Looking at this magazine page competition makes me smile. 😊
Lots of bands were doing it.
I never won anything though.
But what would your answer be on that question above ?

I hope it's okay to share a link to an Instagram Reel, but this is just too good not to try https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfAcur-ReyG/?dlrf=Z2dnYm12bG9zeW1i

I’ve been listening to it for over 40 years, originally on cassette, and for some strange reason, M, at night, secrets, and in your house all jumble in my brain.

Thought it was funny he has this because The Cure aren't from anywhere near there! I wonder if he only wore it during those Texas shows in 2023, because that's all I've seen, which would be even funnier in that case. Has he actually worn it anywhere else? I love this band so much 🖤

Happy 18th Birthday to 4:13 Dream!

The 13th Cure album which saw a single released on the 13th of each month from May to August 2008.

Not the most loved release by the band - I like it a lot but it's not a favourite. It reached 33 in the UK charts.

This year I have chosen Track 3 - The Reasons Why.

This performance was from the Coca-Cola Live @ MTV 2008 show on 11th October 2008 at Piazza San Giovanni, Rome, Italy. I love Pearl's guitar!

Taken from The Cure - The Reasons Why (Live in Rome, 2008) by 180-boucheronian on You Tube ✨⚡✨

It’s The Cure Glasgow show between Happy The Man and Play For Today where Robert is checking and tuning his guitar, and porl taps his shoulder and a person takes a photo with a flash. Anyone seen this image? Or is it in this man’s private collection now that the light will never seen

Happy 42nd Birthday to Concert: The Cure Live Album!

This is one of my favourite Cure live albums. I love the 1984 era and line up. It's my favourite version of Robert too...!

I still have the coveted cassette on my wants list. Yeah the Curiosity Cure

Anomalies songs appear on deluxe editions of later albums but I try to collect all I can of theirs! That is one incredible cassette!

The concert was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and also Oxford during The Top tour.

This year I have chosen Track 3 - Charlotte Sometimes. This is a great versof it from the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo, Japan on 17th October 1984 on oi Top tour.

Taken from The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes (Live in Japan, 1984) by Abercrombie Fitch on You Tube ❣️❣️

So I recently did that "top 9 albums that shaped me musically thing" making the rounds, and I had The Cure's "Head on the Door" as my #1 - I heard this when I was 12 and was completely blown away and was my first introduction to "dark" music and set me on the path to all the weirdness I listen to today.

LIke many albums I listened to in high school, my cooler older sister had brought it home on vinyl and I taped it and I listened to it on my tape deck and walkman over and over (in this case, until the tape literally fell apart).

But I just looked it up, and it turns out I had had the order all wrong! Looks like 12 year old me had taped side B as side A, so I always thought the album started with The Baby Screams, and finished with Push, and Inbetween Days was halfway through. But it's the other way around. It opens with Inbetween Days.

I'm listening to the album now in that order and it's such a bizarre experience. It actually changes the whole feel of it. Inbetween Days is a very upbeat and poppy way to start the album which sets the tone in a more positive light. For me, Baby Screams is just the perfect way to start the album. Coming across it halfway through is really strange. But the ending is the other way around. Push is quite an affirming and uplifting song, but Sinking as a closer, jesus christ. Not just the darkest song on this album, but one of the darkest songs in their entire discography (and that's saying a lot).

Anyway this has been fun experience. Not just to revisit an old favourite, but to listen to it in a new way. And goes to show how important the track order of an album is (I cannot for the life of me understand how people listen to albums on shuffle). If you wanted to listen to it like I used to, you could set up a custom playlist or similar and give it a go!

Didn't have time to schedule this last night but it's here now.

Happy 33rd Birthday to the Paris album!

It is such a great live album, which was recorded in October 1992 on the Wish tour at Zenith de Paris, and has so many good versions of Cure classics.

This year I have chosen Track 3 - At Night. One of my top ten songs. Always loved the sinister mood of this song.

Copyright means I have to use a performance from elsewhere, so this is from Le Fort de Saint-Pere in France on 13th August 2005 as part of La Route du Rock.

Taken from The Cure - At Night (Live 2005) by curedtc4 on You Tube 💜

Did this as part of an art project back in college. Have plans to return to it in the future. Shake Dog Shake if it were a single.

Him producing The Cure would have been amazing, instead of Ross Robinson for instance. Maybe too obvious a choice for Robert’s taste

Anyway, every time they post a story I expect some new album or tour :) in any case they never make mistakes in what they do and say!!

This made me chuckle when I walked into the office break room and the microwave was stuck here.

A magnificent night at Koko in Camden, London.

It was crowded for Lol Tolhurst and his band! I tried to get a few videos and photos.

The band sounded great - Lol sounded great on drums and I was impressed with the singer Eric Bradley and bassist Oliver Cherer.

And what a treat to see Phil Thornalley and Michael Dempsey!! This made me so happy and really glad to have braved the journey and gig feeling under par and exhausted!

They both looked really happy to be there and still sounded great on bass.

I managed to get videos of A Strange Day, The Hanging Garden (Phil looked in his element!), the highlight for me being All Cats Are Grey, and M.

I love to rewatch The Wedding Singer and every time I see that scene in his sisters basement and The Cure plays I swear it's a different song of theirs lol.

Promoting The Caterpillar single and The Top album (May 1984).
The critics called this album as Psych Pop then.

I saw him with his band supporting the Chameleons yesterday. Didn’t really know what to expect, but it was very good. The setlist was taken from the first four albums (which makes sense as Lol was playing drums). The playing wasn’t flawless but it had a lot of heart and it was quite moving watching Lol mouth the words. It clearly meant a lot to him, especially All Cats Are Grey which he introduced as a song about his mother. The guitarist/singer, and bassist both got a very good early Cure sound for their instruments, and the singer sang in the right register without sounding like he was trying to imitate Robert.

It was also good to be reminded of what his drumming brought to the band in the early days. Technically not a brilliant drummer compared to the drummers who followed, but he had (and has) an idiosyncratic way of moving around the toms.

Well worth seeing if you like the early stuff. Setlist was (maybe not in this order):

1. The Holy Hour
   
2. Siamese Twins
   
3. A Forest
   
4. A Strange Day
   
5. M
   
6. The Hanging Garden
   
7. All Cats Are Grey
   
8. Three Imaginary Boys
   
9. Boys Don’t Cry
   
10. 10:15 Saturday Night

Saw this live and was shocked to see Page & Plant do perhaps The Cure's greatest song.

A bit slower and bluesy... A real unexpected gem in the middle of all those Zeppelin classics.

Today is costume dress up day at my office. Figured I do a tribute.