Saturday, March 9, 2013

Cure painting by Barnaby Furnas

Barnaby Furnas - Concert (The Cure). (Thanks Jeff)

Cure on Bernard Lenoir compilation CD

'Just Like Heaven' will be included on the new 'Bernard Lenoir l'Inrockuptible' compilation CD. (Thanks @guillaumegrivaz)

Some Cure on BBC 6 Music today

Liz Kershaw, and a caller, talked a bit about The Cure & played 'Close To Me' on her BBC 6 Music show today. Listen here at 26:54. (Thanks Lemon_lies) 

Cure & Joy Division/New Order Fest in Toronto

The Cure & Joy Division/New Order Fest
March 23rd, 2013
Nocturne
Toronto, Canada
(Thanks David)

Cure poster for Chile

Street poster for the Santiago, Chile show. (Thanks Cure Rarities)

Friday, March 8, 2013

'Seventeen Seconds' in Slicing Up Eyeballs poll

The always excellent Slicing Up Eyeballs is doing a new Best of the 80s poll, and are starting out with Favorite Album of 1980. You can pick up to 5, and 'Seventeen Seconds' is amongst the choices.

Update: 'Seventeen Seconds' finished second to Joy Division's 'Closer'.

The Curse plays Los Angeles on March 23rd

From The Curse on Twitter: "Saturday March 23rd we'll be performing The Cure's classic live album "Paris". . In addition to our "Paris" show, it looks like we have more "Show" announcements coming very soon!"

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

New Levinhurst promo photo

Photograph By Marc Gruninger 2013
Lol posted this on the Levinhurst Facebook last night, along with this comment - "A little taste of things to come this year.."

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

'The Kiss' in Miami Vice


From The Cure Rarities: 'The Kiss' used in an episode of Miami Vice. Doesn't get more 80s than this. :)

Inspiration from Disintegration

"The following was originally written in November 2012 for my coursework in DePaul University’s Master of Arts in Writing & Publishing program. Here, I examine literary editing, writing, and revision by way of The Cure’s 1989 album Disintegration." (Thanks Michael)