Update: DM in Israel

Highlights 1 / Highlights 2 / In Chains / Wrong / Walking In My Shoes / It's No Good / Question of Time -Part 1 & Part 2 / Precious Part 1 & Part 2/ Fly on the Windscreen / Jezebel / A Question of Lust / Come Back / Peace / In Your Room / I Feel You / In Sympathy / Enjoy The Silence / Never Let me Down Again / Happy Birthday Dave / Stripped / Master & Servant / Strangelove (alternate angle) / Personal Jesus / Waiting For The Night

DM played the same set as in Luxembourg, though the video for Strangelove was censored tonight. Some photos from the show. (Thanks to karimamilena at DM.com for the setlist)

Here's today's press conference in Tel Aviv (part 1 / part 2).

All kinds of stuff

Some original Cure "goods". (Thanks Kazuko)

Random top ten: Singers pretending to be bands, and a game, promoting the band Toxic Sonic, but mentions Robert.
(Thanks Kate)

"Bloc Party played for a French TV show called 'One Shot Note' broadcast on France 5. The lead-singer wore a 'Boys Don't Cry' t-shirt. Not a surprise as they are huge Cure fans."
(Thanks David)

Robert doesn't like Remo drum heads

And he told them so. : ) (Thanks PMGen)

TIB 30th anniversary chat

"We are going to be doing a special chat tonight for the 30th anniversary of the release of TIB, and wanted to invite all CoF friends old and new to stop on by and say hello! Starting around 7 Pac / 10 EST (sorry eastern seaboard peeps!)." (Thanks Heron)

Cure #7 on Top 10 British Touring acts

"Tours by Coldplay, The Police and Iron Maiden helped make 2008 a record year for British music exports, according to figures published by PRS For Music.
Top 10 touring PRS for Music acts in 2008*
1. The Police 2. Iron Maiden 3. Coldplay 4. Spice Girls 5. Elton John 6. Mark Knopfler 7. The Cure 8. Def Leppard 9. James Blunt 10. Girls Aloud
*According to Pollstar Top 200 Worldwide Tours of 2008"
See the comments for the full story. (Thanks Peter)

Roger update

Roger has been selected as Moog's first Featured Artist profile. He also wrote a new song, The Crow Flies, and you can listen to at the Moog MySpace page. (Thanks Jeff)

Another Pearl recording

On DIME and Plastic Passion Torrent Tracker.
DIME - 16-bit & 24-bit / PPTT - 16-bit & 24-bit" (Thanks Junko)

Tour of the Universe warm-up show

Stop reading now if you don't want any spoilers for the Depeche Mode Tour of the Universe. This is the setlist (and videos) from the warm-up show on May 6th in Luxembourg:
In Chains / Wrong / Hole to Feed / Walking In My Shoes / It’s No Good / A Question Of Time / Precious / Fly On The Windscreen / Jezebel / A Question Of Lust / Come Back / Peace / In Your Room -part 1 & part 2 / I Feel You / In Sympathy / Enjoy The Silence / Never Let Me Down Again
1st encore: Stripped / Master and Servant / Strangelove
2nd encore: Personal Jesus / Waiting for the Night
If you only watch one video, watch Strangelove. ; ) Also, DM has arrived in Israel for the start of the tour.
Get the full show on Dime. (Thanks Kazuko)

Tour programs on Ebay

"I just posted to ebay all my tour/festival programs including some RARE items your readers may have interest in:
1981 Picture Tour Faith Tour Program
1984 Top Tour Program, Japan/UK
all my official tour programs 1985-2008
many festival tour programs 2000-2004
also some clippings/mags, posters, all the guitar song books and other auctions" (Thanks MickelCure)

More on Smith vs. Beaumont

Aversion has a report on Robert's remarks to Mark Beaumont. And as Martin points out, Mark has since apologized for his comments. (Thanks Kate and Martin)

Buzz celebrates 20 years of Disintegration

"Sorry this is a little late, but last Sunday (05/03/09) The Buzz alternative radio station in Kansas City played Disintegration in full to celebrate its 20th anniversary release. It was played on the show "Resurrection Sunday" and the DJ, Jason made some very good comments before and in between each track being played. He said that if you have never heard The Cure before that this is a great album to start with and that it defined them as a band and made them more popular worldwide. He also talked about their full catalog and stressed that if you thought The Cure were a depressing band, then think again - you MUST listen to all they have produced and understand that the band mean a great deal to an awful lot of people. He said that Disintegration defined alternative music and was a welcome break from the big hair bands such as Def Leppard in the US.
The show was very enjoyable to listen to and the DJ certainly knew his Cure stuff. (Thanks Steve)

Update: Cure feature in Mojo

"Just a quick note that there's a feature in this month's Mojo magazine on How to Buy the Cure - their 10 best albums. Guess what's number one! I can't scan it in at the moment but will try to do that tomorrow. It's not a bad read and I think the 10 were voted for by the readers." (Thanks Graeme)

Update: The scans have been added. Also added a review of the Siouxsie at the BBC DVD. (Thanks JC)

New tattoo

Tara gets the Nightmare Before Cure-mas. (Thanks Tara)

Pearl complaints

"As you may have heard, many considered the Pearl's admission procedures to be unsafe. The line-up process was chaotic. The general admission load-in was considered unorganized, unprofessional and very dangerous. A number of people have expressed interest in sending formal complaints to the Pearl and other City officials. I have compiled a list of addresses. Most contacts are for staff at the Pearl. At the bottom, I have listed the contact information for the Fire Marshal of the City of Las Vegas." Please see the comments for the list of addresses. (Thanks Kate)

Also, you can write a review of the venue here. (Thanks Sara B.)

Robert interview from Oct. 1996

"My name is Marc, I have been a long time Cure fan since childhood. I am also the photographer for Lol's most recent project Levinhurst. I just wanted to let you know that I dug out a VERY rare interview of Robert backstage after their show in Zurich/Switzerland 1996 (my first Cure show I attended). I don't think any of you have ever seen it, and I'm sure it's gonna make you smile, especially when he mentions that this is the last Cure tour) You can watch it here." (Thanks Marc)

Robert update

Robert has posted an update at the official site. Don't get excited, it's still related to "Free Music", and a response to this. Oh well, maybe next time...or the time after that. (Thanks Debi)

Photos from the Kiss Me sessions

"I'm Stéphane, an old Cure fan from France. So there are six pictures taken during the Kiss Me recording session at Miraval studio, this is late at night in a Chinese restaurant in Brignoles biggest nearest little town from the studio which was lost in the countryside. You can recognize in one picture it's David M Allen with Robert, but there's also Mary, Simon, Boris, Perry (not yet a Cure guitarist but still a roadie) on the others. It took me time to find them again. This is why I send it to you a bit late, after this question: Who sat beside Robert at the NME awards?"
So that really was Dave with Robert at the NME Awards.
(Thanks Stéphane)

Updates from Heron

"First, I finally did a post about giving the Other Voices book to the Cure here: Other Voices - Signed, sealed & delivered! and also updated a bit about being interviewed for Studio Brussel, along with the transcript from Vicky about her interview.

I'm working on getting the hardcopy version of Other Voices done so that people can start to order them, my goal is to have it ready to order by Thursday night. Update: I am happy to let you guys know that I beat my own deadline, and the books are now available to order!

Finally, I put up a new series of teeshirt designs from the South Park Cure shirt, I kept getting requests for ones with the individual members, so now you can get one with just Robert or Simon etc. and I also updated my numbers for the Lovecats shirts, stock is dwindling rapidly. There are still a few Nightmare shirts." (Thanks Heron)

Another Coachella recording (FLAC)

"It's on DIME, but I've gone ahead and downloaded it and compressed it into 4 separate RAR archives. You'll have to use WinRAR or something equivalent to open them up.
The Cure 2009-04-19 Indio, Ca Master.part1.rar Size: 300MB
The Cure 2009-04-19 Indio, Ca Master.part2.rar Size: 300MB
The Cure 2009-04-19 Indio, Ca Master.part3.rar Size: 300MB
The Cure 2009-04-19 Indio, Ca Master.part4.rar Size: 116MB
Credit goes to Javier aka jsradiohead for recording it & uploading it to DIME." (Thanks AndytheCurefan)

Coachella webcast on Youtube

At least some of it. I'll add the rest when they're uploaded.
Underneath The Stars / Prayers For Rain / A Strange Day / alt.end / The End of the World / Lovesong / To Wish Impossible Things / Pictures of You / Lullaby / From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea / The Perfect Boy / Wrong Number / Push / Inbetween Days / Just Like Heaven / Primary / Shake Dog Shake / The Hungry Ghost / Disintegration / One Hundred Years / It's Over / If Only Tonight We Could Sleep / The Kiss / At Night / M / Play For Today / A Forest / Three Imaginary Boys / Fire In Cairo / Boys Don't Cry / Jumping Someone Else's Train / Grinding Halt.
(Thanks AnonymityrocksLA, Lovecat44, Debi, and Aaron)