The Robert Smith fans of yore

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They loved him, adored him, and did everything they could to be worthy of his love. Smeared lipstick, baggy clothes, kooky teased hair. But there was one thing they could NEVER do: giant unlaced basketball sneakers. Cure fans always wore some kind of patent leather creepers, or a pointy toe and buckles thing, but they could never go all the way and get some giant WHITE Reeboks...

Why was this?

― andy, Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i did, and so did m' friend mark b.
we have the phtos to prove it.
lots + lots of photos.

ssssshhhhhhh.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

the reeboks weighed more than i did. and head over heels isn't a good look for me.

― kephm, Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Not true - second gig I ever went to I got some enormous white trainers despite the fact I was a goth-cum-fraggle-loving public schoolboy. I looked like an ass, but.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to remember quite a few wearing Converse, if that counts.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't wear them because I thought they looked like marshmallows.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Smith wore unlaced basketball sneakers?

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.posternow.com/c/c556.jpg

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i was wearing a pair of all black with red trim nike jordan hightops and then a tour or two later robert was wearing all black hightops. so i was ahead of the cur(v)e. /loser

― kephm, Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://users.wspice.com/~tecj/pix/otrsmith.jpg

― andy, Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

What the fuck is that?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't really pinpoint where he went wrong, but he went wrong somewhere, to be sure.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it an ILX poster?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://orties.free.fr/images/cure.jpg

― andy, Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

To answer the question, they ate too many Chunks o' Sadness and are all dead now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I am very much alive, thank you.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

but there are some cases where you know better than your pop star. the basketball boots were not a go.

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think they were his saving grace - his way of saying "I'm a regular geezer who likes sport - all this gothy shit is just a joke and if you don't realise that you're a bit of a loser, ha ha fuck off fans"

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The best thing about that is that N. is OTM.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank God I was a Cure original, else I'd have looked like a dark Goth Smurf in those trainers.

Confess: you've still got them buried deep in the recesses of your closet, and tis just sad.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Smith/Morrissey Fite

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 9 April 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

That's been around forever. I remember some interview/promo thing for the Cure when the Wish tour started in America and Simon, I think, had some harsh words for El Moz. As a fan of both, I say who cares!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 April 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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