Historical Albums: Three Imaginary Boys

'Three Imaginary Boys' is the historical album of the week at Foknieuws (English). (Thanks David)

New Cure book in Argentina

There's a new Cure book out in Argentina, THE CURE LA LEYENDA DARK, by Sebastián Duarte, and published by Distal. Listen to an interview with the author here. (Thanks The Cure Rarities)

More info on the book here. (Thanks Diego)

Miniature Cure Schecter guitars

"Did you know? There are 2 miniature Schecter Cure guitars out there. The UltraCure and the one Porl used during the 4Tour. They are about 24 cm high and nicely made.
I found them on a French ebay shop called cultura-one for about 21 Euros each. It seems he hasn't got any in stock now, but maybe they can be found somewhere else on the web?" (Thanks Sylvain)

2 Porls & 1 Robert up on ebay right now. (Thanks Burton_)

Reeves plays Nashville tonight

Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Fr13nds

May 10th, 2013 at 9:30 PM

The Family Wash in Nashville, TN

Reminder: Ross Robinson is an asshole

From Cracked: "Yes, Robinson will totally throw fire at you if he doesn't like what you're doing. Just ask the Cure, who Robinson completely snapped at after several lackluster takes. He went full R. Lee Ermey on their gothic asses, swearing at them, insulting their legacy, throwing about a hundred lit candles around the studio, and laughing maniacally at the keyboardist's tears and tantrums. As Robinson put it, "Sometimes musicians need to feel certain things to emote, and a lot of times, that thing will come out with a little coercing. So sometimes it comes in the form of an object being thrown at their head while they're tracking." (Thanks Pietro)

Harvest Festival tried to get The Cure

From The Music: "After the news broke this morning (about Neutral Milk Hotel playing there), Harvest's promoter AJ Maddah appears to have confirmed the report and admitted that the festival couldn't secure The Cure. "We did try for The Cure," he tweeted. "They're not adding any more dates this year."
(Thanks craneman)

Well we know this is sort of false. Maybe not booking any more shows for this year, but they'll be adding more dates. As Robert said/typed, "...AND STILL MORE TO COME!!!" :)

Natasha Khan loves 'Disintegration'

In her Sonic DNA feature for The Quietus, Natasha Khan (@Bat_for_Lashes) picks 'Disintegration' as one of her favorite albums.

"I was probably about 17 [when I first heard it] and this one for me is very much about falling in love. I didn't realise for ages how much it must have influenced me because of the phasey synths, the layers of phasey guitar, the romance and the gloominess and depression, but within that depression there's always those bursts of euphoria and that sad/happy line. In music I tend to really enjoy the sad/happy dichotomy; they've been put together and it breaks your heart but you love it at the same time. You want to cry but you want to smile, and I think really hearing phasey guitars, massive intros, really lush, long droning synths, and Robert Smith for me, on 'Lullaby', it's just such great storytelling: "Quietly he laughs and shaking his head / Creeps closer now, closer to the foot of the bed". It's just like weird, dark, gothic literature or weird Roald Dahl stories or kids' stories about adult anxiety but told through Charlotte's Web-like fables and storytelling. 'Untitled' has harmonium and stuff and then it kicks into massively reverby drums, quite shoegazy, and 'Disintegration' is such a great song, I absolutely love it, and there's loads of really long intros where he just sings at the end and when you hear him yelping, "yeeeeah!". I felt like him and Björk at the time were both really exploring feral, expressive vocal sounds - and I think Robert Smith is a really underrated vocalist, not even underrated but I think he's like [mimics Robert Smith] and it's really free and endearing, just very unique I think." (Thanks @SoMuch2Answer4, @i__a__n, and Filip)

Cure grossed 3.4 million for Mexico City

Numbers from Billboard:
THE CURE   
Total Gross: $3,406,216 
April 21 Foro Sol, Mexico City (1/0)
Attendance: 57,304 / Capacity: 57,366

Missed selling it out by 62 people. (Thanks David)

"...AND MORE TO COME!!!"

Don't forget that there are still more show announcements coming soon. Stay alert. More Cure shows are on the way!

2 US festivals will be announcing their lineups over the next few days, Seattle's Bumbershoot on May 2nd, and Austin City Limits on May 6th/7th. While no solid rumors have connected The Cure to either of these festivals, it's something to keep an eye on.

Update (05/02/13): No Cure for Bumbershoot. Sorry, Seattle/Pacific Northwest. Over to you, Austin City Limits. Don't you let us down, too.

Members of Bettie Serveert to cover The Cure

"Next Friday, May 3rd, 22.00 hrs, members of the band @bettieserveert play Curesongs at Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina in Amsterdam" (Thanks @Pjotrke)

Vote for 'Pornography' in Best of 1982 poll

Slicing Up Eyeballs' ongoing Best of the 80s project continues with their Best Album of 1982 poll, and of course, 'Pornography' is one of the options. 'Faith' won 1981, so lets make sure 'Pornography' gets the same honor.

Update (05/01/13): It finished 2nd to Duran Duran's 'Rio'.

360 Panorama from Mexico City show

Very cool 360 panorama photo from the Cure show in Mexico City. (Thanks @CureyKelBel)

Gustavo Masó & Robert in Argentina

Gustavo Masó created a painting for Robert Smith, at the request of the singer. (English) (Thanks David and Leonor)

Cure albums as books

"I thought I'd write and let you know about a series of prints I've made of three of The Cure's albums as if they'd been written as a series of books. I've taken Disintegration, Faith and The Head on the Door and created a mini-library for each, with each track as its own novel. Here's what I mean - this is the Faith print. You can see the other two in my Etsy shop here." (Thanks Simon)

Curefest 2013 & The Rocket Reunion 5

Sept. 7th (London) & 8th (Crawley), 2013
Curefest 2013 & The Rocket Reunion 5. 48hrs of Curetribute by original bands, beers and curries. (Thanks @TheCureheads)

Tim Pope talks with fans in Argentina

(Thanks Leonor)

Record Store Day info & photos

Update (04/29/13): 'Kiss Me' is available at Smoke CDs. 'Blue Sunshine' still available at Banquet Records, Halycon, Avalanche Records in Edinburgh, and 1-2-3-4-Go records in Oakland (40th at Broadway).
(Thanks @SleazyMartinez, ToBeTwoSoulsAsOne, @_Neeko, and Adam)

Update (04/26/13): Hot Stuff has 'Blue Sunshine' in stock. 'Kiss Me' is not in stock, but listed for pre-orders. (Thanks flp filofon)
Twist & Shout also has 'Blue Sunshine'. (Thanks @jimbull)

Update (04/23/13): For those still looking for The Glove's Blue Sunshine vinyl, Perfect.Murder says London Rough Trade East had 22 left. Kiss Me sold out there.
And @SleazyMartinez says Phonica on Poland St had a Glove left & Sister Ray had it on their still in stock list.

More great videos from Mexico City

Cold (Mexico City 04/21/13)


The Kiss (Mexico City 04/21/13)

Thanks to Olivier for the fantastic videos.
And here's more - Plainsong / The Same Deep Water As You / Shake Dog Shake / Fight.

Tim Pope update: Home Again; Can't Wait

Tim has posted a new update. Asks for fans to "PLEASE BE PATIENT" on the LatAm tour film, but assures that "there will be something...eventually".

Pamela Geller on The Cure

Never thought I'd be posting an article with Pamela Geller's thoughts on The Cure, but since someone asked her, here it is. (Thanks David)