"I work at a college radio station at Michigan State University, and had the opportunity to do a phone interview with Reeves Gabrels! He was a really cool guy (a bit long winded). When I asked him about what's going on with he and Robert, he told me that the two of them have tentative plans to go into the studio to work on Robert's solo album in late Feburary. Reeves said that Robert has about 5 other musicians in mind that he wants to participate in the project, but Reeves didn't want to tell me who those 5 people were, since it wasn't his project and he wasn't sure. But I asked him if any of these people would be current/ or former members of the Cure, and he said "Yes, I think at least a few of them".

(Thanks to Clay at Impact 89FM)

So who are the others that Robert has in mind? One of them may have been revealed in the Nine Inch Nails chat last night:

Question: Are you planning to work with Robert Smith (The Cure), like producing his solo album?

Trent: Robert and I have met a few times. The Cure has always been one of my favorite bands. When I saw them on their last tour in L.A., we were on tour -- I made a detour just to see the show. We spoke at length about contributing something to his solo record. Hopefully, something will come of that. I have great respect for him.

So there's confirmation that they at least talked about it. Who knows what will come of it, but for now it makes for very interesting speculation. And while we are talking about rumored participants, we might as well mention the others who have been mentioned over the last few months - the 4 other members of The Cure, Boris Williams, David Bowie and Billy Corgan.

(Thanks Nadine)

(Thanks Jennifer)

"english version: there is a website now for a petition to try to bring the cure to south america, for some shows. please, sign it and tell all your friends about it. thanks! http://www.crosswinds.net/~braziliandream/

version en espanol: in este web site hay una peticion para traer el cure para america latina. por favor, firme la peticion e diga a todos sus amigos que ella existe. gracias! http://www.crosswinds.net/~braziliandream/ verso em portugues: existe agora um site com um abaixo-assinado para tentar trazer o cure para a america do sul, para alguns shows. por favor, assine e diga a todos os seus amigos para assina-la tambem. valeu! http://www.crosswinds.net/~braziliandream/ "

"I heard on the Finnish radio that the Finnish band called Sad Parade have made a cover version of The Cure's 10.15 Saturday Night. It sounded brilliant when I heard it on a radio; very dancable version with drum'n'bass feeling and vocoder vocals and fine organ sound. I ordered my copy yesterday directly from the label (Plastic Passion). More information www.start.at/plastic "

(Thanks Sakari)

"Over the weekend i heard 2 cure songs on tv programs. While flipping through the stations, I heard the remix version of Lullaby being played on a gymnastics competition during an intermission. Later that day I heard Want during an Ironman competition. Needless to say I was surprised, but happy to hear those songs."

(Thanks Jeff)

"house of horrors channel 4 UK:-"drip drip drip" from 10.15 during a leaky pipe dripping water part of the consumer programme

Q awards 2000 channel 4 UK:-Davina McCall announces that 2000 was the year when the smashing pumpkins and the cure split up (well that's news to me)"

(Thanks Nige)

"Imagine my surprise to hear "Pictures of You" played whilst waiting for my husband to have a CT scan performed. I don't know if it was the radiologist's sense of humour or just a quirk of fate, but it certainly made the time go a bit faster."

(Thanks DMW)

"grosse pointe blank, the movie w/ john cusack and minnie driver in it has a lot of good tunes on it, including the clash and the banshees, which are on the actual sound track, but when driver's character reunites with cusack at the radio station where she dj's, she plays in between days in the background while they're very awkwardly trying to make ammends. weird."

(Thanks Carolyn)

"another Cure-spotting from Germany: I was just selecting a glass of marmelade in a German supermarket in Hamburg (Minimal), when they started to play "Out of this world" as background music. Quite a surprise."

(Thanks Thomas)

"Meanwhile, Gabrels has been busy in L.A. He played a month-long residency at the Viper Room in June. He's been collaborating with various songwriters including his old Bowie mate Mark Plati and producer Danny Saber. He'll also start working on (Robert) Smith's first solo album in winter or early spring. But foremost are plans for his first national tour as a solo artist. "

(Thanks James)

(Thanks Kisty & Tom)

"Hi, in the spanish city of "Leganes", there's an electronic poll to put the names of a music band to 8 streets of the city. More info in : http://www.leganes.com [only in spanish]

The people vote! Vote the cure to: chema@leganes.com Send a short mail with just THE CURE in the subject/body."

(Thanks Christian of CureNius)

"We are trying to set up a cure party in chicago at the night club "berlin". but, we need your help. monday nights is new wave night and we'd love to do a cure night, the only way that is possible is if i can guarantee my bosses a decent turnout. to make this possible, please email us at joydivsubstance@hotmail.com if you are interested in having and coming to a possible cure party. hoping to have this within the next month. thanks."

(Thanks Kamar)

"I'm going back to a place called Cairns in Australia this holiday season (my home town). It is quite a big city and there are always heaps and heaps of tourists moving through, and because of this I would like to organise a cure party/indie music night type thing. I can get a club in the city alright, but what I'm going to need is some help with organisation (either physical if you are going to be in Cairns, or ideas from people who have organised them before) and some kind of indication of interest. So if anyone's interested, please email me at ryanpoppi@hotmail.com"

(Thanks Ryan)

"The Smashing Pumpkins played the chords to "Boys don't cry" at their last gig in London on Saturday night. I couldn't see who actually played it because I sat too far away from the stage and it was between the songs so the stage was not very brightly lit. But I guess it was James Iha actually."

(Thanks Daniel)

"Just saw that there´s a new Sampler released in Germany called "Fetenhits 12" which contains "Maybe Someday"."

(Thanks Nicola)

"Yesterday i watched the science program "planetopia" on german tv, which featured a report about high-voltage workers. to my surprise they played "fascination street" and "plainsong" in the background."

(Thanks Chris)

"I was watching a movie called an evening star with juilette lewis and there was one part in the movie where she's talking with her boyfriend and on radio they were playing just like heaven while they were talking."

(Thanks DrAB6969)

"Sunday 5th of November

On the music quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks on BBC2(UK). Mark Lamarr(the host) asked one of the teams what was the common link between Robert Smith and Divine(Harris Glenn Milstead). Sean Hughes(one of the team's captains) had a comedy programme called Sean's Show which The Cure were on. On this episode Robert was in a skit that had something to do with Robert being Sean's mother and the rest of the band were his aunties. And Divine played Rikki Lake's mother in the movie Hairspray. What a strange link...however they got the answer right."

(Thanks LuAnne and Andy)

"I was checking the marsmusic.com page and they had an interview with Geno Leonardo of Filter and when asked what CD he's listening he said "Bloodflowers" by the Cure. You can read the interview at http://www.marsmusic.com/store/korg/ "

(Thanks Jose)

"The spot of the online news broadcast on the italian site RaiNews24 is using "Wrong Number" as background music."

(Thanks Davide)

"In the December 2000 issue of Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, there is a picture of The Cure from the Wish era on page 192. They are mentioned in a bit about alternative music sites."

(Thanks Harleen and Curegirl0421)

"I had a Cure-spotting today on the Clueless tv show, the background music for the golf scene was set to Mint Car (of course, it made the show that much more enjoyable)"

(Thanks Teresa, Mary, Margaret and Dorkanic)

" The Cureheads have confirmed 2 concerts in the New year. Feb 9th In Peterborough at The Park & Feb 17 At The Friday I'm in Love Valentines ball at Trillians Newcastle."

" You can now download 2 Quicktime clips of the Cureheads. One is a quick blast of Inbetween Days from the reunion gig at Camden in August & The other is all the worst bits and mistakes from the First leg of the tour all edited together in glorious techno-rubbish"

" There is also a special Christmas present for Cure related collecters you can download a demo MP3 version of Love will tear us apart ( The Cure) and a demo version of our very different cover of " Out of This World"

"My new band kill.pop is doing a cover of siamese twins. Our first show will be nov 22nd in lawrence, ks. There is an mp3 of the song on our website."

(Thanks burnt)

"Just a quick note to invite you to come & listen to a couple of Cure covers we have just added on our website in the "Sounds" section. If you'd like to hear them follow the link: http://www.multimania.com/thespinningtops.

(Thanks Fred)

"The german TV Station Pro 7 had a Halloween CD released with The Cure´s - Why can´t I be you? "

(Thanks Dirk)

"Hi, a rather unexpected cure-spotting on german breakfast tv (ARD) today: a feature about people suffering from dust allergy was accompanied by "trust" from the wish-album."

(Thanks Thomas)

"During Halloween night while I was helping my sister trick-or-treating, "The Loudest Sound" was playing very faint until we got closer and closer to the house that was playing it. I didn't believe my eyes when I saw a "Robert look alike" standing at the front of his door ready to give out candy. It turned out to be a girl dressing up as Robert. We talked about the Cure while giving out candy, now were friends. I finally found someone in my neighbourhood that is a cure fan (and a curespotting)"

(Thanks Andrea)

"Halloween night, MuchMusic played the top halloween videos, and The Cure's Lullaby was featured."

(Thanks Chris)

"In Pop2000 (Viva TV/Germany), a documentary about the history of German pop-music, they talked about the upcoming Goth-Scene in the End of the 80s. And meanwhile they played "hanging garden" in the backround.

Announcement for a cure-show on German TV: Hearing this band is better than having sex for five times"

(Thanks Vince)

"A photo of Robert is featured on the homepage of http:\\www.spun.com. I also noticed that if you click on the "Music" tab at the top of the Spun homepage, the front of the music section includes the same picture of Robert, but a more complete one."

(Thanks Kristin)

"There's a really cool photo of Robert with the origonal line-up of Dinosaur Jr. (who covered "Just Like Heaven") on the Dinosaur Jr. fan site, freakscene.net.

http://www.freakscene.net/splash1.gif

This is a great site for Dinosaur Jr./J Mascis fans, by the way."

(Thanks Charlie)

"The Cureheads "the official cure tribute show"

We need a new lead guitarist unfortunately due to the departure of Steve Hallaselka who is moving to Finland to pursue his career.

We are looking for somebody who is based in or around London and the surrounding counties.You will need to have your own transport and gear.

We have at present got commitments to play in Ireland,Scotland,London,Bristol and the States within the next 6 months.

you can check out our website on www.cureheads.com

Please get in touch by e-mail to:seanflude@aol.com "

And more Cureheads news (the search for a new guitarist will not cause a disruption):

Tower Promotions presents:

(Thanks Sean & IrishCure)

"on Saturday (28th October) German tv channel Bayern 3 rebroadcasted, totally unanounced (they didnt mention it on their page nor teletext!) 30min of the concert in Munich on 30st January, 1984... (10.15 / Play for today / Give me it / A forest / The top / Pornography)"

(Thanks Dennis)

"I was watching the Late Late Show last night and the second guest was this girl who is in that Blair Witch 2 movie. As the interview went on, Craig Kilborne mentioned something about her character being goth, and he proceeds to show her pictures of some people so she could tell him if they were goth or not. First off, Marylin Manson (she said yes), then some other people, then Alice Cooper (she said yes again) and then Robert, then she said that she used to listen to him when in high school and Kilborne said that he did too, and of course she said yes. Then, he proceeds to show her a picture of some NFL player apparently named Robert Smith and he said, how this Robert Smith, he's STILL working...... she said no. I guess it's ok, after all she is in Blair Witch 2 and he had a guest who was on Blair Witch 2, how can they know better."

(Thanks Enrique)

"On last night's episode of Third Watch (10/30), Kim, the paramedic, was at her mother's house, in what appears to be Kim's childhood room... and in the background was a Boys Don't Cry poster.... anyway, it made me happy."

(Thanks Kendra and Anah)

"Swedish channel 4 have a football magazine called "Tipslördag". Last Saturday they talked about Englands results in the World Cup, they showed pictures from some games and meanwhile they played "Close To Me" ( Mixed up version) in the background."

(Thanks Peter)

"The other night on VH1, there was a show about porn stars and the music they like, and one of the porn stars claimed to like The Cure."

(Thanks Brian)

"How about CARNAGE VISORS being the background music in the Monroe, MI Elks Club annual haunted house??? I couldn't believe my ears when I walked in and heard it.... Worth the price of admission, but had to stay in the house almost 27 minutes to hear the whole song!!!"

(Thanks Dave in Detroit)

"Last night I went to see a punk band called The Bouncing Souls in New Jersey and during their encore they played Just Like Heaven. I saw them in June in Philly, right after the Cure shows and they played it then too. They seem to play it all the time now. Not too many people seemed to know it though, but i enjoyed it immensly!"

(Thanks Risa)

"A band called Galileo played "a forest" during Help, a quite popular italian music show. The cover was welldone even if the singer didn't know the lyrics really!"

(Thanks Sergio)