An annoying autobiographical entry... Tomorrow I’m flying to Bucharest to see The Cure perform at the Piața Constituției, in front of Ceausescu's enormous parliament building. The significance of this is that the date of the show - 22 July 2019 - is exactly 30 years to the day that I first saw The Cure at … Continue reading 22 July 1989: The Prayer Tour at Wembley
I’m sure you were thrilled by my post about the mysterious Prayer Tour show scheduled for St James’s Park in Newcastle but scrapped in favour of three nights at Wembley Arena. So let’s dig deeper into that announcement in Cure News #7, shall we? If anything, it’s an interesting look into how slowly things moved … Continue reading 25 March: The other missing Prayer Tour dates
While we’re chipping our way through 1979, let’s not forget that 30 years ago, The Cure were prepping what was going to be a milestone release with Disintegration. So let’s step back to ’89 for a moment… In the new year of 1989, if you’d sent off your stamped, addressed envelope to Janie at the … Continue reading 18 March 1989: What happened to that British stadium show in 1989?
Outside of the various bits and bobs that appeared on compilations like “Curiosity” and the “Three Imaginary Boys” reissue, the earliest example of The Cure recorded live comes from the second Marquee show from 11 March 1979. It’s a fascinating piece of history not least because someone thought The Cure were now worth taping - … Continue reading 11 March: A Dose Of Sundays part 2
Fresh off the back of the release of “Killing An Arab”/"10:15 Saturday Night" on 9 February and the launch of the Fiction label, Chris Parry now wanted to give The Cure a proper London showcase. As Dave McCullough noted in the Sounds feature in January, the Moonlight Club show on 20 December was already full … Continue reading 4 March: A Tale Of Two Cities #3 – A Dose Of Sundays
As we wind our way through the history of The Cure, we'll inevitably find that their story is intertwined with that of another post-punk band - Joy Division, and their successor New Order. It’s fair to say that no love has been lost between the two camps over the year, but it seems that in … Continue reading December 1978: A Tale Of Two Cities #1: The Hope & Anchor
“I have no intention of lugging on at 60. I can’t really see myself doing it at 31. I never thought I’d be doing it this at 30. That was my limit. So I’ve broken a promise to myself.” (Robert Smith, “A Momentary Collapse Of Reason”, Jonh Wilde, Melody Maker, 6 May 1989) In 2019, … Continue reading 4 June 1989: “Faith” and Tiananmen Square
Crying For Yesterday 