The Cure at Primavera Sound 2012

Setlist: Plainsong, Pictures of You, High, The End of the World, Lovesong, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Hungry Ghost, Play For Today, A Forest (with Happy Birthday Simon at the end), Bananafishbones, Lullaby, The Walk, Mint Car, Friday I'm in Love, Doing The Unstuck, Trust, Want, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Disintegration

1st Encore: The Kiss, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Fight 
2nd Encore: Dressing Up, Lovecats, The Blood, The Caterpillar, Close To Me, Just One Kiss, Let's Go To Bed, Sleep When I'm Dead, Why Can't I Be You? 
3rd Encore: Boys Don't Cry.

Reviews: El Universal (English) / elnortedecastilla (English) / elPeriodico (English) / Lainformacion (English) / ABC (English) / Ipsilon (English) / 20 Minutos (English) / El Mundo (English) / El Pais (English) / La Vanguardia (English)

Video (webcast): Complete webcast (Vimeo) / High / Lovesong / The End of the World / The Hungry Ghost / A Forest / Bananafishbones

Video: Plainsong 1 -  2 - 3 - 4 / Pictures of You 1 - 2 - 3 / High 1 - 2 (pro-shot) / Lovesong 1 - 2 / Push / Inbetween Days 1 - 2 - 3 / Just Like Heaven 1 - 2 / Play For Today 1 - 2 / A Forest 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / Happy Birthday Simon & Bananafishbones / Lullaby 1 - 2 - 3 / The Walk 1 - 2 / Mint Car 1 - 2 / Friday I'm in Love 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / Trust 1 - 2 / Wrong Number / The Kiss 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / If Only Tonight We Could Sleep / Fight 1 - 2 - 3 / Dressing Up 1 - 2 - 3 / The Blood 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / Close To Me / Just One Kiss (HD) / Just One Kiss & Boys Don't Cry / Just One Kiss 1 - 2 /  Let's Go To Bed / Why Can't I Be You? / Boys Don't Cry 1 - 2 - 3 


Photos: Marcoo / Spiral-Stairs / JaviJota / Robocod / Pablo Luna Chao / Christian Bertrand / Humberto Luminati / Stinker / Luis Perez Contreras / Diariopop / Christoph! / MSarceda / Maccosta / Robert / Simon / Robert / Robert 1 - 2 - 3 / Robert / Robert 1 - 2 - 3 / Robert / Robert & Simon / Reeves, Robert & Simon / Matt (in an AAE shirt!) with Reeves / Robert / The Cure

Audio: SummerCure / DIME / Audience recording / Webcast audio / Matthew North's report on BBC Radio Devon (1:24:25 mark) / Happy Birthday Simon & Bananafishbones

And Happy Birthday and Best Wishes to Simon Gallup! Hope you have a wonderful day, a great show, and that Robert lets you pick the setlist for tonight. : )

The Real Snow White mention in LA Times

From "Before the 'Huntsman': Snow White's life in pop songs":

Snow White the emo heartbreaker
"You've got what I want," the Cure's Robert Smith sings to open "The Real Snow White," and proceeds to beg and howl as he contradicts himself and makes empty promises over slashing guitars. Evil queens need to be avoided, sure, but hopeless romantics bring plenty of drama themselves. "You're not the real Snow White," Smith snarls, only to follow that up by confessing his infidelities. The battle here is purely emotional, as this kind of obsession is best dealt with by blocked phone numbers and restraining orders. (Thanks Morris)

Bilbao BBK Live poster

"On 25th April I was in Madrid to visit the Champions League Semi Final Real Madrid vs. Bayern Munich. I saw this poster in the beautiful historic centre in Madrid." (Thanks Michael)

Primavera Sound webcast

Friday's show at Primavera Sound will be webcast on PrimaveraSoundTV! Here's the email sent out. They'll show 90 minutes of The Cure (22:10 - 23:40). (Thanks Mars)

In the US, the webcast starts at 4:10 PM eastern, 3:10 PM central, 2:10 PM Mountain, and 1:10 PM pacific.


Thanks to Perfect.Murder for the photo.

Fan meet up for Barcelona show

"HispaCure has organized an official meeting of Cure Fans in Primavera Sound Festival to celebrate our 8th anniversary and to see The Cure Live concert in Barcelona all together.

All International Cure fans are invited to experience the concert with hispaCure members ; )" (Thanks Ivan)

Porlnography

Congratulations to JC/Perfect.Murder for winning this in Porl's auction! It's Porl's original hand-drawn design for the stage backdrop on the Pornography tour. It also came with one of the autographed "Thank You" photos. (Thanks Perfect.Murder)

Lol at the library

Lol will be one of the special guests at the This Is Your Library event in Los Angeles on June 2nd at the Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library.

Update: Photos of the event by LA Lovecat.

Massive Cure collection for sale

Leslie has decided to sell her massive Cure collection. Read more about it here.

Robert on De Volkskrant cover

"In today's paper was a huuuuge full page photo of Robert + a brilliant article. (The V in the picture is 'cause the paper is called De Volkskrant)"

Here's the translation of the article:

"Linkin Park was a pretty good headliner on the second day, blablabla, but not the singalong that made Pinkpop glow in the atmospheric evening hours.
The Cure however did do that on the opening night. The band with ever charming child-man Robert Smith has played the bigger audiences for the last years in his new outfit, wíth bass player Simon Gallup, but at Pinkpop the group rose above itself as a festival band.

Bananafishbones at Pinkpop 2012

The Cure - Bananafishbones (Pinkpop 2012) (Thanks Sven)

Update (5/28): Sven has just posted Wrong Number. Another fantastic job! And my god, Reeves!!!

The Cure at Pinkpop 2012

(Photo from 3FM)

Setlist: Plainsong, Pictures of You, High, The End of the World, Lovesong, Push, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Hungry Ghost, Play For Today, A Forest, Bananafishbones, Lullaby, The Walk, Mint Car, Friday I'm in Love, Doing the Unstuck, Trust, Want, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Disintegration.

Encore: Lovecats, Close To Me, Let's Go To Bed, Sleep When I'm Dead, Why Can't I Be You, Boys Don't Cry.

Note: The Cure were joined by Reeves Gabrels on guitar tonight, and he'll be with them for the Summer tour.

Audio: SummerCure / All 12 tracks from both webcasts / Saturday's webcast / Sunday's webcast

Video: Robert interview (English) (YouTube) / Complete 50 minute live webcast / Complete 35 minute highlights webcast / Compilation / Plainsong & Pictures of You / Plainsong / Pictures of You 1 - 2 / High / Lovesong / Push 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / Inbetween Days / Just Like Heaven / From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea / Push - Inbetween Days - Just Like Heaven - Edge of the Deep Green Sea / Hungry Ghost / Play For Today 1 - 2 / A Forest 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 / Bananafishbones 1 - 2 / Lullaby / The Walk 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 / Mint Car / Friday I'm In Love / Doing The Unstuck & Trust / Trust 1 - 2 / Want 1 - 2 / Wrong Number 1 - 2 - 3 / One Hundred Years 1 - 2 / One Hundred Years & Disintegration / Disintegration / Lovecats 1 - 2 / Lovecats & Close To Me / Close To Me / Let's Go To Bed / Lovecats - Close To Me - Let's Go To Bed - Sleep When I'm Dead / Why Can't I Be You & Boys Don't Cry / Boys Don't Cry 1 - 2 - 3 

Photos: laurent_vdk / Benzpics / Robert 1 - 2 - 3 / Simon / Strange Artifact 1 - 2 - 3 / Robert (Plainsong) / Vicky / COGASM :) / Pinkpop / Bart / 3FM / L1mburg / Cure shirts for sale / Robert / Reeves Gabrels on stage with The Cure / Reeves / Reeves / Robert & Reeves /

Reviews: Aachener Nachrichten (English) / Parool (English) / 3voor12 (English) 

Xfm's Best British Songs of All Time

'Just Like Heaven' comes in at #97 on Xfm's Best British Songs of All Time list. As with the HMV 'Disintegration' placing, this is just so wrong.  England, we seriously need to talk.
(Thanks @JodieSometimes)

Want to tell them what they missed on that list? Tell them here. (Thanks @SleazyMartinez)

Best British Albums of the Last 60 Years

'Disintegration' comes in at #32 on HMV's Best British Albums of the last 60 years poll. Story at NME.
(Thanks @bratmix and @depechemode)

The window of HMV Oxford. (Thanks @AaronLaw92)

Robert Interview on Nederland 3

A Pinkpop special aired Sunday on Nederland 3. It included 'Friday I'm in Love', 'Close to Me', and this interview (English) with Robert (also on YouTube). (Thanks @3voor12)

In the interview, Robert confirms Reeves is "just filling in". So not an official Cure, just a Summer guest. Which makes these Summer shows even more special. If you want to see Reeves with The Cure, this could be your only chance. Get tickets now!
No, I don't get paid for saying that or hyping up the shows. : P Just saying this probably won't last, so see this lineup while you can.

Complete Pinkpop webcast

Update: DVD of the TV broadcast on Dime.

Here's the complete 50 minute live webcast of The Cure at Pinkpop 2012 from Saturday. This includes Friday I'm in Love, Doing the Unstuck, Trust, Want, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Disintegration, Lovecats, and some of Close To Me. (Thanks Andythecurefan)

And you can watch the 35 minute webcast from today at 3voor12 (also now on YouTube). This includes Lullaby, Friday I'm In Love, Doing the Unstuck, Want, Wrong Number, Close To Me, Sleep When I'm Dead, Why Can't I Be You?
(Thanks Rijan and Andythecurefan)

Porl auction photos

Some photos of the items Darren won at the Porl Thompson auction and 2 autographed "thank you" photos Porl included with each one. (Thanks Darren)

Reeves Gabrels joins The Cure for the Summer

Welcome to The Cure, Reeves! Good time to take a listen to Yesterday's Gone again. Beautiful!

From Slicing Up Eyeballs: "While Smith has not made an official announcement regarding Gabrels’ addition to the lineup — and generally hasn’t announced lineup changes in recent years — musician Jenn Vix, who released a song with Gabrels earlier this year, tells Slicing Up Eyeballs that Gabrels is “an official band member now” and will play all of The Cure’s summer festival dates."
Update: Robert says Reeves is "just filling in", he's not a member of the band.

From Jenn Vix on Facebook: "For all my friends who have been wondering where I have disappeared to for the last few weeks... I am playing guitar with The Cure. We will be doing festivals throughout Europe this summer." -- Reeves Gabrels

Pinkpop on TV, Radio, Internet

Still not sure about this, but it looks like some of The Cure's set should be aired on one or more of these stations tomorrow:
3FM
Cultura24
3voor12
101.tv (only available in The Netherlands?)
Nederland 3 (Highlights on Sunday & Monday?)
This article says Robert has given them permission to air The Cure's set (this is only for tv), but this article has a schedule of performances to be streamed, and The Cure are not listed.

Hultsfred posters

Poster for the Hultsfred Festival spotted today in the Stockholm Underground. (Thanks Perfect.Murder)

These posters are all over Stockholm right now. (Thanks Johan)

And here's an ad in Swedish magazine People. (Thanks @MarbleandStone)

Cure videos on Rage in Australia

"Thought I'd let you know for all the Aussie fans that Rage appears to be broadcasting the Cure's entire catalogue of music videos (including two live ones I believe) from 3.30am onwards tomorrow night (Saturday) on ABC1. Rage is a music video TV program on the ABC that runs specials every Saturday night. Here's the link for the playlist." (Thanks Gabby)