News Archive - April 1997
Cure: Charity Begins At Home And you thought Tripping Daisy was the only band enterprising enough to hawk an EP over the Internet. Not so. Robert Smith has done the Daisies one better and will release 5,000 copies of the Cure's latest offering, a live five-track EP, titled Five Swing Live, which was recorded during the British leg of the band's 1996 world tour, over the Net. Too bad it's not culled from the U.S. dates. Remember that awkward moment at the Los Angeles Forum last August, when Smith stopped the show following the first song after a roadie brought him a cellular phone? He conducted a terse conversation, right on stage, and then launched into the next song albeit a little less enthusiastically than the first number. We would have paid big bucks to have had that telling moment recorded for posterity. We never did find out who made the urgent call, but Smith did dash off to LAX right after the set and returned to England. But back to this novel marketing idea. The disc will sell for $15.95, and Cure fans, and the merely curious, can purchase it at the Cure website. You can only pay with Visa, Mastercard, or your Discover card, and within four to six weeks you'll be listening to the Cure performing "Want," "Club America," "Mint Car," "Treasure," and "Trap." If the titles seem vaguely familiar, it's because they're from the Cure's 1996 Wild Mood Swings, and you just haven't lived with them enough. As any good Cure fan knows, the new songs need aging and then tend to grow on you like a disease. Fortunately, there's a Cure. Smith mixed these tracks himself (don't try this at home), as well as designing the cover of the CD. Just to let you know that the band is not a gang of moody malcontents, it's donating 25 percent of the proceeds to the International Red Cross. Why the Red Kross? Because the British eccentrics were quite charmed by the British wing of the international organization's attempts to force the L.A.-based Red Kross to change its name again last month 15 years after they changed its name from Red Cross to Red Kross, at the behest of the American organization. Nah, it's just a matter of a bad pun. Cure donates to Red Cross for a cure. What do you mean, you don't get it?
Addicted to Noise (4/29/97) Net-Only Cure CD Addicted To Noise staff writer Gil Kaufman reports: The Cure's latest CD, a five-track live EP called Five Live, will be available in a limited quantity of 5,000 on their web site The songs--"Want," "Club America," "Mint Car," Treasure" and "Trap"--all from the group's last release, 1996's Wild Mood Swings, were recorded during the British leg of the group's 1996 world tour and 25% of the proceeds will go to the International Red Cross. A source told ATN part of the reason behind the release is to bring attention to the group's re-vamped web site, which Cure leader Robert Smith had a heavy hand in re-designing. Each copy of the EP will be numbered and carry the imprint of the Cure's British label, Fiction Records, an arrangement given the green light by their U.S. label, Elektra. The group are planning to return to the studio next month to record a few new songs for a possible late summer single release.
Cure Live CD Available Only On Internet
April 28 [13:00 EST]--Cure completists will want to swing by the band's
official website to snatch a copy of a limited edition live EP that is
available for purchase only on the Internet.
The band has pressed a mere 5,000 copies of "Five Swing Live," which
features five tracks recorded during the British leg of the band's 1996
world tour.
The CD,which boasts the touch of frontman Robert Smith in both the mix
and the cover art,features live versions of five tracks from "Wild Mood
Swings."
Buyers will pick up live reworkings of "Want," "Club America," "Mint Car,"
"Trap," and "Treasure."
The CD goes for $15,with 25 percent of all profits going to the
International Red Cross.Interested Cure fans will want to have a credit
card ready when visiting the bands website at www.thecure.com.
The Cure's New Live Album Released Only On Internet The Cure is selling 5,000 copies of their latest live album, Five Swing Live, via the Internet only, making it an instant collector's item.The five- track EP features songs from last year's studio album Wild Mood Swings, including "Want," "Club," "America," "Mint Car," "Trap," and "Treasure," which were recorded during the British leg of the group's 1996 world Swing tour. The CD, which was mixed by Robert Smith, is available only through the official Cure website (at www.the-cure.com/). A spokesman for the group said that the Internet- only release was to help promote the newly relaunched site, in which the band is highly involved. Smith and keyboardist Roger O'Donnell were primary contributors to the site's redesign. Smith also designed the sleeve artwork for Five Swing Live. The EP costs $15.00 plus handling, and The Cure is donating a quarter of their profits to the International Red Cross. The Cure are currently on hiatus after their nine-month world tour, which ended in December, and are set to return to the studio to record a new single for release next year. -Christina Johnson
New Cure Album Only Available Online Five Swing Live, the new release from the Cure, is sure to be a must-have album for fans. Why? It seems only five thousand copies of the five-song disc will be released, and the only place you can get a copy is at the Cure House (http://www.the-cure.com), the band's official Web site. All five tunes, recorded live during their 1996 tour, were mixed by Cure main man Robert Smith, who also designed the cover. The album goes for fifteen bucks and change, and once you plunk down your VISA number, it will take anywhere from four to six weeks to find its way to your mailbox. And while the live tracks have never been released, studio versions of all five songs--"Want," "Club America," "Mint Car," "Treasure," and "Trap"--appeared on the Cure's last studio album, Wild Mood Swings. This means that although fans of the Cure will want to own a copy of Five Swing Live, the disc will probably enjoy more success as a souvenir than as a collector's item. But it's all for a good cause--twenty-five percent of the disc's profits are being donated to the International Red Cross.
New Cure Album Sold Through Internet Only LOS ANGELES (Reuter) - The latest Cure album is an instant collector's item, with 5,000 copies of a live, five-track release being sold through the Internet only. The compact disc, "Five Swing Live," featuring songs recorded during the British leg of the group's 1996 world tour, sells for $15.95 via the official Cure website at www.the-cure.com/, the group's publicist said. Payment is through Visa, Mastercard or Discover, and delivery takes 4-6 weeks. The International Red Cross will receive 25 percent of the proceeds. The songs are "Want," "Club America," "Mint Car," Treasure" and "Trap," all cuts that originally appeared on the Cure's latest studio album, 1996's "Wild Mood Swings." Group leader Robert Smith mixed the tracks and designed the cover for "Five Swing Live." Each CD is numbered, and will carry the imprint of the group's British label, Fiction Records, even though they are manufactured in the U.S., where the group is signed to Elektra Records. The spokesman said Elektra has approved the release. The group, meanwhile, is currently taking a break following the nine-month world tour, which ended in December.
Playboy:When you appeared on The Simpsons,Homer gave you
this
glowing praise: "Thanks to your gloomy music,my children have stopped
dreaming about a future I can't possibly provide." Did he get it right?
Corgan:Things don't seem to be getting any better,do they?People
always called The Cure gloomy,but listening to The Cure always made
me happy.
There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort,and I
think we're the same way.