Cure lineup changes 2005 part 2 -- Porl Thompson returns!

Anyway, if they get Boris back I'm sold!

Whoa. Cure-ious. Curiosa. *gets clobbered over the head by Ned*

Those stage lights can be cruel though.

I think RS has read my posts on ILM... so RS I LOVE YR MUSIC SO BEAUTIFUL TEARS COVER MY FACE IF YOU EVER PASS BY BELGIUM HOLLA AT ME

Blimey, was that really 12 years ago? Doesn't the time just fly by? I'm pretty sure that was the last / most recent time I saw The Cure too!

Bloody good gig 'though....

http://www.afoolisharrangement.com/Cure/oddities/tourbooks/greatxpectations/greatxpectations1.jpg

"ladies and gentlemen...introducing ROFLBERT SMITH, LOL TOLHURST and P-URL TH-OMG-SON - THE CURE! (dotcom)"

it's notr that much of a shock for porl to rejoin - he played with them at the london barfly show last year, and has apparently been acting as guitar tech for a good while anyway.

still, all good news.

ah, great xpectations - i was doing my a-levels so my mum and dad wouldn't let me go, bah. i'd forgotten that robert smith was one of the founders of xfm!

Starts around 4pm
Muse 5:30 - 5:50 pm
Shakira 7:25 - 7:45 pm
Placebo 9:50 - 10:10 pm
The Cure 10:35 - 10:55pm (but hints that they might break the curfew)

So in the US that would be 4:35pm eastern, 3:35pm central, 2:35pm mountain and 1:35pm pacific.

Muse plays below Shakira = all is right with the world. But that's a separate matter.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainofFlowers/audiovideo.html

Five songs but not a bad selection at all...

The Dino Jr version of "Just Like Heaven" is one of the worst things ever recorded.

THE CURE REVEAL FUTURE PLANS AT BENICASSIM

THE CURE revealed tonight at the BENICASSIM FESTIVAL in Spain tonight (August 5) that they plan to release a new album in 2006.

The goth legends delighted a partisan crowd on the Escenario Verde with a two-hour set which included highlights from the band’s 25-year plus back catalogue, including the classics ’Boys Don’t Cry’, ’Lullaby’ and ’Just Like Heaven’.

The band were thought to have split, but returned with an eponymous and critically acclaimed album in 2004, eight years after 1996’s ’Wild Mood Swings’. And Smith revealed before the band’s show that the band are planning a new album.

He said: “We want to start recording in October/November and get it out by birthday next year, which I know is quite cheesy.”

Smith turns 47 on April 21 2006.

The star also revealed he intends to work with former Siouxsie And The Banshees colleague Steve Severin on new material.

Smith added: "I'm not sure though. We might kill each other!"

Now...if we could get more REISSUES NEWS as well...

I guess they didn't care about Bloodflowers

I was thinking the same thing. I liked Bloodflowers much more than Wild Mood Swings but that has a lot to do with that tour.

I think he's found the socket, though - or at least it appears so - and paired up with his missus to form Levinhurst. The band's website's (www.levinhurst.com) meta-description runs thus:

"Levinhurst is a suave, exotic group comprised of Lol Tolhurst's keyboards, beats, and sonic landscaping against the stirring vocals of Cindy Levinson and intricate musical crafting by Dayton Borders"

Sounds suspiciously like something you'd pay £25 for in a posh eaterie - only to discover that it's beans on toast, god bless 'im.

I gotta love a line-up that can fall smack on its face playing their latest single (End of the World) and then nail an elusive 25 year old album track ("At Night").
They're taking a lot of chances without the keyboards. I like it

Figured this was the most appropriate thread since his name is in it, but it looks like Porl Thompson is getting out of the guitarist business and auctioning off everything.

The '61 Strat is the one to get, or the '66 Gibson. But a lot of this auction is sad. It's 1/3rd Goth stage gear! Gross.