A BOY I NEVER KNEW

To have his arms around me, to sense his perfect trust
I’d give everything I have…everything…

I’d love to see him sleep, I’d love to know his dreams.
To hold his hand in mine and listen to him breathe.
To watch him as he wakes, look into his eyes
I’d give all I ever had for a moment of his life.

He’s my heart and my soul.
He’s my blood and my bones.
He’s my prayers and my hopes
My wishes and dreams
Seems so long ago, so long ago…

I’d love to hear him laugh, I’d love to catch him smile.
To join him so close, to feel him by my side.
To have his arms around me, sense his perfect trust
I’d give everything I have for a moment of his love.

He’s my heart and my soul.
He’s my blood and my bones.
He’s my prayers and my hopes
My wishes and dreams
Seems so long ago,…

He’s my heart and my soul.
He’s my blood and my bones.
He’s my wishes and dreams
My prayers and my hopes

A boy I never knew
And the man I’ll never know.
I’ll never know…

To watch him as he wakes, look into his eyes
I’d give all I ever had…

Note - This is what Robert had to say about this song in an interview with Italian magazine Rockstar (Aug. 2004):

"I wrote many sad songs for this album and Ross is sorry I did not include them. He believes they're the best of them all. One is the saddest I've ever written. It's called "The boy I never knew". I played it to everyone who came to the studio, and everyone broke in to tears. Too much for me. I didn't feel like releasing it now, but someday I will."


PLEASE COME HOME

I look out the window watching the world go round.
I wonder where you are now. I wish you were here now.
Waiting at the window I watch the rain come down.
Wondering what to do now. Wishing you were here now.

I don’t understand why you couldn’t stay.
I don’t understand why you went away.
I don’t understand why you wouldn’t say.
I only know I need you now to…

Please, come back to me.
Please, come home.
Please, come back to me.
Don’t leave me here alone.
Knocked down here on my own…

I watch out the window whispering hopeless words.
I won’t let you go now. I want you here now.
Watching out the window, whisper a helpless world.
Pulling me back now.  Wanting you here now.

I don’t understand why you couldn’t stay.
I don’t understand why you went away.
I don’t understand why you wouldn’t say.
I only know I need you now to…

Please, come back to me.
Please, come home.
Please, come back to me.
Don’t leave me here alone.
Don’t leave me on my own.
Don’t leave me here alone.
Knocked down here on my own…

Still I wait at the window watching the world go round.
I wonder where you are now.
Please, come home…


STRUM

It will be so perfect, I said. Too beautiful for words.
It will be…so perfect I said.

My words are stupid, worthless, merely so much noise
I want to cover up the wall
Good things really never run the first time through
Adapted for our latest ploy
A pantomime of feeling good…good…good!
And waving as the smile just sits
But really I have never cared less in my life
To ever smile again.

I sit before the mirror white and draw my red eyes black.
My head is full of everyone you ever knew
Reflected, tired and cracked.

My act is empty, hopeless only so much luck
A show to cover up the stage
All this strewn to satisfy another you in
Acting out this tired charade.
A pantomime of feeling good…good…good…good…gooooood!
Drowning as the smile drips down.
But really I have never cared less in my life
Whatever turns around.

I sit before the mirror cold and paint my black mouth red.
Your head is full of everyone I ever knew
Reflected, old and dead.

It will still be perfect, you said. Too beautiful for words.
It will still…be perfect…

And please understand that these songs ARE NOT from the new album or single. The band recorded 20 tracks for the 2004 'The Cure' album - 15 found their way to various versions of the album, 2 were used for b-sides and these are the remaining 3 that didn't make it out at the time. And that doesn't even get into all of the instrumental demos that have never been officially released. So if the rumored deluxe edition of 'The Cure' ever comes out, they have more than enough to fill an extras disc.



(Thanks to Autumn @ Pictures of You)



(Thanks Liz)



"Just wanted to let you know we have a feature on Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and the other reissues on www.bluespaceradio.com, and we are featuring tracks from all 4 reissues this week prominently on our playlist."

(Thanks Chris)



(Thanks Pawel)



"A new disc honoring to The Cure. To download it for free go to Licor de Mono Discos (www.discoslicordemono.com.ar/http/Cure.htm)
4 wonderful discs with more than 40 songs."

(Thanks GusPRk)



"I saw the Canadian film, C.R.A.Z.Y, at Melbourne Film Festival on the weekend.  About a boy born into a catholic family on christmas eve,
purported to be a "healer" by the tupperware lady.  Hilarious and heartbreaking and Cure (10.15 Saturday Night) blasting out of the cinema speakers at a pivotal moment.  Best movie I have seen in a while, with Cure like icing sugar :)"

(Thanks Jason)

"During an interview with KROQ in Los Angeles Jared Leto lead singer of 30 Second To Mars was asked who inspires him musically, he AGAIN sited The Cure by saying "I really like Robert Smith from The Cure"."

(Thanks Tracy)

"Wanted to give you some info on the 3 unreleased tracks from the cure's 2004 album. these were not featured on any version of the album or b-side
releases:

A Boy I Never Knew - AMAZING! Possibly the most honest and mature song Robert has ever written. Lonely Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Light Drums and Sparse String Section. Reminds me of a children's lullaby (which makes sense since he supposedly wrote it for the son he never had) Could be compared to "going nowhere" in tone, but the simple, yet catchy tune reminds me of something from Kiss Me. Overall the track could have easily fit on Disintegration.

Strum - Another song that could have lived on Disintegration (as a b-side probably) although sonicly the track has more in common with Wish-era. The lyrics are very clever and literate in a way that Robert hasn't exhibited since The Top.

Please Come Home - Another song that could have easily lived on the second side of Disintegration. The track seems a little unfinished until the
lead-in to the chorus. Then it really takes off. Jason's tribal drumming, mixed with the monolith keyboards competing with Robert's vocals really
brings me back to 1989. Sends chills and makes you realize the slow undistinguished build-up only sells the song more.

And there you go. Why these tracks never made it onto the album, I have no idea. These, plus the songs available on the vinyl release (TGB, Going
Nowhere, This Morning), easily put the 2004 album up there with Disintegration in my opinion. My favorite band of all time has not lost one ounce of talent or focus over the last 15 years- they've just made a few bad choices in terms of song selections for their albums. Maybe they'll follow their hearts on the next one...."

(Thanks Anonymous)

"While the European releases appear to have been bumped a week, the US release of all 3 new Cure reissues and The Glove album, are on schedule.  In fact, we just received our first shipment today and will begin shipping immediately so that customers receive them on release date.
 
And a side note:  the last time we offered a promo poster incentive for buying all 3 Cure reissues, we sold out of posters the day before release date.  We recommend that those who want the poster for this set of reissues order ASAP.
 
http://idealcopy.american-data.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MU-CURE-3PACK-02"

(Thanks to Chris @ The Ideal Copy)


Update: Here's a better link.

(Thanks Wendy and Pirat)



Here are a few reviews and a advert for the upcoming remasters!!!

September 2006 - Uncut (UK) - REVIEWS - 4 Remasters

September 2006 - Q (UK) -REVIEWS - 4 Remasters

September 2006 - (UK) - ADVERT - 4 Remasters

(Thanks Autumn)



(Thanks Tempest)



"There is an interview with Michael Ciravolo, President of Schecter, in issue 38 (Jul/Aug) of Play magazine.  (a free magazine for musicians, from Soundcontrol - "The UK's number one musical instrument retailer" - I'm quoting/stealing from there article, so leave the official plug in please).
 
The Cure/Robert/Porl pop up as a subject:
 
Play: "You have many artists using the Diamond Series but currently you only have one signature artist, Robert Smith, with his UltraCURE electric and RS-1000 accoustic.  Why?"
 
M.C.: "If you look back we had at one point six signature guitars like a Jerry Horton, a Tommy Lee model and stuff - they're still our friends and still play our guitars.  We might do some more next year.  We're talking with the guys in Avenged Sevenfold and Jeff Loomis from Nevermore.  As guitar playing seems to be getting back to technique and proficient playing it seems like it might have more relevance for us to do it now.
 
The Robert Smith thing is different.  We're huge Cure fans.  To have Robert - who's never endorsed anything - wanting to design a guitar with us was just, cool!  To see a band that I grew up with and respect, and to design a guitar with him, and then see him play their entire catalogue with it was a really cool thing.
 
We're also working with Porl Thompson who's back in the Cure.  He played with them during their nineties heyday but left the band to go and play
with Page and Plant.  But he's a brilliant guitar player and he's using a Corsair.  We're working with him on a signature model.  He's got a UK street tattoo artist, Kev Grey, designing a graphic - it'll be a pretty wild looking Corsair".
 
(Thanks Dave Ace)



"The french-german culture programme Arte will broadcast a "Best of La Route du Rock 2005" including The Cure on 13th of August and the following next two sundays at 9.30 am."

(Thanks Chris)



"Senses Working Overtime - http://www.hearmusic.com/#PRODUCT200
Starbucks is featuring a comp with the 1980's featured. Robert is on the cover and The Cure's All Cats Are Grey is track  5."

(Thanks Amy)



"found a cool trip hop version of the cure's "watching me fall" on myspace. 
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=73369078"

(Thanks James and Monica)

"I've got a band Called In Vitro ... I am a big fan of the Cure ... Robert Smith is my biggest influence ... I have cover the song : Just like heaven with my band and we post it on myspace.. www.myspace.com/invitrofromswitzerland  .. the cover is a little bit more punky... It's a demo version just for the fun... I have recorded it in my bedroom.. Just to show how I love this band ... If you wanna check out my version.. (one thing is great with the cure : if you put up tempo and distortion with all the Cure song it gives Punk song... Robert is a punk .. just joking)"
 
(Thanks Math)



"Anyways, CLOSE TO ME is featured in the movie John Tucker Must Die - yeah, I know. Very unexpected!"

(Thanks Christie)


"in an article about artists that should be inducted into the rock-n-roll hall of fame from the cleveland plain dealer:

Deserving dozen: some eligible acts worthy of induction

Thursday, August 03, 2006

....The Cure

While on the subject of noteworthy dudes who wear makeup, let's not overlook Cure frontman Robert Smith, a man who seemingly smears his
lipstick on in the dark. His British band is famous for its trend-setting mope rock, although "Friday I'm in Love" is as upbeat a ditty as you'll ever hear....http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1154609777270540.xml&coll=2"

(Thanks Pirat)


"in this blog about making pepto-bismol ice cream the cure get an odd shout-out! http://www.blogjam.com/2006/07/20/pepto-bismol-ice-cream"
 
(Thanks Van)

"You can listen to 30-second low-quality clips of the remastered albums on amazon.com:

The Top: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GGSM7G

The Head on the Door: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GGSM76

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GGSM94 "

(Thanks Olivier)



"I found an amateur brazilian band called Doctor's Zé  in the youtube covering "Boys Don't Cry"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-C6FwXIfww&search=cure%20brasil"

(Thanks Rodrigo)



"On Friday's episode of The Soup (Fridays at 10pm on E!), the host was showing a clip of the MTV/MTV2 show "Why Can't I Be You."  His intro was along the lines of "It makes a much better Cure song/title than a show."

(Thanks Barbi)

(Thanks Richard, Melissa and Hellonwheels4u)



(Thanks Hellonwheels4u)

(Thanks Stephanie)



Rhino Records and DJ's Qbot & Kamar present:

The Cure CD release party!!!!!
Wednesday August 2, 2006
Uptown Lounge
1136 W. Lawrence
10pm - 4am
NO COVER

Special Guest DJ : "The Legend" Dave Roberts from Planet Earth Chicago/Neo

Celebrating the re-issues of The Glove (Smith/Severin), The Top, The Head on the Door & Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

also presented by: chicagosuicideclub.com

Giveaways (CDS AND POSTERS) courtesy of Rhino Records (www.rhinorecords.com)

For more info:

www.djqbot.com
www.djkamar.com
www.planetearthchicago.com
www.rhinorecords.com
www.chicagosuicideclub.com

 

(Thanks Kamar and Kevin)



"not sure if anyone's mentioned the cover of 'catch' done by boy kill boy yet: www.myspace.com/boykillboy"

(Thanks David)



"I just wanted to let you know that I was at the Dashboard Confessional concert in Houston on July 19th and they used some of the lyrics from
 From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea in their song Remember To Breathe."

(Thanks Pedro)

"this evening (saturday 22) on french/german tv channel Arte there was the daily program called 'Le Journal de la Culture' (which as its name indicates is about what are the cultural events currently going on).  They had a brief report about the 20th anniversary of the open air and in the streets theatre festival 'Châlons Dans La Rue', Chalons Sur Saone, France.  During this report, surprisingly, they played about 15-20 seconds of the instrumental part of 'the empty world'.  Unexpected and thus always exciting..."

(Thanks FabienG)

"The West Australian today (Friday 21 July) reviewed the new Muse album, with a reference to Robert.
 
"Jim Morrison, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie and Robert Smith... portentous pop stars have been booming and yelping about some non-specific
Armageddon for four decades, but there's enough blood in the water these days for the melodramatically inclined rock diva to pick up a clear scent."

(Thanks Jo)
 

(Thanks Wilco)



(Thanks Jason)



"There's a cover of "in between days" by a band called obligations in the new movie by maria ripoll "tu vida en 65 minutos" you can listen to the song here: http://tuvidaen65minutos.altafilms.com/
There's also another cover in the "music" section of the website by giulia y los tellarini."

(Thanks David)

"I am sure you have listed this one before, but in any case, I had a little surprise the other day while watching tv - a UK channel, I think.  I was zapping, as you do and I came across the second part of a David Gray live London show - Hammersmith, and his last song was "Friday, I'm in love".  It was pretty faithful to the original and not a bad attempt at that!! 
 So as not to be too lazy and I went and looked it up - the concert was 12/12/2005 - Hammersmith Apollo, London."
 
(Thanks The Sligoman)
 




(Thanks Exploding Boy)



"Yesterday afternoon, Monday the 17th at 1500 mst, NPR used about 10 seconds of "Anniversary" just before cutting to Market Place.
 
I guess these curespottings are kinda ho hum considering they are something akin to Name that Tune and because NPR uses Cure music fairly
often."
 
(Thanks CrystalS)

(Thanks Steve)



"The Glove's Deluxe 2 Disc remaster of Blue Sunshine has been delayed. The new release date is 14/08 for the UK and 15/08 for the US."

Update: "Well, this is consistent with what Hispacure relayed from Universal Music Spain last week: the next 3 remastered Cure albums have been
pushed back to 14/08 (in Europe at least)."

(Thanks della&thebanshees and Olivier)



"Hey I just came across this website http://www.songwritingcompetition.com Apparently Robert Smith will be one of the many judges in the competition.  Good luck to all the enter."

(Thanks Jerbear)



"The Argentinian issue of Rolling Stone "Special Edition" (50 years of Rock Collection, number 7) is for The Cure's "The head on the door"...
and includes the CD of "Head on the door" (Argentinian 2005 edition). The magazine is very nice (16 pages with some good pictures)."
 
           

(Thanks BETO)



"my band Forgetting the Memory, did a cover of lullaby just thought you might want to check it out."

(Thanks Joshua)

"in between days....strange cover !! http://www.sunshiners.net/index_new-uk.html. reggae man !!!"
 
(Thanks Manu)



Eleven Reasons Why Syd Barrett Was Cool

Tuesday July 11, 2006 @ 06:00 PM

Syd Barrett, an original member of Pink Floyd and one of the true icons of the psychedelic late '60s, has passed away at age 60. Rather than dwell on the tragic passing of this amazing musical figure, we here at ChartAttack want to celebrate the great moments of this man's career. Without further ado, here are 11 reasons why Syd Barrett was cool: ...

# 10. Here's a list of just a few different bands and musicians he had an affect on: This Mortal Coil, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Cure's Robert Smith, Johnny Marr (formerly of The Smiths), My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, Primal Scream, Voivod, The Libertines, The Beta Band, Julian Cope, Robyn Hitchcock, The Flaming Lips, R.E.M., Mercury Rev, The Dead Kennedys' East Bay Ray, Camper Van Beethoven, Pearl Jam, Love And Rockets, Elevator To Hell, The Melvins, Transatlantic, Phish, Dream Theater, Graham Coxon (formerly of Blur) and former Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante.

Read the whole story online at: http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/07/1108.cfm

(Thanks Tempest)



"Well, here we go again, fellow Cure heads.

I propose to hold, for the 3rd year running, another Cure picnic at The Cure's Hanging Gardens location in Twickenham.

Come along, bring food, alcohol etc, but please do respect the gardens and dispose of your rubbish afterwards.  There are pubs along the riverside that we can dive into if the weather turns bad, but hopefully it will be okay.

Please see my flyer for details, and spread the word!"



(Thanks Birdmad Girl)



(Thanks Ben)



"Perhaps you've heard, but the astronauts on the Space Shuttle woke up this morning to "Just Like Heaven".  I saw the report on CTV Newsnet, where the anchor called it "Seems Like Heaven, by the Cure", but at least the music playing was right!

A quick google finds this report: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2197649

-- The crew awoke Sunday to a recording of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven," chosen by astronaut Piers Sellers' family. Sellers told Mission Control the song reminded him of "the wild, happy, drinking-beer years of my youth."

(Thanks Heather the buzzard and James)


"From a San Francisco Chronicle interview of "The Speakers:

1. The Speakers' music should be filed between:

The albums Peter and I listen to the most together are "Disintegration" by the Cure, "Birds of My Neighborhood" by the Innocence Mission, and "Vespertine" by Bjork. To us, if you know these albums, you can play "spot the influence" all over the Speakers' albums.

3. If you could collaborate on a song with any person, living or dead, who would that be?

Robert Smith. Karen Peris. Bjork. The new Three Tenors!

4. If a junior high school asked you to play a cover song at the next talent show, what song and school would you choose?

... I would actually love to hear a Cure song played by my junior high band played at the actual time we had begun to listen to them. Maybe "The Same Deep Water as You." That would be awesome.

Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/06/NSGUGJPILE1.DTL&hw=speakers&sn=001&sc=1000"

(Thanks Lenore)


" i was just watching "Terzake", a documentary show on Canvas, a flemish TV-channel. This time's show was about some phenomenon apparently called "fooding" ( some kind of new hype that makes chefs kind of ignore all common rules of "cuisine", or rather mix them all up )... Anyway, they
showed images of some kind of "fooding" private party somewhere in Paris, in some kind of basement. During one of the scenes at that private party, you could hear "Lullaby" playing in the background. The food seemed goddarned aweful b.t.w.."

(Thanks Laurent)


"sunday 9 July, I was watching Cold Case on french tv France 2, the episode was called 'pyjama party', season 2 episode 2, and a very long extract of lullaby was used.  check the previous cure News of COF and you'll see that 2 extracts were used last time.  thus, watch out for the next episode..."

(Thanks Fabien G)


"In our local paper's Friday entertainment section, there's an article about Dashboard Confessional.  They are talking about the lead singer, Chris Carrabba, and state, "Carrabba's croon, which still evokes a more technically proficient Robert Smith..."

(Thanks Diane)

(Thanks Soledad)




(Thanks Gary)



"Katie Melua's cover of Just Like Heaven Is included on the CD on the front of this month's Q magazine. What more incentive to go out and spend £3.90?"

(Thanks Andy)

"Grant Lee Buffalo covers The Cure.
I know you posted a story on this, but here is the US site: http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=album.php&musicalGroupId=466&catalog_id=6848
This album has some great covers, performed by a great artist!"

(Thanks John)

"Just wanna let you know that Kitsune 's cover of Da Hype is now online on http://www.myspace.com/kitsunetsuki. we recorded it for the Pink Pig Project. i know you don't like the song but All About Eve's Julianne Regan is a fan of ours, so give us a try! ;) "

(Thanks Marco)



"I've recently heard two Cure vs. Snoop mashups at clubs in San Francisco, both featuring "Drop It Like It's Hot." The mashups are titled "Drop It Like It's Hot Hot Hot" and "Drop It Like It's Close To Me" (I'm sure everybody can figure out which Cure songs they're mixed with). I have been unable to find the tracks ANYWHERE! If somebody knows where these tracks can be purchased or downloaded, I would very much appreciate it."

(Thanks Jordan)



"In the next Michel Gondry movie "The Science of Sleep",  the room of Stephane (played by Gael Garcia Bernal) is decorated with The Head on 
The Door, The Top, and Three Imaginary Boys LP covers pinned on the wall.
A great hommage in an incredible movie, by one of the best filmmakers of our times. Awesome!"

(Thanks Francois)

"Robert's picture is in July Elle on page 59. The article is "How to Read a Music Review".  The Cure, Joy Division and Gang of Four represent Post-punk/Old School music in the guide and it's Robert's (Bloodflowers era) picture that represents them."
 
(Thanks CrystalS)

From PR Newswire

"Alongside Angels and Airwaves, Suretone releases for the remainder of the year include The Pink Spiders' debut album "Teenage Grafitti" (produced by Ric Ocasek) which will hit stores on August 1st. You can catch the Pink Spiders on this summer's Warped Tour. Next is Rooney's sophomore album due out in early September. Rooney will join Kelly Clarkson as her main support for her summer tour. New Found Glory follows Rooney with an album due out on October 10th. Look for them to start a massive headlining tour in September. Later in the year Suretone will release Weezer's greatest hits that will feature several new tracks. On October 31st, Halloween, Suretone plans to release a new studio album by The Cure."

(Thanks Spencer)

"Just a little something I heard while listening to cfny 102.1, a Toronto station that I am thankful for here in buffalo, the DJ stated the cure
is slated for an October 31st release of their newest work."
 
(Thanks Erick)



PB.DE: Artistically seen, were you happy with the direction the band took in the last two years of your membership? Obviously there were tensions in the band around the recording of the last album.

Perry: I have to say that I always preferred to see the positive side, and I sincerely believed that The Cure still had the potential to put out a really great album, but it was often hard to sustain that belief.

PB.DE: Why?

Perry: Usually because of choices made concerning what the band should do, what songs should be released, the way the band was being marketed, etc. It often felt like these decisions belied a lack of confidence and led to compromise.

(Thanks Grace)



From The Toronto Star

"In addition to mixing forthcoming CDs by Newfoundland singer Damhnait Doyle and Edmonton band AA Soundsystem, Michel is fiddling with a solo effort by long-time Bowie guitarist Earl Slick.

"He's had Bowie and (the Cure's) Robert Smith guest sing on it," Michel says. "He wants me to sing a tune on it, too. But he's not happy with the tracks, so he's asked to me fix them up. I've been tearing apart these mixes. I've got 10 tracks of Bowie stuff. It's a blast."

(Thanks Tempest)



(Thanks Fab G, Lenore and Stephen)



"Be sure to get the next Cure Reissue Promotional Poster (only from the Idealcopy.com) when you buy all 3 via this link:
 
http://idealcopy.american-data.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MU-CURE-3PACK-02

Offer good for the first 300 orders, so be quick!
 
You can also get the Import Versions with the different packaging if you prefer those, as well as The Glove's Blue Sunshine 2CD."
 
(Thanks to Chris @ The Ideal Copy)



"I thought it was important to tell you that The Cure "Lost In the Labyrinth" bootleg DVD is an exact copy of The Cure DVD bootleg "Out of the Woods"; it has a different title and DVD artwork but, otherwise, is a duplicate. Some Cure fans are about to pay twice for the exact same product."

(Thanks Snap)



"I'm sure everyone knows about youtube, but this guy has some amazing cure videos - http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=tubeculthero"
 
(Thanks Ryan)



"Looks like Grant-Lee Phillips covers Boys Don`t Cry on his new album "Nineteeneighties" which is out for sale the 26th of June, at least here in scandinavien . .here is a link ; http://www.platekompaniet.no/cdproduct.asp?id=COOKCD380, there are covers of The Smith & Echo & The Bunnymen here also amongst other well known artists.".

(Thanks Lars)

"Germany's currently most successfull band Wir sind Helden played a very upbeat cover of "Why can't I be you?" yesterday at the sold out Southside Festival in Neuhausen/South Germany. A great version thanks to the sexy voice of Julia Holofernes and a 3 piece horn section. Nice to
see 30.000 teenages jumping around and singing along to a Cure song this summer."
 
(Thanks Ingmar)

"Heard this in a club the other night!
http://www.phonicarecords.co.uk/detail.aspx?ID=13144
http://media.phonicarecords.co.uk/prdj03_1.mp3"

(Thanks Ronan)



"Cleopatra Records informed me that the book will be release on September 19th in the US. They'll probably sign a deal for a UK/Irish release too.
We're still looking for help in publishing Italian, Spanish and Portuguese versions. Could you post this request?"

E-mail David if you can help.

(Thanks David)



www.numbersnightclub.com

THE CURED

A cure Tribute Concert - featuring:

Anguish in Exile
Nervewreck
Slivered
The Cure'd: a dark tribute

All Ages.
21 & Up....$10 Under 21...$15
Doors at 9PM

"On my way in to work this morning, the dj was going through a list published by Guitar One on the top 10 songs to play to your significant other if you want to "get some."  While Led Zeppelin, Goo-Goo Dolls, and Extreme were a few that made the list, The Cure's Just Like Heaven came in at #4.  I thought this was pretty funny, and figured many fans alike would find this rather amusing as well......not to mention Robert and the guys!"
 
(Thanks Jen)

"June 22, 2006 at 11:25pm EDT, during "The Daily Show" on comedy central there was an ad on for the JetBlue website which made some not too flattering reference to Robert Smith- and posted a reworked photo of him with his eyes blurred out."

(Thanks Laura)

From the Washington Post

"In October 2004, the Scottish-born Tunstall was touring England, playing keyboards in the punk-folk band Half Cousin when she got a call from the popular BBC live music television show "Later . . . With Jools Holland." Could Tunstall, who had been working on her first album, possibly fill in on 24 hours' notice for the American rapper Nas, who had to cancel at the last minute?

And, just so she would know, the other performers that night would be Anita Baker, Jackson Browne, Embrace, the Futureheads -- and the Cure.

"So I got off the tour bus, went back to London, jumped in the shower," Tunstall recalled recently from her home in St. Andrews, Scotland. "And suddenly I'm in the studio, watching Robert Smith, going, 'What a [expletive] god' . . . and I'm next!"

(Thanks Tempest)

"A little curespotting: sunday 25 June, french tv channel France 2 played an episode from the series 'Cold Case' ('Aaires Classées' in french, episode titled 'la reine déchue' ('the fallen queen'?)).  During this episode, they played a long part of 'just like heaven', and, a while later, an extract from 'pictures of you'.  Two extracts in one episode!  It was great."

(Thanks FabienG)

"About 15 seconds of the musical intro to Pictures of You was used during one of the Katie Couric retrospect on her last day of the Today Show on May 31. Not much of a spotting, but once again somebody at NBC shows some good musical tastes. :) "
                                                                                                   
(Thanks Cheryl)

"Bits of 'Burn' are being using in a trailer for Smallville on either E4 or More4 here in the UK."
 
(Thanks James)

"Here is just a little curespotting, dating back from November 2005.  in the british magazine Bliss there is a 4 pages article about fearne Cotton (which  seems to be an interviewer in the UK), and she is photographed lying on her bed surrounded by plenty of records among which the 12" of 
'the lovecats'."

(Thanks Fabien G)

"I am going to be in Houston visiting next week. I am trying to find my friend Nancy Leon (and her husband Aaron Cain). For some reason we have lost touch numbers, e-mails have changed.  If  there is anyway you could post a brief SOS would be great.  If you can help me just direct them to boortzband@yahoo.com"