One of the Great X-Pectations for 2015, 20-year-old Rebecca Clements is from Bristol and will be familiar to some through her singles “Wildlife” and “Lovechild” from last year – both released on her own Coma Girl Records. Rebecca plays Communion’s Bushstock festival in Shepherd’s Bush on 13th June.
Posts Tagged ‘The Cure’
REBECCA CLEMENTS – ” Boy’s Don’t Cry ” Cure Cover
Posted: May 11, 2015 in MUSICTags: Bristol, Communion Festival, Cover, Rebecca Clements, The Cure
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The CURE – ” Live In Orange ” Concert 1987
Posted: March 10, 2015 in MUSICTags: Live, Orange, Robert Smith, The Cure, Vaucluse
The Cure in Orange is a concert film by British rock group The Cure. filmed at the classic Théâtre antique d’Orange in the French countryside (Orange, Vaucluse), With two performances by the band on August 9th and 10th, 1986. Members Robert Smith (Vocals & guitar), Simon Gallup(Bass guitar), Porl Thompson (Keyboards, guitar and saxophone), Boris Williams (Drums), and Lol Tolhurst (Keyboards) make their way through 23 songs. Robert Smith has mentioned on the band’s official website that The Cure in Orange will be released on DVD sometime but It is now 2015 and still no official release, it was only made available on VHS like The Cure’s more recent release, Trilogy which is available on dvd/Blue Ray. The Set of Songs were described as “An astonishingly lavish production number for one of the world’s less dynamic live bands, rendered noteworthy by its setting against the magnificent backdrop of an ancient amphitheatre for Cure fans this is as perfect and cinematographically compelling a record of a gig as could be asked for. “the mixing and recording of the show is pristine and would have made an excellent live album…With performance highlights including fantastic versions of “Primary,” “A Night Like This,” “A Forest,” and “Faith,” Orange is ample testimony to both the Cure’s excellence and Pope’s ability to showcase them at their best.”
Tracklist
1- Shake dog shake
2- Piggy in the mirror
3- Play for today
4- A strange day
5- Primary
6- Kyoto song
7- Charlotte sometimes
8- Inbetween days
9- The walk
10- A night like this
11- Push
12- A hundred years
13- A forest
14- Sinking
15- Close to me
16- Let´s go to bed
17- Six different ways
18- Three imaginary boys
19- Boys don´t cry
20- Faith
21- Give me it
22- 10:15 Saturday night
23- Killing an a arab
The CURE – Live at the Hammersmith Apollo 21st December 2014 “
Posted: December 22, 2014 in MUSICTags: London Hammersmith Apollo, The Cure
The Cure announced plans to play a series of Christmas shows at London’s Eventim Apollo, the band promised to deliver “surprises galore”. At tonight’s opening of the three-night stand, The Cure delivered a marathon 40-song set that included a full performance of 1984′s The Top, the live debut of a rare B-side and the reintroduction of songs not played live in decades.
Among the setlist highlights: that full performance of The Top, albeit not in order; the first live performance of The Top’s “Wailing Wall” and “The Empty World” in 30 years; the first-ever performance of Head On the Door-era B-side “A Man Inside My Mouth”; the return of “Piggy in the Mirror” for the first time since 1997; and the first performances of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me’s “Like Cockatoos” and “Hey You!” in a decade.
The performance of The Top and resurrection of Head on the Door– and Kiss Me-era rarities are certainly in line with Robert Smith’s announcement earlier this year of plans to stage another “Trilogy”-style tour that would find the band performing those three albums. Such a tour, however, has not been announced — nor have any of the other things Smith laid out in that February press release, for that matter.
check out the full setlist from tonight’s show — which, while exceedingly long, still was 10 songs short of the band’s monster 2013 gig in Mexico City — as well as a smattering of video via Chain of Flowers.
Setlist: The Cure, Eventim Apollo, London, UK, 12/21/14
1. “Shake Dog Shake”
2. “Kyoto Song”
3. “A Night Like This”
4. “alt.end”
5. “Wailing Wall” (First time since 1984)
6. “Bananafishbones”
7. “The Caterpillar”
8. “The Walk”
9. “A Man Inside My Mouth” (Live debut)
10. Close to Me”
12. Lullaby”
12. “High”
13. “Birdmad Girl”
14. “Just Like Heaven”
15. “Pictures of You”
16. “Before Three”
17. “Lovesong”
18. “Like Cockatoos” (First time since 2004)
19. “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea”
20. “Want”
21. “The Hungry Ghost”
22. “One Hundred Years”
23. “Give Me It”
Encore:
24. “The Empty World” (First time since 1984)
25. “Charlotte Sometimes”
26. “Primary”
27. “The Top”
Encore 2:
28. “Dressing Up”
29. “Piggy in the Mirror” (First time since 1997)
30. “Never Enough”
31. “Wrong Number”
Encore 3:
32. “Three Imaginary Boys”
33. “M”
34. “Play for Today”
35. “A Forest”
Encore 4:
36. “The Lovecats”
37. “Let’s Go to Bed”
38. “Why Can’t I Be You?”
39. “Boys Don’t Cry”
40. “Hey You!” (First time since 2004)
The CURE – ” Christmas Specials ” 21/22/23rd December 2014 Hammersmith Apollo London
Posted: November 8, 2014 in MUSICTags: Hammersmith Apollo, London, The Cure
Tickets to The Cure’s upcoming London Hammersmith Apollo shows went on sale this morning (Friday 7 November) – with some fans delighted by the chance to see the goth-rock heroes, while others were left disappointed. Earlier this week, the ‘Friday I’m In Love’ icons revealed that they’ll be seeing in Christmaswith two huge shows next month – and they’re going to be fittingly epic.
“The band will be performing a 150 minute show playing songs drawn from their entire 37 year old catalogue including deep cuts, pop songs, fan favourites and surprises galore,” they said on Facebook. “Reprising the role they performed at the same venue 30 years ago each concert will also feature And Also The Trees as support These are ‘Christmas Specials’ not to be missed!”
The Cure’s full London Christmas dates are below. Tickets are on sale now. For tickets and more information, visit here.
Sunday 21 December – Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, London
Monday 22 December – Hammmersmith Eventim Apollo, London
Tuesday 23 December – Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, London
The CURE – ” Just Like Heaven “
Posted: October 3, 2014 in MUSICTags: Boris Williams, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, The Cure
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The Cure and the perfect pop song,
Show Me Show Me Show Me How You Do That Trick The One That Makes Me Scream she Said, The One That Makes me Laughs She Said, She Threw Her Arms Around My Neck, Show Me How You Do It,
The idea is that one night like that is worth 1,000 hours of drudgery. “Just Like Heaven” was The Cure’s first top 40 hit in the US. It also reached the top 40 in France, New Zealand and the UK. In the summer of 1992, Robert Smith has called it “the best pop song the Cure has ever done.” The group wrote most of the song during recording sessions in southern France in 1987. The lyrics were written by their frontman Robert Smith, who drew inspiration from a past trip to the sea shore with his future wife. Smith’s memories of the trip formed the basis for the song’s accompanying music video. Before Smith had completed the lyrics, an instrumental version of the song was used as the theme for the French television show Les Enfants du Rock.
When the French TV show Les Enfants du Rock asked The Cure to provide a theme song, Smith offered the instrumental version. As he explained, “It meant the music would be familiar to millions of Europeans even before it was released”. He completed the lyrics when the group moved the sessions to Studio Miraval, located in Le Val, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. The band completed the song quickly, and at the time Smith considered it to be the most obvious potential single from the songs the band had recorded during their two-week stay at Miraval.
“Just Like Heaven” was the third single released from their 1987 album “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me”. The song became the Cure’s first American hit and reached number 40 on the Billboard charts in 1988. It has been praised by critics and covered by artists such as Dinosaur Jr. and Katie Melua. The third single from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me It was inspired by a trip Robert Smith took with his then-girlfriend (future wife) Mary Poole to Beachy Head at East Sussex. Smith told Blender in 2003: The song is about hyperventilating – kissing and fainting to the floor.
The music video for “Just Like Heaven” was directed by Tim Pope, who had directed all of the band’s previous videos since 1982’s “Let’s Go to Bed “. The video was filmed in England’s Pinewood Studios in October 1987. Set on a cliff overlooking a sea, the video recreates many of the memories detailed in the song’s lyrics. When a fanzine asked Smith what the song was about, he said it was inspired by “something that happened to me a long time ago—see the video! Smith had claimed for years that the video was shot at the same place that inspired the song, he later admitted that the bulk of it was filmed in a studio, utilising footage of the water and cliffs of “Beachy Head”.
During the song’s piano solo the sky turns to nighttime and the band is shown clad in white shirts. Mary Poole appears in this sequence as a woman dressed in white dancing with Smith. As Smith explained, “Mary dances with me in the video because she was the girl [in the song], so it had to be her.” Pope later commented, “[Poole] can honestly lay claim to being the only featured female in any Cure video, ever.”
In order to develop material for “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me”, Smith forced himself to write music for 15 days of each month. During this regimen, he developed the chords and melody which form the basis of “Just Like Heaven”. Structurally, Smith found what he had written was similar to the Only Ones’s 1979 hit “Another Girl, Another Planet”. When he brought an instrumental demo of the song to the album recording sessions in Southern France, Cure drummer Boris Williams increased the tempo and added an opening drum fill which inspired Smith to introduce each instrument singularly and in sequence
The Cure perform “Just Like Heaven” at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
“Just Like Heaven” is written in the key of A major and consists of an A–E–Bm–D chord progression which repeats throughout the song, except during the chorus when the band plays an Fm–G–D progression. The song’s central hook is formed from a descending guitar riff which appears between song verses and in parts of the bridge and the last verse. This guitar line contrasts with the “fuzzier mix” of the rhythm guitars. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All Music said “the stately ‘Just Like Heaven’ […] is remarkable and helps make the album “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me” one of the group’s very best”. Ned Raggett, also of AllMusic, wrote that the song was “instantly memorable, [and] sparkling with rough energy it’s a perfect showcase for Robert Smith’s ear for wistful, romantic numbers. His main guitar line, a descending, gently chiming melody, contrasts perfectly against the fuzzier mix of the rhythm guitars, while Simon Gallup’s bass and Boris Williams‘ strong, immediate drums make for a great introduction to the track. Barry Walsh of Slant magazine said the Cure “…is at the top of its game […] on the simply stellar ‘Just Like Heaven’. Glistening descending guitar lines, Gallup’s throbbing bass line, and Williams‘ authoritative thumping frame a typically lovelorn Smith lyric, with the end result being one of the Cure’s finest singles, and perhaps one of the best pop singles of the late ’80s
What makes a Great song
Released 5th October 1987
The CURE – ” Hello Goodbye “
Posted: September 9, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSICTags: Hello Goodbye, The Art Of McCartney, The Cure
The Cure perform the Beatles track “Hello Goodbye” and their first new recording since 2008 for the album “The Art Of McCartney” due for release on the 18th November the tribute album features Smokey Robinson, Chrissie Hynde, Billy Joel and others, The Cure perform a faithful rendition of the 1967 single with James McCartney on keyboards and Robert Smith’s unmistakable vocal. Others involved in the record include Alice Cooper, Kiss, Brian Wilson ,with tracks from the whole of Paul’s career with the Beatles his solo work Wings and recent solo songs
IAN CURTIS and JOY DIVISION 34 years ago 18th May 1980
Posted: May 21, 2014 in MUSICTags: Closer, Ian Curtis, Joy Division, Low, Pink Mountaintops, Post Punk, Still, The Cure, Transmission
34 years ago this weekend the Joy Division vocalist and lyricist Ian Curtis, tragically took his own life but the legacy that the post punk pioneer and his songs, have left behind is unmistakable, despite only releasing two full length albums “Unknown Pleasures” and “Closer” his influence is evident in their sound produced by countless bands who continue to be inspired, his baritone vocal, dance style amd minimilistic sound, the tone of Curtis’s voice and the lyrics were huge,
here is a cover of the song “Transmission” slowed down and recorded around the time of LOW’s second album,
next up is the Band PINK MOUNTAINTOPS and their version of “Atomosphere” sounding very much like the Velvet Underground would if they had covered this song
and a version from the seminal goth,punk band THE CURE with “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
The CURE – ” Seventeen Seconds ” released this week in 1980
Posted: April 24, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSICTags: A Forest, Gothic, Mattheiu Hartley, Mike Hedges, Music, Post Punk, Robert Smith, Seventeen Seconds, Simon Gallup, The Cure
although placed in the post-punk new wave section, but this album established the band as part of the gothic movement, written mostly by principal guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Robert Smith the band formed in Crawley West Sussex added two members from the band Magazine Spires Mattheiu Hartley on Synths and keyboards and Simon Gallup on drums to record this album which was only their second release .Hartley and Smith clashed over certain playing as Smith wanted simple single notes while Hartley played melodic complex multiple parts but his playing added a new dimension to the bands ethereal sound, Smith exerted great control and influence of the recording which due to financial restraints was recorded over seven days with Mike Hedges producing. The track “A Forest” reached No 20 in the Uk single charts becoming the first UK hit single, the song is still played at Cure concerts becomeing the most played song of their repertoire usually featured as part of the encores. The album described as morose and atmospheric established the bands sound mostly a collective of downbeat tracks and ambient echoing vocals with minimal instrumentation. reissued in April 2005 as part of the Deluxe series the second disc containing demos and live tracks . During 2011 the band recorded the set live in Sydney Australia in its entirety for a possible live dvd release.
The CURE – TEENAGE CANCER TRUST CHARITY – Royal Albert Hall 28/3/2014
Posted: March 31, 2014 in MUSICTags: Albert Hall, Music, Teenage Cancer Trust, The Cure
THE CURE played a marathon 45 song set with a few suprises. Live debut of songs never played before “HAROLD and JOE”, and the B-Side “2 LATE” playing two night they played the same set both night lasting a 3 hour plus show a 29 song set eventually 3 encores with a further 16 songs performed. There is to be a new album this year titled “4.14 Scream”
The Fat Angel Sings 