(Thanks robbertc)

"The Last Day of Summer" is still on the most popular Polish chart in "Radio 3". Currently, it occupies 19th place and it's for 19 weeks in the chart !!!!! It may beat Lullaby record which was 22 weeks. You can look at the chart at the address: http://www.radio.com.pl/trojka/lp3/archiwum/2000/960.htm

and you can vote at: http://www.radio.com.pl/scripts/trojka/trojkowa_lista_przebojow/glosuj.idc

- Fiction Records allowed 6 songs from Lodz concert to be aired in Polish radio stations. Radio 3 played "Out of this world" and "Watching me fall" from this concert.

(Thanks Tomek)

"Close To Cure" (www.closetocure.csi.ru) fan-club and Russian DM fan-club present The Cure and DM Party in Moscow, Russia. It will take place on July 8, in "Schwein" (“Baumanskaja” station, Lefortovsky per. 12) at 22-00.

Contact with Goshmar (goshmar@hotmail.com), Disintegrator (disintegrator@mail.ru) or our fan-club management (closetocure@csi.ru)"

(Thanks Goshmar & Disintegrator)

"also at the jones beach show was model and former house of style host shalom harlow, who herself was discovered at a cure show a few years back."

(Thanks Jonathan)

"I attended the Bouncing Souls/Dropkick Murphy's show tonight (6/24/00) at Island Park, LI and the coolest thing happened. The Bouncing Souls were taking requests all night from fans. I had my recently purchased dream tour shirt on and I think Bryan (the bassist) saw this. He then said "this song is dedicated to all the goth girls I had a crush on but wouldn't talk to me." He then began to play JUST LIKE HEAVEN! I liked Oleanders' cover of Boys Don't Cry, but a punk version of JLH. Punk has always been one of my true loves, but when they cover a song by my favorite band, that rules SO much. When I heard the opening bass, I started flipping out, and everyone looked at me like I had two heads, everyone else was quiet (stupid punks). Both Bryan and the lead singer Greg just stared at me in disbelief while I sang all the words to the song. I'm sure it was strange that a punk fan knew The Cure. I don't think they've ever covered the cure, but it was still cool. I want the boot (even though I don't really approve of bootlegging). After the Souls set, I was talking to Bryan about the Cure, asked him what he thought of Bloodflowers, he said he loved it. He said he's been a Cure fan for years. I then asked him if he saw the Dream Tour, he said he was too busy with his own tour and asked me how many shows were left. I told him I saw the last show of the tour on Tues. at Jones Beach. He's looked pissed that he missed it. But then I shook his hand and let him go, because The Dropkick Murphy's were going on. I gained so much more respect for The Bouncing Souls because of this! :-) "

(Thanks Maceo107)

"Last night on BBC's review of Glastonbury there was a piece on the now mythical Pyramid Stage. Whilst talking about its early incarnation, Inbetween Days was on in the background, & then when describing how it had burned down in the mid 90's they played Fire in Cairo!!!!"

(Thanks Carl)

"Danish National Radio aired 30 min. of the Sheperds Bush 16.12.97. concert. The tracks played was: Prayers for rain, Inbetween days, Wrong number, Cut, A Forest and a piece of Boys don`t cry. The speaker said a bit about how The Cure was going to stop now, and that Roskilde Featival was the last chance to catch them on Danish soil ever. He finished off by naming the songs played, and showed his Cure-expertise be calling A Forest for THE Forest........"

(Thanks Lars)

PLAYING AT THE SEA

The Cure wrapped up their sold out tour on 6/20 at NY's Jones Beach. The alterna-icons wowed the crowd with classic songs and obscure nuggets rarely performed live by the band. Whispers were running rampant that show might be the last Cure performance in U.S. ever. So far, Robert Smith's lips are sealed. The new disc Bloodflowers continues to garner raves, but the legendary band still may have a trick or two up their sleeve. Stay tuned.

Find the boys at http://www.elektra.com/retro/cure

"Dan Keplinger, the artist featured in the oscar winning documentary "king gimp", was at the jones beach show."

(Thanks Diana)

"After the Jones beach show, while me and my friend were waiting for the tour bus in hopes a of an autograph signing session (which didnt happen), a town car drove into the backstage lot carrying actor Billy Zane."

(Thanks Adam)

"Vegaschips UPDATE:

Today the Hard rock Released the Cure $25 Chip. Only 250 made.

25 Went to the Band

25 To the Executives

50 to the Employees

and 150 to the Public.

The chips were sold out in 20 minutes. We have some for Sale at $400 a piece. But don't think they will last long. So if anybody wants one you can order it at:

Http://www.vegaschips.com "

(Thanks Nicole)

(Thanks Olivier)

"If anyone has checked out the "Survivors" TV show in the US, one of the castaways, Colleen, is a Cure fan. Its in her profile on the cbs.com web site under favorites."

(Thanks Curefan95)

"I just wanted to let you know that I've been watching MTV2 since 11 o'clock Central time where they've been airing "The Cure Collection." I've no idea when it started, but it's nearly 12 now and it's still going. Hopefully it'll be rebroadcast in the morning though I'm not really sure how their schedule works."

(Thanks Nathan)

"just got done watching an hour of cure videos on the mtv sister station m2 we missed the very beginning so, we are assuming it started at 9pm we caught the first video a bit after 9 and they showed cure videos until 10pm along with giving bits of cure info inbetween videos. pretty cool & well deserved"

(Thanks Nicole)

"Hi, I just have a little tidbit of information on a sort of Cure spotting. Last weekend I attended KROQ's Weenie Roast, and I was looking over the program today and I noticed that on the No Doubt page, Gwen lists Bloodflowers as her favorite album of the year as well as being the album she most listens to lately. So I guess she is a Cure fan after all."

(Thanks Claire)

Bowie Lets Fans Dig Everything in NY In special fan show, David Bowie lets down his hair

David Bowie can do everything but dance. The rock star, high-tech pioneer, bank magnate and virtual community patriarch (not to mention actor and painter) played the role of host at New York's Roseland Ballroom on Monday night at a private show. Among the attendees were BowieNet subscribers, friends (including his wife/model Iman, his The Hunger co-star Susan Sarandon, fashion designer Todd Oldham and members of the Cure) and the press.

Serving up twenty-two hits, fan favorites and obscurities, touching on twelve albums, two soundtracks and two singles (and one track penned for another artist, "All the Young Dudes"), Bowie lead a two-hour-plus connoisseur's guide through his rich catalog -- though, oddly, Bowie skipped his latest album, hours. . ., entirely. The show was his last U.S. date of the year and served as the final tune-up for his upcoming headlining gig at the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival.

Still battling the laryngitis that torpedoed Saturday night's show, Bowie spoke in a raspy voice but sung boisterously, capably crooning his way through ballads like "Life on Mars?" (a song so beautifully Broadway that it was once covered by Barbra Streisand) and "This Is Not America" (a seldom visited gem from the 1985 film The Falcon and the Snowman), and belting out rockers like "Cracked Actor" and "The Jean Genie."

"I'm so nervous tonight, you have no idea," the aw-shucks Bowie giggled to his faithful. "Do bear with me." Donning a sailor shirt (a nod to BowieNet members, as he often participates in chats under the name "Sailor"), from a distance the long-haired singer looked almost indiscernible from his Hunky Dory days (1971).

But it would be his subsequent Station to Station (1976) days that he would revisit the most. Joined by two STS vets, guitarist Earl Slick and percussionist Dennis Davis, Bowie ran through "Wild Is the Wind," "Stay" and "Station to Station," which maintained all of its epic chaos live.

Bowie smiled often as he shimmied awkwardly about like a pensive marionette, never quite metamorphosizing from Nice Guy Dave into the Thin White Duke. During surreal moments like "Ashes to Ashes" (arguably one of the weirdest tracks to catch on at rock radio), "Starman" and "Under Pressure" (which found Gail Dorsey nailing the late Freddie Mercury's vocal parts while plucking the bass melody), the atmosphere changed from warm-up gig to moonage stardust. But then Bowie brought everybody back to earth by announcing that he had to take a pee break or telling a story about Dutch woman doing a goofy interpretative dance during his other Glastonbury Festival appearance in 1971.

All of the above, and Bowie's amusing onstage bantering with a BowieNet member from Tokyo, made for a charming host and a cozy evening. Ironically, this bond between audience and artist that Bowie nurtured also worked to demystify him, thus disarming the very quality that lured many of Bowie's fans to him in the first place.

In a special treat for superfans, the band worked up two of Bowie's mid-Sixties' tracks, "I Dig Everything" and "London Boys," both of which he plans to rerecord. And then Thomas "Science!" Dolby joined the fray on hand-held keyboard for the closing triad: "Heroes," a slowed down "Let's Dance" and the Nine Inch Nailian "I'm Afraid of Americans."

When it was time for the final thunderous applause -- and free BowieNet T-shirts for all! -- it was unclear exactly who this interactive, user-friendly Bowie was to the people assembled at the Roseland: a friend, a pitchman or a rock idol. But there was no doubt that they loved him.

BILL CRANDALL (June 21, 2000)

(Thanks Robert)

"The Cure is playing Friday 30/6 at 1:00 AM, instead of Saturday 1/7 as previously announced! Check the complete time-schedule at www.roskilde-festival.dk"

(Thanks Peter, Uri, Simon)

(Thanks Karolien)

"An Australian Dream Tour Petition has just gone up at http://go.to/cure_oz. Please sign, and pass the URL on to friends. A petition worked in '92 so it could work again!"

(Thanks Andrew)

(Thanks Dan)

(Thanks Jason)

Question: Do you have a favorite place to write lyrics?

Robert: I don't actually have a favorite place to write lyrics. I write virtually everywhere. I have a favorite place to write music. I like to write music at home in a little room there though.

Will there be a Dream Tour video?

In some form or another but it will not be a commercial release. it will probably be some sort of amateur video that we'll release through our website. I'm pretty sure it will be free through there.

Will you be releasing a b-sides album of the songs unreleased from bloodflowers?

Actually the b-sides and outtakes album is at the top of my list of things to do. Now we're out of contract with the 2 major record labels we're working with, so you'll probably see it sometime. It's somewhat difficult to track down the masters for these but you know, it will be fun for fans to watch the development of our band.

What is your favorite song from the new album?

As the tour progressed, I really have to say Bloodflowers has become phenomenal. It's really emotional and that guitar solo has really become my favorite.

We've been doing 8 shows in the last 10 days so I've been really tired lately so I need a little rest but this tour has been really amazing. the physical heat over here has been really unreal.

Do you have a favorite song from Pornography?

ummm....100 years. just the way it's translated on this tour, all of the images and using it as an encore has really been quite a grower.

I think this tour lineup is much more fun than the wish lineup. the band and pairings are different every day. the interaction has been a lot of fun. We're truly working well together and the older songs are really fun.

What is your favorite song of every song you've recorded?

It's always been Faith. It's just one of those songs that came out really really fast and good. It just clicked. It's just one of those songs that I have truly begun working with.

What was your favorite city to play in on the Dream Tour?

It would have to be the 2 shows in Paris. Because my parents were there and that was really, really fun. But each and every show show has been really, really amazing. The Salt Lake City show was truly a great show, but it really is a little different over here in America, because we've been playing outdoors and the sound is totally different.

Do you play golf?

I've only ever played golf once. it's not my sport. As I get older, I feel that tennis is taking more and more of my time.

Sorry for personal questions - do you have any children?

No I don't. 23 nephews and nieces so I'm the only one in my large family to not have any.

Why do rumors of a breakup continue to surface?

I don't know, but those rumors tend to follow us, I mean I have been in 5 different bands that have been named The Cure. It's always changing. I just hate the idea of it being a career. My next project is definitely going to be a solo project. You'll have to wait to hear it, no music yet ha, you'll have to wait to hear it.

What is your fondest memory of being in The Cure?

Welllllllll....I would have to say one memory is when I turned 21 in Boston and then flew home and just got to be on tv that was truly fun. I think also just completing Disintegration was a major thing.

Twec.com would like to thank Robert Smith for joining us online. Is there anything you'd like to say to your fans before you go?

Lastwords...I love you all.

As far as we know, todays chat at TWEC is still scheduled to happen at 6:30 pm eastern today.

(Thanks Janice, Emilee, Rust)

"Roskilde Festival is a major sponsor of the Hungersite. www.hungersite.com. Any visitor can click on the donate free food button (only once a day). With so many Cure fans visiting this site daily, and the Cure playing Roskilde Festival, it would be nice for all us to donate and feed the hungry. It's free."

(Thanks Mattcure)

So what are we hoping for this weekend? Nadine is still wishing for At Night & In Your House, while my wishes are a bit more complex. : ) I will not leave the Dream Tour until I hear Charlotte Sometimes (this is THE song that made me a Cure fan, and despite it being a "regular" in the setlist for most tours, I've only heard it twice - once at my first show in 87 and then in N.O. in 96)! It would also be very nice to hear Cold one more time. And from my "I know they will not play it, but I'll list it anyway" list - Cut, Untitled, Homesick. As for our final show, I would love to hear the complete Disintegration encore again (including Same Deep Water) and it simply has to end with the Faith encore (Cats/Drowning/Faith). So wish us luck on our travels and with our setlist wishes.

And to Craig, Dayna, Ruth, Elia, Jerry, Priscilla, Joe, DSC, Pete (Belgium) and Aaron (what happened to you?) we really wish you could be there with us! It was so nice meeting everyone and it does seem a bit incomplete without all of the "regulars". We'll be thinking of you and know you'll be there in spirit!

Good luck and safe travel to everyone going to the final shows. See you there!

(Thanks Mike)

(Thanks Bennie)

SALES CLOSE FOR ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 2000

- Last tickets for sale on Wednesday

All through Spring, tickets to Roskilde Festival have sold solidly. To ensure the good atmosphere at Roskilde, the festival organisers have said long ago, that 'only' 70,000 4-day tickets will be for sale. Not to have to wait in long queues and move around in heavy crowds is an important quality along with the music. So again this year, Roskilde Festival will not be falling for the temptation to sell as much as possible. The festival will be sold out when the 70,000 tickets have been sold. "We'll be there soon," reports a festival spokesman, "at the speed the tickets have been selling lately, we'll have tickets left for another week or so. We have therefore decided announce to the public that ticket sales will close at all ticket offices in all countries and the festival sold out on Wednesday, June 21. So it's up to the public and their willingness to buy that decides where sales end on Wednesday, since the festival guarantees a ticket to all those who turn up until Wednesday. After that, sales stop."

(Thanks Simon)

"Hey all you Robert Smith and Cure fans,

My name is Emily Schechter and I am writing to you from EMusic.com. I wanted to tell everyone that the very talented Robert Smith will be hosting a chat on Yahoo! on Monday, June 19, 2000. This will take place from 5-6pm, eastern time. Immediately following this chat, there will be a webcast, from 6-9pm, of the June 2, 2000 Shoreline show.

This is an event not to be missed. He looks forward to hearing from all of you. Don't forget, the date is Monday, June 19, 2000. Again, the party will start at 5:00 and last until 9:00pm, eastern time. Don't miss out.

Have a good day and please come join the party."

"Great news for everyone in South America..I've just kept a conversation w/the guys that are negotiating w/the band, and they told me it is just a matter of a few details now before the shows are confirmed. They should happen by October....the final word will be given by July, as well as the dates of the shows, places, etc... I'll keep you updated.

(Thanks Antonio)

The Cure: Sunday, July 2nd, main stage, headliner.

Doors open: 09:30 am. Showtime: 11:00 pm - 00:30 am (only 90 minutes!).

(Thanks Simon)

(Thanks Dan)

"okay everyone keep in mind this is nuthin upsacale or big time, just a little get together.

the deal is that sean, tifney and I (roger), will be arriving at the sheraton hotel (1 mile from merriweather!) at approximately 2pm. once at the hotel, we will be meeting other cure fans staying there. check in is at 3pm so we will meet before that. once we are all checked in we will mosey on to the venue where we hope to get a parking spot near to the area the tour buses will be pulling into. so the plan is for all cure fans to meet up at the venue around 4 pm. we'll either be at the car in a spot near the main entrance, or we'll be on the grass near the main gate. in all likely hood, we will be on the grass near the main gate. either way, just look for the table with food, beer and a guy with a goat-tee, tifney the blond, sean "dance like a butterfly sting like a bee" (ok a made up nick name) and many others.

i will be bringing my cell phone (703-731-9902) so give me a call when you arrive and we can meet up then. the plan is to get together early to get to know each other, eat, drink, and be merry. afterwards we will go up front to catch the soundcheck, which should prove quite nice since this is an outdoor venue! the soundcheck will be early so we can either go back to the car or those with lawn ticks can assume their individual positions in line for good lawn positioning.

bring whatever you would like to eat or drink. we cannot supply refreshments due to the fact that you never know who will or will not show (or who is of age). my commrades and i are of age so there will be beverages of the mature kind! so if you are not of age, please bring what YOU want. we cannot supply alcohol to minors but also cannot prevent minors from bringing their own mature beverages (if you know what i mean).

post show will probably consist of lingering outside the venue for the chance of meeting the band. then we will move the party back to the hotel and continue the festivities until the cows come home. and who knows, maybe the band will be staying at that hotel! yeah right! and if you should be one of those crashing in our room, bring swimwear for some pool or hot tub action the next day!

hosts: roger, sean, tifney roger's cell phone: 703-731-9902 time: approx 4pm

url for columbia sheraton: http://www.sheraton.com/cgi/t3.cgi/property.taf?prop=1130&lc=en

place: merriweather http://www.mppconcerts.com main parking lot or main gate

what to bring: food, beer, wine, whatever you want

roger's email: suhblyme@yahoo.com

be there!

so far i have talked to 6 or 7 different people who plan on being there and may be bringing about 2 or 3 people with them so this should be fun."

"Two cure spotting in Lisbon, Portugal.

- I was watching the channel People & Arts last night and they advertised a program called "With you, the Cats". Well, the program is about cats and our involvement with them. And while advertising the program, in the background was playing "The Lovecats". The program will air next Monday, I believe.

- And also there is this nicest radio in Lisbon called "Mega FM". Every day they are doing a quizz to send people to London. The question of today was "What was the very first song played on Mega FM?" And guess the answer: Friday I´m in Love. That was very nice, since this radio is my favourite one."

(Thanks Claudio)

(Thanks Bruno)

(Thanks Kristopher)

Also, we would really appreciate it if someone could transcribe the interview for us or at least just let us know what was said. We'd do it ourselves, but it looks like WBCN is not accessible over the web. Thanks!

"I wanted to let everyone know that I am planing a pre-show Beach Party for the last US show at Jones Beach, NY...it was either that or commit suicide...I chose the beach party. If you would like to join the festivities please e-mail me at dempseyl@hotmail.com"

(Thanks Pequegnat)

(Thanks John)

"On the June 13th episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, a $4000 dollar question was "What band was Boy George the lead singer for?"

The choices were A) The Cult, B) Crowded House, C) Culture Club, and D) The Cure.

The contestant, Jason McClung, got it right, thankfully."

(Thanks Heather, Jayne, Blobby)

"Thought I would drop a line because I was at the local coffee house today enjoying the nice day. I live in a small town of 40,000 in Lompoc, CA. R&B and Punk are favorites among most of the young-adult population. To my surprise, I heard" There Is No If," and "Love Song" being played at some kind of open mike. What a treat when you usually only get this at home or in the car! "

(Thanks Pete)

"I live in Puerto Rico and I was watching tv when during a talk show from Peru about lie detectors they played "Prayers for Rain" several times in a row."

(Thanks Ol-Skool)

"I just thought I would share my amazement with the world that on MTV2 on Uk digital last night (12th/13th)at about 3:45am just as I was thinking of going to bed they played 'just like heaven'....unplugged!!!"

(Thanks Raining Down)

(Thanks Peter, Adam, Lynxxman)

Cure Singer Robert Smith Says Band To Split

Contributing Editor Mark Woodlief reports

Mopey singer Robert Smith said in a recent interview that the Cure will disband after their current tour and that he plans to record a solo album.

The gloomy frontman told Denver music journalist Mark Brown that he'd "booked studio time for September to work on a solo album, and that he's not going to release it under the name the Cure," Brown said. "He said absolutely the band is over."

"It's the first time in years that after we finish this tour, there are no plans to do anything else," Smith said in the interview, published at the Wall of Sound Web site.

But Smith coyly hinted he might just need a break from the band. "If in three years' time I want to do something else called the Cure, I will," he said. "I might well be burning all my bridges, but I can always build another one."

A spokesperson for Elektra Records said, "There is no official statement from the band or management that they are breaking up."

Smith claimed lyrics to "Maybe Someday," from the band's latest album, Bloodflowers (Feb. 15), reference the band's breakup. "That's the one song on the album about ending the Cure," Smith told Wall of Sound. "This is our swan song. I wanted one on there that said it."

In "Maybe Someday," Smith sings, "No, I won't do it again/ I don't want to pretend/ If it can't be like before, I've got to let it end."

Longtime Cure fan Barbara Mitchell of Seattle said, "If Robert's really going to end the band, I'd rather he go out with something like Bloodflowers; it feels like a fairly appropriate requiem."

But Mitchell, 32, said she's not certain this is the band's last gasp. "I'm not entirely convinced that this is actually the end of the Cure, and, from what I've read, neither is Robert," she said. "He keeps reserving the right to come back to it."

It's not the first time Smith has promised to disband the Cure, founded in 1977 as Easy Cure. Since 1989's Disintegration, when he first raised the breakup issue, the singer has switched the band's lineup at least twice. Smith, of course, has remained the auteur and centerpiece of the group.

(Thanks Robert & Chrystie)

Expiration dates - The Cure's Robert Smith says this tour's the last

By Mark Brown News Popular Music Critic

Robert Smith has been threatening to end The Cure for more than a decade — he thought 1989's Disintegration was untoppable — so the other members of the band didn't know whether he was serious this time.

Then he brought in the songs for the new album, Bloodflowers, and played one particular cut, Maybe Someday: "No, I won't do it again / I don't want to pretend / if it can't be like before / I've got to let it end... I've got to let it go and leave it gone."

"As soon as the others heard that one, their faces dropped. They knew this was our swan song," Smith says. "That is the one song on the album about ending The Cure. I wanted one on there that said it."

It's bittersweet and more than a bit confusing for both fans and Smith. After heading the band for 24 of his 40 years, he's realized it's time to move on.

But perversely, that realization has resulted in Bloodflowers' being the band's best work since 1989's landmark Disintegration — or as Smith puts it, "gloom and doom in pure Cure style." Bloodflowers is a stormy, roaring album full of classic Cure guitar, angst and introspection. And onstage the band, which plays Fiddler's Green for the last time tonight, has been performing with a fury and vision that it's never had before.

"I'd lost faith in what I was doing with the band," Smith says via telephone from Las Vegas. After playing festivals for a few years, "I felt there was very little point in continuing. I am no longer loving this; I'm coming offstage and feeling like I'm a performer."

But knowing that this is the final tour has suddenly given the band an edge it lost years ago.

"The Internet fan sites are claiming this to be a better tour than the Disintegration tour, which has always been the Holy Grail for Cure fans," Smith says. "It is working. I come offstage and I'm shattered. I'm loving it. It's weird for me that the band has suddenly gotten really, really good again."

The British band has been pigeonholed as purveyors of mope rock, but they've risen above it with stunning songs such as Fascination Street, Pictures of You, Friday I'm in Love, Boys Don't Cry and dozens more.

The Bloodflowers/Disintegration similarities aren't a coincidence. Smith was turning from 29 to 30 during Disintegration, and 39 to 40 for Bloodflowers. Both offered a chance to sum up.

''Disintegration was a summing up of what I felt about where I was in my life," he says. "With Bloodflowers, I was taking stock anyway; I was heading toward 40 and I said, 'Why don't I use this nostalgic feeling that I've got to influence the songs?' In the last few records I'd shied away from that; I'd said everything I'd needed to say about what I feel. But as I was writing, I realized that I'd actually changed my point of view about certain things over the years."

The band's recent albums, Wild Mood Swings and Wish, have been more a collection of songs than unified albums, Smith says.

But with Bloodflowers, he made a focused statement, designed to emulate the impact of the classic Cure albums Disintegration and Pornography.

"I wanted Bloodflowers to be an archetypal Cure album," Smith says, and he succeeded — dreamy guitar, long intros, rising solos and dark lyrics. "I was ending the band with an album that was just kind of summing up all the parts of the band I liked most."

"The first criticism we got in the U.K. is that 'this sounds just like The Cure.' That's perfect; that's exactly what it's supposed to sound like," Smith says. "The next said, 'It could have been any time in the past 20 years.' That's perfect. That's the whole point."

There's a hard-found wisdom in songs such as Where the Birds Always Sing, in which Smith makes peace with an unfeeling world with lines like "The world is neither fair nor unfair."

"You can't control how your life turns out. I'm pretty much in control of my own destiny, but you can't make people act and behave how you'd like them to," he says. "Essentially that's what life is — interacting with other people. In the past, I've raged against that, found things very unfair. Where the Birds Always Sing is my grasp, finally, that there is no global conspiracy afoot.

"You have to accept change as you get older or you go mad. And 39 was about how I was feeling heading toward 40; I can't keep doing this, I can't keep looking inside myself to keep writing songs."

Yet he's going to continue doing that — just without the band.

"I've been doing this with The Cure for the whole of my adult life, and I want to try something different," he says. "It's a way of letting go. And it actually is really difficult. I'm finding it very difficult to think about not doing this anymore. It has actually defined my life, being in The Cure."

But in some ways, it's not the end of an era. There have been five incarnations of The Cure, with Smith as the only constant. Key players have come and gone, but the band has endured.

"I might well be burning all my bridges, but I can always build another one," Smith says. "In three years time, if I want to do something else called The Cure, I will.

"I've never felt constrained by being in The Cure. I'd like to collaborate with other people who I've grown to know over the years, just to see what happens. I can't do it in the context of The Cure, because it would destroy the dynamic of the band. It's just easier to walk away."

Bloodflowers has a clue to Smith' solo plans; There Is No If is the first Cure song to feature just Smith.

"I'd never felt comfortable doing that kind of thing with the group — being on my own, playing and singing," he says. "The whole point of The Cure is, the songs grow when the band plays them. On There Is No If, there's only two instruments on it and I'm playing them both; it wasn't really a band performance."

Then again, he said, "it's not really signposting where I'm going next, because the songs I discarded sound nothing like it."

But he has plenty more to write and plenty of time to do it.

"As I've gotten older, my expectations of what I can write, what I should be able to write, have gotten so high that I consistently fall so far short of them that I often give up before I started," he says. "I love the idea of creating something from nothing. It gives me immense pleasure. But taking a step from there, recording something for other people to hear, is a big step."

He plans to start recording his first solo album in September or October, though scoring films is a possibility.

"I could just be a composer. I wouldn't have to be a celebrity," he says. "I wouldn't have to explain what I'm doing all the time, and I wouldn't have to shave. I could grow old graciously."

End just a start for Cure singer - new album rejuvenates smith

By G. Brown Denver Post Popular Music Writer

June 2, 2000 - While the Cure was recording the new album "Bloodflowers," leader Robert Smith imparted the feeling that it was the grand finale, to goad his band into making something great.

But is it really the end? Apparently not.

"I'd become disheartened with the group over the past few years. I wasn't satisfied," Smith says. "But the album turned out so well, now I'm not so sure."

Along the same line, Smith typically states that each Cure tour may be its last. The band will perform Monday at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre.

"It's tricky," Smith told The Post in an interview. "Our fans have gotten older with us, but the majority of the live audience is a lot younger than I am! I'm now 40, yet I'm not worried about getting older. People appreciate that I've done a lot of things. For the first time ever, I'm comfortable on stage. I actually feel like I'm treated more like a person, even though I'm wearing makeup and big hair."

Smith feeling secure? That's a new one. Maybe it's the realization that the Cure's place in pop history is firm.

At the beginning of the band's career, the Cure played the type of swirling goth-pop that was popular in Britain in the late '70s. But the doomy dirges slowly evolved into more textured soundscapes, and the outfit crossed over into the mainstream in the U.S. "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" spawned the Cure's first Top 40 hit, "Just Like Heaven." And 1989's "Disintegration" went Top 20, and the single "Love Song" became a smash.

The success sent a band that was formed to make stadium acts obsolete to playing at stadiums. Smith's moaning about love and death and loneliness captured the fancy of every teenager filled with introspective angst.

In concert, Smith's ghoulish appearance - smudged red lipstick and black, bird's-nest hairdo - was emphasized. The image threatened to diminish the import of the Cure's music, and some say the group was made by its videos.

"Things ballooned up when we broke in America. My life was a little blurry around that time. I believed that I was a pop star," Smith admits.

"But the rest of the group helped me. We made a heavy album, and from that point on, I always kept being in the public eye very separate from how I act around friends." 1992's "Wish" went to No. 2 and contained the hits "High" and "Friday I'm In Love," but Smith's music wasn't hip in the late '90s.

However, "Bloodflowers" is one of the Cure's best albums.

The band's 13th studio effort is reminiscent of the dark, densely layered sound that earned the Cure its loyal following - towering, distorted guitars and light keyboards, with a few churning acoustic guitar strummers ("Out Of This World") tossed in. The standout track is the lush, resonant "Watching Me Fall," which clocks in at over 11 minutes.

"I make weird sounds in the studio, but in the end it comes down to melody and structure. So many bands end up cutting-edge one minute, yesterday's paper the next," Smith says.

"Bloodflowers" is reportedly the final installment in a trilogy that includes 1982's "Pornography" and 1989's "Disintegration."

"That's a stretch - that when I was making "Pornography" I knew what was going to happen 20 years into the future," Smith says with a laugh.

"I did make the remark to get the others to see that, for me, it's the development of the same subject matter - I was just past 20, and then I hit 30, now I'm 40. But there's no real sense that if you don't hear the first one, you won't get the third one."

So there's no end to the band in sight. When will Smith try his hand at something other than the Cure?

"I'd like to do film music in my twilight years - I can do that from home," he says. "My next project will be a solo album that I'm doing on weeks off. Beyond that, the band still has a chance - there's an energy. The desire has to be there.

"But I'm in a fluid state at the moment. If I think about what I do next, I won't enjoy this. And I'm really enjoying this American tour."

The Cure puts strong stuff into what could be the band's last album

By Kevin C. Johnson Post-Dispatch Pop Music Critic

Is there a cure for what ails Robert Smith and his band? For more than 20 years and just as many albums, the Cure has carved out its place in the rock music world after rising from the U.K.'s post-punk music scene.

But now the Cure is contemplating calling it quits.

Cure fans have heard all this before. In fact, it seems that with the release of each new Cure album comes the same news of an impending break-up. The new "Bloodflowers" CD is no exception.

"The process that led up to making it was one where I was personally becoming disillusioned with the band," says Smith, interviewed by telephone recently from his London home. "I felt that we'd kind of run our course, and I didn't just want to end with nothing. I told the others I'd had enough.

"I suggested we put everything into it because this was it, the last chance to make a great Cure album," adds Smith, known for his heavy eyeliner and puffed-up hairstyle. "I made it as if it was the last Cure album, and would be happy if it would be. That'd be a great way to end it.

"I think 'Bloodflowers' is a final statement that can't be bettered."

The source of Smith's disillusionment surfaced while the Cure was on tour in 1997 and 1998. Smith thought the standards of the shows were poor and wondered what he was doing there. "We felt like a weird cabaret band, living in the past," says Smith.

"I'd done so many things with the band ... I'm not blaming the others - I'm blaming myself too," he says. "The drive of the band is the drive that comes from me. We felt like we were treading water. My disillusionment was that I didn't know what I was doing for 18 months."

But the CD that came out of those feelings, "Bloodflowers," resulted in music beyond Smith's expectations. The disc is full of songs that might leave you breathless, including "Out of This World," "Where the Birds Always Sing" and "The Last Day of Summer." Smith accomplished this by focusing on the elements of Cure he enjoys most: "The lyrical things that make the Cure a great band. 'Bloodflowers' is me 10 years older and 10 years different."

The success of "Bloodflowers" has made the tour in support of the CD less of an ordeal for members of the group, who just finished the European leg. It was the best European tour the band has had, Smith says. (The group comes to Riverport Amphitheatre Wednesday.)

"It was a joy," he says. "Normally I'm completely shattered by this point. I think that thinking we were doing this for the last time revitalized the band, and we wanted to make the best of it."

"Bloodflowers," for the most part, is considered the final part of a trilogy that also included 1982's "Pornography" and 1989's "Disintegration." "It's an emotional trilogy, though not a trilogy in the truest sense," says Smith, pointing out the CD stands alone as well. "When I did 'Pornography' I thought it would be the last thing I would ever do, the pinnacle of my career.

"When I did 'Disintegration' I was generally surprised at how good it was. I do think the three work together."

The rage and despair of "Pornography" and the brooding, atmospheric "Disintegration" led to the resolution and acceptance of change that is "Bloodflowers."

"That's the environment I was writing in," Smith explains. "It's about stuff you've been doing most of your adult life, and then moving on. I tried to make songs work on different levels. I never try to write about just what I do. I want it to have more universal appeal."

"The song 'Out of This World' is a waving goodbye, and I'm trying to make it mean more than being in a band," he adds. "It's about the feeling you get when you're doing anything you really enjoy, and you ask 'Why can't my life always be like this?' It's an acceptance of the fact that life can't always be what you want it to be."

Which brings us back to the all-important question: Is this it or not for the Cure?

"I just don't know. That's the simple, quick answer," says Smith. "But I know the next thing I do will be on my own." But when Smith embarks on that solo project, it won't be entirely Cure-less.

"My solo project will have one or two tracks the band plays on," says Smith. "But I don't want to be pinned down. If I invite others to be on it, I'm not going to be shy about it, or wonder who's toes I'm treading on. But I pretty much can get my way all the time anyway.

"But it won't be the Cure. I just want to do something that isn't' the Cure. It's as simple as that. 'Bloodflowers' is so well received by fans - it'd be slightly disingenuous to release something on the back of that and call it the Cure. The stuff from my own record will be completely different, sonically and thematically."

He is halfway through writing the new songs, or "pieces of music," as he calls them, since they're not quite songs yet. He'll finish writing when the tour ends in the fall and is hopeful he'll have the project completed before Christmas.

Chances are, Smith's solo material won't sound like anything else on the radio; he isn't interested in trying to keep up with any current trends.

"I don't think we've ever fit in at any time, ever," he says. "And that doesn't bother me. The Cure isn't a fashionable band, except for the brief period when we hit.

"But we never wanted to sound like the moment. We just wanted to make Cure music, and I figured out at an early age there's gonna be other people who like what I like. And a lot of people have liked it and stuck with it. People enjoy what we do, and I don't have a problem with that."

"I'm from Venezuela and just last week I saw this interview with Robert on one of our local TV Channels where (as per their translation into Spanish) Robert said the band will be coming into Caracas for a concert sometime in September / October this year!!!!! "

(Thanks Neida)

http://www.clarin.com.ar/suplementos/si/si_index.html (from June 9th, talks about the end, the tour, the visit to S.America, Pink Pig project.)

http://www.planetaurbe.com/actua/musica.shtml (I think this is just a review of the W. Palm show, but I'm not sure.)

http://mx.loquesea.com/panycirco/entrevista/thecure/ (includes Real Video files of the interview and live clips of Fascination St. and Last Day of Summer)

(Thanks Christian, Wilmer, Cesar)

A CURE FOR THE COMMON GOLD

Gold album selling artist and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor changed around a few of his band's tour dates so he could fly himself and 15 other Reznor-ites into see the Cure show at LA's Greek Theater this past week. Reznor, a longtime Cure buff, flew in from Omaha Nebraska. Rumor has it the pilot played Cure tunes all the way until touchdown. The Cure head for Boston on 6/14, and New York on 6/20 among other dates on their sold out tour. http://www.elektra.com/retro/cure/

"The high point in a less-than-stellar MTV Movie Awards show last night was the intro of Out Of This World being played during the clip of Katie Holmes kissing her co-star in "Teaching Mrs. Tingle," in the Best Kiss category. For those interested, the winner was the girls-kissing scene from "Cruel Intentions."

"So MTV picked a few fine background songs for there award show....Out of this World and Maybe Someday. Buffy had the pleasure of walking onstage to accept her award, with Maybe Someday playing in the background."

(Thanks Jeffrey & SmplyDremy)

"In a recent interview at DVD express.com with Billy Howerdel, guitarist/founder of 'A Perfect Circle', he sites The Cure as a musical influence growing up:

BH- "....Obviously, there are other bands I like. The Cure was probably my biggest muscial influence."

And later in the interview,

"You mention the Cure earlier as an influence, I can hear that in the record."

BH- "Yes, especially with the bass lines. They always had such a great, melodic foundry for the song to be built upon. And I'm just a big melody fan. I really like melodiousness in music."

That interview can be found at: http://www.express.com/consumer/music/editorial/intv_circle_intro.asp "

(Thanks Scotty-Dog)

"On MTV2 a celebrated designer, Starck, chose a video of The Cure for his playlist. The video chosen was "Close To Me". "

(Thanks Yan)

"I am emailing you all to inform you of a curespotting in Richmond Va. A local commercial for and eye institute has an instrumental version of a letter to elise in the background it was wonderful to hear!! "

(Thanks Scott)

"Hi, some curespotting here from england: Eastenders is one of the countries most famous soap operas and I was rather surprised to hear 'out of this world' on the radio in the kitchen of Roy and Pat!"

(Thanks Z)

"German band Liquido released a new single called 'Play some rock', in the lyrics they mention: lying there in aimlessness and listening to The Cure...

Also, German tv channel Nord 3 will show Career Girls on Sunday June 18th 11:45 pm."

(Thanks Dennis)

"Close to me music (replayed by someone else, without any voice) is used in the advertisments of Natreen Juice. (have seen on MTV Germany)"

(Thanks Darius)

(Thanks Dan)

(Thanks Davide)

So what are we hoping to hear this time? Well, we really can't ask for more than we've already received, but Nadine is hoping for Like Cockatoos, Jupiter Crash, In Your House or At Night. I'd be happy with Charlotte Sometimes, 2 Late, or hearing Same Deep Water As You again. : )

So wish us luck and a safe trip, and we'll hope to have a report up late on friday night/saturday morning.

From Wall of Sound:

Robert Smith Disintegrates The Cure

Robert Smith can pinpoint the exact moment that the rest of The Cure realized that this time he was serious about breaking up the band. It was when he played demos for the new album, Bloodflowers, including the song "Maybe Someday," with its lines "No, I won't do it again/ I don't want to pretend/ If it can't be like before, I've got to let it end."

"That's the one song on the album about ending The Cure," says Smith. "As soon as the others heard that one, their faces dropped. This is our swan song. I wanted one on there that said it. Some of the other songs, if you put them in the context of this is the last Cure album, you can read that into them. But I wasn't really writing about the end of The Cure [then]."

Smith's threatened to do it before, and he actively planned to end the band after the breakthrough album Disintegration back in 1989. Finally, the time came. "The catalyst was that I've been doing this with The Cure for the whole of my adult life," he says. "And I want to try something different. It's a way of letting go. And it is actually really difficult; I'm finding it very difficult to think I'm not going to be doing this anymore. It's actually defined my life, being in The Cure. It's the first time in years that after we finish this tour, there are no plans to do anything else."

A possible peek at the future is "There Is No If," a new song featuring Smith without a band. "To me the whole point of The Cure is the songs grow when the band plays them. On 'There Is No If,' there's only two instruments, and I'm playing them both," he says.

"It's not really sign-posting what I'm going to be doing next, though, because the songs I discarded sound nothing like it." He's already got songs ready for his solo album, which he hopes to start recording in September.

"I'd like to collaborate with other people that I've grown to know over the years, just to see what happens," he says. "I can't do that in the context of The Cure because it would destroy the dynamic that exists in the band. It's just easier to walk away."

"That said," he adds, "the band will probably play on a couple of songs on my solo record."

Even Smith can't definitively say, though, that he'll never work under that name again. Band members have come and gone under five very distinct lineups of the band since 1976, with Smith remaining the only constant. He's also torn because the looming demise of the band has upped the ante; Bloodflowers is easily the best Cure album since Disintegration.

"I wanted to end the band with an album that just kind of summed up all the parts of the band I liked the most," Smith says. The ensuing tour has been light on hit singles, heavy on classic Cure album tracks.

"It's not difficult for me to think that this ends now, and if in three years' time I want to do something else called The Cure, I will. I might well be burning all my bridges, but I can always build another one." — Mark Brown

From N.M.E. :

NO CURE FOR SMITH

Robert Smith - Going it alone

THE CURE vocalist ROBERT SMITH has confirmed he is to split the band after completing promotional duties for their current album ‘BLOODFLOWERS’ and go solo.

In an interview with website www.wallofsound.go.com in the US, where the band are currently completing the final stages of their world tour, Smith said of track 'Maybe Someday' from 'Bloodflowers': "That's the one song on the album about ending The Cure...as soon as the others heard that one, their faces dropped. This is our swansong. I wanted one on there that said it.

"I've been doing this with The Cure for the whole of my adult life and I want to try something different. It's a way of letting go. It's actually defined my life, being in The Cure. It's the first time in years that after we finish this tour, there are no plans to do anything else."

Smith also revealed that he plans to collaborate with other musicians outside of The Cure for his solo album, which is expected to surface in 2001. He said: "I'd like to collaborate with other people that I've grown to know over the years, just to see what happens...I can't do that in the context of The Cure because it would destroy the dynamic that exists in the band. It's just easier to walk away."

The Cure have already played live throughout Europe, and the US leg of the tour is set to end in August. However, the band’s management refused to confirm the demise of the band and said there had been no developments on what would happen to the band following the current tour.

"the bay tv interview was a dismal waste of time. the interviewer was Johnny Steele, a comedian who is normally somewhat funny. he only asked questions about Robert being depressed and morose , which only bored robert, making him seem depressed...starting a cycle of bad jokes after the interview. here'an example of these probing and insigtful questions: JOHNNY- "youre very sucessful,but you still kind of have this kind of depressed kind of image. can you still be depressed and down after all these years and all the success?" ROBERT- "im not really depressed, i never have been. alot of the songs i write...comes from a sort of angst, anguish... success is immaterial. ive been very pleasantly surprised by how much the cure's music has meant to people over the years. which to me is how i equate success, not having to to with being famous... 95% of my life is happy, but thats not when i write most of the songs."

he mentioned mogwai, the smashing pumpkins, and nine inch nails as the only groups that he listens to from a genre similar to the cure's; and spoke about his desire to write music for films. Robert said the times that he most wanted to end the band were after lol was out of the band and when boris and porl left. Robert was asked about southpark, and replied that he had only met Trey Parker a few nights ago (after the first Greek show in LA.) The only other notable tid-bits in the 7 minutes of fluff were seeing 20 or so seconds of "out of this world" performed at the shoreline; and robert saying that he thinks that the whole band will show up on his solo album. nothing says "classy interview" more than splicing in clips of the "lovecats" video while Robert is talking..."

(Thanks Mr Cupp)

"an interview, and possibly even concert footage shot at the shoreline show will be aired by local cable station BAYTV. i saw the host and others next to the soundboard filming the band and the crowd for the 1st 3 songs, so i emailed the show, here's their response:

"The Robert Smith intvw will air Tuesday night (6/6/00)at about 830pm on BayTV ... the show re-airs many times, but the KRON airing will be at approximately 330am Tuesday night/Wednesday morning."

(Thanks Mr Cupp)

"Just wondering if anyone can pick up a program and send me one? The show I went to was sold out of them and I'm so unhappy without one. I'll reimburse all costs and even a little extra if wanted. Thank you so much for anyone who can help." René (CURMODE@aol.com)

"We told you we had a big one coming! The Cure just kicked off the second leg of their tour in support of their latest release, "Bloodflowers." In honor of this legendary band, we are giving away a Cure autographed guitar. Just answer this simple question: How many years has the band been together and how many albums have they put out? Hint: Check out www.elektra.com and click on The Cure. Send all answers by Sunday June 11, 2000 to contests@elektra.com and please include your name in the body of the e-mail and The Cure in the subject line. Good Luck!!"

The Cure Returns to Dark Roots

BY JENNIFER SOKOLOWSKY THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Robert Smith of The Cure is feeling satisfied these days. That may not be the first emotion fans expect of the British band's singer, guitarist and songwriter, who, despite a number of poppy dance hits over more than 20 years, is best known for delivering tortured, multilayered soundscapes of angst.

But with a new album, "Bloodflowers" -- "The best thing we've ever done" -- and a worldwide tour that stops in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Smith finally feels he has accomplished something.

Even if it is the last thing the band -- now including Simon Gallup on bass, Perry Bamonte on guitar, Roger O'Donnell on keyboards and Jason Cooper on drums -- ever accomplishes. Smith goes back and forth on whether this will be the last album for the Cure, but if it is, he says it will be a graceful exit. "I feel a lot more satisfied with the things I've achieved with The Cure, and I think that shows. There's still that element of hopelessness, but it's tempered with . . . not really resignation, but a sense that rather than fighting against an inevitable kind of change, I think I've learned to accept it."

Tortured artist image aside, Smith, 41, is coming to terms with his own demons. "I feel more comfortable with myself. I am enjoying my own company" more than ever, he says. It has been a long ride for the band since it started as The Easy Cure in 1976, with multiple lineup changes, band conflict and 13 albums. A staple of alternative radio and MTV in the '80s with hits such as "Just Like Heaven," "The Lovecats," "A Forest" and "Let's Go to Bed," the band also was known for its image, particularly Smith's awry lipstick and black mop of hair, and its legions of white-faced, black-clad fans. In the '90s the band veered more to the mainstream side with tuneful hits such as "Friday I'm in Love" and "Mint Car."

"Bloodflowers" is a return to the dark side of The Cure, the inspiration for which comes out of what Smith calls his "essential despair at having lost my faith at an early age in anything other than the real world. . . . There's always an end . . . and you can never fake it."

Musically, "Bloodflowers" is the third in a trilogy that started with 1982's bleak "Pornography" and continued with the yearning "Disintegration" in 1989. Smith specifically set out to create an album filled with emotion. "I had written 'Watching Me Fall,' and 'Out of This World' came a couple of weeks later. And with those two songs, the first songs on the album, I thought, 'This is the kind of song I want to do. This is the music I want to be on the next Cure album.' " Several lighter tunes were recorded during the "Bloodflowers" sessions that didn't make it on the album because they weren't part of Smith's vision. Smith says albums such as "Bloodflowers" capture the atmospheric essence of The Cure, "all the parts of The Cure that I've enjoyed the most."

On the other hand, he says, the more upbeat tunes provided a necessary complement to the deep emotion of the darker songs and allowed him to keep going. "Without that, I wouldn't have enjoyed the other half quite as much," he says. Smith says this tour has the potential to be the best the band has ever done, and with the European leg of the tour, "every show was like an event." The band designed the tour itself, playing only half as many shows this time around as it did on its last tour, in 1996 for the "Wild Mood Swings" album. And the band members decided to only play in cities where they have enjoying performing in the past. Including Salt Lake City, which Smith called an "unusual" place with enthusiastic fans who made for a good concert last time around.

The mood of the audience can make or break a performance, and Smith says the fans on the current tour have made for some incredible shows. " 'Bloodflowers' has been so instantly liked by everyone. . . . There's sometimes when you're touring with a new album you get the feeling the audience is marking time, waiting for something they know. With this album, the new songs are getting as good, if not better, reactions than some of the older stuff. And that's really hyped the whole atmosphere."

Smith promises a playlist capturing quintessential Cure moments. "We're playing the big, atmospheric songs, some that we haven't played some places in 18 years. So there's a certain amount of nostalgia, but on the other hand, it's almost like hearing new songs." Smith does have a bit of nostalgia himself when it comes to the concert experience of 20 years ago vs. that of today, when bootleg songs from yet-to-be-released albums are traded over the Internet and playlists from concerts go online seconds after the show ends. "In some ways it's a shame, because [fans] know exactly what to expect. It's not like when I went to concerts when I was young. . . . You never knew what you were going to see or hear. That element of surprise is really gone."

Smith is now working on music he plans to release on a solo album, but he warns fans that it won't be music by The Cure. Plans for what it will be, though, are still up in the air, although he says now he is using samples and "found" sounds to construct "meandering" pieces of music different from the standard pop format. Smith says the music may be all instrumental, a first step for what he says he wants to do "when I get really old" -- write music for film scores. But he says working on music all on his own is a liberating experience. "I could be completely willful and . . . just make an album that no one had any expectations for. I really want to do something different."

Hot! Hot! Hot! The Cure comes to the E Center in West Valley City on Sunday. Tickets are $33 plus service charges, on sale at all Smith's Tix outlets, by phone at 467-TIXX or 1-800-888-TIXX, or online at www.smithstix.com. Show starts at 8 p.m.

(Thanks Claire)

"Last night on a show called The House of Hits they had No Doubt in and the presenter Molly Meldrum asked Gwen who her favorite person alive today was and she replied that it was "Robert Smith from The Cure" and that she "really loves him" and "would he marry her". Also Gwen and the rest of No Doubt guest programmed Rage on Saturday night and they played Inbetween Days after talking about Bloodflowers and how they went to the concert in Paris and how they used the lyrics "Inbetween Days" in their song "ex-girlfriend" after getting permission from fiction."

(Thanks Shannon)

(Thanks Dan)

(Thanks Laura)

(Thanks Glynis)

(Thanks Claire)