[Music] The Cure

[LlcoolJ]

Porl Thompson is now known as Pearl Thompson and lives as a crossdresser on a houseboat.

Hold on. Is there something you're not telling us [MENTION=34281]pearl[/MENTION] ?

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Porl Thompson is now known as Pearl Thompson and lives as a crossdresser on a houseboat.

They've been through a few rough periods and it's good to see them fairly happy there. (Hope I'm using the correct pro-noun there!)

 

[Bodian]

MY Cure records were borrowed and never returned from said friend and i was always told that they were given to him direct from the band.

Has he ever spoken to you again?

 

[Return of the Rev]

Best song from The Cure, or my favourite anyway - A Forest.

This, loved dancing to this on a Thursday night electro night below the alhambra 1980.

 

[pearl]

Hold on. Is there something you're not telling us [MENTION=34281]pearl[/MENTION] ?

Ha! Well done, but they were Paul, Then Porl, atm Pearl. I've always been Pearl

 

[pearl]

They've been through a few rough periods and it's good to see them fairly happy there. (Hope I'm using the correct pro-noun there!)

They're an artist now so I've read

 

[BadFish]

Has he ever spoken to you again?

Surprisingly he never asked for them back, after the stunt with the back stage passes I should bloody well think so too.

We were still mates for a long while after all this but have lost touch now. He was taking Photos for the band for a while a few years ago but had finished up by the time I went to see them recently.

 

[darkwolf666]

To celebrate one of Sussex's finest exports I pose the question.

Are The Cure Englands best ever modern day rock / pop / shoegazer / whatever band, like ever?

Good time to bounce this...!

 

[Weststander]

Great to see their deserved award.

So many truly great songs.

 

[Rowdey]

I saw The Cure supporting Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Brighton Centre, Robert Smith was in both bands.
Banshees guitarist dropped out at the beginning of the tour, if I remember correctly.

I saw them at BC, approx 1984/5 - Head on the Door tour. A guy wearing a pink Lyle and Scott style jumper got into a fight in the standing area; Obviously he stood quite out a bit..!

 

[Machiavelli]

Better than Just Like Heaven?

https://www.theguardian.com/global/...s-blunt-response-to-overzealous-tv-host-video

 

[BN9 BHA]

And for goodness sakes chaps, it is A Forest, not The Forest. A Forest. A. Sake.

 

[A mex eyecan]

some people can’t see the wood for the trees eh,

 

[Geestar]

At Glastonbury this year... definitely on my list!

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[darkwolf666]

Seems like a good time to bump this...

 

[Dolph Ins]

Blimey we were watching last night and remember seeing them at Glasto back in the 80's with thunder and lightning all round the stage.

 

[LlcoolJ]

They were awesome (viewed from my TV).

 

[Peteinblack]

In response to Dolph Ins #76

Ah, that would have been 1986; I was there too.

It was great when they played my fave Cure track, A Hundred Years, opening with the line “Doesn’t matter if we all die...” while a thunderstorm was going on right overhead. Added to the aura of Gothic doom superbly

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

If you like the Cure then it is worth hunting down Blue Sunshine by The Glove. I just went a-hunting for a track to post and found this, which is a new (?) version of the original track. The original had female vocals but here the song is sung by RS himself. I had never heard it before. I post also another track to give a better flavour of the original LP. My vinyl was blue . The band was basically Robert Smith and Steve Severin of the Banshees, plus a female vocalist who was a hairdresser they met in a club (or somesuch). The album has bits of found sound, and quite a lot of it is instrumental. My favourite 'Cure' record.

Edit, youtube has a whole load of The Glove remixed with RS singing. Sorry, but I prefer the original so I am putting an original track at the top:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8LzZpZVfxM&list=RDEMEu9Rk6jfSI4esauidY3G-w&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ9BNGl5yOs&list=RDEMEu9Rk6jfSI4esauidY3G-w&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tEcRZTLEGM&list=RDEMEu9Rk6jfSI4esauidY3G-w&index=2

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

More Glove - great track and a vid so you can see the lovelies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVXGzPueTZc&list=RDEMEu9Rk6jfSI4esauidY3G-w&index=6