Ian McCulloch is NOT a Robert Smith fan

Well this is unfortunate. From the July issue of Record Collector. (Thanks Lars)

Excellent BottleRock photos & article

An article and some excellent photos from William Soragna have been posted at Freakshow magazine. (Thanks Bill)

50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1984

Guitar World says that 'The Top' is one of 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1984. (Thanks Greg)

100 Best Glastonbury Performances Ever

The Cure's 1986 set comes in at #8 on The Telegraph's list of the 100 Best Glastonbury Performances Ever.

"Headlining Saturday night, The Cure played a blinder, featuring three encores, and an unplanned but spectacular thunderstorm which broke early in the set so their green laser show played amongst the raindrops." (Thanks @wouterdeboeck)

The Cure support Music Without Barriers

Photo from Attitude is Everything.

From NME:

The Cure, Alt-J, Franz Ferdinand support campaign to improve gig access for disabled fans

Music Without Barriers aims to get venues and festivals to sign up to a best practice charter.

The Cure, Alt-J, Franz Ferdinand and Toy are among a host of artists who have signed up to a campaign to help improve gig access for deaf and disabled music fans.

The online Music Without Barriers campaign is led by charity Attitude is Everything, which works to improve Deaf and disabled people’s access to live music. It wants to encourage more UK venues and festivals to join the 90-plus who have signed up to the charity’s Charter of Best Practice.

The Charter of Best Practice encourages event producers to go beyond their basic legal requirements to ensure disabled access, and promote four key principles – that improving access to gigs and festivals doesn't have to be expensive; that there is a strong business case for improving access; that it's vital deaf and disabled fans have access to information before events; and to lose the assumption that all disabled people are wheelchair users.

Mystery Jets' Blaine Harrison, an Attitude is Everything patron said in a statement: "The work Attitude is Everything do is close to my heart, because I strongly feel that everyone should be able to experience live music. Whether it’s watching a friend’s band at a local venue or watching Radiohead from the disabled platform at Glastonbury, gigs should be accessible to everyone. I would like to see more venues taking stock of what they can do to accommodate a more diverse audience. It is also really important that as many artists as possible get involved to show their support to this great campaign. The barriers are there to be broken down."

Artists who have already signed up to the campaign include Alt-J, Slow Club, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Anna Calvi, Enter Shikari, Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos, Jimi Goodwin, Frank Turner, Toy, Tom Odell, Summer Camp, Darren Hayman, The Wytches, Stealing Sheep, and Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell. (Thanks Aaron)

More articles about this: RTT News, Diffuser, ContactMusic, Gigwise.

Reeves picks 10 essential guitar albums

Music Radar has an article where Reeves Gabrels picks what he thinks are the 10 most essential guitar albums.

Update (06/23/14): Here's Part 2 of Reeves' 10 essential guitar albums list.

New Cure ink

Lorna from Glasgow's Lullaby tattoo. Thanks Moggieboy.

Added some new tattoos to the photo gallery - Billie C,  Andrea, Jeff K, and 2 for Lorna from Glasgow,

Denver Riot Fest daily lineup

@RiotFest says the daily lineup for Denver's Riot Fest will be revealed tonight, June 18th, at 7pm Mountain time. No mention of them releasing the single day tickets at the same time, but be ready just in case.

Update: While we wait for the official announcement, it looks like the band Clutch posted it early (and then removed it). It says The Cure are playing Saturday, Sept. 20th. Yep, it's official. And single day tickets ARE on sale now! $60 for regular (will go up to $65, then $70), $100 for VIP. They've also added a 2 day pass for $120.

"Robert Smith loves all of this music"

Grolsch Filmworks talks with Eric Green about his documentary 'Beautiful Noise':

What made you approach Robert Smith and Wayne Coyne, who aren’t really considered as part of the scene?

You know, funnily enough I thought that would have been a little more obvious. I did lots of research – also Trent Reznor and Billy Corgan – they’re all fans of this music, they’re all big fans, and they’re all mainstream musicians who have some of the ideas of this genre at heart in their playing; while they are more mainstream, they are in ways, each individual musician, a kind of kindred spirit. It came out in some of the interviews: Robert Smith loves all of this music and he’s very vocal about it.

He seemed the most passionate and romantic about some of the bands.

Absolutely. Perfect wording;  very romantic, very passionate, very interested in everything they did. And Wayne Coyne – Flaming Lips recently played in Ireland and Kevin Shields (from My Bloody Valentine) joined them onstage; we’re also talking about people that are friends with a lot of these bands. Billy Corgan was very friendly with the Cocteau Twins, Billy was also very friendly with Kevin and particularly Debbie Googe. Lots of connections there.
(Thanks Laurent)

Reeves in Nashville on June 13th

June 13th, 2014 at The Family Wash
Reeves Gabrels - guitar
Kevin Hornback - bass
Jeff Brown - drums.

Update (06/17/14): "I went to the show. Reeves was awesome. He played Yesterday's Gone. Got to talk to him after the show and he signed my CDs. He sort of apologized for YG not sounding as good as when Robert sings it. It's different live but very good."
(Thanks Alan)

Slowdive loves The Cure

Nice interview with Slowdive at Post Punk. Safe to say they are big fans of The Cure and would love to play with them some day. Lots of Cure mentions in it, here's one excerpt:

Nick: But it’s just- no, it’s never happened. So you know, maybe that’ll be something for the future.
Rachel: That’s Nick’s ultimate dream.
Nick: Well, I’ll just have to throw myself at Simon’s feet, won’t I? “I’m not worthy!”
Rachel: Simon’s his hero.

Post-Punk: Oh yeah?
Nick: Well, you know, he was one of my sort of early reasons where I thought, Yeah, I wanna play bass guitar.

Post-Punk: He’s still got it.
Nick: He’s on it!

(Thanks @Kafdancer)

New dates for Liqueur

Cure Tribute band Liqueur have  added 2 more dates for this year. September 13th , the '9:13 Dream' show at The Square Harlow and Nov. 22nd at O2 Academy Islington (2).

Update (05/07/14): The London show is now a 'Disintegration' Anniversary show.

Fan of The Cure? Catch Liqueur - The Cure Tribute Disintegration Anniversary Gig. Sat 22/11 On sale Sat 10/05 @ 12pm pic.twitter.com/RLA1adRif6
— O2AcademyIslington (@O2Islington) May 7, 2014

Update (06/01/14): New show added - a Disintegration set on Nov. 21st at Granny's in Lowestofts. Free show but limited space available, so please message Granny's to be put on the guest list.

Update (06/17/14): Another show added - Nov. 1st in Milton Keynes at the Craufurd Arms.

Photo shoot for Roger's Love & Other Tragedies

Posted on Roger's Facebook: "Photo shoot for Love and Other Tragedies thanks to Peony for the pictures."

Photos from BottleRock

Great photos as usual from Mauro Melis at Sound of Violence. More coming to his Flickr soon.

And check out his B&W Series on Facebook.

Photos from the BottleRock Rehearsal

Live 105 has posted photos from the BottleRock rehearsal.

For more on this, check out Jill's report here and Kariana & Justin's  reports here.

"I need to sing a song called Faith"

"This is for everyone that died (25 years ago) today in China."
The Cure - Faith (Rome 6-4-89 Tiananmen Square version)
"And don't forget!" (Thanks Vicky)

Another version here. (Thanks @guillaume_g_z)

Andy Anderson interview in The 13th

Issue #9 of The 13th is out and it includes an interview with Andy Anderson. English version coming soon. (Thanks Diego)

More Cure LEGO

@thecure immortalised as #LEGO pic.twitter.com/SJf6xYaRIe
— Adly Syairi Ramly (@adlysyairi) May 19, 2014

Included in this Billboard article. (Thanks Jean-Francois)

That's nice, but I think Guillaume's set is better.

Stickerwatch 2014: Simon's AC/DC tribute

For those about to rock, Simon salutes you.

No new Doctor Who stickers for Simon at BottleRock, but Olivier at It's A Perfect Day did get this photo, and it looks like Simon has an AC/DC tribute on the back of his bass.

If you can't make it out, it says For Those About To Rock, We Salute You.

If you want to try and tie it into his Who stickers, there is this fan video tribute to The Doctor, which uses the AC/DC song.

Thanks to Olivier for the photo. Not only does he get great videos & provide setlist reports, he humors my Cure guitar sticker obsession. :)

'Why Can't I Be You?' at BottleRock...sort of

The Cure try to play 'Why Can't I Be You?' after the power is cut at BottleRock. (Thanks Ryan)

Other versions here and here.

Update (06/02/14): From The Bay Bridged - "The plug was pulled on both Heart and The Cure at a very hard 10pm ending time. The organizers later explained that all bands, especially the headliners, were aware of the cutoff time and that due to contracts with the city, community and local businesses this was a rule they had to stick by."

From the Sacramento Bee: "Music fans were also miffed about the sound being cut off while the Cure and Heart each were in the midst of performing.

BottleRock organizers had promised the city of Napa to uphold a 10 p.m. noise curfew, which meant the plug was pulled on the Cure just as the band started playing “Why Can’t I Be You?” as an encore Friday night. Heart met a similar fate on Saturday as the clock struck 10 p.m.

It’s an awkward way to end a set, but ruffling the city after last year’s financial fiasco wouldn’t bode well for BottleRock’s future.

“We were very clear with the bands that 10 o’clock was a hard stop,” said David Graham, CEO of Latitude 38, in a Saturday afternoon press conference. “We wanted to address concerns related to noise.”

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/06/02/6451399/rocking-in-napa.html#storylink=cpy