NME's Top 500 Albums of All Time

The Cure place 2 albums on NME's Top 500 Albums of All Time list. 'Disintegration' at #139 & 'The Head on the Door' at #494. See the full list at Consequence of Sound. Before getting upset about the list, keep in mind that it's from NME. Of course it's ridiculous! :)

Pearl Thompson appearance on Oct. 17th

From Lisa Johnson on Facebook: "Come see me n Porl on 10/17 at Mr Musichead Gallery for the 108 RSG EXHIBIT & BOOK LAUNCH!"

Update (Oct. 25th, 2013): Lisa has posted some photos from the event on her Facebook.

'Wild Mood Swings' revisited

Soundwaves took another look at 'Wild Mood Swings', and tried to make it a better album. But they left 'Club America', 'Return' and 'Round & Round & Round' on it, and deleted 'Strange Attraction' & 'Gone', so they failed. :)

Fantastic photos/videos from recent shows

Wanted to spotlight some of the fantastic photos from the recent shows:

Here's William Soragna's photos from El Paso & ACL weekend 2.

And from Mauro Melis, photos from El Paso (Flickr & Sound of Violence) and  ACL weekend 2 (Flickr & Sound of Violence) 


And those great El Paso & Monterrey videos from It's A Perfect Day have been uploaded again, after being removed from YouTube. See the El Paso videos here, and here's Catch & Sinking from Monterrey.

Matthieu Hartley items for sale

Matthieu Hartley is selling 2 of his old Cure keyboards, 1 amp, and other memorabilia on ebay. (Thanks Matthieu)

Cure at Glastonbury 1990 on 6 Music

Listen to 30 minutes of The Cure at Glastonbury 1990 on the BBC 6 Music Live Hour. Expires tomorrow, Oct. 24th.
(Thanks Perfect.Murder)

Simon and The Silence

Yet another Doctor Who reference from Simon, and further proof of his awesomeness. See those sets of marks on his arm? He must have run into The Silence quite a few times in Austin! ;) Thanks to Rev. Heron for sending the photo, and to Fuji for taking it at Austin City Limits on Oct. 5th.

No East Coast "special appearance" show

Roger confirmed it on Facebook. In reply to a comment about waiting on word about that show, Roger replied, "Not happening!" So looks like if you want/need to see The Cure this year, you better get to Voodoo.

The Cure at ACL webcast

The Cure at ACL setlist

Photo of the soggy setlist from The Cure's set at Austin City Limits on Oct. 12th, 2013. Note that 'Shake Dog Shake' was listed but not played. And 'Boys Don't Cry' was added at the end.
(Thanks Greg)

The Cure at Austin City Limits (10/12/13)

Setlist: Tape/Open, A Night Like This, The End of the World, Lovesong, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Fascination Street, Pictures of You, Lullaby, High, The Lovecats, Close To Me, Hot Hot Hot, The Caterpillar, The Walk, Stop Dead, Push, Inbetween Days, Friday I'm In Love, Doing the Unstuck, Want, The Hungry Ghost, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Give Me It, End, Boys Don't Cry.

Reviews: Austin Chronicle / Austin 360

Photos: William Soragna / Mauro Melis (Sound of Violence & Flickr) / It's A Perfect Day / KEXPLive / Kristof_Acke

Videos: Full webcast / Lovesong 1 - 2 / Just Like Heaven / Pictures of You / Stop Dead (webcast) / Wrong Number /

Downloads: Webcast MP3s - Part 1 http://uploaded.net/file/jvykgsc5 , Part 2 http://uploaded.net/file/1keojbcx / Webcast 5.1 DVD on Cure Community /Webcast 1080p DVD on DIME

11:53 pm - From Greg: "Austin is flooding, CRAZY weather!  Note: Shake Dog Shake on the setlist but not played. Was intended to be after FTEOTDGS. Amazing show!"

11:12 pm - From Olivier: "One of the best festival shows I've ever seen. Singing One Hundred Years and Give Me It at the top of your lungs under the pouring rain in a crowd of Cure fans is an amazing thing to do! (Still drenched, though.)"

7:20 pm - From Olivier, the stage is being set up.

Pearl Thompson at book launch on Oct. 8th

From 108 Rock Star Guitars on Facebook: "Come on and Come OUT my Rock n Roll Brother's and Sisters!! Want to see you at my book launch event at The Cutting Room NYC this coming Tuesday night 10/08!!! Les Paul Trio with Vinny Martell and special appearances by Les Paul long time guitar tech Thomas Doyle and the uber cool Porl Thompson!!"

Update (10/08/13): The return of Pearl! From 108 Rock Star Guitars on Facebook. 

Update (10/09/13): More photos of Pearl from last night. 
(Thanks Crimson Tonight)

And more photos here. (Thanks @_crenga) 

Update (10/12/13):  Peter went to the event and sent in a review. (Thanks Peter)

Great photos from El Paso

Great El Paso photos from Mauro Melis. See more on his Facebook and Flickr.

"Pictures of El Paso to be published next week on a French web magazine (Sound Of Violence).

These are the very first photos, many others are coming (just need to go back to paris to process them:). I'm gonna shoot also Austin tonight.

More to come on a Print Musical Mag (November issue of My- Rock Mag) " (Thanks Mauro)

YouTube videos being removed

Looks like The Cure are having many of the Monterrey and El Paso videos removed from YouTube. Very disappointing, but certainly their right to protect their property.

Roger, Fletch, Martin at ACL

Andrew Fletcher, ?, Roger O'Donnell, Martin L. Gore. 3 of my favorite people all together in one room!

From Depeche Mode World Tour 2013-2014 on Facebook.
(Thanks Aaron)

LatAm film update from Tim Pope

Starting soon to edit the Neil Young concert I shot a few years back. Always a pleasure to be doing stuff with Mr. Shakey.
— Tim Pope (@timpopedirector) October 11, 2013

And before you ask... I hope to do the same with another certain X8 concerts. These things fall into place. Eventually.
— Tim Pope (@timpopedirector) October 11, 2013

The Cure in El Paso (Oct. 10th, 2013)

Setlist: Plainsong, Fascination Street, A Night Like This, Torture, The End of the World, Lovesong, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Pictures of You, Lullaby, High, Hot Hot Hot, Birdmad Girl, The Walk, Stop Dead, Push, Inbetween Days, Friday I'm in Love, Doing the Unstuck, Treasure, Want, The Hungry Ghost, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Disintegration

1st encore: Shake Dog Shake, Bananafishbones, The Caterpillar, Give Me It
2nd encore: Catch, The Baby Screams, Sinking, Play For Today, A Forest
3rd encore: The Lovecats, Close To Me, Let's Go To Bed, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab.

Reviews: El Paso Times / El Diario

Photos: William Soragna / NotQuiteFaust / Mauro Melis Sound of Violence & Facebook & Flickr / It's A Perfect Day / (These are mine 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6) - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 -

Videos: Fascination Street / A Night Like This / Torture / Lovesong 1 - 2 / Just Like Heaven 1 - 2 / Pictures of You 1 - 2 / Lullaby / The Walk / Stop Dead / Friday I'm In Love / Treasure / The Hungry Ghost / Shake Dog Shake / Give Me It 1 - 2 (Simon-centric) - 3 / Catch & The Baby Screams / The Baby Screams / Sinking / The Lovecats / Let's Go To Bed / Boys Don't Cry /

Interview with Pearl and Lisa Johnson

Here's a recent audio interview (starts at 4 minutes in) with Pearl Thompson and Lisa Johnson of the 108 Rock Star Guitars book. Not much Pearl, mostly Lisa, but better than nothing. (Thanks Alex)

And it sounds like Pearl has some new material coming out. Lisa posted this on Facebook: "Truly an EXQUISITE performance by Pearl at the 108 Rock Star Guitar Book Launch event!!! You are all going to LOVE his new material."

Off to El Paso to see The Cure!

Just a note to let you know that I will be traveling to El Paso for tonight's show, so I probably won't be able to post updates until later this afternoon. I will, if at all possible, be updating the setlist from tonight's show. Will set everything up when I get to the hotel, but just in case something goes wrong, I will most definitely be posting updates on Twitter, as long as I can get a signal. And of course Olivier will be posting (if possible) at It's a Perfect Day. If all else fails, I will be post the setlist as soon as the show ends and I get back to the hotel.

'BirdMad Girl' in Monterrey

The Cure - Birdmad Girl (Monterrrey, Mexico Oct. 8th, 2013)