happened in the cure world today, X years ago...

japanesebaby · March 31, 2009, 08:34:39

...one look relives the memory
remember me
the way i used to be
(secrets)

what happened in the cure world so-and-so many years ago, exactly today?
an album or a single was released? they played live someplace? maybe they were on tv or on radio?
something else?
post here, remind us of what took place!

here's to start with. today, on march 31st:

...on march 31st twenty-one(!) years ago, in 1987:

the cure was touring in south america, in argentina and brazil. on march 27th and 28th they had just played two dates in the giant maracanzinho stadium.
part of the maracanzinho concerts were filmed for brazilian tv.
some clips on youtube:
close to me
a forest > killing an arab
more info: http://www.impressionofsounds.com/1987-TV5.html

but back to exact date:

today, on march 31rd (today) they were going to play the first of the three concerts in sao paulo ibirapuera gymnasium:

http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1987-03-31.php

Melody Maker magazine published robert's tour diary later in may.
see here for the link to the complete article.

about the trip to the venue, robert said it was "a strange journey". obviously the bus drive there took all day and simon and porl had become sick the other day - or, had been "poisoned by in the night by a poisoner", like robert saw it.

about the ibirapuera concert, robert wrote:

...the ibirapuera gymnasium, sau paulo, the venue for the next three nights, and we are less than happy to find the audience streaming in meaning no sounds-check.
we wander about humming ad shouting until nine and then we are on. the sound is terrible, like playing in a raging sea, but the c[r]owd don't seem to mind, and they scream away and any way until we run out at eleven.

****

..."a couple of" years later:

in march 2000, the dream tour had kicked off a few days earlier, starting from spain.

the fourth show of the tour took place in valencia on march 31st, eight years ago:

http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/2000-03-31.php

were you there perhaps?

japanesebaby · April 01, 2009, 20:04:42

on april fool's day...

2006 - the cure returned to royal albert hall after almost exactly 20 years:

http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/2006-04-01.php

lovely memories from london!

(i just still don't uderstand how come they had seats on the floor.)

2000, it was barcelona: http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/2000-04-01.php

and of course in 1987, it was (still) hot and dreadfully sunny down in brazil (see above).

japanesebaby · April 02, 2009, 08:29:34

april 2nd, two years ago:

remember this?

http://www.buzzsugar.com/196300

...and all the heated conversation that it spiked ---> http://curefans.com/index.php/topic,3433.msg22035.html#msg22035

AND I WONDER WHY "ITS NOT OFFICIAL"?

MAYBE BECAUSE I DIDNT ACTUALLY DO IT?

WOW...

COULD BE EH?

ANYWAY

[...]

BACK TO THE CURE ALBUM
WHICH IS ALMOST DONE
AND I'M SURE COULD HAVE BEEN DONE SO MUCH SOONER IF I WASNT OFF IN CUCKOO LAND SINGING WITH THE JESUS FAIRIES...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

3939 posts - i need to put '39' on repeat for a while.

Trust... · April 02, 2009, 09:37:39

Quote from: japanesebaby on April 02, 2009, 08:29:34
3939 posts - i need to put '39' on repeat for a while.

WOW Amazing !

japanesebaby · May 02, 2009, 14:52:47

hmm i thought this might have been an interetsing topic but it looks like nobody agrees with me...

anyway:

20 years ago (

), on this day...

1989: prayer tour had just launched the day before at roskilde festival, denmark.
the first "proper" prayer tour show took place in stockholm, isstadion (later called 'hovet' - the same place where the band played last year on their 4tour)
-> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1989-05-02.php

http://www.impressionofsounds.com/prayer1.html.... and they were on all the way until september.

other performances:

1984 german tv, 'musik convoy' -> http://www.impressionofsounds.com/1984-TV10.html

one of the classic drunk performances. too bad i can't find it on youtube, robert is pretty manic in this one, fighting with the microphone stand...

1992: the warm-up tour for wish tour, newport UK -> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1992-05-02.php

1996 UK tv, 'top of the pops'; the second performance of '13th' -> http://www.impressionofsounds.com/1996-TV7.html

2000: marseille -> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/2000-05-02.php

four years ago, 2004, coachella -> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/2004-05-02.php

+they also played shows on this date in 1980 (aberdeen), 1981 (bristol) and 1984 (manchester).
in all, a pretty much activity on this date!

Trust... · May 02, 2009, 22:51:34

Quote from: japanesebaby on May 02, 2009, 14:52:47
hmm i thought this might have been an interetsing topic but it looks like nobody agrees with me...

Hey JB, it is interesting to know, and I like to read it. Thanks for the efforts

alwaysprayingforRAIN · May 02, 2009, 23:11:42

it's interesting to me too. i just feel too incompetent and slow to comment...
but i enjoy reading and learning

THANKS!!!!

lostflower4 · May 03, 2009, 01:48:53

Interesting...

Funny how I knew a lot of dates corresponding to yesterday (London '82, Roskilde '89, St. Austell '92...), but my memory of this date was a lot more foggy.

Descent · May 04, 2009, 09:43:22

A lot of Cure albums came out in May. An endless circle for the first 10 years or so (THOTD being an exception because the recording took longer than expected) : winter (hibernating/recording music), spring (album release/tours/promotion), summer (holidays or summer "trips"), autumn (new tour/writing).

japanesebaby · May 06, 2009, 22:07:53

Quote from: Descent on May 04, 2009, 09:43:22
A lot of Cure albums came out in May. An endless circle for the first 10 years or so (THOTD being an exception because the recording took longer than expected) : winter (hibernating/recording music), spring (album release/tours/promotion), summer (holidays or summer "trips"), autumn (new tour/writing).

yes of course, that's true. easy to find a list of shows to post in this topic around this time of year. but nothing bad in that i suppose.

lots of live show found on this date too, for instance:

1980-05-06 sheffield, UK --> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1980-05-06.php
(unfortunately nothing much is known of this concert, apart from the date and location/venue)
1981-05-06 derby,UK --> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1981-05-06.php
1982-05-06 amsterdam, NL --> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1982-05-06.php
1984-05-06 portsmouth, UK --> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1984-05-06.php
1989-05-06 heerenveen, NL --> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1989-05-06.php
1996-05-06 paris, amphitheatre de l'opera bastille --> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1996-05-06.php
2000-05-06 firenze, IT --> http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/2000-05-06.php

the 1996 opera bastille show was the first of the two promo shows for 'wild mood wings', they played the whole album like in london the next day:

1. want
2. club america
3. this is a lie
5. mint car
5. jupiter crash
6. round and round and round
7. return
8. trap

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KegcqxI4XcM&fmt=1810. bare

since the quality in youtube isn't that good, so if you have the dvd copy then why not put it on tonight?

WMS is not such a terrible album after all, when compared to some other(s).... (well at least apart from those few genuinely terrible tracks, perhaps

).

japanesebaby · May 06, 2009, 22:51:20

may 6th, 20 years ago....

...NME had several pages/stories/snippets devoted to the cure in their may 6th issue in 1989.

'dr. bob's cure all (a consumer's guide)' - a two-page history of the band.
i can upload scans if someone wants to read it.

from the same issue:

45" (maxi singles) UK top 50:

top 7: the bangles, kylie minogue, simply red, transvision vamp, beatmasters with merlin (what the heck was that?

), fine young cannibals, london boys (

), the cure....
oh boy.

CD singles UK top 20:

simply red at #1 -

some random piece of gossip (lol bashing, unfortunately often almost inavoidable around that time :/):

i wonder if that ever happened!

what was going on the NMe's turntable...:

#1 -

the same NME issue also featured the album review for 'disintegration', "when love breaks down" (by barbara ellen):

...'observing smith's face as it perrs up at me from the musky floral depths of the album cover, his mouth the usual scarlet canoe, his pale face shimmering, i pay silent tribute to the only man i know whose looks are such indelible proof of a real and elegant madness.' ... 9 (out of 10)

touché!!

japanesebaby · May 06, 2009, 23:22:05

oh how could i almost forget! definitely the most important entry for may 6th is that 32 years go...

On 6 May, Easy Cure played their first proper gig at The Rocket, a local Crawley pub!

Robert: "It was Sunday lunchtime and we realised Amulet were supposed to be playing that night and that they couldn't make it for some reason so we just phoned the pub and asked if we could play instead. We realised we needed to play in front of a real audience at some point so we rehearsed all afternoon and went and played. We went down quite well and they asked us back and, within two or three months, we were pulling about 300 people because there was no-one in Crawley who'd ever done anything like what we were doing. We had a really drunken following, and we were really just a focal point, an excuse for people to go out, get really drunk and smash the place up!"

"Whenever we played, we all thought it was awful - there was loads of feedback and you could never hear anything except Porl's guitar. That's the only reason we kept getting rebooked, because he became the local guitar hero!"

(from 'Ten Imaginary Years')

http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1977-05-06.php

the line-up: Peter O'Toole, Robert Smith, Porl Thompson, Michael Dempsey & Lol Tolhurst

the tribute band 'the cureheads' arranged a 30th anniversary show in railway inn, crawley (formerly known as 'the rocket') 2007.
if you want to have a look inside at the pub where the cure played their first ever proper gig, see here.
although i'd bet it's changed a lot since 1977... anyway.

alwaysprayingforRAIN · May 09, 2009, 16:44:47

Quote from: japanesebaby on May 06, 2009, 22:51:20
may 6th, 20 years ago....

...NME had several pages/stories/snippets devoted to the cure in their may 6th issue in 1989.

'dr. bob's cure all (a consumer's guide)' - a two-page history of the band.
i can upload scans if someone wants to read it.

i would love to read it if it's not to much trouble!!!

and thanks for the other scans and information!!

japanesebaby · May 12, 2009, 00:21:49

Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on May 09, 2009, 16:44:47
Quote from: japanesebaby on May 06, 2009, 22:51:20
i would love to read it if it's not to much trouble!!!
and thanks for the other scans and information!!

you're welcome.
i'll try to find time to make the scans for the complete article sometime soon.

one year ago, today:

http://curefans.com/index.php/topic,3612.0.html

http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/2008-05-12.php

it seems like only such a short time ago...

also (around) today:

i've sometimes seen may 12th is stated as the release date for 'disintegration'. wikipedia says it's may 1st. i suppose it depends on where you were since release dates can vary between different countries.
anyway, may 12th 2009 is just a perfect day for re-visiting the subject.

'endlich - finally!'

by the way, does anybody know why the prayer tour gig "of today", on may 12th in lille got cancelled?:

http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1989-05-12.php

Descent · May 12, 2009, 10:17:41

I don't think that show was really planned, so it didn't happen in the end. Sometimes you can find informations about the concert promoter "early plans". But no tickets were printed for this one (as far as I know), so I wouldn't say it was "cancelled" as such (it's the same for Paris July 10th 89 -all these were "options").

The concert in Boulogne sur Mer (near Lille) 12 july 89 was really cancelled though. That date appeared on the adverts and tickets were available.