"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

if there aren't DVDs then presumably something went very wrong with the cameras, given that was such a big factor of the shows happening (and thus annoying that they got a huge chunk of tax money to come and make a commercial product, instead of funding local arts, but that oughtn't bother anyone who doesn't live in the state)

btw if anyone cares: two fixed cameras by the sound desk (below the circle), two on a dolly front of stage, and one on a jib from the stage left box directly above the stage - the opposite box, in front of mine, was populated. spotted four or five mics, mostly from the ceiling but a couple right in front/attached to boxes, so the audience mix could be a headache for whoever gets to put the sound together!

Hearing Robert Smith, in 2011, singing the words to 'So What' makes me inexplicably happy!

;_; can't download this at work due to stupid firewall

http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=6967_0_2_0

o'donnel is out again.

that's from '05 unless I'm misreading the timestamps...?

oh never mind, that is like, five years old

it's not like he or Lol were announced as actually rejoining the band anyway.

I must have my head in the sand cos I've only just listened to the new Japanese Popstars album and was surprised and delighted to hear Robert on vocals for 'Take Forever'. I'd managed to miss hearing anything about this but the track is really strong and the vocal is wonderful.

his vocal on the crystal castles' version of 'not in love' is also amazing. I think he should maybe just do guest vocals on other people's work from here on out. bernard sumner too since I liked that song he did with hot chip. maybe these guys need to work like hip hop people, with different producers on each song.

Robert has definitely been on more v good songs by other people than on v good Cure songs in the last decade. the extra-cool bit about the Japanese Popstars one is that he turned up to the session with a six-string bass and said "how about some of this too?"

it's not like he or Lol were announced as actually rejoining the band anyway.

googled after posting this and Roger says he wasn't asked to do anything apart from Reflections; hasn't talked to Robert about anything apart from Reflections; and is happy to do more Cure if it comes up, but not arsed if it doesn't (paraphrase)

You see Bob what gorgeous music you can still produce when you stop shouting and let the music breathe:
<url=http://soundcloud.com/cof-1/robert-smith-small-hours>;cover of Small Hours</URL>

really, no-one else has checked it out?
might as well correct the link: RS cover of John Martyn's 'Small Hours'

Lovely cover of one of my fave songs. Go Bob!

Meantime, Robert talks about that sequel:

“It’s one of those things that it’s been left so long now I expect it will come out as a half-finished sort of thing. I’m not sure if the band wants to complete it, which is sort of the elephant in the room. What happened to the second half of the album? No one mentions it! We’re aware that it’s there. Nobody really wants to talk about it. Maybe it will come up after a few post-festival beers!

...

"I gave myself a deadline of this month to start thinking about Cure stuff again. The (collaborations) that are done to date are done. I’m sure there will be more in the future… But I think between now and this time next year, The Cure will take precedence over anything else. Until I get the second half of this album out, I won’t do another collaboration.”

tbh I care more about another Glove album at this point

otm

Here's hoping!

saddens me to agree but yeah, Dan otm :-(

I don't say that because I'm disappointed in recent Cure albums btw, I just really really really REALLY want another Glove album

I hope they can find Landray to sing on it

tbh the "lost" Glove demos with RS vocals, included on the deluxe reissues, were my favorite Cure related release in the last 15 years - so no need to find Landray IMO

they really seemed to be pandering too much to the fans who thought it was a travesty that Robert wasn't singing on his own material to me; they sounded good and all but I liked the album versions just as much

googled after posting this and Roger says he wasn't asked to do anything apart from Reflections; hasn't talked to Robert about anything apart from Reflections; and is happy to do more Cure if it comes up, but not arsed if it doesn't (paraphrase)

― underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have pwned (sic), Friday, 24 June 2011 10:56 (3 months ago)

so Roger was asked to play for Bestival last month ([url=http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/p/bestival-2011.html]amazing setlist btw[/url), and now says he's back in the band

The Cure were massively served well by Fiction records during the time they were there.

Universal seem more "We are a large corporation, you are our band, you do what we say, and you'd better keep reminding us you exist or we might forget..." in a less than benign manner.

don't see this at all. it's plain that the only two gigs they've played in the last two years are because the curators asked them directly. and if Geffen wanted something out of them, they'd surely demand they finish the "dark second half" of 4:13 Dream, rather than order them to go to Australia on local taxpayer money to play for about 3000 paying customers.

and Parry was good to them for a long while, but then sold off their publishing without consultation and refusing to discuss it after the fact IIRC

GAH!!!

Due to overwhelming demand The Cure “REFLECTIONS” show - first experienced in the spring of 2011 at the Vivid Festival in Sydney - will be performed seven more times in November 2011.

"REFLECTIONS" sees an evolving line up of band members past and present playing the first three Cure albums live in their entirety - from the punchy, offbeat, starkly unadorned songs of Three Imaginary Boys (1979), through the increasingly shadowy and quixotic pieces of Seventeen Seconds (1980), to the singular melancholic grandeur of Faith (1981) - in a truly extraordinary concert experience.

This final chance to experience the "REFLECTIONS" show will happen in Europe at the Royal Albert Hall, London on Tuesday November 15th, and in the USA at the Pantages Theatre, LA on Monday 21st, Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd, and at the Beacon Theatre, NYC on Friday 25th, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th.

Tickets for the Royal Albert Hall, London show go on-sale Friday 30th September 2011 at 9am local time and are available from the 24 hour ticket hotline:
www.bookingsdirect.com / 0844 338 0000. Four tickets per person maximum.

Tickets for the Pantages Theatre, LA and Beacon Theatre, NYC shows will go on-sale Monday 31st October at 10am local time and are available online at Ticketmaster.com and at all Ticketmaster outlets. To charge tickets by phone, call (800) 745-3000. Any tickets not purchased directly through Ticketmaster or at the venue box offices may not be official tickets and run the risk of not being honoured night of show. Two tickets per person maximum.

I kinda love how they're making East Coast people go "Okay, choose between your Thanksgiving weekend home or us."

I saw you had posted this on FB, but I resisted replying there because I'd just get an endless stream of messages in my email going "pleeeez come back to Bratislava! You came here in 1993!!!"

But that's part of the fun.

Bauhaus came here on Thanksgiving a few years ago and I never forgave them for their horrible timing.

Fresh turkey lines the black box
Miles Standish is dead

Eh, Thanksgiving weekend is actually a great weekend for something like this. Lots of people around, and people get so sick of their families. Ever gone to the movies on Thanksgiving? Packed!

I would have laughed if they'd just done one of the shows ON Thanksgiving itself. Dinner theatre.

want my money back tbh

Exclusivity RUINED.

i could... do this for my 31st b-day.

Wow, going to get tickets just now. Standing = £100. Too rich for me. Gutted.

And even if you wanted to go... it looks like it just sold out within 5 minutes.
Also:

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I'll wait for the Blu Ray.

Yeah I actually got through okay but didn't know it was like £100. My finger did hover over the click button but I just couldn't really justify that amount of cash tbh. Oh well, I'll always have my teenage memories I guess.

so it's confirmed that it sold out?

Not officially I guess, but the server is still down. In the first few minutes I got through fine, but every time I selected an option the page refreshed and said 'Sold out'.
But the prices were too high anyway; even the cheapest seats were £50, and the best seats £150.

it seems See Tickets still has them - just realized the show was on a Tuesday - no way I can make it to London on a weekday, bummer. I wonder whether they'll add a couple of extra nights at the RAH.

Correction: it is sold out. It says so on the tickets page.

But that's fine with me, as I've just saved myself £100 for a ticket, plus around €90 for the Eurostar to London, plus God knows how much for a hotel room.

And while we all wait on these next shows, another Robert guest appearance, this time with 65Daysofstatic:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12599-come-to-me-ft-robert-smith/

I hadn't heard "Vapour Trail" by Ride in a really really REALLY long time and I suspect neither had anyone else, otherwise wouldn't someone have mentioned how much of it was lifted for "The Holy Ghost"?

I think I did, or at least I thought about it.

ah yes now you mention it - can hear it in the intro

Newly on the Twitters:

https://twitter.com/thecure

that is the worst fucking picture

a twitter page without tweets. that is utter genius.