Fan Takes the Cure for $75,000

It must feel just like heaven for a zealous (former?) Cure fan who was granted a $75,000 judgement against his idols in Santa Ana, Calif., on Wednesday (Feb. 24). Mark Perry, 23, won the default judgement for injuries he allegedly suffered at the hand of the Cure's bodyguard Brian David Adsett after Perry went to the band's hotel seeking an autograph in 1996. According to the plaintiff, none of the band members tried to stop the beating. Orange County Superior Court Judge Francisco Firmat entered the default judgement after the band failed to respond to the suit.

Erik Gunderson, Perry's attorney, stated that his client — whom he says was a "dedicated and loyal fan" of the band — received injuries to his face, lips, and teeth. His teeth required root canals, and he is awaiting plastic surgery for facial disfigurement.

"After he was served with the complaint during another autograph session in Hollywood," said Gunderson, "Robert Smith tore it up and threw it out into a crowd of people."

From Yahoo Daily News:

Rock Group Slapped With Judgement - (IRVINE)

The alternative rock group the Cure has been ordered to pay 75-thousand dollars to a fan who says he was roughed up by their bodyguard at an Irvine concert. Orange County superior court judge Francisco Firmat issued a default judgement after the band failed to respond to the lawsuit by 25-year-old Mark Perry. He says band members stood by while their bodyguard beat him, knocking out his teeth, for seeking an autograph. Perry says he was once a fan, but now can't stand to hear the Cure's music. An attorney for the group denies the allegations and says they will seek to have the judgement overturned.

(Thanks Marisa)

2/06/99 SILLY NEWS: "DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB"

The BowieNet Cyber Song Contest "What's Really Happening", as we all know was a smashing success. Entries came in from all over the world. Well it turns out that various members of the legendary UK band - The Cure - submitted lyrics along with us mere mortals!

None of the boys won - or even made it to the finals.....but we might send them a mousepad for their efforts. PS - Keep an eye out for a new Cure CD during 1999, with hopefully a tour to follow.

Check out the Cure at their website www.thecure.com. It's a great site!

(Thanks robbertc)

#64 CURE - LOVE SONG

#63 CURE - CLOSE TO ME

#43 CURE - INBETWEEN DAYS

#33 CURE - BOYS DON'T CRY

#4 CURE - JUST LIKE HEAVEN

"hits under the hammer" - http://www.thecure.com/charityauction.html

yes! - the 'wrong number' lyrics are up for auction. 200 sets of hand written lyrics will be auctioned in london at the sound republic, leicester square on monday 22nd march. lyrics up for auction include those by jimi hendrix, blur, oasis, the prodigy, etc. tickets for the auction are £120.00 (entry fee) all proceeds from the sale go to the nordoff-robbins-music therapy charity. bids start at £100, check out the web-site (although it's a bit vage!) http://www.icollector.com/

(Thanks Chris)

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(Thanks Ari)

(Thanks Dulijh)

CURIOSITY live on Saturday the 27th of february

Time: 20h

Where: in l'escalier (liège/luik/lüttich) in le carré, 26 rue st jean.

How much? 200bf

(Thanks Vincent)

CURE NOD

It's moved from Sundays to Wednesdays, but the vaunted EL MOCAMBO tribute series -which has immortalized such musical luminaries as Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division and the Beach Boys- sets its sightson The Cure February 24. Saluting Robert Smith and crew in concert are Poppy Seed & the Love Explotion Orchestra, Mean Red Spiders, Sinphonic, Neck and others.

The free evening begins at 7pm with Cure footage and videos.

(Thanks Omar)

"The famous brazilian band, Pato Fu, is playing "Just Like Heaven", he played this in a special for MTV Brasil in a beach and in the radio 98fm (www.98fm.com.br, have real audio to listen the radio). Fernanda Takay vocal of Pato Fu is a good singer and one of his idols is Robert Smith, who he met in Hollywood Rock in Brazil in 94, when the cure come to Brazil for the second time. In another song of this band "A Tempestade" (The Storn) they put in the introduction of Inbetween Days."

(Thanks Pedro)

For those of you who don't know - here's some info from the press release from pinnacle distribution:

"Shelleyan orphan were caroline crawley (vocals & clarinet & jem tayle (vocals & guitar). hailing from bournemouth they moved to london in 1982 in search of a string and oboist. recorded a bbc session in 1984 and supported the jesus & mary chain. signed to rough trade and released two singles and three albums. they supported the cure on their european and usa 'prayer tour' during 1989. (caroline & jem joining the cure for a version of 'forever' on the final date of the u.s leg of the prayer tour!). upon their return they recorded the final album 'humroot'. last year caroline and jem launched their new project 'babacar' with ex-cure drummer boris williams and ex-shelleyan orphan bass player roberto soave."

(Thanks to Chris White)

(Thanks to Chris White)

"If you're looking for a record to get you into the mood, No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal suggests popping on something by Prince. "That can really bring out some animalistic urges" he says. When the time comes to do the dead, though, Kanal says switch to THE CURE. "You're pretty safe with seventeen seconds; Faith or Staring at the Sea, the singles collection.The older stuff creates a really dark background. Some of the slower stuff is amazing." Time to break out the multi-disc player."

(Thanks to Kiloid)

"Following the successful 'Cure drinks' in recent months, I am proud to announce the 'Cure Party', an evening of Cure music, raffle with special prizes to be won donated by the band. Plus original compositions and Cure songs by a million&9....

Friday 19th February - 'The Plough' pub, Museum Street, London WC1. 6.30pm till 11p.m. 'upstairs room' - directions - the pub is close to the British Museum, on the corner of Museum Street and Little Russell Street.Nearest station - Holborn (Piccadilly / Central line)"

(Thanks to Hugh & Ange)

"The hardback is scheduled for May and at the moment it's entitled 'Depeche Mode; A Biography by Steve Malins'. It is the most in-depth book on the band so far and includes extensive interviews with Alan Wilder, Daniel Miller, Flood, Tim Simenon, Stevo, Daryl Bamonte, Anton Corbijn, Gareth Jones and various musicians, including Afrika Bambaataa and Sparks. Both Depeche Mode, the band's management and Mute Records have been aware of the project from the start and have been extremely helpful in providing first-hand information, checking facts and so on. This is the first time they have agreed to contribute to a biography, albeit on an informal basis, so it should be a lot more accurate than previous efforts. Steve Malins is contributing Editor at Q Magazine and his previous books include a Paul Weller biography and Gary Numan's 'Praying To The Aliens' autobiography. "

The Cure's 'Friday I'm in love' was featured briefly in an advertisement for the Chris Evans Virgin Radio breakfast show on the British ITV network(Thu/4/1/99) . It only lasted about 15-25 secs but featured clips from the promo video and Mr. Evans in the studio with his 'posse'.

"What do the bands COGASM and CULT HEROS have in common?

a) They're both one-time-only side projects of Robert Smith of The Cure

b) They're both one-time-only side projects of Ian Astbury of The Cult

c) They're both Canadian

d) They're up-and-coming Australian groups"

"This is the first cure quote I've seen so far in the local entratainment papers here in Toronto. I've been here since the last summer and apparently this guy Alan Cross has been caving hard to make his Pop Quiz more interesting...The trivia is part of the New Rock Edge 102 's page in Now magazine and The Eye (leading weekly entretainment guides)...The thing is that this radio station is not playing cure stuff at all (except for a few requests on weekend)....anyway, just wanted to report this cure related note from this city"

Taking a closer look to Now magazine, in the music notes section appears the following:

CURE NOD

It's moved from Sundays to Wednesdays, but the vaunted EL MOCAMBO tribute series -which has immortalized such musical luminaries as Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division and the Beach Boys- sets its sightson The Cure February 24. Saluting Robert Smith and crew in concert are Poppy Seed & the Love Explotion Orchestra, Mean Red Spiders, Sinphonic, Neck and others.

The free evening begins at 7pm with Cure footage and videos.

Just a reminder that CURIOSITY will play live on saturday the 27th of February 1999

Time? : 20 h 30' (8.30 pm)

How much?: 200 bf!!

Hurry up to have a place!!!!

"Just wanted to share a little "ditty" I found in a 1999 daily tear-off 80's trivia calendar while reading a few days ahead. (The calendar is actually called The 80's: Pop Culture Aptitude Test 1999.) For Monday, February15th, the question is:

Which of the following is not a song by The Cure?

A. "Lullaby"

B. "Just Like Heaven"

C. "Close to You"

D. "Let's Go To Bed"

E. "Killing An Arab"

Obviously, all of us know the answer, but for the "uninformed," on the reverse side of the page, it says, C. "Close to You"......The dance club staple required a different pronoun; it was called "Close to Me"

No Doubt On Producers, The Cure, And Lollapalooza Rumors

(2/3/99, 1 a.m. PST) - Following up an eight-times platinum, chart-topping album isn't easy. Just ask No Doubt. The band had originally started work on the follow-up to 1995's Tragic Kingdom with producer Matthew Wilder, who worked with the band on its breakthrough smash, at the A&M studios in Hollywood this past Summer.

After those sessions, the band was about to lay down tracks in New York with Hole and Marilyn Manson studio whiz Michael Beinhorn. But after problems scheduling time with Beinhorn, No Doubt has once again switched producers, opting to enlist Alanis Morissette producer/ collaborator Glen Ballard to helm the band's fourth album.

Still in the pre-production stage, No Doubt doesn't really know what its latest effort will sound like, says bassist Tony Kanal, except the band's members have been listening to an awful lot of the Cure. "Honestly, it's the simplicity," Kanal says. "Simple, yet so genius. We definitely appreciate bands who have gone through a lot of variations." As for No Doubt's own music, "it's too early to tell," he concedes. Though a band recording down the hall from No Doubt's A&M studio sessions last Summer reported hearing a more jazzy, early ska sound emanating from the room, Kanal laughs it off. "Jazzy? No. That's very funny." It's premature to describe any of the new material, because "we're just starting," he says. "But it's good to be back into it, working, writing, making a video [for "New," a song No Doubt wrote for the film Go], after all this time."

As for the talk that the band might be headlining Lollapalooza, Kanal says it's nothing more than a rumor. "You know, I read that, too," he says with a laugh. "There's no truth to that at all. We haven't decided any of our tour plans yet. Nothing is set."

-- Jennifer Vineyard, Los Angeles

"when fan means fanatical" andrew smith has a chilling experence on the net! in an artical about fan websites on the internet 'andrew smith' searches for some of the more popular websites around at the moment. the artical is somewhat long but a brief paragraph mentions the following - "pop's other most conspicuous fan-magnets over the years all seem obvious when we name them now: elvis, jim morrison of the doors (whose parisian grave is still visited by thousands of people a year), marc bolan, bowie, boy george and robert smith of the cure...did it always seem obvious that they would be the chosen ones?" the artical also mentions that 'marilyn manson' who are listed having the most (music related) websites on the internet today, some 65,327 entries using the name 'marilyn manson'!!!!

(Note: You can view the entire article at the Sunday Times website. Just register and then click on the culture section.)