don't Cry.
Robert - "We planned to play until the sun came up, but we must stop now or they'll call the police & turn off the power."

Thanks to @Kulturbloggen and @jakobsellberg for the live setlist reports tonight.

Reviews: NME / Gaffa (English) / Göteborgs-Posten (English) (Scan) / Konstpretton (English) / SvD (English) / HLN (English) / Aftonbladet (rebuttal to this review / English) / Kulturbloggen (English) / Barometern (English) / Festivalrykten (English) / Expressen (English)

Photos: Rockfoto / Roger & Johan / Merchandise (Anders) / Crowd (Hultsfred) / Open (Jakob)

Videos: Lovesong / Push / Inbetween Days 1 - 2 - 3 / Just Like Heaven / A Forest / If Only Tonight We Could Sleep /  Pictures of You 1 - 2 / Bananafishbones 1 - 2 / The Walk / Friday I'm in Love 1 - 2 - 3 / One Hundred Years & The Top / End / The Top 1 - 2 / Dressing Up 1 - 2 / The Lovecats / The Caterpillar 1 - 2 / Close To Me / Just One Kiss 1 - 2 / Robert explains why they can't play longer & Boys Don't Cry 1 - 2

I Was Robert Smith

"Wanted to let you know that an ebook by Daniel Bourrion has just been published (in French) : J'ai été Robert Smith (« I was Robert Smith »). The first pages may be read online for free here. This is an autobiographical story loosely related to R.S. Obviously not a masterpiece, but hey, it could interest some readers." (Thanks David)

Simon and Michael in Sweden

Simon with Michael (left) and Javier (right) before the Hultsfred show. 

Cure bodyguard Michael with Javier before the Hultsfred show. 

"Simon was in a really great mood, so was his guard. Caught him in the break of the Euro Cup Football Swe-Eng. which they won. They were watching the game in the tv room of the hotel with no other people around except us and them."
(Thanks Javier/Javveboy)

The Cure Maxidrom 2012 video

The Cure - Live at Maxidrom in Moscow (June 11th, 2012)
From Close To Cure, the Russian Cure fan club. Nearly complete show, just missing the 3rd encore. (Thanks @CloseToCure)

Interest in a Nottingham UK Cure fan event?

"My husband and I are trying to work out if we can get an event together in Nottingham (UK) for UK fans. It will take place in late summer/ early Autumn and will, we hope, include a tribute band performance, charity raffle, record store and t-shirt store amongst other things.

We would like an idea of how many people would be interested. We don't want to lose money on it as we would like to donate any profits to The Teenage Cancer Trust here in the UK."
(Thanks Justine)

If interested in getting together, leave a comment, or email me - craigatcof(at)gmail(dot)com, and I'll post for you. 

Eurockeenes tickets auction

SFR Live Concerts will have an auction on June 21st at 10am for the last 50 tickets to the sold out Eurockeennes show.
(Thanks David)

Anyone have Forever from Aug. 5th, 1983?

From @guillaumegrivaz: "Live show collector & fan of "Forever" I'm searching for an UNCUT version of the song played in NY 5 aug 1983"

Cure return to Russia in Spring 2013?

There's a new article in Russian Rolling Stone (English), and Robert apparently said that The Cure are planning to return to Russia next Spring. Obviously nothing official, could just be a misunderstanding. (Thanks @CloseToCure)

Roskilde announces schedule

The Cure plays July 5th at 21:00. Here's the full Orange Stage schedule:
18:00 - Kellermensch
21:00 - The Cure
01:00 - Apparatjik
(Thanks Klaus and Perfect.Murder)

Cure items for sale

"Have got a few bits which I am about to ebay but wondered if anyone out there might want to make an offer first."
(Thanks Geoff)

Same Deep Water As You at Maxidrom 2012

The Same Deep Water As You (Maxidrom 2012)
Another version from Andrey. And another version here.

Cold at Maxidrom 2012

The Cure - Cold (Maxidrom 2012) Wow!

The 50 best Cure songs

As picked by Musikexpress. (Thanks Andi)

The Cure at Maxidrom 2012

Thanks to Андрей for the photo.

Setlist: Plainsong, Open, High, Pictures of You, The End of the World, Lovesong, Play For Today, A Forest, Shake Dog Shake, Cold, A Strange Day, Bananafishbones, The Walk, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Doing the Unstuck, Trust, Want, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Hungry Ghost, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, End, Disintegration.

1st encore: Same Deep Water As You
2nd encore: The Kiss, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Fight
3rd encore:  Lullaby, Close To Me, Let's Go To Bed, Friday I'm in Love, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry.

Reviews: Open (English) / RBC Daily (English) / KP (English) / RIA Novosti (English)

Photos: Perlamuter / Robert puts his hands in the sky : ) / Padshewscky / Maximum / Valery / Maximum (Facebook) / Андрей / Panoptikum360 / Robert / Robert on the big screen (Tomasz) / Stage set up & fog (Tomasz)

Video: Nearly complete show (missing 3rd encore) / Part 1 (56 min) Plainsong - Bananafishbones / Part 2 (60 min) The Walk - End / Robert takes it all in (start of Plainsong) / Plainsong 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / Plainsong & Open / Open 1 - 2 - 3 / High 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 / High & Pictures of You / Pictures of You 1 - 2 / The End of the World / Lovesong 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 / Play For Today 1 - 2 / A Forest 1 - 2 - 3 / Shake Dog Shake 1 - 2 / Shake Dog Shake & Cold / Cold 1 - 2 / Bananafishbones 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / The Walk 1 - 2 - 3 / Push 1 - 2 / Push - Just Like Heaven - Doing the Unstuck / Inbetween Days / Just Like Heaven 1 - 2 - 3 / Doing the Unstuck 1 - 2 - 3 / Trust 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / Want / From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea 1 - 2 / Wrong Number / One Hundred Years 1 - 2 / End / End & Disintegration / Disintegration 1 - 2 / Same Deep Water As You 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / The Kiss 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 5 - 6 / If Only Tonight We Could Sleep 1 - 2 - 3 / Fight / Lullaby 1 - 2 / Lullaby & Close To Me / Close To Me / Friday I'm In Love 1 - 2 - 3 / Why Can't I Be You? / Boys Don't Cry 1 - 2 - 3  

The Cure arrives in Moscow

The Cure arrives in Moscow (June 10th, 2012)
"The Cure first steps in Russia. Robert not coming tonight .. at least we did not see him with guys..."Jason will be singing" - Simon kidding :) Simon and Roger signed my Entreat plus vinyl. Also Simon told me that he'll kill me if I sell it :)"
(Thanks Eddie / @CloseToCure)

And some photos of the band arriving. (Thanks Ultradizz)

Fan meetup for Moscow

"June 10th there is an openair unofficial Curedrink in Moscow. Here is the link on Facebook. If there are any desperate Cure fans from Europe or US or any other country who are visiting Maxidrom, you are welcome for a preparty drink.  It's not official, just another effort to drink, talk , fun... Btw, there was an info that there will be no beer or any kind of alcohol at the Maxidrom festival." (Thanks Eduard)

"On 10^th of June we have kind of unofficial Cure-drink in Moscow, outdoors and BYOB. Meeting place – Kirill and Mefody Monument (Two men with the cross), Kitay-Gorod Subway Station, around 6 – 7 o’clock. We would be very glad to meet some fellow-curefans from other countries who went to Russia to see the Cure. Facebook (though info is in Russian, you can see the map here and the photo of the Monument)." (Thanks Olga/b-flower)

From Russia with love? Or at least the setlist?

Any of our Russian friends (or anyone else going) willing to help provide live coverage of the show on Monday? Mainly looking for the song by song setlist as it happens, but anything you can provide from this historic show will be appreciated. If you can help via email, Twitter, Facebook, text, or any other means, please let me know. Email me at craigatcof(at)gmail(dot)com and we can get everything arranged. Thanks!