Cure lineup changes 2005 part 2 -- Porl Thompson returns!

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Who's next, Lol and his amazing not-plugged-in keyboard?

― StanM, Sunday, 19 June 2005 08:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

k/l - he did play in Page and Plant's band circa '94-'95, but that was about it.

― Deluxe (Damian), Sunday, 19 June 2005 08:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

Maybe it's clever photography, but Porl seems to have more hair than he had before when I saw him in the 80s.

Those stage lights can be cruel though.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 19 June 2005 08:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's all down to the power of the barber.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 June 2005 02:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

That's a cracking lineup. But they should get Lol back and make him play the keyboard parts live.

― jim (jim5et), Monday, 20 June 2005 07:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, without being allowed to have any crib-sheets or anything written on any of the keys or anything.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 20 June 2005 08:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

If anything, I'd want less keyboards from The Cure. I really want them to do a pared-down power-poppy album. Stuff like 'Trap' and 'Foolish Arrangements', everything under 4 minutes. One of their best gigs in the last 15 years was IMHO that 1993 XFM thing they did as a four-piece, without keyboards and really raw.
-- The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (fabfonk@yahoo.com), May 24th, 2005

I think RS has read my posts on ILM... so RS I LOVE YR MUSIC SO BEAUTIFUL TEARS COVER MY FACE IF YOU EVER PASS BY BELGIUM HOLLA AT ME

― Die Emanzipation von Baaderonixx (redukt) (Fabfunk), Monday, 20 June 2005 08:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

"One of their best gigs in the last 15 years was IMHO that 1993 XFM thing they did as a four-piece, without keyboards and really raw."

Blimey, was that really 12 years ago? Doesn't the time just fly by? I'm pretty sure that was the last / most recent time I saw The Cure too!

Bloody good gig 'though....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 20 June 2005 08:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

breaking news: Cure Redux tracklist, later today godwilling...

― mzui (mzui), Monday, 20 June 2005 09:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

Curiosity redux that is, duh.

― mzui (mzui), Monday, 20 June 2005 09:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

SO AWESOME

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

I, too, hoped the band would remain a trio for some time. Oh well.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

Lol really can't afford to be in the webspeak friendly public eye with his name.

"ladies and gentlemen...introducing ROFLBERT SMITH, LOL TOLHURST and P-URL TH-OMG-SON - THE CURE! (dotcom)"

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

funny.

it's notr that much of a shock for porl to rejoin - he played with them at the london barfly show last year, and has apparently been acting as guitar tech for a good while anyway.

still, all good news.

ah, great xpectations - i was doing my a-levels so my mum and dad wouldn't let me go, bah. i'd forgotten that robert smith was one of the founders of xfm!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 20 June 2005 18:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

M is up on Launch

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

And just to note that here's the schedule for the Live 8 show:

Starts around 4pm
Muse 5:30 - 5:50 pm
Shakira 7:25 - 7:45 pm
Placebo 9:50 - 10:10 pm
The Cure 10:35 - 10:55pm (but hints that they might break the curfew)

So in the US that would be 4:35pm eastern, 3:35pm central, 2:35pm mountain and 1:35pm pacific.

Muse plays below Shakira = all is right with the world. But that's a separate matter.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ned loves Shakira.

― larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 July 2005 21:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

Audio/video of the Live 8 performance here:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainofFlowers/audiovideo.html

Five songs but not a bad selection at all...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

Just Like Heaven sounded VERY good, without keys but with extra fuzz

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, kinda like the Dino Jr. version.

― matt2 (matt2), Thursday, 7 July 2005 12:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

ARGH DOES NOT COMPUTE.

The Dino Jr version of "Just Like Heaven" is one of the worst things ever recorded.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 13:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah the Dino Jr version is pretty awful. That Live8 performance sounds nothing like it though. I have to say that I'm warming up to Porl's return

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

http://www.nme.com/news/113265.htm

THE CURE REVEAL FUTURE PLANS AT BENICASSIM

THE CURE revealed tonight at the BENICASSIM FESTIVAL in Spain tonight (August 5) that they plan to release a new album in 2006.

The goth legends delighted a partisan crowd on the Escenario Verde with a two-hour set which included highlights from the band’s 25-year plus back catalogue, including the classics ’Boys Don’t Cry’, ’Lullaby’ and ’Just Like Heaven’.

The band were thought to have split, but returned with an eponymous and critically acclaimed album in 2004, eight years after 1996’s ’Wild Mood Swings’. And Smith revealed before the band’s show that the band are planning a new album.

He said: “We want to start recording in October/November and get it out by birthday next year, which I know is quite cheesy.”

Smith turns 47 on April 21 2006.

The star also revealed he intends to work with former Siouxsie And The Banshees colleague Steve Severin on new material.

Smith added: "I'm not sure though. We might kill each other!"

― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 8 August 2005 22:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

There's been a couple of follow-up reports to indicate that the birthday comment was either a joke or misunderstood, but who knows with Cure comments these days.

Now...if we could get more REISSUES NEWS as well...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 22:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

Video clip of press conference, decide for yourself...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 22:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

The band were thought to have split, but returned with an eponymous and critically acclaimed album in 2004, eight years after 1996’s ’Wild Mood Swings’.

I guess they didn't care about Bloodflowers

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 8 August 2005 22:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

Gotta love the NME

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 22:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

I guess they didn't care about Bloodflowers

I was thinking the same thing. I liked Bloodflowers much more than Wild Mood Swings but that has a lot to do with that tour.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 8 August 2005 22:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

It also has to do with Bloodflowers being orders of magnitude better than Wild Mood Swings.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 01:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

also correct

― BeeOK (boo radley), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

Who's next, Lol and his amazing not-plugged-in keyboard?

I think he's found the socket, though - or at least it appears so - and paired up with his missus to form Levinhurst. The band's website's (www.levinhurst.com) meta-description runs thus:

"Levinhurst is a suave, exotic group comprised of Lol Tolhurst's keyboards, beats, and sonic landscaping against the stirring vocals of Cindy Levinson and intricate musical crafting by Dayton Borders"

Sounds suspiciously like something you'd pay £25 for in a posh eaterie - only to discover that it's beans on toast, god bless 'im.

― thr (thr), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

My friend interviewed Lol and found him very pleasant and agreeable.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

is your friend b3cky th0mas?

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 00:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

Live mp3s from Benicassim here:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainofFlowers/audiovideo.html

I gotta love a line-up that can fall smack on its face playing their latest single (End of the World) and then nail an elusive 25 year old album track ("At Night").
They're taking a lot of chances without the keyboards. I like it

― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Saturday, 13 August 2005 07:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

6 years pass...

Figured this was the most appropriate thread since his name is in it, but it looks like Porl Thompson is getting out of the guitarist business and auctioning off everything.

― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 6 May 2012 11:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

The '61 Strat is the one to get, or the '66 Gibson. But a lot of this auction is sad. It's 1/3rd Goth stage gear! Gross.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 May 2012 11:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

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