the cure have released A LOT of remixes of their projects and songs over the years and i feel like the only person who truly doesn’t really care for them and also finds them quite terrible??? am i alone on this or … do people actually like them?

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i’ll be going to my first cure show in august i’m very excited but do they do a merch stand at shows?? if so what are the selling at festivals? if anybody has a picture please feel free to drop it below :)

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Just checking how hardcore the fan community is 😁

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hes playing rn in belgium and i have so much fomo im dying. i had no idea his voice is still so perfect my heart is so😑💕😳😩moved. i guess

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Does anyone have any information about this demo? I'd like to know more about it.

primary source -

2003 'rock and folk' article:

http://www.picturesofyou.us/03/03-08-rockandfolk-fr-1.htmhere's

everything, with his own words where he gave them:

ROBERT SMITH'S READING LIST: COMPLETE

1. THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA — C.S. Lewis

His father read it to him at age four to send him to sleep. His own words: "I adored running away in those tales, it was my only reassuring moment — I was just discovering the incredible power of literature, the one of consolation and evasion."

2. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FRANZ KAFKA — The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Castle, Letters to Felice

His teenage obsession. His own words: "For the first time, the narrator's voice was mine. I was the narrator. I was blending myself in his words."

3. THE STRANGER (L'ÉTRANGER) — Albert Camus

The book that produced the first single. Killing an Arab is a direct lyric engagement with the beach murder scene — Meursault, the sun, the trigger pulled in existential blankness. Smith studied French at Crawley College and encountered Camus there. His own words: "The theme of the absurd has always fascinated me."

4. NAUSEA (LA NAUSÉE) — Jean-Paul Sartre

His own words: "His description of the human condition stays unmatched, and I defy anyone to do better than Nausea."

Foundational existentialist text.

5. THE FLOWERS OF EVIL (LES FLEURS DU MAL) and selected poems — Charles Baudelaire

Several direct connections. How Beautiful You Are is based on Baudelaire's prose poem The Eyes of the Poor. Smith's own words: "Some poems, like Baudelaire's 'The Eyes of the Poor,' impressed me so much that I wanted to make a song of them. Their style already had a kind of musical rhythm. Singing 'How Beautiful You Are' is like going into an oral tradition."

6. CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES & TWO (OR THE BOOK OF TWINS AND DOUBLES) — Penelope Farmer

The source of the song Charlotte Sometimes — the story of a girl who wakes up in a boarding school forty years in the past, inhabiting another girl's body and life. Smith's own words: "I was obsessed by Charlotte Sometimes, this idea of temporal downfall, of duality, of personality trouble and the torture that follows."

7. THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY — Mervyn Peake

The source of The Drowning Man from Faith (1981). The character of Fuchsia — the wild, sensitive, doomed daughter of Lord Groan — haunted Smith deeply. His own words: "Fuchsia was my dream. This idea of infinite, of unreal, of dying innocence... At that time I was considering myself as her, as a victim." Plus the books probably inspired All Cats Are Grey too. Highly recommended. Among my favorite books of all time.

8. THE RAVEN AND SELECTED POEMS — Edgar Allan Poe

Named alongside Salinger and Rimbaud as teenage reading. His own words: "Edgar Allen Poe, who wrote 'The Raven', a masterpiece of modern poetry."

9. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE and selected stories — J.D. Salinger

Named twice in the interview. The story Bananafishbones is directly referenced in the Cure track of a similar name. Smith's admiration is partly for the work and partly for the life: "He's a character that I admire and that intrigues me also: isolating himself from the world, living as a recluse in a monastery, giving up writing and refusing any contact with the outside, it's fascinating."

10. PARADISE LOST — John Milton (1667)

The influence on Pornography (1982). His own words: "Pure poetry, fabulous, a must for an English grammar school pupil and very influencing on romantic writers. The style is strong, incredible. It strongly influenced Pornography. The idea of being a victim was still there, but it was becoming unbearable. I had decided to struggle in front of a world I hated. It was Devil against God. The fight was lost in advance."

11. ILLUMINATIONS and A SEASON IN HELL — Arthur Rimbaud

Named alongside Salinger and Poe as teenage reading. Rimbaud's project — the dérèglement de tous les sens, the systematic derangement of all the senses as a means of accessing transcendent vision — is the most direct precursor to Smith's image-chain technique (multiple songs use it, clearest example is probably 'Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof
Through the roof of your mouth, through the mouth of your eye
Through the eye of the needle, it's easier for me
To get closer to heaven than ever feel whole again' from the title track of Disintegration. For another bit of music history, Patti Smith & Bob Dylan both like Rimbaud a lot. Highly recommend, along with his other works.

12. THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE — Thomas Nagel

Nagel is an American philosopher whose The View From Nowhere argues that objective and subjective perspectives on reality are both legitimate and irreducibly different — that you cannot fully step outside your own experience to see the world as it is in itself, but you also cannot reduce the world to your experience of it. The tension between these two perspectives is permanent.

Smith connects this to his obsession with twins: "Being able to go out of myself, leaving my body to observe me." The desire for an objective view of the self — to see yourself as you actually are rather than as you experience yourself — is the impossible desire. You are always inside your own perspective. You can imagine the view from nowhere but you can never occupy it.

I thought this kinda links to Disintegration: The album is narrating disintegration, but how, as the narrator themselves is disintegrating?The speaker on every track is trying to see themselves clearly and cannot.

ADDITIONALLY MENTIONED BUT NOT IN THE FORMAL LIST:

Jorge Luis Borges — Fictions: Smith mentions him with explicit humility — "It's quite frustrating to understand I would never reach their level, I would never touch the art of Jorge Luis Borges' words."

Nick Hornby — High Fidelity: "A classic for music maniacs. Brilliant, perfect, I have all the records mentioned in it!"

The Bible: He's taken it on tour in the past. "It's useful to hit the others, better than a phonebook." During the Faith tour he read passages each evening. He insists he never really read it properly but Nausea covers the same territory.

i am going to their show at Electric Castle Festival in Romania on the 19th of July and was wondering if the band stay after the show maybe for a photo or a signature. THANKS

It was in Dublin. I flew to Ireland completely alone for my favorite band, just to enjoy the music and the moment. During the show I noticed a girl. We started exchanging glances, there was definitely a spark between us. But in real life l am a very closed and quiet person. I completely did not expect such a scenario, I came exclusively for the music and wanted to just quietly return back home. And at the end of the show she looked straight at me and started moving in my direction, probably to talk or something like that. But I was under the influence of adrenaline and fear. I just stood there and allowed the crowd of leaving people to carry me away. Later, I regretted it deeply and tried to find her, but all without success. Now I am back home, thousands of kilometers away from that park. It feels like I lost something there.

So here is my advice for guys and girls who are going to the upcoming shows, if the same situation happens to you, act without thinking twice. It is better to fail or to look like a clown, loser, to not match the vibe or to not understand each other because of language barrier than to do nothing and then sit at home and regret. It is completely fine if you try and nothing works out. At least you tried.

Have a good concert and catch the moment.

Sorry, as it’s maybe a bit off topic, but does anyone know (or have a recording) where to listen to Roger’s “Grey Clouds Red Sky” album? It seems to me it’s impossible but anyway…