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25ys ago today!
The one and only live rendition of Just Say Yes
High energy motivational teamtalk JSY is sole vocal duet in Cure annals, with Safron ftom Republica completing double act
Bonus track JSY got this one off Greatest Hits promotional outing en Paris then Go! Go! Gone!
OTD 1979 Michael Dempsey left The Cure
8 days after SATB Join Hands tour ended
24 days b4 new-look 4piece debuted at Erics in Liverpool
Here is how news broke to fans in Feb 1980 fanzine with Rob explaining the "sever" with characteristic coldness
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Scottish Crew Commander raises £17K with The Cure tour artwork
Pete Dunlop’s artwork was chosen by rock band The Cure for a recent tour poster, with all profits donated to us – after Pete’s parents were supported during a difficult time.
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Record gig OTD 1996 Treviso
ONLY full gig where 50% of songs played were mononyms
Feat was a digestive quirk
9 songs in Rob vommed during Catch
Gig shortened so Bob could pop down to Boots to pick up some Settlers Tums, canning polynyms intended for the encores
Vom if you must👇
TRIGGER ALERT
Rob took a couple minutes to compose himself then bravely soldiered on
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Today we bid farewell to Andy Anderson who played final gig OTD 1984 Tokyo
Lovecats his last song
Hard boozing wildman Andy went berserk in hotel afterwards so received P45 leaving tour in lurch
58 gigs/12 countries 83-4
Recorded drums on Lovecats+Top album
Born ‘51 eldest Cure
Melbourne OTD 2000
Cure play TWELVE album opening/closing tracks in concert for 10th and final time
8 openers in Melbourne is not in itself a record (9 achieved twice in 2000) and neither is 4 closes (5 achieved twice 2000)
11 openers/closes achieved 4x since: 2002 +ForoSol'13
Today we bid farewell to Mike Dempsey who played final Cure gig OTD 1979
Tensions grew on SATB tour as Mike felt excl from high table then unimpressed by Rob's stark new material
Lol made the call
With Si waiting in wings Cure's bassless period lasted 1min
JSET released 1wk later
Celebrating CGS's 4th birthday with a Euler diagram
Body parts in song lyrics from 4th album Pornography
Winning body parts (no. of songs/8)
Face 6
Hand 5
Eye 4
Head 3
Mouth 3
Blood 3
Winning song = title track Porno:
Hand, Eye, Head, Mouth, Blood, Flesh, Body
Happy 4th birthday to Cure Gig Stats who debuted OTD 2022 with this banger🎉🍾🥳🎂
Tonight's gig by @TheCure will be their 7th concert in Norway, and their 4th at Oslo Spektrum
#TheCureLostWorld22 #TheCure
30y record remains intact!
Rotterdam OTD 1996
Cure play their longest set featuring zero song titles starting with definitive article THE
36 non-the-songs has been bettered 15x incl record 42 at famous Foro Sol but not with this purity
All time play counts of The-songs 👇
Austin City Limits OTD 2019
Last gig b4 covid & Cure's longest spell out of game
Last Dance/Caterpillar/Just One Kiss not heard since
Post89 LastD played only Trilogy, 17/76 in 2016 & 30!/33 in 2019
C'pill surprising pop 2012-9 103/163 after just one post84
J1K: 2012x10 2019x25
Easy Cure OTD 1977
1st time 18y old Rob took lead vocal responsibilities
Original singer Peter O-Toole left for Kibbutz
Rob:"I couldn't be any worse"
Mike:"Most admirable thing I've seen Rob do"
Crawley bandstand return not to be confused with prior summery appearance from SATS
Gig details unavailable but likely Easy Cure played songs recorded as studio demos 2 days later:
See The Children
I Just Need Myself
I Want To Be Old
Pillbox Tales
Meathook
Since becoming EC frontman in 1977 Rob has sung at least 35k songs in concert
(Pete on L in pic3)
Here is Queens Square today in all it's current glory Rumbelows is now @Poundland
The listed bandstand moved to the Queens Square in 1958 from Gatwick racecourse, was dismantled in 2016, restored and reassembled in 2018 in nearby Memorial Gardens, shown before and after move
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure, Belgium 1980
17S fizzled out of sets early 1981
Only reprises were a surprise Rob acoustic solo 2002 and Reflections 2011
