(Thanks David)

"The Cure - Lullaby was voted number 11 in the Top Of The Pops all time favourite performances. They will be showing it on TOTP 2 on the 3rd or 4th of April so dont forget to tune in! Duran Duran - Rio got number 1"

(Thanks Darren)

And The Cure were not among the first group of bands announced for the Athens Rockwave Festival, as they only announced the "Metal" bands that will be playing.

(Thanks David)

(Thanks Claudio and Snoopy)

(Thanks Jason)

"Recently, while reviewing cd's for the college station I DJ at, I came across a various artist CD with a Cure cover. The cd is called "Lunch with A Bouncing Space, Vol. II", and the band Lenola cover the song "Catch". It's more of a "rocking" version than what our beloved Cure perform, but a good version nonetheless. You can check the band out at www.phillymusic.com/lenola, and you can check out the A Bouncing Space records site at www.members.freespeech.org/abouncingspace."

(Thanks Brandon)

"The Cure Internet Party 5th april ! from 11 pm CET (central europe time) What it will be?

1. Live radio broadcast from www.sfera.umk.pl - rare recordings - history - live shows - top ten - interviwiews - etc.

2. Chat on radio page (www.sfera.umk.pl) and on chat.thecure.pl

3. Probably PREMIERE of www.thecure.pl the best web site at central europe about The Cure

So if you want to vote for top ten cure songs send me a mail on curehere@yahoo.co.uk - write your favorite five song."

(Thanks Darek)

"Hey I was watching the TV show Grounded For Life and I saw a reference to the cure. The episode revolved around homosexuality and the grandfather character was talking to his two sons, he says to one I couldn't see you being gay then he turns to the other son and says but you... the second son says come on dad it was the eighties.. right then they do a flashback.. the second son looks like Robert Smith!.. black teased hair, huge white shirt, and some silly black makeup.. and during this they played inbetween days... I thought it was cute."

(Thanks Stacey, Milky, Josh, Genaro and Summer)

"an unlikely robert smith sighting: http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/stein/stein.html

paragraph 1, last sentence."

(Thanks James)

"I saw a programme on one of our five terrestial channels in the UK. BBC1 featured a programme called "When shoulderpads ruled the world", mainly about 80s music bands and TV. The Cure came in during the "Who shot JR ?" feature from the American soap "Dallas". The start of A Forest and continued for a good 2mins up to Robert singing. I don't think Robert would want to be assoicated with such an item but I'm sure the royalty cheque helps all the same. "

(Thanks Steve)

"The Cure has begun lining up appearances at summer European festivals, with slots at the Arvika Festival (July 11 m Arvika, Sweden), the Zillo Festival (July 13 in Berlin), and the Woodstage Festival (July 14 in Glauchau, Germany) confirmed so far. The veteran U.K. rock act has not released a studio album since 2000's "Bloodflowers," but last year issued the "Greatest Hits" album and home video, featuring 16 favorites and two new songs.

Elektra's microsite for the project features exclusive sound and video clips, as well as lyrics and other goodies. The Cure's own official Web site says the microsite will eventually be home to "quite a lot more [exclusives] over the next couple of weeks."

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y."

"Last week the latest issue of La Mosca ( http://www.lamosca.com.mx/mosca.htm ) appeared in newstands in México and Robert Smith is on the cover. The title is "The Cure: Robert Smith's Worst Nightmare". There are only two articles: "The Cure: ni apocalípticos ni desintegrados" (Neither apocallyptics nor disintigrated") is an overview of the groups career; and "Disintegration" is given a retrospective review in the "The New Classical Music" section. The latter is little more interesting.

And this might not be recent news, but I came across a very interesting article about The Cure and "Killing an Arab" in "Expression in Pop-rock music: A Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays" (ed. Walter Everett; Garland Publishing Inc., New York and London, 2000). Ellie M. Hisama's contribution, "From L'Étranger to Killing an Arab: Representing the Other in a Cure Song". The essay starts with the 1986 controversy, and goes on the analyze the song's criticism of Camus' novel, and the interaction of lyrics and music. "

(Thanks Leonardo)

(Thanks Costas)

(Thanks Simon)

" I went out last night and heard an Outcast remix of Miss Jackson. It was the song, but the actual tune was lullaby, it was a 12" called "I'm Sorry Mr. Smith" but i don't know who remixed it or the record label."

Has anyone else heard this or have more info on it?

(Thanks Beck)

"From the 18 March 2002 New Yorker magazine in an article about Japanese teen fashion crazes comes this paragraph:

"Because the Japanese are fanatical about fashion in the way that the Brazilians are about soccer or the Germans are about cleanliness, walking around Tokyo can feel like being trapped in an endless Halloween party where everyone but you has as a member of the Beastie Boys, the Cure, or TLC"

(Thanks Bevon)

"The Cure is mentioned in Splendid Magazine's review of "Sleeping Stars" by a Chicago band called Garden of Dreams:

"the feel that pervades this disc overall is of a slightly less-downcast Cure .... with their tone knobs turned up. The same lushness of sound -- heavy bass, propulsive drums, jangle-guitar and wafty synth..."

http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=3222263265597907

i think anyone who likes The Cure might like this band! they are playing at Schuba's here in Chicago, Saturday March 30 at 1:30 PM sharp!, as part of a festival... tickets only $5, come check them out!

www.schubas.com

www.gardenofdreams.com

if anyone has questions they can email me at girlonthedoor@yahoo.com"

(Thanks Lana)

"In the Austrian Version of "Who wants to be a millinaire" - "Millionenshow" - the candidate had to answer the Question: What band did an Album concerning the "Joshua Tree". The Bands to choose from where: The Doors, REM, The Cure and (obviously) U2."

(Thanks Hansi)

"The last friday on a gossip tv program in Peru called "Mil Disculpas" there was an inteview to Gianmarco (peruvian songwriter), in a moment they were talking about hairstyles and talked about Robert Smith, and mentioned the album kiss me kiss me kiss me, friday im in love and try to dance like robert in these videos. Hummm , i never thought these kind of artists could have listened to The Cure."

(Thanks Ytalo)

"Hello, the tickets for the Zillo Festival on July 13th and 14th at Hahn Airport are available from now on. You can only order tickets for the entire festival, individual tickets will not be available. The price for one ticket is 54,77 Euro. You can order the tickets either by phone: 0049 40 41 80 68 or in the internet: www.karsten-jahnke.de. A payment by credit card is not possible but you can make a money order and thereafter we will send the tickets to your home address. The tickets for the Woodstage Festival in Glauchau will be available in a few days.

Kind regards, Jahnke Ticketservice "

And a further update, the Woodstage tickets go on sale tomorrow.

(Thanks Snoopy and Jim)

(Thanks Simon)

(Thanks Jason)

"On one of Norway's biggest record store site (http://www.platekompaniet.no) there is a top-100 album chart made by customers and disintegration was #89. the spot no.1 is occupied by radiohead's OK COMPUTER."

(Thanks Pietro)

"During a blind test in a quite popular and intelligent show here in France called "Tout le monde en parle" ("Everyone talks about that"), the game was to find artists with something special about their hairs. The Cure (I don't know why) was in the list with 'The Carterpillar'. "

(Thanks David)

"Here are some official statements i got today (15 March) on the phone about The Cure , Woodstage festival 14/07/02 (Chemnitz , by Berlin): The tickets are not available until end of March / mid-April

Tickets for Zillo (Frankfurt /main, 13/07/02) : You can order tickets now (50 EURO for the festival, more infos on the Zillo website) but : I called the tour operator Karsten Jahnke in Hamburg yesteday and they told me that nothing is confirmed for the moment, so Cure- fans should find out for SURE that The Cure are really playing this festival before! Note that neither Karsten Jahnke nor the official Cure web-site give some clear infos ."

(Thanks Jim)

Just wanted to let you know that the "string tribute" to the cure that was talked about a few months back will be released on April 9th. The album will be called "Whisper: The String Quartet Tribute To The Cure". The album will feature 9 covers and an original piece inspired by The Cure. Here's the track list, and i have attached a picture of the cover:

1. Lullaby

(Thanks Jason)

"The following link is to ink19.com, where an article was written about the cure's triad of "pornography," "disintegration," adn "bloodflowers." it is spectacularly well written, witty, incisive... yeah, i wrote it!

i figured that cure fans should know that they're still getting press and appreciation from journalists in some places!

http://www.ink19.com/issues/march2002/features/pornographic.html"

(Thanks Daniel)

"The march issue of French magazine Magic has an article about the influence of litterature on Music, in which they made a TOP 10 of the songs inspired by litterature. The Cure are listed at #1 with Killing an arab. "

(Thanks Sylvain)

(Thanks Sylvain, Gro, Simon, Darek)

(Thanks Snoopy and Andy)

"Further voting results: Just Say Yes was #2 on Tuesday and #2 on Wednesday. Keep voting for today and tomorrow here: http://www.vivaplus.tv/topten.html ."

(Thanks Simon)

World - G.H. is now #786 on Towerrecords Top 1000.

Australia - G.H. (album) was #17 last week and is #18 this week on the Australian Alternative Chart. / G.H. (video) was #14 last week and is #19 this week.

(Thanks David)

"To all those who do not speak German: i called Karsten Jahnke concerts today ( 0 40 / 4 13 22 60) and they told me that the tickets for the Cure concert (Zillo, 13 July 2002) are NOT on sale until the next week."

(Thanks Jim)

(Thanks Molly)

"Cure-Fans did a great job voting for Just Say Yes at German music channel Viva Plus! Just Say Yes ended as #3 (out of 50 titles) beating many mainstream-acts. The funny thing is that Viva Plus wanted to show the video - but they couldn't, because they DON'T HAVE IT by now! They showed Cut Here instead and promised to show the right video tomorrow.

But Just Say Yes is still on the list for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. So keep on voting! Go to http://www.vivaplus.tv/topten.html or send an eMail with your request to topten@vivaplus.tv .

The daily top 10 will always be shown at 10 pm. Currently Just Say Yes is #1 in the voting for Tuesday!"

(Thanks Simon and Martin)

(Thanks Christopher)

Back to Nature

08 March 2002

The band behind New Zealand's top song may be heading into the studio for the first time in more than 30 years.

The Fourmyula will make their first public appearance in three decades tomorrow night, at Upper Hutt's Concert In The Park, playing No 1 hit Nature for the first time ever in New Zealand.

Last year the Wayne Mason-penned song topped a poll by the Australasian Performing Rights Association (Apra).

Yesterday, all five members of the band gathered at Mason's home in Paekakariki to iron out a few kinks. Drummer Chris Parry, who scaled the heights of the British music industry after Fourmyula broke up, is spending time back in New Zealand, and guitarist Martin Hope has returned from Australia for the show.

Bass player Alistair Richardson and vocalist Carl Evensen still live in the Hutt Valley.

The band last played together at a private function for Parry's birthday in 1999, but Mason said the first practice session had gone well.

"It takes a little bit to get going but after that we settle down and get used to each other and it's great," Mason said. And a recording session is on the cards. "We're toying with the idea of going into the studio and doing a new song, which would really be a lot of fun. That would really try you out, and see how you still work as a band. We still have all the characteristics of what we used to be, so that would be really interesting."

The Fourmyula had a string of hits in the 1960s and recorded Nature before leaving for England in 1969.

"Because it's an acoustic song, we never really played it on stage. We were a fairly loud rock band."

Parry hit the big time in Britain, discovering the hugely popular Jam for Polygram, before signing superstars The Cure to his own Fiction record label. He's been the least active member performance-wise but is confident the band will make the grade.

"It (drumming) is a little bit like riding a bike. You might ride it badly but you can still ride!"

Family Concert in the Park, 5pm, Saturday, Harcourt Park. Entry free, donations to the Life Flight Trust.

(Thanks Richard)

"I found Steven Severin's (The Glove) band website in mp3.com. Go to http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/283/stevenseverin.html.

There is also the song Tormented there, which is actually a song from The Glove!!! "

(Thanks Ilmari)

"It is an 80's weekend on VH1, and in the commerical in the upper center box the video for "A Night Like This" is playing. "

(Thanks JustACureFan and figurehead2120)

"Noticed that on tv that UK Gold were showing an advert for the Michael Douglas film "Falling Down" - the background music they were using was "Lullaby".

(Thanks Steven)

"Until this Monday 10 pm you can vote for The Cures Just Say Yes videoclip on http://www.vivaplus.tv/topten.html . Click "A-Z Artist List" and then "The Cure Just Say Yes". If the video makes it into the Top 10, the video will be aired on German music channel "Viva Plus" Monday evening. "

(Thanks Simon)

(Thanks Easyfred)

"Next week Just Say Yes will be #10 at German DAC alternative single charts."

(Thanks Simon)

"The Cure Greatests Hits is doing exellent in Argentina:

December 134th

January 31th

February 7th (ranking 2nd in the first week)

source: Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (www.capif.org.ar) - Number of records sold"

(Thanks Christian)

"I wasn't sure if you have heard Alkaline Trio's cover of The Exploding Boy, but it's really, really great. If you come across it definitely pick it up."

(Thanks Edgar III)

"There's an article about Weezer's new album online, in where some of the vocals are compared to Robert Smith! Here's the quote:

"Death and Destruction" is a soulful ballad that opens with heartfelt McCartney-esque vocals and builds with long, strung out guitar chords. And "Slob" is an aching track comprising a ringing arpeggio and whiny, painstricken vocals reminiscent of the Cure's Robert Smith.

Here's the link to the full story in case you're intereseted:

http://www.vh1.com/thewire/content/news/1452781.jhtml"

(Thanks Zach)

"I was looking at new release info on yahoo/barnes and noble and saw that natalie imbruglia's new disc was out--since ex-cure phil thornalley had a hand in getting her started, i checked out the album credits to see if phil was involved again...and he's listed--acoustic guitar/bass/keyboards/mixing/engineer/producer. "

(Thanks Richard)

"I recently downloaded a Comet Cursor program, which has all kinds of little icons you can use to replace your mouse arrow. Under the "rock star" category, among icons of Limp Bizkit and Aron Carter, there is a Robert icon!"

(Thanks Melanie)

(Thanks Sascha)

(Thanks Simon, Fernando, Chris, Marco, Uyea and Dennis)

"I would let you know that it will be a Cure "Party" tomorrow evening (at 8:30pm) in Rochefort s/ Mer (dept 17) in "La Poudrière"... This party is called "Fenêtre sur Cure" (ie "Window on Cure"). It's free and it will have conferences and video clips diffusion."

(Thanks Rodxxx)

"I recently heard two covers. The punk/emo band The Get Up Kids does a pretty good cover of Close to Me. Another punk band Face to Face covers Inbetween Days. "

(Thanks Sarah)

"I picked up a depeche mode biography in chapters the other day. it seemed like a good read, since the band was involved apparently, so i flipped to the credits and la-di-da, what did i find??? i see "the information in this book was taken from interviews with (among others) perry balmonte, and daryl balmonte."

yes, that's right. that's bamonte with an "l". good work boys. can't trust editors to save your live, let me tell you...."

(Thanks Caro)

"At last! Last night at 2:00 am I was lucky to see "Just Say Yes" video for the first time on MTV Latino. It was late but that´s better than never."

(Thanks Juan Carlos)

"I don't know how much it can be interesting, but sunday i saw "close to me" video clip aired on an italian channel, and then, a few hours later, i saw "friday i'm in love" video on mtv in a special called "so 90's special sunday"."

(Thanks Pietro)

(Thanks Simon)

"Right Lane will be playing Cure covers Wed. March 6th at Rusty's in Waco Texas at 9 p.m. Some of the songs known to be played are Fascination Street, Strange Day, Catch and more."

(Thanks Sabrina)

"On April 9th, Twilight's Moon is putting out a cover version of close to me. "

(Thanks Curefan86)

"The cover "Plainsong" by argentinian group 'Jaime sin Tierra' was in their oficial website at:

http://www.eltechodemicuarto.com/sintierra/downloads/plainsong.mp3

The cover is the same that is in the tribute "Into a sea of Cure"

(Thanks Chris of Cure-nius)

"The March/April 2002 issue of the Utne Reader has a tiny Robert Smith reference in a column about Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill. Author Andy Steiner writes about Kathleen: "To a girl growing up in a small Midwestern town, rock music mostly seemed like a guy thing. Sure, Prince had the ambiguously silent Wendy and Lisa, Morrissey was as sensitive as any woman, and the Cure's Robert Smith wore lipstick..."

Also spent the weekend downloading some old MP3s. Barcelona has a cute lyric about Robert in their song - Studio Hair Gel - "Your hair looks like Robert Smith's, brings to mind the word obsessed." This song is from 1999, so this isn't really news. "

(Thanks Phlox)

"On mtv here in belgium last week-end was 80's-90's week-end and they showed the "Lullaby video" as a 1989 video. Ok! but they said it was on the Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me album! I don't think so."

(Thanks Dav)

"I was looking for any sites that may have some Diablo II downloads and came across DiabloII.com. You scroll down to where it says headlines, and click on 'WinAmp D2 Skin', and then click on 'check out a screenshot' about 1/3 down the page. If you look down his playlist, you will find that he has The Cure - Burn on his playlist. You can find this at http://diabloii.ugo.com/news/"

(Thanks Dan)

(Thanks K3rst)

"Last Feb-17th in the spanish program "nosolomusica" from Tele5 TV Channel, they showed an interview about The Cure where RS was interviewed.

You can see it at: http://www.nosolomusica.telecinco.es/MainFrame_Descargas_Tema_M30.htm (You will need Real Player)"

(Thanks Christian from 'Cure-Nius')

"I happened to find this, maybe you guys already knew: V.A.: "A Night Like This ..." - Tribute To The Cure CD (Zoomica Music / SPV) http://www.the-gothicworld.de/cdreviews/11-2001/a-night-like-this.htm"

(Thanks Karoline)

"The austrian radio station FM4 is playing Cut Here now almost every day. The DJs allways make coments like "Robert Smith is still heart broken" or that The Cure are "professionally depressed". Yesterday Heinz Reich said "even if I expose myself as the uncoolest guy at FM 4, i have to admit, that Robert Smith´s voice still touches me", and he was refering to his teenage years. And quite a time ago there was a short report on ARTE-TV about rock stars who are into advertising now, like Iggy Pop or Duran Duran. And they asked, if The Cure will be advertising for make-up soon. "

(Thanks Bianca)

"This is an official announcement from Shakira's (the columbian Britney) hompage:

Then came a Grammy and two Latin Grammys, the key TV appearances, the brave new world of Shakira, the star. Shakira is a walking, living, breathing, singing contradiction. "I was born and raised in Colombia, but I listened to bands like Led Zeppelin, the Cure, the Police, the Beatles and Nirvana," said Shakira. "I was so in love with that rock sound but at the same time because my father is of l00% Lebanese descent, I am devoted to Arabic tastes and sounds. Somehow I'm a fusion of all of those passions and my music is a fusion of elements that I can make coexist in the same place, in one song."

and here's what Lisa Jewell writes in her debut novel "Ralph Party" (bestselling debut in uk):

page 22: "Ralph stepped further into her room ... impressed with her taste in music, like his, still stuck somewhere in 1979:the Jam, Madness, the Cure ...." "

(Thanks Patrick)

"I was wondering if you could do me a huge favour. I'm working on a media analysis of Argentina. I have to interview a few people about their media environment and Argentina's principal means of mass communication. I was wondering if you could put a little blurb up on the site so people who'd want to talk could contact me. I'd truly appreciate it.

Emilee Hoover (ehoover@smcvt.edu)"