What’s this? A demo of a demo?
Pornograpghy might be my favorite by them. It's so dark, and cold and abrasive at times. I'd probably go to Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me next . It does have lighter moments on it like Just like heaven. Or I'd go back further in the catalog and listen to Seventeen seconds or Faith.
https://www.thecure.film
The London Hyde Park 40th anniversary concert/documentary film will be airing in theatres worldwide on July 11, according to NME. Tickets will be made available from June 6, but there's a place to sign up on the website now.
Tomorrow nights show is being streamed in its ENTIRETY.....
Show livestream starts in 50 minutes!
This is good advice. One weird thing about the Cure is, aside from the b-sides collection which is a really good spread of their styles over time, and generally really really strong too (with some exceptions: the Doors covers), none of the "best-of" style collections do a good job of getting across what they are doing on their albums. E.g. despite collecting 3 songs from Disintegration, you get nothing of the atmosphere of Disintegration on "Greatest Hits". "Standing on a beach" is a bit better (IMHO singles collections are generally better than "best-of" collections anyway because it shows you what the group did no matter what the contemporary take on that might be) but only covers the first half or so of their career. (But at least doesn't skip over Faith and Pornography entirely, like "greatest hits")
So grab "Join The Dots"
Fun fact nobody cares about: My intro to the cure was more-or-less "Join The Dots", before it was released: In about 2001 I tried to steal anything Cure I could from "AudioGalaxy" in order to learn more about them (the Napster of that time, briefly). But AudioGalaxy let labels/artists blacklist certain songs/albums/etc, so all the main run of Cure stuff was not available, which left only the b-sides. So my introduction was Ocean, Dredd Song, Halo, Fear of Ghosts, 2 Late, Burn, Adonais, etc., basically the "Join the Dots" tracklist.
this live stream is awesome
omg, is he actually using a Fender VI?!
after seeing Burn live in person, it's become one of my all time favorite Cure tracks. makes me wonder what would have happened if they recorded a whole album in 94, and not 95/96...
The locations of the Cure Anniversary film are up at https://www.thecure.film - they claim more are being added daily as well
Cool. I got my tickets.
This will be released physically, right?
I remember that on the tickets page when I looked up my location, it said something to the effect of "sign up to be notified when this film is released" but I don't know if they meant theater release or home release.
tonight's set list looks pretty cool, some hidden gems and deep cuts throughout!
Setlist: Shake Dog Shake, Burn, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, A Night Like This, Pictures of You, High, Just One Kiss, Lovesong, Just Like Heaven, Last Dance, Fascination Street, Never Enough, Wendytime, The Walk, Push, In Between Days, Play for Today, A Forest, Primary, Want, 39, One Hundred Years
Encore: Lullaby, The Caterpillar, Doing the Unstuck, Friday I'm in Love, Close to Me, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry.
Is there a fan club, NIN presale style route to getting tickets for The Cure? I couldn’t get any last time they played the UK so I want to get in there before they announce more shows
yeah with 5 Wish songs on the set (quite unusual these days) , including Wendy Time? I hope to think that the deluxe version is being worked on, and maybe revisiting it remastering it made them want to play the songs. or maybe they'll do Wish in full soon, like they did with Disintegration .