The Cure (1 Viewer)

[Goodbye]

One of the best days of my young life. Got off with 2 chicks.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

The guitarist looks mental lately. Like a skinnier boy george. Or a younger Brian Eno.

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/GrLRzD5C3EU/Cure+Concert+Palms/9cpWAeArkJ0/Porl+Thompson

 

[Goodbye]

porl rules

 

[nlgbbbblth]

at this point of the evening, I was in the venue having enjoyed Shelleyan Orphan. People were passing out from the heat and from inhaling Tippex.
All About Eve must have been on, or getting ready to come on. See through white dress.

 

[Goodbye]

Plainsong

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Pictures Of You

 

[nlgbbbblth]

here's something I wrote for the 17th anniversary

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
15 July was a Saturday in 1989 just like it is today.

The Cure were in town and it was scorching. Not good news for the black-clad, mascara-streaked, hairspray-soaked temples among us. I hadn't slept a wink the previous night. Excitement to the power of one hundred - attempts to quench same were in the form of trips to 7Eleven and a dawn flit to Sandymount beach where we watched the tide go out.

We walked up Sandymount Avenue in the searing sunshine and into Simmonscourt. The atmosphere was highly-charged with expectation. Shelleyan Orphan gave us a competent set, Shatter being the highlight. All About Eve came next and Julianne Regan wore a see-through white dress. I thought she looked amazing.

The Cure finally came on stage to Plainsong. The crowd surged forward and I temporarily lost my friends in the crush. I found them a few songs later during A Night Like This when I went to take a breather. They were at the right hand wall where a guy had fainted and was being stretchered off by St John's Ambulance men.

By the time they concluded with Faith, almost three hours had passed.Exhausted but happy. 'The best concert ever' we agreed amongst ourselves as we walked home. Not that we had been to many.

Seventeen years (as I sit here listening to Entreat) and hundreds of gigs later it's still number one.

Plainsong
Pictures of You
Closedown
Kyoto Song
A Night Like This
Just Like Heaven
Last Dance
Fascination St
Lovesong
Charlotte Sometimes
The Walk
A Forest
In Between Days
Same Deep Water As You
Prayers For Rain
Disintegration

Lullaby
Close To Me
Let's Go To Bed
Why Can't I Be You

Hot Hot Hot
A Strange Day
Three Imaginary Boys
Boys Don't Cry
Homesick
Untitled
Faith
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

[Jim Daniels]

Plainsong

Yes!

Still love the reverb or preverb or echo or whatever the fancy messin with the vocals is..

 

[Goodbye]

I know nothing will come close to my vinyl copy with the lovely embossed webbing on the sleeve, but my CD copy with the two superfluous songs that was mastered weakly needs to be replaced.

Where oh where is the long overdue deluxe remeasured Disintegration?

 

[nlgbbbblth]

I was wondering too. That and Wish will have to come out soon.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

some remaster news

Disintegration 21st anniversary edition. Three CDs incl extended Entreat.

Mixed Up 2 and BBC box also mentioned.

http://www.thecure.com/blog/default.aspx?nid=23104

 

[Jim Daniels]

Released next month! Yay!

Been listening to Plainsong a lot, all over again

http://pitchfork.com/news/38642-hear-a-new-outtake-from-the-cures-idisintegrationi-delirious-night/

The Cure's three-disc reissue of Disintegration, their epically dark and lush 1989 album, is out May 24 in the UK via Polydor/Universal and May 25 in the U.S. from Rhino. The reissue's two bonus discs house a whole lot of previously unreleased demos and outtakes. And one of those tracks, the head-spun, quasi-Eastern jam "Delirious Night", is after the jump. Click below to hear it, via Slicing Up Eyeballs.

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[pavlos]

Their Disintegration show form Sydney is livestreaming at the minute:

Livestream The Cure's 'Disintegration' 30th Anniversary Concert In Sydney

The Cure have been riding the nostalgia wave pretty hard as of late. On top of headlining the upcoming Pasadena Daydream Festival, their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and announcing a “dark” and “fucking great” new album — they’re also celebrating the 30-year anniversary of...

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