We are thrilled to announce co-founder of The Cure, Lol Tolhurst in conversation with Josh Cheon (Dark Entries Records) discussing his book, GOTH: A History, and signing your copies. Saturday October 28 5pm 910 Larkin St.
Friday, October 20, 2023
Book discussion & signing for Lol in San Francisco
Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!
In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember – and find out if the booze, loud music and/or tour sweeties has knocked the knowledge out of them. This week: musician and former Cure drummer/keyboardist Lol Tolhurst takes on the ultimate test!
New Simon bass available
"the 2023 version of Simon’s Ultra Spitfire bass is now in-stock and shopping."
Thursday, October 19, 2023
More from Chino on working with Robert
From 105.7:
Chino: Well, both were pretty done pretty late in the game. I mean, we had both songs already sort of 85, 90% finished. and it was towards the end of sort of our recording this record. And, for instance, the Robert Smith thing was, something that I just thought, this would be really cool if we can obviously, I have a friendship with him, so it wasn’t like just a complete cold call. I hit him up and said, hey, I have this idea, I have this lyric and this song, I’ll send it to you, but it’d be really neat if you would be down to just sing over it and sort of surprise people. As far as, like I mean, I know the news is out now, but my initial idea was, like, wouldn’t it be awesome to just be hearing the song? And you get a quarter of the way through it, all of a sudden, his voice comes out. his unmistakable voice is sort of in there, and then people start to question it. So, I mentioned that to him, and he was totally down to do it. And at that point, I told Shaun because I actually wanted to surprise him, too. And, yeah, he came through. it turned out wonderful just to hear his voice, especially singing something, a phrase that I wrote was just insane. one of those things where if I was a kid and you told me that, I would not have believed you at all.
Donny: He just sounds beautiful on that track, too. Holy cow.
Chino: Right on. Thanks. Yeah, I mean, to me, it’s probably one of the saddest songs on the record. So I just feel like that vibe is just like it just sort of is the perfect marriage of his voice and the vibe of that song, for sure.
Rhys Cooper's Detroit AP prints on sale soon
5 colour silkscreen poster.
on heavy 250gsm paper stock
printed with metallic inks.
18 x 24 inches
All posters numbered and signed.
** Available Tuesday morning 24th Oct, Australian time (around 7am - Melbourne),
US WEST coast midday Monday 23rd Oct **
(If you are unsure of the time you can use an online time zone converter to calculate what time it works out for your area).
Win a copy of Curepedia
From Dey Street Books: Enter for a chance to win an early copy of @simon_price01's Curepedia, a definitive, A-Z biography of The Cure that’s essential reading for fans of The Cure and Robert Smith.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Lol's Baker's Dozen
Following the publication of his goth chronicle and ahead of a new album with Budgie and Jacknife Lee, Lol Tolhurst takes tQ through his favourite records, from Jimi Hendrix to Low via the wonders of Trout Mask Replica.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Johnny Marr on Robert
Johnny_Marr at his talk in London tonight - "Robert Smith, a much overlooked guitarist"
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Crosses and Robert Smith - Girls Float Boys Cry
I'd like to feel whole again
I traveled deep through your head
I'm still lonely somehow
I feel lonelier now
Blessed are we all human?
Blessed for all we are human beings
If I could view the world again
I'd try to see it through your lens
I feel lonelier now
I'm still lonely somehow
I can't shake it
I can't shake it
I can't shake it
I can't shake it
Shake it...
I'd like to feel at home again
Drowning peaceful through your hands
I feel lonelier now
I'm still lonely somehow
Blessed are we all human?
Blessed for all we are human beings
I can't shake it
I can't shake it
I can't shake it
I can't shake it
Shake it...
More on ††† and Robert
From NME:
“I can’t shake it,” comes the iconic pained shriek of The Cure’s Robert Smith on ‘Girls Float Boys Cry’ – the knowingly titled downer highlight of ††† (Crosses)’ second album, ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’. Now a cameo from the Gothfather would usually be put front and centre by most bands, but here it’s more like a spooky Easter egg – a surprise splash of black paint on the canvas.
“I had this idea, ‘What if I gave Robert call and asked him to have this little hidden vocal on the song’,” frontman Chino Moreno tells NME. “His unmistakable voice just pops out of nowhere.”
It’s far from his first encounter with Smith. His other band Deftones famously performed a merciless cover of The Cure’s ‘If Only Tonight We Could Sleep’ for their MTV Icon celebration back in 2004, before Smith later invited them to play his curated Meltdown in London in 2018 and he remixed ‘Teenager’ for the ‘Black Stallion’ companion record to the 20th anniversary of their seminal album ‘White Pony’ in 2021. Still, Moreno says “it was a trip to hear a word or a phrase that you’ve written then hear someone who’s voice you love and who inspired you throughout your music-loving life”.
With teenage Moreno “really drawn into sad, depressing music” and Crosses bandmate (and former guitarist with post-hardcore legends Far) Shaun Lopez in love with The Cure’s “dark but not obvious songs”, it’s a bucketlist duet. With their horror-noir aesthetic, sense of bittersweet romance, and records adorned with crucifixes, there’s a pretty sizeable meeting in the venn diagram, but the duo also aren’t too wild about being labelled as ‘goth’.
Lol's interviews with CNN & AP
What it means to be goth, according to a founding member of The Cure.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/style/lol-tolhurst-the-cure-goth-history-book-cec/index.html
In ‘Goth: A History,’ The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst traces the often-misunderstood subculture.
https://apnews.com/article/goth-history-book-lol-tolhurst-cure-37451452c321455ea0c3c166a525d071
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