Tim's David Bowie 50th Birthday Concert film screens at r7al Festival tonight

Thrilled that my Bowie 50th concert in Madison Square Garden has been expertly reconstituted from its ashes by Swiss boffins ready for a lucky audience in Lausanne where it gets projected on the big screen at R7AL. It will be played LOUD. https://t.co/I88d8zfNEp

— Tim Pope (@timpopedirector) March 17, 2018

The unforgettable David Bowie’s 50th birthday concert gets back to life ! Join us tonight to celebrate music with Tim Pope at 8.30pm, Pathé Flon ! Tim Pope has a surprise for you: « Guess who’s calling ??? » For real!!! #r7al pic.twitter.com/bdpzI88g1O

— r7al (@r7al_officiel) March 27, 2018

Get tickets here.

If you weren't in Lausanne at my 50th birthday Bowie screening, here's how it looked on the big screen... watched here by directors Stephen Apkon, Hugh Hudson and Barry Levinson. Movements are afoot to get the film screened more widely. Watch this space! pic.twitter.com/IuXToL4VtX

— Tim Pope 🎥 (@timpopedirector) April 6, 2018

Tim's 40th Anniversary documentary "is unlikely to be finished this year"

From a Variety story about Tim Pope's new film 'Drone':

"Pope said he would be working on music videos with four bands this year – The Cure, The The, Soft Cell and Neil Young – but hoped to be working on “Drone” after that. “I want to be shooting my film by this time next year,” he said.

This year, Pope is also working on a feature documentary about The Cure’s 40 years in the music business, which will include archive footage supplied by the band’s front-man, Robert Smith.

“Robert Smith is giving me access to 50 boxes of film, which have never been seen before, of the early Cure days,” Pope said. “I want to make a film like ‘Goodfellas’ where Robert is narrating the film in a first-person way, and it is like crazy and we are on this journey.” He added, “Robert’s songs always deal with being the outsider.”

Pope started working with the band in 1981 and last worked with them on a music video in 1997 – on which his runner was Guy Ritchie. Pope toured with the band across six countries three years ago.

The Cure documentary is unlikely to be finished this year, Pope said."

Meltdown ticket warning

From an email from Southbank: "It is against Southbank Centre's terms and conditions to resell tickets, including using third party websites such as Viagogo, Getmein and Stubhub. Any tickets that are resold will be cancelled and the purchaser will be refused admittance.

If you can no longer make the event you can exchange your tickets for a credit voucher up to 48 hours before the concert. To prevent resale, we are going to post tickets and email e-tickets so that you receive them 7-10 days prior to each event"

Thanks, @mattsmudge.

Meltdown mentions

e mail from The Cure’s Robert Smith...this is gonna replace “in bed” as my fortune cookie addendum pic.twitter.com/Skti7zNJDJ

— kristin hersh (@kristinhersh) March 23, 2018

Tell him I said hi https://t.co/FEEWPbbGZ1

— Suzanne Vega (@suzyv) March 23, 2018

From a Drowned in Sound interview with Nicky from Manic Street Preachers:

This summer you've been invited by Robert Smith to play the Southbank Centre as part of his curation at this year's Meltdown festival, as well as supporting Guns'n'Roses on the German and Danish legs of their European tour. How did both of those come about, which one are you looking forward to the most, and will you be doing anything special for either?

You mean something like our cover of 'It's So Easy' except with slightly dodgy lyrics? We did rehearse it and it sounded OK but I don't know if I can sing those words where we are now 25 years later! We do have a couple of special things planned for The Cure's Meltdown show which James is working on. We had an email from Robert Smith asking us to play, which is lovely as he's one of our heroes.

The Cure - A Perfect Dream book to be released in Sept/Oct.

Another new Cure book, this one scheduled for release by @PalazzoEditions in Sept.
The Cure - A Perfect Dream. https://t.co/r7zvHPCfQJ via @TheFinalSound pic.twitter.com/VoVtIF3jAh

— Chain of Flowers (@CraigatCoF) March 21, 2018

Amazon pre-order links for The Cure - A Perfect Dream:
UK (Sept. 6th, 2018) / US (Oct. 2nd, 2018)

Thanks, Paul.

Is 'The Top' underrated?

This Album is Underrated! @thecure's The Top. A defense by @AndeeBlackSugar - https://t.co/lvt0LdpMke

— Chain of Flowers (@CraigatCoF) March 24, 2018

Photos from Reeves' recent shows

I stood a few feet away from @reevesgabrels last night for 2 hours and watched what was master class in guitar. He was amazing to watch and very kind afterwards to talk about his setup. Inspiring. A true #virtuoso in every sense of the word. Thanks for the experience, sir. pic.twitter.com/KXPxTZBlm8

— Kyle D Reynolds (@kyle_reynolds) March 17, 2018

So great to see @reevesgabrels play last night in Austin TX, last time we saw him was December 2016 at Wembley Arena...next time will be Hyde Park in July w/ @thecure & @thetwilightsad and more! pic.twitter.com/4o50Qa1hLO

— John-Paul Mason (@PMJawn) March 18, 2018

Yesterday I woke up and screwed around then found out @reevesgabrels was playing a show right up the road...Thanks for the amazing show...live music was definitely needed (and now youngest kid is annoyed he couldn’t go) pic.twitter.com/uzIaX8wP1r

— Caterpillar Girl (@C4terpillarGirl) March 22, 2018

And here's a video of them playing COGASM's 'A Sign from God' at the Austin show on March 17th, 2018. Thanks, The Cure Press Cuttings.

Tim Pope at r7al film festival

Inspiring moment this morning with Tim Pope. Don’t miss this afternoon conversation between Tim & Vincent, 18h00 at UNIL - Anthropole Auditorium 1031 #r7al pic.twitter.com/EbBxmFDn8a

— r7al (@r7al_officiel) March 26, 2018

From left to right: Barry Levinson, Darren Aronofsky, Tim Pope, Berenice Bejo and Christopher Walken. They made history in Valais discovering the smallest and most secret vineyard in the world owned by his holiness the Dalaï Lama. #r7al pic.twitter.com/2kg2g0LYo0

— r7al (@r7al_officiel) March 26, 2018

2 new Robert Smith enamel pins

2/4 🔥NEW PINS ON SALE TOMORROW 3/27 AT 8pm EST!!! 🔥These Robert Smith inspired pins are 1.25" hard enamel with a black nickel finish, a double pin back, and come attached to a custom backing card. Keep checking back today for the remaining two designs!

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4/4🔥NEW PINS ON SALE TOMORROW 3/27 AT 8pm EST!!! 🔥 Robert Smith “In Between Days” Edition! These pins are 1.25" hard enamel with a black nickel finish, a double pin back, and come attached to a custom backing card. Fans of The Cure will remember the UV neon makeup from the “In Between Days” music video. #thecure #robertsmith

A post shared by Matthew Lineham (@mlinehamart) on Mar 26, 2018 at 7:31pm PDT

Both pins, along with Siouxsie and Nick Cave pins, will be available here starting at 8 PM eastern on March 27th, 2018.

Cure vector project

A new project I'm working on in celebrating @thecure 's 40th Anniversary shows. All of their LP covers, logos and more remastered as vectors and making them available to fans to download. https://t.co/DztLan7QFm @RobertSmith @CraigatCoF #MeltdownFest pic.twitter.com/IGJxM5Ru4k

— Justin Carter (@nowaving) March 19, 2018

Push - A Cure Fanzine issue 1 now available

@CraigatCoF PUSH - A CURE FANZINE, Issue #1 Sugar Girl is out and available at @RoughTradeNYC @RoughTradeRecs @remixedgifts and @VinylFantasyBK . Stories from Cure fans around the world. Share your story for issue #2 at info@curefandocumentary.com. #devotionisnotacrime pic.twitter.com/N35kLkoWPu

— curefandocumentary (@curefandoc) March 19, 2018

40 poems for 40 years of The Cure

From Other Voices 40:

"We are looking to publish forty contemporary poems, to celebrate forty years of The Cure. We will accept submissions of original,unpublished poetry from around the world, of forty lines maximum length to be considered. There is no payment for publication, successful poets will receive a copy of the anthology, fancy or unconventional formatting is not encouraged. Please submit your work either as a word document on in body of your email to othervoices40@gmail.com we’d also like a biography of up to 100 words. We look forward to hearing from you."