Dec. 25th
A very
Merry Christmas and a Happy & Healthy New Year to you all!
Regular updates will resume very soon. Until then, here's a quick
update. Not much of a
present, but better than that terrible pair of socks you'll be
getting from your aunt later today. : )
Cure to play Valencia, Spain
on March 5th. Here's the story from thecure.com:
THE CURE TO HEADLINE MTV WINTER IN VALENCIA,
SPAIN
12/20/2007 9:14:55 AM - by geffen
5th March 2008 the Spanish 'City of the Arts and Sciences’ will
welcome musical icons The Cure as the headline act of a unique free
MTV open-air concert. This event will be genuinely global, with a potential
audience of 207 million people around the world. The complete bill is
to be announced by MTV in the next couple of weeks.
Cure on IKEA cd compilation:
"IKEA Austria is celebrating 30th Anniversary.
The company produced a special Birthday 2CD, also including a song
of The Cure, but they didnt mention which one...."
(Thanks Thomas)
Cure place 2 songs on Serbian
radio "Best Songs of the 80's" list :
"BEST 80'S SONGS CONTEST ON SERBIAN RADIO B92 JUST FINISHED!
THERE WAS 100 SONGS ON THE FINAL LIST AND THE CURE HAS TWO SONGS
ON IT:
LOVESONG AT 24th PLACE
JUST LIKE HEAVEN AT 88th PLACE"
(Thanks Janko)
"German synth-pop band AND ONE will
release an EP called "Bodypop 1 1/2" on 15 of December, 2007 with two
cure covers - the Walk and Kyoto Song! They play the Walk at their gigs
often, I went to see them yesterday and that cover was brilliant; can't
wait to hear what they did with Kyoto song! Full track-list:
1. Never let me Down Again (DM Cover)
2. Operating Tracks
3. Der Mussolini
4. I Give To You
5. Kyoto Song
6. The Walk (live)
7. Fools (live)
8. CD ?Rom Track "½Steine Sind Steine" Video"
(Thanks Olga)
"I went to Broadway to see the newest
play by the great Tom Stoppard, "Rock & Roll", which intertwines themes
of musical & political freedom,
punctuated by lots of song excerpts, and, where originally written
to include Guns N Roses' "Don't Cry", the production had the taste to
substitute "Boys Don't Cry" instead - right after this climactic scene
where the two main guy characters come to an understanding of their lack
of connection over many years. Well used, and the show also projected
full credits of each song as it played throughout the show, so no one could
miss who and what it was. Very well done and I recommend it for anyone
in New York."
(Thanks Justin)
"here in France the CBS series 'Cold
Case', in which the music guys really please themselves by choosing great
songs for the soundtrack music, is shown on tv channel France 2.
The other day they played (maybe replayed) the season 2 episode
6 the other day during which 'lullaby' was used. I checked
on the internet and easily found a good site which lists everytrack
used for each episode; in the season five, episode 10 'justice'
they use the song 'secrets', Season four episode 19 'a forest',
season 2 episode 5 'pictures of you' and 'just like heaven', season
1 episode 9 'lovesong'. "
(Thanks Fabien G)
"This might have been reported before
but, "Lovecats" is featured on the soundtrack to one of the most stupid
movies ever, being D.E.B.S. (2004)... Why do Cure songs rarely to never
get used in good movies?"
(Thanks Laurent)
"Kind of a strange "I heard the Cure
on..." from a couple weeks ago now, Pictures of You soundtracking
a Golf tournament on American TV during
what was apparently the "LG Skins Tournament 2007", Nov 27-28th.
It was a pretty long loop, too, mostly the intro. Have the Cure officially
taken over, and are we all doomed? My question was answered immediately
afterwards as POY was followed by U2's In God's Country - desert theme,
Indian Wells, Joshua Tree-esque location, inevitable really. But
still, is the Cure soundtracking golf tournaments even weirder than Cure
in chain restaurant bathrooms or over supermarket PAs? Not sure."
(Thanks David)
"This actually happened last wednesday,
but I forgot to tell you earlier. After the Champions League soccer
game Inter-Cska, the speakers of the Milan stadium started playing music,
and the first song to be played was the Cure cover of Purple Haze. Quite
an unusual Cure song to hear!"
(Thanks Pietro)
"Was just watching Doctors (the worst
soap ever) on BBC 1 here in sunny Britain and they played last 30 secs
of Boys Don't Cry original version."
(Thanks Honey Honey)
"on local french tv channel TVGrenoble small program Muzikagre,
the relatively well known dj Hacker was asked "which song do you listen
to in your car; dance to; remind you of your youth;; and so on...
and also: which song do you listen to alone, he replied "The Cure's
Seventeen Seconds album"
(Thanks Fabien G)