Cure & Robert on "Best Of" lists

Update 2: 'Not in Love' is #16 in Austria's FM4 Top 50 of 2010. (Thanks Thomas)

Update: 'Disintegration Deluxe' takes the #1 spot on the Slicing Up Eyeballs Best Reissues of 2010 Poll.

'Disintegration Deluxe' is #3 on PopMatter's Best 20 Re-Issues of 2010. You can also vote for it in the Slicing Up Eyeballs Readers Poll 2010.
Robert & Crystal Castles' 'Not in Love' is #1 on Amazon's Best Dance & Electronic Music of 2010 and #15 on Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2010.
(Thanks Matthew, Greg, AndytheCurefan, and Kevin)

Entreat Plus vinyl on Jan. 11th, 2011

Update: According to Amazon, the US release date has been pushed back to Feb. 22nd. Amazon UK says Jan. 17th. (Thanks Hannah)


From MusicTAP: "Elektra Records plans the expanded release of Entreat, a 1990 Live album by The Cure, in a package called Entreat Plus. Entreat Plus is currently scheduled as a 2LP set planned for January 11. My guess is that these remixed tracks will be also available on CD/DD with an announcement coming soon." (Thanks Slicing Up Eyeballs)

Up for pre-order at CD Universe ($22.05), Ideal Copy ($23.99), Amazon US ($24.69), Amazon Canada (CDN$26.99), Amazon Germany (EUR34,99), Amazon UK (£34.99), and HMV (£36.99). (Thanks WillyO and Halo Eighteen)

Cure songs in the XFM Top 1,000 Songs book

XFM has published a book listing their Top 1,000 Songs of All Time, and the following Cure songs made their list - 'Just Like Heaven', 'Boys Don’t Cry', 'A Forest', 'Close To Me', 'Friday I'm In Love', 'The Lovecats', 'In Between Days', 'Lullaby', 'Pictures of You', 'Love Song'. (Thanks Lindsey)

Cure Party in Vegas

"TWO NIGHT CURE PARTY in VEGAS - JANUARY 21st and 22nd
The events are private for only those who are attending so Please email Kelly at kelly@kellyrphotography.com for details of who/what/where. It will be a weekend to remember for sure, we have been planning this for over 10 months! Each person is to pay $50 towards the event fund. That helps fund both nights.
• PEACE, LOVE AND ROBERT SMITH • "

And if you haven't bought a Robert Smith Is Missing shirt, there are only 16 left. (Thanks Kel)

Rome 2008 HD video (RS & KU audio mix)

Update: Thanks to Xuan, there's now a torrent for this.

"This isn't circulating on The Cure boards, I can guarantee it's by far the best quality video of the Rome 2008 4:13 Dream premiere show you'll find anywhere. It's an alternative camera angle version to the commonly circulated complete version, the audio of this alternate version is also remixed by Robert Smith and Keith Uddin. The quality is far superior to anything that's previously been shared on The Cure boards, it's a 720p High Definition, .mkv file about 4.3GB. It's all of 4:13 Dream (except Sirensong, The Real Snow White, This Here And Now With You)."
Part 1.rar - Part 2.rar - Part 3.rar - Part 4.rar - Part 5.rar
Part 6.rar - Part 7.rar - Part 8.rar - Part 9.rar - Part10.rar
(Thanks Bomber1978)

Huge Church US tour news

Update: They've added a show in Atlanta, GA on Feb. 22nd at the Variety Playhouse.

I know we have a few Church fans reading CoF, so I just want to make sure you've heard today's big news. The Church will be playing Untitled #23, Priest=Aura, and Starfish in their entirety, each night on their US Winter 2011 tour!

Merry Christmas, Everybody!

Joyeux Noël and the happiest of holidays to you all!


The Cure - Merry Christmas Everybody (Wembley Arena - Dec. 9th, 1987)


Siouxsie & the Banshees - Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant (Dec. 15th, 1982)

'Not in Love' chart news

'Not in Love' has debuted at #54 on the official UK singles chart. (Thanks Anthony)

Cure covers

The Death Set covers 'Grinding Halt'.
Philippe Prohom covers 'A Forest'.
Sorry AnGel covers 'Just Like Heaven'.
Diane Birch covers 'Primary' (and other "goth classics").
(Thanks Danny, Max, AndytheCurefan, David, Fred, Roger, Lars)

More 'Not In Love' mixes

Crystal Castles & Robert Smith – Not In Love (GVNR Mix)
Crystal Castles & Robert Smith – Not In Love (Amazing Love Mix)
(Thanks Lars)

'Not in Love' radio edit

Does anyone have the 3:31 radio edit of Crystal Castles & Robert Smith's 'Not in Love'? If so, can you email it to me? Thanks!

CC & RS - 'Not In Love' update

There will be a new Robert Smith mix of 'Not In Love' released Dec. 12th. You can hear a sample of it at Amazon UK. There will also be a 12" vinyl version released in January, though I'm not sure if both versions of the song will be included. The regular radio version is available now at Amazon US and iTunes US.

Update: The tracks are now available at Amazon UK and iTunes UK, but the RS remix is not available outside of the UK right now. Hope the other stores get it added soon.

Update 2: If you are buying from outside of the UK, you can get it at the War Child Music Store. If that link doesn't work, try this and then search for the track. (Thanks BH)

Remastered 'Killing An Arab' found?

As most of you know, and for whatever reason, 'Killing An Arab' was not included on the remastered 'Three Imaginary Boys' CD in 2004. But Vikk may have found the remastered version on 'The Best of The Cure' CD, which was released in 2009 by Universal Music Lebanon. Take a listen and see what you think. Is that our missing track? (Thanks Vikk)

Update: Actually, this was released in the Ukraine by Moon Records, as discovered by the excellent thecurerecords.com. (Thanks JC)

CC & RS - 'Not In Love' (Sane Smith remix)

Brooklyn music producer Sane Smith has remixed 'Not In Love'. Here's his remix and the instrumental edit, and read more about his remix at Culture Bully. (Thanks Lars)
Update: Remix links removed at the request of Sane Smith.

Further clarification from Robert

Posted in the comments at the official site: "I HOPED MY BESTIVAL COMMENT WAS CLEAR ENOUGH..."AS OF DECEMBER 3RD 2010, THIS IS THE ONLY CURE PERFORMANCE OF ANY DESCRIPTION BOOKED FOR 2011". BUT TO BE EVEN CLEARER...WE WILL NOT BE PLAYING ROCK IN RIO. WE WILL NOT BE PLAYING LOLLAPALOOZA CHILE. WE WILL NOT BE PLAYING A LONDON SHOW IN THE SPRING... ETC ETC... IF THERE ARE TO BE ANY OTHER CURE LIVE PERFORMANCES IN 2011, THEY WILL BE ANNOUNCED HERE FIRST... ANYTHING ELSE ANYWHERE ELSE IS AS EVER MERE SPECULATION! TO GO...RSX"

Posted by CURE:ROBERT on 12/4/2010 10:27 PM (GMT-08:00)

Songwords (Expanded) for iPad

"I purchased an iPad many months ago and have loved reading books on it, I figured it would be great to make an ePub of Cure lyrics, so I developed the attached ePub that I've dubbed Songwords (Expanded)." (Thanks Nick)

Wear your Cure shirts today

BBC 6 Music is doing their Wear Your Old Band T-shirt To Work Day today, and a couple of Cure shirts have made it in to the gallery. Here's Benj - front/back (wearing one of my all-time favorite Cure shirts) and Timothy proudly wearing their shirts today. (Thanks Benj)

Bestival statement from Robert

Robert has posted this comment at the official site:
"creeeeeak... AS OF DECEMBER 3RD 2010, THIS IS THE ONLY CURE PERFORMANCE OF ANY DESCRIPTION BOOKED FOR 2011... WE WILL NOT BE PLAYING ANY OTHER EUROPEAN FESTIVALS, AND UNLESS SOMETHING REMARKABLE HAPPENS, WE WILL NOT BE PLAYING ANY OTHER EUROPEAN SHOWS! THIS IS AS CLEAR AND AS DEFINITE AS WE CAN BE... SO IF YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE 120+ MINUTES OF THE CURE NEXT YEAR (AS WELL AS A DAZZLING PANOPLY OF OTHER GREAT ACTS) WE WOULD STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU GO TO BESTIVAL! (HOWEVER, IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTH AMERICA, YOU MIGHT CONSIDER WAITING A WHILE BEFORE BOOKING YOUR TICKET... YOU NEVER KNOW... ) ONWARDS! RSX"

Posted by CURE:ROBERT on 12/2/2010 11:25 PM (GMT-08:00)

Entreat Plus marble vinyl unpack movie

Just so they can rub the salt in the wounds of all North American fans. Bastards. : )

Cure play Bestival 2011!

The Cure have announced that they will be headlining Bestival on Sept. 10th, 2011. It is being billed as their only European show of 2011 (actually, Robert's quote says "only European festival show"). Tickets are available now. Not a rumor, not a dream, The Cure are playing live again! Thanks for the early Christmas present, RS!
BBC 6 Music has an interview with Rob Da Bank about the show.

Update: About that "only European show in 2011" vs. "only European festival show in 2011" bit - "I’ve asked the promoter to clarify that. RS signed off the press release as it is but he may have overlooked the discrepancy so I’ll let you know once he comes back to me."

And about single day tickets - "There aren’t any plans at the moment to sell day tickets this year but have asked the promoter to confirm that, again once he comes back to me then you’ll be the first to know." (Thanks Aidan)