"Last week I've seen the Belgium Cure cover band, they are absolutely great, and have another show scheduled on 18/11 in Liege, Belgium (concert hall "Le Tipi"). Infos here. This is really worth it, and their sound is really close to our fav band. Here is a vid from last week." (Thanks Eric)
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Win a signed copy of 'Take Forever' single
From Record Store: "Order the new Japanese Popstars single 'Take Forever' ft Robert Smith and you could win a signed copy by Robert Smith (The Cure)*"
Update: Robert has posted about this on the official site.
Update 2: Slicing Up Eyeballs is running a contest to win a signed copy.
Update: Robert has posted about this on the official site.
Update 2: Slicing Up Eyeballs is running a contest to win a signed copy.
Happy Birthday, Roger!
A very Happy Birthday and Best Wishes to Roger O'Donnell! Hope you have a wonderful day and an even better night. Cheers!
And here's some video of the rehearsals for the Quieter Trees performance in Toronto on Nov. 3rd at Little Trinity Anglican Church with the Corktown Chamber Orchestra.
And here's some video of the rehearsals for the Quieter Trees performance in Toronto on Nov. 3rd at Little Trinity Anglican Church with the Corktown Chamber Orchestra.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
RAH tickets arriving
Check your mail, UK fans, as the RAH tickets have started to arrive! The white bits are just to remove identifying marks on the ticket. (Thanks Goldie)
'Come To Me' free download
Just in case you still don't have this, Rolling Stone has a free download of 'Come To Me' from 65daysofstatic and Robert. (Thanks Kate)
Also offered at Slicing Up Eyeballs and Pitchfork.
Also offered at Slicing Up Eyeballs and Pitchfork.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Halloween Party for Sophie Barker's 'A Forest'
"Halloween Party to mark Sophie Barker's release of her 'A Forest' cover. Oct. 31st at The Elgin Pub from 7PM onwards."
(Thanks Warren)
Update: Sophie was on the Steve Lamacq show on Nov. 5th and talked about The Cure and her cover. Listen here at 12:30. (Thanks Perfect.Murder)
(Thanks Warren)
Update: Sophie was on the Steve Lamacq show on Nov. 5th and talked about The Cure and her cover. Listen here at 12:30. (Thanks Perfect.Murder)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
More RAH tickets to be released soon
Update (10/19/11): The info has been posted. On sale Thursday, Oct. 20th at noon. By phone (020 7589 8212) or at www.royalalberthall.com. You will need the passcode which you can find at the official site. Read the rules VERY carefully. (Thanks Perfect.Murder)
And in the comments, Robert adds:
ON THE CASE
AAAAAAGH... ON THE CAPITAL CASE!
Posted by CURE:ROBERT on 10/19/2011 12:25 AM (GMT-04:00)
Original post (10/16/11): Again from the comments at the official site -
MORE TICKETS - TO BE CLEAR (WHERE DID ALL MY PUNCTUATION GO?!!)
AS WE HAVE NOW FINALISED THE RAH PRODUCTION, A FEW HUNDRED "IN THE GODS" GALLERY STANDING TICKETS WILL SOON BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR £37.50 - THESE WILL BE THE LAST TICKETS TO BE SOLD - AND WE WILL BE SELLING THEM WITH THE 'SECURITY MEASURES' MENTIONED ABOVE IN PLACE… WE WILL THEN WAIT AND SEE IF ANY OF THESE TURN UP FOR RESALE! NEWS OF HOW AND WHEN THESE GALLERY TICKETS WILL BE PUT ONSALE WILL BE POSTED HERE AT www.thecure.com SOMETIME VERY SOON…
Posted by CURE:ROBERT on 10/16/2011 9:58 PM (GMT-04:00)
Update: Here's a look at the view from the Gallery. (Thanks Peter)
And in the comments, Robert adds:
ON THE CASE
AAAAAAGH... ON THE CAPITAL CASE!
Posted by CURE:ROBERT on 10/19/2011 12:25 AM (GMT-04:00)
Original post (10/16/11): Again from the comments at the official site -
MORE TICKETS - TO BE CLEAR (WHERE DID ALL MY PUNCTUATION GO?!!)
AS WE HAVE NOW FINALISED THE RAH PRODUCTION, A FEW HUNDRED "IN THE GODS" GALLERY STANDING TICKETS WILL SOON BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR £37.50 - THESE WILL BE THE LAST TICKETS TO BE SOLD - AND WE WILL BE SELLING THEM WITH THE 'SECURITY MEASURES' MENTIONED ABOVE IN PLACE… WE WILL THEN WAIT AND SEE IF ANY OF THESE TURN UP FOR RESALE! NEWS OF HOW AND WHEN THESE GALLERY TICKETS WILL BE PUT ONSALE WILL BE POSTED HERE AT www.thecure.com SOMETIME VERY SOON…
Posted by CURE:ROBERT on 10/16/2011 9:58 PM (GMT-04:00)
Update: Here's a look at the view from the Gallery. (Thanks Peter)
Monday, October 17, 2011
'Take Forever' remix single out
The promo 'Take Forever' single from The Japanese Popstars, featuring remixes by The Deadstock 33s, Raw Man, Lee Curtiss, Attaque, and the Robert Smith RS@Home mix, are out now. Looks like it will get a commercial release on Oct 17th.
Update: Here's 4 of the 5 - RS@Home remix, Raw Man remix, Deadstock 33 remix, Attaque remix.
(Thanks Slicing Up Eyeballs and TheCure-Collector)
Update 2: The single is now available from Amazon US, UK, France, Germany, iTunes UK, iTunes US and many other iTunes stores around the world.
Update: Here's 4 of the 5 - RS@Home remix, Raw Man remix, Deadstock 33 remix, Attaque remix.
(Thanks Slicing Up Eyeballs and TheCure-Collector)
Update 2: The single is now available from Amazon US, UK, France, Germany, iTunes UK, iTunes US and many other iTunes stores around the world.
Lovecats charity single
"Cover of LoveCats released today in aid of Cats Protection charity..and with all royalties waved by Robert! http://thelovecats.co.uk." (Thanks Louis)
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Robert's thoughts on the RAH ticket situation
Robert posted this in the comments section on the official site:
RS THOUGHTS ON RAH REFLECTIONS TICKET SALES
[I WROTE THIS LAST WEEK, BUT DIDN'T POST IT… NOT REALLY SURE WHY I CHANGED MY MIND… SO ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE INFO MAY BE A LITTLE OUT OF DATE, THE ESSENCE REMAINS CURRENT]
I REALIZE THAT BY PLAYING A LIMITED NUMBER OF MORE INTIMATE VENUES THERE WILL INEVITABLY BE A NUMBER OF DISAPPOINTED FANS WHO CAN'T GET TICKETS TO OUR SHOWS - AS WAS THE CASE IN SYDNEY EARLIER THIS YEAR… BUT I ONLY WANT TO PLAY THE 'REFLECTIONS' SHOW A FEW MORE TIMES BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR IN VENUES SIMILAR TO THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE I CHOSE THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL IN LONDON, THE PANTAGES THEATRE IN LA AND THE BEACON THEATRE IN NYC BECAUSE THEY FEEL RIGHT THE TICKET PRICES REFLECT THE NATURE AND COST OF STAGING THE SHOW - THE HIGHEST PRICES ARE UNDOUBTEDLY EXPENSIVE, BUT I AGREED (AS I INVARIABLY DO WITH REGARDS CURE SHOWS) WHAT I FELT WAS A FAIR PRICING STRUCTURE WITH OUR AGENT AND PROMOTER… WE WILL BE PERFORMING AROUND 180 MINUTES OF MUSIC… AND SOME RAH TICKETS WERE MADE AVAILABLE FOR AS LITTLE AS £25...
I AM AWARE THAT SOME DISAPPOINTED FANS HAVE BEEN AIRING CONCERNS AT WHAT THEY SEE AS A CURE RAH SHOW "SOLD OUT TO TOUTS"… SO I PUT THESE CONCERNS TO OUR UK AGENT AND OUR UK PROMOTER (BEARING IN MIND THEIR CAVEAT "It’s important that the public isn’t made aware of the precise details of how the promoters and ticket agencies track down resellers, or this will just make them more careful and harder to locate" THE FOLLOWING ARE SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM THEIR FULL REPLIES TO ME) OUR AGENT WROTE:
- measures taken to limit touting / re-selling of tickets:
• only ‘trusted’ ticket agencies were used – companies who the promoter could rely on to go by the rules laid down for this show - 3 outlets in addition to the RAH box office
• ticket purchase was restricted to 4 per person
• agents were instructed to check for touts and members of the public re-selling their tickets and to cancel tickets in those cases
• sales were restricted to on-line – no ‘over-the-counter’ sales (where touting is more of a problem)
• to be as fair as possible to everyone, no pre sale was done – but even if there had been a pre sale the promoter suspects that there would still have been tickets being bought as a speculation and re-sold
• so far around 60 tickets have been cancelled, and checks will be ongoing
• ticket re-selling is a major problem, but as you know our promoter has a reputation for being particularly diligent in this area and is doing everything physically possible to limit the scale of the problem - It is estimated that there are currently some 200 tickets being offered for resale – and some of those will be the same tickets being offered via different websites. Although high, that number is actually quite a small proportion of the total tickets sold – and quite a lot less than has been seen for other shows of a similar stature. The implication is that the vast majority of tickets have gone to real fans who will be happy to simply turn up and see the show.
- the measures put in place would have made it very hard for tickets to end up with anything other than members of the public - most of the tickets being advertised for resale are pairs of tickets, so the likelihood is that the resellers are mainly fans themselves – buying their 4 tickets in order to go to the show, and sell two others (perhaps covering the cost of their own tickets)
- Here’s an example of one ad: This is a ticket to see THE CURE’s REFLECTIONS show at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday November 15th, where they’ll be performing their first 3 classic albums in full. This ticket is for STALL L ROW 2 (centre stage side of the walkway), offering a fantastic view of the stage. I’m also selling one more ticket (see my other auctions) for the seat right next to this one, unfortunately I cannot list the exact seat numbers as there’s a chance ticket agents will cancel these tickets, so please don’t ask. I bought these tickets for 2 friends who sadly can’t make it to the gig, so here’s your chance to see The Cure play this one off UK show. As soon as I have the ticket in hand I will send it on a Royal Mail Pre-1pm Guaranteed Next Day service free of charge (UK buyers only).
AND OUR PROMOTER WROTE: “The biggest problem we have nowadays is that the majority of the tickets touted are not being sold by professional touts - they are being sold by people who consider themselves genuine fans but who make it a point to buy the maximum number of tickets they can, and then look to make a bob or two by selling off the ones they don't plan to use”.
PERSONALISED TICKETS AND/OR TICKETS TIED TO CREDIT CARDS/ID ON THE DOOR WERE NOT AN OPTION… OUR PROMOTER AGAIN: It would not be feasible to have credit cards / ID checks on the door for every ticket - because of the capacity of the RAH, you'd never get that many people into the venue in time. We are able to do it for the Gallery because that's a relatively small number of people.”
(AND TO BE ABSOLUTELY EVEN HANDED, THIS FURTHER COMMENT ON MY THOUGHTS!!! "In his "Thoughts", Robert has not touched on the fact that the show sold out in a nano second and was x50 times over subscribed before sold out notices went up!") HOWEVER, BASED ON THE SMALL PERCENTAGE OF TICKETS ACTUALLY TURNING UP FOR RESALE, I AM REASONABLY SATISFIED THAT "The implication is that the vast majority of tickets have gone to real fans who will be happy to simply turn up and see the show." IS A FAIR SUMMARY
ONWARDS! RS
PS AND WHAT'S ALL THIS 'FINAL SHOWS' MUTTERING? THAT'S MY JOB!
Posted by CURE:ROBERT on 10/16/2011 9:55 PM (GMT-04:00}
RS THOUGHTS ON RAH REFLECTIONS TICKET SALES
[I WROTE THIS LAST WEEK, BUT DIDN'T POST IT… NOT REALLY SURE WHY I CHANGED MY MIND… SO ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE INFO MAY BE A LITTLE OUT OF DATE, THE ESSENCE REMAINS CURRENT]
I REALIZE THAT BY PLAYING A LIMITED NUMBER OF MORE INTIMATE VENUES THERE WILL INEVITABLY BE A NUMBER OF DISAPPOINTED FANS WHO CAN'T GET TICKETS TO OUR SHOWS - AS WAS THE CASE IN SYDNEY EARLIER THIS YEAR… BUT I ONLY WANT TO PLAY THE 'REFLECTIONS' SHOW A FEW MORE TIMES BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR IN VENUES SIMILAR TO THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE I CHOSE THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL IN LONDON, THE PANTAGES THEATRE IN LA AND THE BEACON THEATRE IN NYC BECAUSE THEY FEEL RIGHT THE TICKET PRICES REFLECT THE NATURE AND COST OF STAGING THE SHOW - THE HIGHEST PRICES ARE UNDOUBTEDLY EXPENSIVE, BUT I AGREED (AS I INVARIABLY DO WITH REGARDS CURE SHOWS) WHAT I FELT WAS A FAIR PRICING STRUCTURE WITH OUR AGENT AND PROMOTER… WE WILL BE PERFORMING AROUND 180 MINUTES OF MUSIC… AND SOME RAH TICKETS WERE MADE AVAILABLE FOR AS LITTLE AS £25...
I AM AWARE THAT SOME DISAPPOINTED FANS HAVE BEEN AIRING CONCERNS AT WHAT THEY SEE AS A CURE RAH SHOW "SOLD OUT TO TOUTS"… SO I PUT THESE CONCERNS TO OUR UK AGENT AND OUR UK PROMOTER (BEARING IN MIND THEIR CAVEAT "It’s important that the public isn’t made aware of the precise details of how the promoters and ticket agencies track down resellers, or this will just make them more careful and harder to locate" THE FOLLOWING ARE SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM THEIR FULL REPLIES TO ME) OUR AGENT WROTE:
- measures taken to limit touting / re-selling of tickets:
• only ‘trusted’ ticket agencies were used – companies who the promoter could rely on to go by the rules laid down for this show - 3 outlets in addition to the RAH box office
• ticket purchase was restricted to 4 per person
• agents were instructed to check for touts and members of the public re-selling their tickets and to cancel tickets in those cases
• sales were restricted to on-line – no ‘over-the-counter’ sales (where touting is more of a problem)
• to be as fair as possible to everyone, no pre sale was done – but even if there had been a pre sale the promoter suspects that there would still have been tickets being bought as a speculation and re-sold
• so far around 60 tickets have been cancelled, and checks will be ongoing
• ticket re-selling is a major problem, but as you know our promoter has a reputation for being particularly diligent in this area and is doing everything physically possible to limit the scale of the problem - It is estimated that there are currently some 200 tickets being offered for resale – and some of those will be the same tickets being offered via different websites. Although high, that number is actually quite a small proportion of the total tickets sold – and quite a lot less than has been seen for other shows of a similar stature. The implication is that the vast majority of tickets have gone to real fans who will be happy to simply turn up and see the show.
- the measures put in place would have made it very hard for tickets to end up with anything other than members of the public - most of the tickets being advertised for resale are pairs of tickets, so the likelihood is that the resellers are mainly fans themselves – buying their 4 tickets in order to go to the show, and sell two others (perhaps covering the cost of their own tickets)
- Here’s an example of one ad: This is a ticket to see THE CURE’s REFLECTIONS show at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday November 15th, where they’ll be performing their first 3 classic albums in full. This ticket is for STALL L ROW 2 (centre stage side of the walkway), offering a fantastic view of the stage. I’m also selling one more ticket (see my other auctions) for the seat right next to this one, unfortunately I cannot list the exact seat numbers as there’s a chance ticket agents will cancel these tickets, so please don’t ask. I bought these tickets for 2 friends who sadly can’t make it to the gig, so here’s your chance to see The Cure play this one off UK show. As soon as I have the ticket in hand I will send it on a Royal Mail Pre-1pm Guaranteed Next Day service free of charge (UK buyers only).
AND OUR PROMOTER WROTE: “The biggest problem we have nowadays is that the majority of the tickets touted are not being sold by professional touts - they are being sold by people who consider themselves genuine fans but who make it a point to buy the maximum number of tickets they can, and then look to make a bob or two by selling off the ones they don't plan to use”.
PERSONALISED TICKETS AND/OR TICKETS TIED TO CREDIT CARDS/ID ON THE DOOR WERE NOT AN OPTION… OUR PROMOTER AGAIN: It would not be feasible to have credit cards / ID checks on the door for every ticket - because of the capacity of the RAH, you'd never get that many people into the venue in time. We are able to do it for the Gallery because that's a relatively small number of people.”
(AND TO BE ABSOLUTELY EVEN HANDED, THIS FURTHER COMMENT ON MY THOUGHTS!!! "In his "Thoughts", Robert has not touched on the fact that the show sold out in a nano second and was x50 times over subscribed before sold out notices went up!") HOWEVER, BASED ON THE SMALL PERCENTAGE OF TICKETS ACTUALLY TURNING UP FOR RESALE, I AM REASONABLY SATISFIED THAT "The implication is that the vast majority of tickets have gone to real fans who will be happy to simply turn up and see the show." IS A FAIR SUMMARY
ONWARDS! RS
PS AND WHAT'S ALL THIS 'FINAL SHOWS' MUTTERING? THAT'S MY JOB!
Posted by CURE:ROBERT on 10/16/2011 9:55 PM (GMT-04:00}
Simon Signature Ultra Bass confirmed
Update: "Schecter have said that Simon's ultra bass will be on sale from January." (Thanks Brad)
Photo by Claudia Picone. See the white version here.
In this article (with April's awesome photo) about the money raised by the Cure Bestival Curetoon guitar, Schecter has confirmed what many suspected..."yes, Simon is rocking his new Schecter Signature Ultra '1979' Signature bass! More on this soon!!"
Photo by Claudia Picone. See the white version here.
In this article (with April's awesome photo) about the money raised by the Cure Bestival Curetoon guitar, Schecter has confirmed what many suspected..."yes, Simon is rocking his new Schecter Signature Ultra '1979' Signature bass! More on this soon!!"
Anyone selling a Bloodflowers necklace?
Michael is looking to replace his Bloodflowers Dream Tour necklace. If anyone has one for sale, please post or email me. Thanks.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Reminder: More live shows for Roger
Oct. 6th - St. Leonard's Church in London at 7PM, performing with Jo Quail and friends. Photo from soundcheck.
Update: Some photos from Vicky and Marsworld, and a photo of JC/Perfect.Murder's attempt to return the legendary Bestival tambourine to Roger. : )
Nov. 3rd - Little Trinity Anglican Church in Toronto, performing Quieter Trees with the Corktown Chamber Orchestra.
Update: Some photos from Vicky and Marsworld, and a photo of JC/Perfect.Murder's attempt to return the legendary Bestival tambourine to Roger. : )
Nov. 3rd - Little Trinity Anglican Church in Toronto, performing Quieter Trees with the Corktown Chamber Orchestra.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
'Take Forever' video
From The Japanese Popstars on Facebook: "Our new Video for Take Forever was shot at the weekend in LA by legendary director Stephane Sednaoui. He did stuff for Bjork, U2 and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers so we are looking forward to seeing how this turned out ! Fingers Crossed !!"
Note: Neither Robert, nor The Japanese Popstars, are in the video. (Thanks Antti)
Note: Neither Robert, nor The Japanese Popstars, are in the video. (Thanks Antti)
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Memories of The Cure in Melbourne 1984
'Just Like Heaven' featured article at Wikipedia
Today's feature article at Wikipedia is The Cure's 'Just Like Heaven'. (Thanks Aaron)
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Friday I'm in Love at Threadless
It was first mentioned nearly 3 years ago, but I still get emails about it every couple of months. So in case you've never seen it, there's a very popular unofficial 'Friday I'm in Love' shirt for sale at Threadless, though only very limited sizes are left.
(Thanks Kristy/killingtime)
(Thanks Kristy/killingtime)
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
RAH coming soon poster
JC/Perfect.Murder drove by the Royal Albert Hall today, and look at what he found. : )
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