Saturday, November 14, 2015
How The Cure reshaped goth rock on "Disintegration"
New Record Bin article at Nooga takes a look back at 'Disintegration'. Here's an excerpt:
"Disintegration" was released May 2, 1989, and would forever change the way people looked at and responded to The Cure. Once this record came out, for better or worse, people would gauge this aesthetic by its attention to or delineation from the sounds of this specific album. Whereas their previous few records were steeped in pop distraction, "Disintegration" was a return to the dark, dense sounds of their early '80s work. This was a new chapter in goth rock's storied lineage, and The Cure was determined that the genre would again have the emotional potential that it once had before it became something of a cultural stereotype.
These songs are bottomless, filled with cocooning rhythms and the band's trademark opulence. But there isn't a sense that they were trying to reclaim some of their former glory. They were taking the experiences and inspirations from those earlier records and reconditioning them into a subverting take on the goth rock mentality. And besides being a callback to the sounds of their prior releases, "Disintegration" is arguably the band's greatest accomplishment—it is the sound of a band remembering why they loved making music in the first place.
Read the rest at Nooga.
Public onsales Friday & Saturday
If you missed out on the presales, or want to try and upgrade your seats, public onsales for most of the shows start Friday, Nov. 13th, at 10 am local times. Miami, Denver, and Kansas City go on sale Saturday, Nov. 14th, at 10 am local times.
On sale Saturday Nov. 14th
June 26th - Miami, FL at Bayfront Park Amphitheater
Ticket link (on sale at 10 am Eastern)
June 8th - Kansas City, MO at Starlight Theatre
Ticket link (on sale at 10 am Central)
If you're having trouble with the website, call +1 (816) 363-7827 for tickets.Thanks @jess_and_tonic!
June 5th - Denver, CO at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
Ticket link (on sale at 10 am Mountain)
On sale Nov. 13th at 10 am Eastern
June 22nd - Columbia, MD at Merriweather Post Pavilion
Ticket link
June 24th - Atlanta, GA at Aarons Amphitheater Lakewood
Ticket link
On sale Nov. 13th at 10 am Central
May 13th - Austin, TX at Frank Erwin Center
Ticket link
On sale Nov. 13th at 10 am Mountain
May 17th - El Paso, TX at Don Haskins Center
Ticket Link
June 3rd - Salt Lake City, UT at Maverik Center
Ticket link
On sale Nov. 13th at 10 am Pacific
May 19th - Las Vegas, NV at The Chelsea Theater at The Cosmopolitan
Ticket link
May 20th - Chula Vista, CA at Sleep Train Amphitheater
Ticket link
May 26th - Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre
Ticket link
Friday, November 13, 2015
Kansas City presale
June 8th - Kansas City, MO at Starlight Theatre
On Sale: Nov. 14th at 10 am Central
Presale on Nov. 13th at 10 am Central
Tickets range from $25 - $95
Codes: TRACKS, PHOTO
Presale ticket link
On Sale: Nov. 14th at 10 am Central
Presale on Nov. 13th at 10 am Central
Tickets range from $25 - $95
Codes: TRACKS, PHOTO
Presale ticket link
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Lol at San Diego Music Thing on Friday
Go see Lol at the San Diego Music Thing on Friday, Nov. 13th, at 1:15 PM. He'll be part of this panel on touring:
ON THE ROAD AGAIN - REVENUE STREAMS FOR TOURING MUSICIANS• 1:15 pm
Every kid in a garage has dreamed of it, but how does a band actually go on tour? Learn how to pay for your tour and get the lowdown on alternative revenue streams for touring bands.
Panelists Include: Mike Merriman, PARR3; Andy Altman, GigTown; Brad Lee, Tour Manager; Lol Tolhurst, The Cure; Tim Mays, The Casbah.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN - REVENUE STREAMS FOR TOURING MUSICIANS• 1:15 pm
Every kid in a garage has dreamed of it, but how does a band actually go on tour? Learn how to pay for your tour and get the lowdown on alternative revenue streams for touring bands.
Panelists Include: Mike Merriman, PARR3; Andy Altman, GigTown; Brad Lee, Tour Manager; Lol Tolhurst, The Cure; Tim Mays, The Casbah.
Presales this week
Will post all presale codes as soon as I have them. If you get any that are not listed, please let us know. Thanks! Will update with any new presales and info as it gets released.
Today Nov. 12th
June 22nd - Columbia, MD at Merriweather Post Pavilion
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Eastern
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Eastern
Tickets range from $40 - $80
Code: heaven
Presale ticket link
June 24th - Atlanta, GA at Aarons Amphitheater Lakewood
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Eastern
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Eastern
Tickets range from $25 - $100
Codes: THECUREINATLANTA, thecure2016, THECURE
Presale ticket link
June 26th - Miami, FL at Bayfront Park Amphitheater
On Sale: Nov. 14th at 10 am Eastern
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Eastern
Tickets range from $25 - $125
Live Nation presale code: TRACKS
Live Nation Mobile App code: COVERT
Presale Ticket Link
May 13th - Austin, TX at Frank Erwin Center
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Central
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Central
Codes: THECUREATX, PICTURESOFYOU, LOVESONG, FRIDAYIMINLOVE
Presale ticket link
June 5th - Denver, CO at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
On Sale: Nov. 14th at 10 am Mountain
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Mountain
Tickets range from $25 - $75
Codes: itsFriday, iminlove
Presale ticket link
May 17th - El Paso, TX at Don Haskins Center
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Mountain
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Mountain
Tickets range from $19.25 - $60.25
Code: THECUREINELPASO
Presale ticket link
May 26th - Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Pacific
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Pacific
Tickets range from $? - $107
Codes: lovesong, TRACKS
Presale ticket link
May 19th - Las Vegas, NV at The Chelsea Theater at The Cosmopolitan
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Pacific
Identity Membership Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Pacific
Tickets range from $50 - $125
Code: CURELV
Presale ticket link
Nov. 11th presales end tonight
June 3rd - Salt Lake City, UT at Maverik Center
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Mountain
Presale on Nov. 11th at 10 am Mountain
RESERVED MAIN FLOOR $58.00 - $48.00
RESERVED LOWER BOWL $58.00 - $38.00
RESERVED UPPER BOWL $28.00
Code: MAVCURE
Presale ticket link
May 20th - Chula Vista, CA at Sleep Train Amphitheater
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Pacific
Presale on Nov. 11th at 10 am Pacific
Tickets range from $32 - $82
Live Nation code: TRACKS
Live Nation Mobile App code: COVERT
Other codes: thecure2016 / FM949
Presale ticket link
The Cure - 10 of the Best
Great list from The Guardian:
1. 10.15 Saturday Night
Miserable sorts looking to knock the Cure often crow over how erratic they can be. I can see their point: there certainly aren’t many other bands I can think of that bob so wildly from masterpiece to medicority. They’ve released some of my favourite ever albums – records I wish could be hidden in time capsules so that future citizens of Earth will hear them and hopefully feel the same way they made me feel. And they’ve made others which have been disappointing enough for me to wish Viking-style burials upon; a fleet of fiery CDs drifting in the ocean that can no longer trouble my ears. A tattered copy of Disintegration, a present from my older brother, is one of my prized possessions. On the other hand, my dad gave me a copy of 4.13 Dream shortly before he told me he’d been having an affair and was leaving home; I’m still more resentful about being saddled with 4.13 Dream.
But who cares about consistency? The Cure have always been guided by their restlessness, and it’s led them to many moments of greatness. It also means that, because they’re so changeable, they have more than one way of being brilliant. On their 1979 debut Three Imaginary Boys, for example, they’re still a post-punk band, coming on like Wire with smudged make-up, courtesy of cold, razor-like guitars and poppyish melodies. Opener 10.15 Saturday Night nails the nervy horror of sitting by a phone that never rings, with Robert Smith’s heavy fretting exacerbated by the irritating “drip drip drip drip” of a leaky tap. “I’m wondering where she’s been / And I’m crying for yesterday,” he bellyaches, before he’s drowned out by a needling, nagging riff.
2. A Forest
Smith wasn’t particularly taken with Three Imaginary Boys. The band’s label, Fiction, had the final say on its tracklisting and artwork, and it didn’t sound right either. “I didn’t even like it at the time,” he admitted. “There were criticisms made that it was very lightweight, and I thought they were justified.” Far more interesting was the sound being made by touring partners Siouxsie and the Banshees, for whom Smith would moonlight as a guitarist. But with their second album, Seventeen Seconds, the Cure made their first sprawl into smothering gothic rock. And no track on the album feels more like it’s been cursed by dark magic than A Forest. Smith has since backpedalled on the story that it was inspired by a dream he’d had as a little boy about being lost in the woods, but there is still something about it that feels like a twisted fairy tale: the organ’s ghoulish murmur, the ghostly guitars, the sudden flashes of synthesiser. “Suddenly I stop, but I know it’s too late,” pants a scared-sounding Smith. “I’m lost in a forest, all alone.” You’ll feel just as uneasy as him.
3. The Drowning Man
There has always been a literary bent to the Cure’s work: their controversial debut single Killing an Arab, for example, tapped into Albert Camus’s existentialist novella The Stranger. Smith used his bookcase for inspiration on their brilliantly melancholic third album, Faith, too, this time lifting from Mervyn Peake’s fantasy series Gormenghast. The Drowning Man’s spooky rattle is inspired by the fateful plight of Lady Fuschia Groan, who is devastated to discover that her lover, the sneaky Steerpike, is responsible for killing her father. Overcome with grief, she is perched on a windowsill when a knock on the door startles her into banging her head on the ledge and drowning. The scene is brought to life with one of the Cure’s murkiest scores, all icy splashes of noise and the hiss of snaky guitars as Smith sings her down into the watery depths: “One by one her senses die / The memories fade and leave her eyes.” He pinches and tweaks lines from Peake’s prose, too. “Everything was true / It couldn’t be a story,” he sings at one point, echoing the heartbreaking moment when Fuschia realises the evidence is overwhelming, and her betrothed is a scumbag. The truth doesn’t set her free; it is the beginning of the end.
4. One Hundred Years
Has there ever been a more terrifying start to an album than this? Listen, now, to Pornography’s desolate opener One Hundred Years, and you’ll be convinced that some spectacular storm is brewing. “It doesn’t matter if we all die!” yelps a crazed Smith as black clouds gather above, over dry clattering drums and the shrill howl of guitars. Smith has often referred to Poronography as the first instalment in a trilogy of albums that also includes Disintegration and 2000’s Bloodflowers. It’s a canny idea, but it’s possible, too, to regard it as the finale in some dread triptych that starts with Seventeen Seconds, gathers misanthropic pace with Faith and culminates here, with the Cure at their most magnificently bleak. “Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot!” barks Smith, like he’s being forced to watch gruesome images of violence à la A Clockwork Orange. “Fighting for freedom on television / Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs!” The terror doesn’t stop there, either. “The ribbon tightens around my throat / I open my mouth and my head burst open,” he yells, a rush of noise wailing dementedly behind him, before concluding: “We die one after the other / Over and over.” A song thick with frenzied fear that’s made for the end of days.
5. A Strange Day
Pornography, according to Smith, was supposed to be the “ultimate ‘fuck off’ record”, an album so unremittingly harrowing that the Cure would never be able to follow it. It certainly proved too upsetting for some. Rolling Stone, for example, memorably declared it: “the aural equivalent of a bad toothache. It isn’t the pain that irks, it’s the persistent dullness.” Think of A Strange Day, then, as some hellish hallucination brought on by the gas given to you in the dentist’s chair: the moment when Smith peers far into the future and brings back dreadful tales of the world’s end. It’s a few minutes of eerie calm among the ugly din of Pornography, with its sick, churning synthesiser and sidewinding guitar. But its subtlety doesn’t make it any less scary. In fact, it’s creepier, to hear Smith so disturbingly peaceful about what he’s seen. “Give me your eyes that I might see the blind man kissing my hands,” he sings serenely, making like a feverish Colonel Kurtz. “The sun is humming / My head turns to dust as he plays on his knees.” The horror, the horror.
1. 10.15 Saturday Night
Miserable sorts looking to knock the Cure often crow over how erratic they can be. I can see their point: there certainly aren’t many other bands I can think of that bob so wildly from masterpiece to medicority. They’ve released some of my favourite ever albums – records I wish could be hidden in time capsules so that future citizens of Earth will hear them and hopefully feel the same way they made me feel. And they’ve made others which have been disappointing enough for me to wish Viking-style burials upon; a fleet of fiery CDs drifting in the ocean that can no longer trouble my ears. A tattered copy of Disintegration, a present from my older brother, is one of my prized possessions. On the other hand, my dad gave me a copy of 4.13 Dream shortly before he told me he’d been having an affair and was leaving home; I’m still more resentful about being saddled with 4.13 Dream.
But who cares about consistency? The Cure have always been guided by their restlessness, and it’s led them to many moments of greatness. It also means that, because they’re so changeable, they have more than one way of being brilliant. On their 1979 debut Three Imaginary Boys, for example, they’re still a post-punk band, coming on like Wire with smudged make-up, courtesy of cold, razor-like guitars and poppyish melodies. Opener 10.15 Saturday Night nails the nervy horror of sitting by a phone that never rings, with Robert Smith’s heavy fretting exacerbated by the irritating “drip drip drip drip” of a leaky tap. “I’m wondering where she’s been / And I’m crying for yesterday,” he bellyaches, before he’s drowned out by a needling, nagging riff.
2. A Forest
Smith wasn’t particularly taken with Three Imaginary Boys. The band’s label, Fiction, had the final say on its tracklisting and artwork, and it didn’t sound right either. “I didn’t even like it at the time,” he admitted. “There were criticisms made that it was very lightweight, and I thought they were justified.” Far more interesting was the sound being made by touring partners Siouxsie and the Banshees, for whom Smith would moonlight as a guitarist. But with their second album, Seventeen Seconds, the Cure made their first sprawl into smothering gothic rock. And no track on the album feels more like it’s been cursed by dark magic than A Forest. Smith has since backpedalled on the story that it was inspired by a dream he’d had as a little boy about being lost in the woods, but there is still something about it that feels like a twisted fairy tale: the organ’s ghoulish murmur, the ghostly guitars, the sudden flashes of synthesiser. “Suddenly I stop, but I know it’s too late,” pants a scared-sounding Smith. “I’m lost in a forest, all alone.” You’ll feel just as uneasy as him.
3. The Drowning Man
There has always been a literary bent to the Cure’s work: their controversial debut single Killing an Arab, for example, tapped into Albert Camus’s existentialist novella The Stranger. Smith used his bookcase for inspiration on their brilliantly melancholic third album, Faith, too, this time lifting from Mervyn Peake’s fantasy series Gormenghast. The Drowning Man’s spooky rattle is inspired by the fateful plight of Lady Fuschia Groan, who is devastated to discover that her lover, the sneaky Steerpike, is responsible for killing her father. Overcome with grief, she is perched on a windowsill when a knock on the door startles her into banging her head on the ledge and drowning. The scene is brought to life with one of the Cure’s murkiest scores, all icy splashes of noise and the hiss of snaky guitars as Smith sings her down into the watery depths: “One by one her senses die / The memories fade and leave her eyes.” He pinches and tweaks lines from Peake’s prose, too. “Everything was true / It couldn’t be a story,” he sings at one point, echoing the heartbreaking moment when Fuschia realises the evidence is overwhelming, and her betrothed is a scumbag. The truth doesn’t set her free; it is the beginning of the end.
4. One Hundred Years
Has there ever been a more terrifying start to an album than this? Listen, now, to Pornography’s desolate opener One Hundred Years, and you’ll be convinced that some spectacular storm is brewing. “It doesn’t matter if we all die!” yelps a crazed Smith as black clouds gather above, over dry clattering drums and the shrill howl of guitars. Smith has often referred to Poronography as the first instalment in a trilogy of albums that also includes Disintegration and 2000’s Bloodflowers. It’s a canny idea, but it’s possible, too, to regard it as the finale in some dread triptych that starts with Seventeen Seconds, gathers misanthropic pace with Faith and culminates here, with the Cure at their most magnificently bleak. “Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot!” barks Smith, like he’s being forced to watch gruesome images of violence à la A Clockwork Orange. “Fighting for freedom on television / Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs!” The terror doesn’t stop there, either. “The ribbon tightens around my throat / I open my mouth and my head burst open,” he yells, a rush of noise wailing dementedly behind him, before concluding: “We die one after the other / Over and over.” A song thick with frenzied fear that’s made for the end of days.
5. A Strange Day
Pornography, according to Smith, was supposed to be the “ultimate ‘fuck off’ record”, an album so unremittingly harrowing that the Cure would never be able to follow it. It certainly proved too upsetting for some. Rolling Stone, for example, memorably declared it: “the aural equivalent of a bad toothache. It isn’t the pain that irks, it’s the persistent dullness.” Think of A Strange Day, then, as some hellish hallucination brought on by the gas given to you in the dentist’s chair: the moment when Smith peers far into the future and brings back dreadful tales of the world’s end. It’s a few minutes of eerie calm among the ugly din of Pornography, with its sick, churning synthesiser and sidewinding guitar. But its subtlety doesn’t make it any less scary. In fact, it’s creepier, to hear Smith so disturbingly peaceful about what he’s seen. “Give me your eyes that I might see the blind man kissing my hands,” he sings serenely, making like a feverish Colonel Kurtz. “The sun is humming / My head turns to dust as he plays on his knees.” The horror, the horror.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
More dates announced for the 2016 tour!
From the official site:
"The Cure will be playing 27 shows in 22 North America cities next Spring, their first major tour of the continent since 2008.
During the past 7 years the band has performed a number of 'Reflections' shows in LA and NYC, and headlined most of the major festivals, including Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bottlerock, Osheaga, two Austin City Limits, three Riots and a Voodoo...
"THE CURE TOUR 2016" will present Robert Smith (voice/guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O'Donnell (keys) and Reeves Gabrels (guitar) as they explore 37 years of Cure songs, mixing hits, rarities, favourites and as yet unreleased tracks in a brand new stage production that promises to be the 'must see' show of the year!
Support on all dates will be The Twilight Sad.
May 11th - New Orleans, LA
On-sale and show info announced soon
May 13th - Austin, TX at Frank Erwin Center
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Central
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Central
May 14th - Houston, TX
On-sale and show info announced soon
May 15th - Dallas, TX
On-sale and show info announced soon
May 17th - El Paso, TX at Don Haskins Center
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Mountain
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Mountain.
Tickets range from $19.25 - $60.25
May 19th - Las Vegas, NV at The Chelsea Theater at The Cosmopolitan
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Pacific
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Pacific.
Tickets range from $50 - $125
May 20th - Chula Vista, CA at Sleep Train Amphitheater
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Pacific
Presale on Nov. 11th at 10 am Pacific
Tickets range from $32 - $82
May 22nd, 23rd, 24th - Los Angeles, CA at The Hollywood Bowl
Sold Out!
May 26th - Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Pacific
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Pacific
Tickets range from $? - $107
May 31st - Vancouver, BC at Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park
On Sale: Nov. 27th
Tickets are $57
June 3rd - Salt Lake City, UT at Maverik Center
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Mountain
Presale on Nov. 11th at 10 am Mountain
RESERVED MAIN FLOOR $58.00 - $48.00
RESERVED LOWER BOWL $58.00 - $38.00
RESERVED UPPER BOWL $28.00
June 5th - Denver, CO at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
On Sale: Nov. 14th at 10 am Mountain
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Mountain
Tickets range from $25 - $75
June 8th - Kansas City, MO at Starlight Theatre
On Sale:Nov. 14th at 10 am Central
Tickets range from $25 - $95
June 10th & 11th - Chicago, Il at U.I.C Pavilion
10th is Sold Out!
June 12th or 13th - Toronto, ON
On-sale and show info announced soon
June 14th - Montreal, QC at Bell Centre
On Sale: Nov. 27th at 10 am Eastern
June 16th - Boston, MA
On-sale and show info announced soon
June 18th, 19th, 20th - NYC, NY at Madison Square Garden
18th & 19th are Sold Out!
June 22nd - Columbia, MD at Merriweather Post Pavilion
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Eastern
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Eastern
Tickets range from $40 - $80
June 24th - Atlanta, GA at Aarons Amphitheater Lakewood
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Eastern
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Eastern
Tickets range from $25 - $100
June 26th - Miami, FL at Bayfront Park Amphitheater
On Sale: Nov. 14th at 10 am Eastern
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Eastern.
Tickets range from $25 - $125
NB.
There will also be a Seattle, WA performance...
On-sale and show info announced soon"
Pure speculation on my part, but looks like that Seattle show could be at Sasquatch Festival, as the schedule is open between May 26th - 31st, and Sasquatch runs May 27th - 30th.
Articles about this: Gibson, NOLA, Examiner, San Diego Union Tribune, Music Times, Audio Ink Radio, Gambit, Mashable, NOLA Defender, KFOX14, Chron, San Antonio Current, NME, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Diffuser, Contra Costa Times, Kansas City Star, Dallas Observer, KVIA, Under the Radar, Consequence of Sound, Brooklyn Vegan, Exclaim!, DIY, Pitchfork , Read Junk, Vanyaland
During the past 7 years the band has performed a number of 'Reflections' shows in LA and NYC, and headlined most of the major festivals, including Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bottlerock, Osheaga, two Austin City Limits, three Riots and a Voodoo...
"THE CURE TOUR 2016" will present Robert Smith (voice/guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O'Donnell (keys) and Reeves Gabrels (guitar) as they explore 37 years of Cure songs, mixing hits, rarities, favourites and as yet unreleased tracks in a brand new stage production that promises to be the 'must see' show of the year!
Support on all dates will be The Twilight Sad.
May 11th - New Orleans, LA
On-sale and show info announced soon
May 13th - Austin, TX at Frank Erwin Center
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Central
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Central
May 14th - Houston, TX
On-sale and show info announced soon
May 15th - Dallas, TX
On-sale and show info announced soon
May 17th - El Paso, TX at Don Haskins Center
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Mountain
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Mountain.
Tickets range from $19.25 - $60.25
May 19th - Las Vegas, NV at The Chelsea Theater at The Cosmopolitan
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Pacific
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Pacific.
Tickets range from $50 - $125
May 20th - Chula Vista, CA at Sleep Train Amphitheater
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Pacific
Presale on Nov. 11th at 10 am Pacific
Tickets range from $32 - $82
May 22nd, 23rd, 24th - Los Angeles, CA at The Hollywood Bowl
Sold Out!
May 26th - Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Pacific
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Pacific
Tickets range from $? - $107
May 31st - Vancouver, BC at Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park
On Sale: Nov. 27th
Tickets are $57
June 3rd - Salt Lake City, UT at Maverik Center
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Mountain
Presale on Nov. 11th at 10 am Mountain
RESERVED MAIN FLOOR $58.00 - $48.00
RESERVED LOWER BOWL $58.00 - $38.00
RESERVED UPPER BOWL $28.00
June 5th - Denver, CO at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
On Sale: Nov. 14th at 10 am Mountain
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Mountain
Tickets range from $25 - $75
June 8th - Kansas City, MO at Starlight Theatre
On Sale:Nov. 14th at 10 am Central
Tickets range from $25 - $95
June 10th & 11th - Chicago, Il at U.I.C Pavilion
10th is Sold Out!
June 12th or 13th - Toronto, ON
On-sale and show info announced soon
June 14th - Montreal, QC at Bell Centre
On Sale: Nov. 27th at 10 am Eastern
June 16th - Boston, MA
On-sale and show info announced soon
June 18th, 19th, 20th - NYC, NY at Madison Square Garden
18th & 19th are Sold Out!
June 22nd - Columbia, MD at Merriweather Post Pavilion
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Eastern
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Eastern
Tickets range from $40 - $80
June 24th - Atlanta, GA at Aarons Amphitheater Lakewood
On Sale: Nov. 13th at 10 am Eastern
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Eastern
Tickets range from $25 - $100
June 26th - Miami, FL at Bayfront Park Amphitheater
On Sale: Nov. 14th at 10 am Eastern
Presale on Nov. 12th at 10 am Eastern.
Tickets range from $25 - $125
NB.
There will also be a Seattle, WA performance...
On-sale and show info announced soon"
Pure speculation on my part, but looks like that Seattle show could be at Sasquatch Festival, as the schedule is open between May 26th - 31st, and Sasquatch runs May 27th - 30th.
Articles about this: Gibson, NOLA, Examiner, San Diego Union Tribune, Music Times, Audio Ink Radio, Gambit, Mashable, NOLA Defender, KFOX14, Chron, San Antonio Current, NME, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Diffuser, Contra Costa Times, Kansas City Star, Dallas Observer, KVIA, Under the Radar, Consequence of Sound, Brooklyn Vegan, Exclaim!, DIY, Pitchfork , Read Junk, Vanyaland
Sunday, November 1, 2015
The Cure at Voodoo Experience 2013
The Cure at Voodoo Experience in New Orleans on Nov. 3rd, 2013
Newly posted HD capture of the complete show!
Lauren from Chvrches wanted to be Robert
TFW you dress as Robert Smith for Halloween and no one gets it... pic.twitter.com/H18Bppd7Fx
— Lauren Mayberry (@laurenevemay) November 1, 2015... So you have to turn it into Edward Scissorhands. Make up by tour manager extraordinaire Cara McDaniel. pic.twitter.com/IlDwxYKlsu
— Lauren Mayberry (@laurenevemay) November 1, 2015Also, just saw them twice and they were fantastic! Denver show was great, Orlando show was incredible! Go see them if you can!
Monday, October 26, 2015
Win tickets to see Perry & Love Amongst Ruin
Hi guys,we're looking forward to seeing you all on our Lose Your Way Tour!Today you have the chance to win tickets for...
Posted by Love Amongst Ruin on Monday, October 26, 2015
Smith calls Severin
Not to go all TMZ on you, but this could be interesting. Or it could be none of our business. But since Severin posted it...
As Antii points out, given Steven's illness, they were probably calling to check on him/wish him well.
@CraigatCoF Steve severin posting in the siouxsie fan page on facebook last night.... pic.twitter.com/0QTLbjS4d9
— Beth (@siouxlita) October 26, 2015As Antii points out, given Steven's illness, they were probably calling to check on him/wish him well.
Friday, October 23, 2015
3rd NYC show on sale today
From the official site:
"DUE TO AN OVERWHELMING DEMAND FOR TICKETS A THIRD AND FINAL MADISON SQUARE GARDEN CURE SHOW HAS BEEN ADDED MONDAY JUNE 20TH
TICKETS ON PRE SALE THIS THURSDAY 22ND OCTOBER AT 9AM EST AT:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3B004F50EB7D31F9
Password: DISINTEGRATION
TICKETS ON PUBLIC SALE THIS FRIDAY 22RD OCTOBER AT 9AM EST AT TICKETMASTER.COM
(SORRY THIS HAS TAKEN SO LONG TO SORT OUT - IT WAS A FIXTURE ISSUE THING!)"
TICKETS ON PRE SALE THIS THURSDAY 22ND OCTOBER AT 9AM EST AT:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3B004F50EB7D31F9
Password: DISINTEGRATION
TICKETS ON PUBLIC SALE THIS FRIDAY 22RD OCTOBER AT 9AM EST AT TICKETMASTER.COM
(SORRY THIS HAS TAKEN SO LONG TO SORT OUT - IT WAS A FIXTURE ISSUE THING!)"
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Robert's favorite New Order songs
From New Order's Singularity, a new site with personal contributions from creatives who have been influenced by New Order, Robert picks his favorite New Order songs.
Update from Robert on Facebook:
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE "ROBERT SMITH'S TOP TEN" - IN THIS NEW ORDER:
01 IN A LONELY PLACE
02 TEMPTATION
03 EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN
04 PROCESSION
05 BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE
06 BLUE MONDAY
07 CEREMONY
08 TRUE FAITH
09 DREAMS NEVER END
10 PERFECT KISS
(Thanks @Anjijade)
Update from Robert on Facebook:
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE "ROBERT SMITH'S TOP TEN" - IN THIS NEW ORDER:
01 IN A LONELY PLACE
02 TEMPTATION
03 EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN
04 PROCESSION
05 BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE
06 BLUE MONDAY
07 CEREMONY
08 TRUE FAITH
09 DREAMS NEVER END
10 PERFECT KISS
(Thanks @Anjijade)
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Twilight Sad on touring with The Cure
From Narc Magazine:
"Since the arrival of the band’s long-awaited success, they’ve been racking up a fairly impressive array of attainments, most notable of which being their recent appointment as tour support for The Cure in the US next year. “Shit, that’s actually happening isn’t it?! We still can’t quite believe it. Being asked to play with The Cure is a phenomenal accomplishment, I’m sure that most of the bands I know and look up to would cite supporting The Cure as such a huge deal, so to be doing it in America, in venues of that scale is unbelievable – a dream come true. Robert [Smith] has really taken us under his wing – the things he’s done for this band have been mind-blowing.”
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Robert & Simon at Reeves' show on Oct. 15th
@CraigatCoF was SO lucky to meet Robert on Thursday night. I gave him my book of Cure art. HE IS AMAZING :) pic.twitter.com/pp72BKfIlw— sootycure (@sootycure) October 18, 2015Lovely to meet @RobertSmith @thecure tonight, at the gig I played with @reevesgabrels - what a legendary artist. pic.twitter.com/7FRp2qWVhN— Lisa Ronson (@LisaRonsonMusic) October 15, 2015— EleSyron (@EleSyron) October 15, 2015I just met Simon Gallup! 😱 pic.twitter.com/CtsJ3s4abL— EleSyron (@EleSyron) October 15, 2015Robert and Simon attended Reeves' show at The Forum in Tunbridge Wells on Oct. 15th.
"I'd like to solve the puzzle"
@CraigatCoF Can you guess the puzzle? Hmmm. ;) pic.twitter.com/eks9V3Ew3N
— Joe A Rodriguez (@joefrog91) October 16, 2015Cure Tour North America 2016
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May 23rd, 2016 - Los Angeles, CA at the Hollywood Bowl
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May 24th, 2016 - Los Angeles, CA at the Hollywood Bowl
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June 10th, 2016 - Chicago, IL at the UIC Pavilion
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June 11th, 2016 - Chicago, IL at the UIC Pavilion
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June 18th, 2016 - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
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June 19th, 2016 - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
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June 20th, 2016 - New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
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"THANKS FOR THE OVERWHELMING RESPONSE TO THE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS SO FAR!
WE ARE STILL FINAL ROUTING THE DATES... SETTING TICKET PRICES... AGREEING DEALS...
ADDING THESE EXTRA NYC AND LA SHOWS HAS MEANT A BIT OF CHOPPING AND CHANGING...
ALL BEING WELL, WE WILL POST A LIST OF INTENDED CITIES SOMETIME NEXT WEEK - BUT WE PROBABLY WONT BE IN A POSITION TO ANNOUNCE A FULL LIST OF ACTUAL SHOW DATES FOR A WHILE YET...
ONWARDS..."
Friday, October 16, 2015
2nd Chicago show on sale today
From the official site:
"DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND FOR TICKETS A SECOND (AND FINAL CHICAGO) CURE SHOW HAS BEEN ADDED AT UIC PAVILION SATURDAY 11TH JUNE
Presale runs this Thursday 10/15 between 10am and 10pm
www.ticketmaster.com/event/04004F4CE83F41E6
password: thecure2016
"DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND FOR TICKETS A SECOND (AND FINAL CHICAGO) CURE SHOW HAS BEEN ADDED AT UIC PAVILION SATURDAY 11TH JUNE
Presale runs this Thursday 10/15 between 10am and 10pm
www.ticketmaster.com/event/04004F4CE83F41E6
password: thecure2016
TICKETS ON SALE THIS FRIDAY 16TH OCTOBER AT 11AM CT THROUGH TICKETMASTER www.ticketmaster.com/event/04004F4CE83F41E6"
So 3 Hollywood Bowls, 2 MSGs, 2 Chicagos... Anybody not got a ticket? Thanks to all the fans for an incredible response to the tour amazing!
— Roger O'Donnell (@RogerODonnell) October 13, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Ad for the Chicago show
"This...is...The Cure" Okay, I'm all pumped up and ready for the show now! Let's go...what? Still 8 months to wait? :(
(Thanks @AaronLaw92)
Saturday, October 10, 2015
3rd Hollywood Bowl show on sale today
From the official site:
"DUE TO AN UNREAL DEMAND FOR TICKETS, THE CURE HAS ADDED A THIRD (AND FINAL) NIGHT AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL LOS ANGELES TUESDAY 24TH MAY 2016
TICKETS ARE ONSALE 10AM PST SATURDAY 10TH OCTOBER http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0B004F4976672617
...THANKS!!!"
"DUE TO AN UNREAL DEMAND FOR TICKETS, THE CURE HAS ADDED A THIRD (AND FINAL) NIGHT AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL LOS ANGELES TUESDAY 24TH MAY 2016
TICKETS ARE ONSALE 10AM PST SATURDAY 10TH OCTOBER http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0B004F4976672617
...THANKS!!!"
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