"Thanks to all of you who have been e-mailing with interest in going to the shows. As I'm sure you can guess, The Cure show is completely at capacity. We have a room capacity of 300 and we've received over twice as many requests. We'll try to accommodate as many of you as possible, but understand we can't call everyone back. Thanks for your interest. "

"It says "Share an evening with other fans in a funky atmosphere" and also says "Don't forget to try the Curetini: It tastes Just Like Heaven"...kinda corny :^) Anyway, it's at Vox Nightclub-585 Yonge Street in Toronto... 19 and over, doors open at 10pm with a $4 cover charge before 11pm or $6 cover charge after 11pm. "

(Thanks Josh)

"On 29.10.1999 is a Cure Party " Waiting for BLOODFLOWERS" in Germany, in the Town Halle/Saale, in the Club Steg e.V. near the centre of the Town. Open is 21:00. Live at this party is "Three Imaginary Boys" (The Sideproject of "Lament") - The best Cure-Cover-Project from Germany... See you???"

" i need help!! my band, suburbanyte, agreed to do 'fascination street' for the pink pig compilation but, as untimely as it seems, the band are unable to get together to record it in time and my keyboard has died, making it impossible for me to record it myself (unless i do it accapella!). so i am pleading if anyone out there would like to:

a) record the music for fascination street and mail it to me so that i can add vocals;

or b) do their own version of fascination street for the pink pig project so that it does not go un-done.

either would suffice, but i am mostly keen to sing it myself, to add my own australian element to the song. if anyone is interested in helping me, please contact me on suburbanyte@yahoo.com thank you all.

love -nic vox/keyboards, suburbanyte"

(Thanks Nic)

"There's a local TV announcement about a local Olympic game in Macaé (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) that starts with the beginning of "Wrong Number"!"

(Thanks Fernando)

"One of the weird places I have once heard The Cure playing was in a small town in the Heilongjiang province of China. They were playing Lullaby from the speakers of a music store."

(Thanks Clifford)

"There's a disco pub in Portugal, in Leça da Palmeira, called Bato that plays the Cure every night. The songs are Close to me, Friday I'm in love, Inbetween days, Boys Don't cry, Lovecats and Play for today. The disco pub is extremely well decorated and the rest of the music is Brit pop or alternative. "

(Thanks Jorge)

Matt in New Jersey (They called at 11:30 am eastern on Mon.): "I am just writing to let you know that I also was able to get myself tickets, and the same deal, I am to call a week before the show to let them know if I want to pick them up the day of the show or earlier."

Brian in Chicago (They called on Mon. morning): "I just got the same phone call from Lisa at VH1. She asked me how many tickets I wanted and told me to call the week before the show to arrange for pickup either in advance or at the show. I wish I would have thought about asking her just how many tickets are being released to the public for this. Anyways, just thought I'd let you know of another Cure fan getting lucky for this show."

(Thanks Bruno)

Update (9/27/99 - 3:13pm) - Just got more info from Jennifer about the call she got this morning:

"Lisa from VH1 called me this morning about 9:45. She told me that she was calling from VH1 and asked me how many tickets I wanted, and I said 2, for myself and my fiancee!! She told me that I needed to call her back the week of the taping and let her know if I would pick them up prior to the show, or at the show. And she gave me the phone number. "

If anyone else gets the call, be sure to let us know about it!

(Thanks Nadine)

"I have heard two Cure songs played on muzak in Staples. (friday i'm in love, lullaby)

Also, I saw the hip-hop band Shootyz Groove and they did a quick into of Just Like Heaven before playing into one of their songs...(creepy)"

(Thanks John)

"I just got back from a Los Angeles Kings Hockey game. During the practice skate, They played Why Can't I be You. It fit in pretty good. The Kings lost though."

(Thanks Peter)

(Thanks Marco)

The Cure will be in New York City on Oct. 19th to tape an episode of VH-1's Hard Rock Live at the Sony Music Studios. Tickets are currently being offered at the Hard Rock Live website on a first come, first serve basis. While the show is being taped in Oct., it will not be airing any time soon, probably not until next year.

I'm not sure if you have to live in NYC in order to get tickets from the HRL website, but I sent in my request for 2 tickets anyway. In case they don't come through, if anyone gets 2 extra tickets please contact me ASAP. What can I offer in return? How about undying gratitude? Everlasting friendship? First-born child? : )

You can e-mail your questions to q@ecm.emap.com or mail them to: Q Magazine, Mappin House, Winsley Street, London W1N 7AR

Make sure that you label your question as 'Cash For Questions - Robert Smith'.

'Only the sharpest, funniest questions will be put to The Cure's tousled perma-teenager. 25 pounds for each one printed - so include your name and address'

(Thanks Steve)

Update! (9/27/99 - 10:36 am) - The Q interview has been pushed back due to the delay in the release of the album, and has now been rescheduled for Feb.

(Thanks Becky and Chris)

Update! (9/24/99 - 12:45 pm) - The taping will be on Oct. 19th. The venue that it is being taped at is very small (only holds around 100 people) so getting in will be very difficult. Tickets will not be sold to the public, and most will be given to VH-1 and other industry types.

Update! (9/24/99 - 4:55 pm) - Hard Rock Live have updated their taping schedule and now list The Cure and Bush at the Oct. 19th taping.

(Thanks Jean-Francois)

"On Thursday, Sept. 23 a variety of local bands will have an 'an evening with music by the Cure '. It's a good way to see many local bands playing cure covers. Tickets are $5, doors open at 9pm. The club is 'Sit and Spin' at 2219 4th Ave in Seattle. Local people can pick up a copy of 'The Stranger' for more info. "

(Thanks Reed)

" "M", a french band, will cover "Close to me" on the next album called "Je dis aime", that will be released on October 25th. The singer, Matthieu Chedid, is the son of a famous french singer in the 80's, Louis Chedid. The album will be released by Virgin France on CD and MC. Pictures and more informations very soon !"

(Thanks Jerome & Brunno)

"To celebrate 20 years of Madness, Dr. Martens have issued a special 'Madness Boot', stamped with the logo of the band who championed the footwear right from their early days. To support the release, the band will be at the Doc Martens London Covent Garden store at 2pm on Thursday 30th September, signing the new boot, purchasers of which will also get a free copy of a new Doc Martens book, celebrating DM's 40 years of 'association with youth culture' and features Madness, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Morrissey, Blur, The Manics, Suede and lots more. "

"I'm envious of a band that sounds like a band," Reznor says. "I always wished I had the structure of The Cure or The Smiths."

The disc (which will run 60 minutes) will also contain interviews, discographies and the standard interactive menus & scene access. You can pre-order the DVD at DVD Express for $13.99. Hopefully, Warner will release at least one Cure DVD in the near future (I'd like to see In Orange, Picture Show or Play Out released). I guess the real question for Warner is whether a release would make much sense right now. How many Cure fans have DVD players?

(Thanks Nicolas)

This is the seventh Cure event and is the fifth Cure club night event presented by "Want!" - a Cure unofficial fan club in Japan. It will give you a delightful Cure time with The Cure's videos on a 120" screen. The 1 hour video show will be followed by a club night with DJs playing The Cure and their contemporaries. Please come along and dance. You will love it!

To get more information like where the venue is, take a look at the event page; http://www2.gol.com/users/fusae/cureclub/event_e.html

"CURIOSITY, the famous cure cover band search for a new keyboarder ( a boy or a girl!) Denis the original keyboarder has left the band this week!! If it's possible, the new keyboarder has to live in Liège, at least in the vicinity....for the rehearsals.

THIS IS URGENT!!!"

And in French:

"CURIOSITY, le groupe belge qui rejoue THE CURE recherche un nouveau claviériste. En effet, Denis a quitté le groupe cette semaine (on ne sait d'ailleurs pas pourquoi...). Pour plus de facilités pour les répétitions, il faudrait que le ou la nouveau (elle) claviériste habite Liège ou du moins ses environs.

C'EST TRES URGENT!!!"

(Thanks and good luck Vincent)

"Universal Music Russia has confirmed once again the new album as slated for February release, but as "Blood Flowers" (not "Bloodflowers").

Then according to Universal Music Russia the first single off the album will be "Out Of This World"."

(Thanks Dmitri)

"Ska-punks Goldfinger will release an EP, Darrin's Coconut Ass - Live from Omaha, Nov. 9, according to their publicist. Despite its misleading title, the release is an in-studio recording featuring the band covering such rock songs as the Cure's "Just Like Heaven," the Who's "The Kids Are Alright" and the Police's "Man in a Suitcase." Goldfinger, who are planning to release an LP in February, will kick off a tour with Bloodhound Gang, Showoff and the Hippos Sept. 29 in Las Vegas. The outing runs through an Oct. 23 show in Providence, R.I."

(Thanks Jeff & Dmitri)

"Carpathian Forest is from Norway and the title of the album is "Black Shining Leather" released on Avantgarde Music. Their vocalist recently commented on it in an interview for Eclipse Mag. : "It's not like The Cure is my favourite band, but this song has just followed me for many years. I really like the mood in it. I'm not so fond of Cure's "happy-go-lucky" tracks, but I really admire some of their old songs".

(Thanks Peter)

Out Now! A Tribute to the Cure

Tracklist:

Info: http://www.etage-musik.bayreuth-online.de

email: etage-musik@bayreuth-online.de

"Presumedly no other musician in our scene has influenced people's fashion tastes and musical style as much as Robert Smith. His musical brilliance working with The Cure has made them pioneers of the Wave- and Gothic- Scene. Today there is hardly any band in the scene which doesn't name The Cure as an important influence.

This being The Cure's 20 year anniversary makes it a perfect time to publish a tribute CD on which bands in the scene pay homage to one of their major idols. Out of this effort comes a sampler which really does justice to this memorable occasion. 15 bands met this challenge and comfortably guide the listener through a varied cross section of the different creation phases of The Cure's history.

Bands such as THIS VALE OF TEARS, ARTWORK and ONE (ex-MERIDIAN member) offer classic versions which provoke the memory of the original work they commemorate, while XIII, the most popular underground band in iceland, and PUPPETLAND came up with more rock-orientated variants. STAHLINORGEL, an alias behind which a well-known German scene-band hides, espouses a more experimental interpretation, whereas WINTERMUTE, DICHROIC MIRROR, WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW and STONE 588 lull the listener into a comfortable, gloomy melancholia. The near pop interpretations from THE ESCAPE, MORBID POETRY and THE CAVES adapt themselves marvelously into the darker colored songs. Finally, SOFIA RUN and DECADENCE raise an unique highlight with their solemn acoustic pieces. They carry the listener off into the incomperable world of The Cure.

Not just for fans of The Cure, '15 Imaginary Songs' is a must for all who have ever had an interest in the Wave and Gothic scene. It will be a wonderful addition to your collection."

http://www.etage-musik.bayreuth-online.de

(Thanks Peter)

(Thanks Megan)

"My band MONKEY TORTURE will be included on the PINK PIG PROJECT (thanks to everyone involved with such a creative idea!!) with our version of the track "PORNOGRAPHY." and since both THE CURE and THE PIXIES cast such big shadows in modern music (and both were fans of the other...) i just thought it would be cool to explain why we had to record our CURE cover at home instead of in the studio. we are getting ready to make a trip out to Los Angeles (this fall/winter...still planning) to record tracks with Joey Santiago (PIXIES-guitarist) producing and recording!! we would love to invite all CUREfans to check out our site and sounds...we've played many CUREsongs live ("A FOREST," "WHY CAN'T I BE YOU," "NEVER ENOUGH," "10.15 SATURDAY NIGHT," "M") and our influences show, so CUREfans might find some different things to like in our own originals too. our own website is here-->> www.homestead.com/monkeytorture

and free songs can be found here-->> www.mp3.com, using "monkey torture" for your search words."

(Thanks Richard)

"I participated in the pink pig project, covering Heroin Face and Descent. The songs are available on my website for download if anyone wants to hear them. go to www.sirius.com/~gavinr to download the MP3's.

(Thanks Gavin)

(Thanks Kent)

(Thanks Gina)

According to a recent issue of Alternative Press, the Doc Martin book will only be available through SELECT retailers (at first).

For those of you who want to listen to Leftover Lunch on FNX, you can do so on-line at FNXRADIO.COM . And Julie takes requests, so let her know what you want to hear.

(Thanks Oblivion Test & Zach)

"Listeners of Alternative /Goth music, tune into 96.3 Big Sonic Heaven with Darrin Revell.. From 10 pm-2:00am, every Sunday night. He spins never heard on the radio Cure songs like B-sides, non single songs, and Robert Smith's classic 7-8 minutes songs. He also spins Bands like Coctuea Twins, Ocean Blue, and anything that relates to the real Alternative music... Go to http://www.planet963.com and email them your request and where you're from and how you heard about the station....."

(Thanks Pauly67)

"Subculture Shock, local gothic, new wave, 80s, industrial radio show playes the cure all the time. If you care to ever listen it can be heard on the web Sunday night between 8 and 10 est (usa) just point your web browser to wnrn.cstone.net and click the On Air graphic.

(Thanks BN)

(Thanks Rodolphexxx)

"I heard Pornography (the song itself) in a K-Mart shop in town (Adelaide, South Australia)...it lasted until Robert started singing and then someone took it off...very bizarre!! but it made me smile to see people shopping amidst the screeching noises and muddled voices of pornography...to whoever tried to put it on, well done...hope you've still got your job."

(Thanks M)

"I was watching MTV's house of style "a night at the opera" episode and during the show they had a section where they showed clips of what they thought were the popular trends throughout the years. They had clips on dress clothes,sportswear,hair and etc. When they said the hair group I thought they might show Robert,but they didn't. Then they went on to makeup and sure enough if you keep your eyes wide open you can see a quick pic of Robert and sporting his lovely eyeliner and lipstick. Check the MTV listings because they usually repeat shows."

"what's up doc? the dr. martens band book"

"Since the shoe's debut in 1960, all sorts of musicians ( Prodigy, Blur, The Cure) and music-influenced cultural movements (punk, mod, psychobilly) have adopted Docs as the boot to kick around in. The Dr. Martens Band Book tells you why. Snag a copy the next time you buy a pair..."

Does anyone have a copy of this or know anything else about it?

(Thanks midnightt the cure cat girl)

A band called The Get Up Kids have covered "Close To Me" on the cd "Before You Were Punk - Vol. 2" (label : vagrant , cat. # : vr339). You might remember that Vol. 1 (label:vagrant , cat. # :vr330) also included a cover of "Inbetween Days" by Face To Face.

(Thanks Jean-Francois and Josh )

Oleander's cover of 'Boys Don't Cry' was played as a lead in from commericials during the Howard Stern show on 92.3 WXRK ~ KROCK New York.

(Thanks JoeyLom)

"Here's more proof of the cure's influence in other bands....even in those who have nothing to due with this kind of music...about 2 or 3 months ago i went to a record shop in lisbon,and the owner showed me a cd of a black metal band(BLARGH!!!)called Carpathian Forest (i really can't remember the name of the album), because it features a cover of The Cure's "A Forest". The song cover is very good, comparing with the rest of the album or even with the Creaming Jesus cover of the same song (that appears in "Gothic Rock 3"). The album front cover is black with a white (i think) photo and has some texture."

(Thanks Paulo)

"Chicago's own emo-punk Alkaline Trio recently did a cover of exploding boy on the Pocket Bomb comp. http://www.saulgoodman.com/ has the comp. to order amd www.alkalinetrio.com has an mp3 of the song as well as some of their other clips. "

(Thanks Brian)


" I am in a band called Home For The Def and have two Cure tribute tapes, "I Always Wanted To Be Robert Smith", and "Fucked Up". They feature lots of different songs, all recorded by myself on 4 track and sell for the very cheap price of $4 Australian. There is a webpage for them at: http://users.senet.com.au/~hftd/robert.html and I can be contacted at hftd@senet.com.au

(Thanks Nigel)

"Monday Sept. 13th 1999 on WLUW 88.7 fm is Cure nite. From 10pm-2am. Iwill see if i can extend it to 3am. Lots of stuff to play. Give me a call at the station. phone # is 773 or 312 - 591-8870. Last monday 4 cure songs were played. Disintegration(live), Mint Car (buskers mix), This Twilight Garden, and Lullaby by request. Thanks.

(Thanks Kamar)

(Thanks Fab G)

"Hello again

As promised,the Pink Pig website has been updated with the list of songs that have been made available again ... so go ahead and email us at pinkpigers@yahoo.com with your reservation! You have 4 weeks to complete and mail us the cover. Please, try to do your best to make this deadline.

As for today (Sept 6th) these are the songs that are still available:

For complete info, please check out our site at

http://usuarios.interar.com.ar/german/pinkpig/home.htm

Again, thanks a lot for your support :)

Love Flor, German & Juan Jose"

(Thanks Mute)