"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

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.
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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.

I actually think there's some decent songs on this album, but I don't think they're done any favours by the way the album sounds.

Most of the album is great; it only really sags with "Sirensong" and "This. Here and Now. With You. I Mean It. Not Playing. Go To Your Room."

I don't mind either of those songs, tbh... although for me this album is all about 'The Reasons Why', 'The Real Snow White' and 'The Hungry Ghost'... I reckon those three are up there!

def cosign the last two; also really REALLY love "The Scream" and "It's Over"

also, have they ever had a bad opening song on an album? I don't think so

i can't listen to this album or the previous one, they sound so awful. even if there are some good songs.

Okay so the word is that they're playing Lollapalooza later this year...maybe a new album, at last? Or at least the rest of the reissues...

And a year later and some more shows and um well this

http://thecure.com/news/1935/as_clearly_and_succinctly_as_i_can

So it only took him 7 or 8 years to figure this shit out?

If ever there was a band that should be releasing stuff just for fans it's this one. Limited edition, subscription-only, online only, whatever. I've no hope for another "good" Cure record, so I'd just assume Mad Bob sneak out some solid EPs or experiments or anything, really. Aside from more live sets/DVDs.

As much as it pains me to say it, I don't know if I would listen to another new Cure album. Even when they have good songs the production makes them unlistenable.

At the rate they are going, it seems pretty unlikely you will have to worry about listening to a new Cure album.

I was reading earlier Robert's response on Facebook to the Guardian's review of the Teenage Cancer Trust show from a couple of days ago (he hated it, stating that the reason that the band play shows that long is, of course, because they don't want to short-change fans)

Then there was a follow-up piece in the Guardian today here (Robert's response is quoted).

What interested me more was this piece, also in Guardian, yesterday in which Robert Smith describes the upcoming 4:14 Scream as a "sore point", and it's mentioned he's 'barely convinced that the record is worthwhile'

they're playing an awful festival in Napa here. on the fence about going to it just to see them (only doing that if they put single day tickets on sale).

it would be my fourth? fifth? time seeing them. nothing's ever going to be the disintegration or wish tour again, should save myself the bother I suppose

I dunno, I saw them a few years ago, and they did a pretty damn amazing 3-hour show. Sounded great, played all kinds of stuff, wow. Would go see them again in a second.

Especially if, as people are saying, the upcoming tour will involve playing the Top, Head on the Door, and Kiss Me in their entirety.

A festival show wouldn't.

it would be funny if they just played stuff from the top at a festival show

It would be excellent if they just played stuff from The Top at a festival show, and maybe threw in a few curiosities from around about the same era, like 'Throw Your Foot'.

I'd say you're in for at least a few surprises because they've finally started playing b-sides and rarely heard album cuts in the last year or so.

i would love to see the Cure yet again. i think i have seen them around 10 times. hmm Napa is about 500 miles away...

i liked 4:13 Dream but the production was awful. i hope the rerelease will fix that. "Underneath the Stars" is a great song along with a few more i can vouch for.

The great thing about 'Underneath the Stars' is that it's an old outtake from Wish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anfVeYG60iA

A year on, and still no 4:14 Scream...