curenews 16
november 1995
hello
well...it's been a long wait...but finally i'm back with cure news 16 and lots of exciting news! firstly, i'm delighted to say that from now on i should be able to get things more quickly and accurately as perry has volunteered to become involved in the running of the service and it certainly should make things much easier and quicker from a information point of view. in fact, over the past few months so many things have been 'about to happen' that iv'e been waiting for the most opportune moment to send everything off to the printers...!
now for the news. the cure will kick off 1996 with two concerts in brazil in mid january, one schedulded for rio de janeiro and one for sao paulo. on 16 april they will release a brand new single (as yet untiled) and a few weeks later, on 6 may the long awaited (and again still untitled) album will be released. at the end of may they will start a tour of the uk and ireland, with a major london venue on the schedule. june will see a well earned break (which, purely by coincidence, ties in quiet nicely with the european cup final!!!). on independence day the world tour kicks off in earnest, commencing (appropriately) in the usa and moving on to europe, and possibly taking in japan too.
perry and roger are actively involved in developing an offical cure service on the internet and by the next issue i hope to be able to confirm details of this. as any regular 'net' user will already know, there are many unoffical cure pages, generally spreading untrue rumours about the band; the intention is to provide a service which will be updated very regularly and will ensure total accuracy of information. they would love to know what you would like to see / here / experience on a cure site.
uk fans may remember enlisting with fiction's 'curious' service (which replaced the iis's 'stop press' service). they haven't sent out any information for the last year but now we've agreed to join forces to get the service back up and running. if you haven't enlisted already write, enclosing your address, to: curious mailing, fiction records, 97 charlotte street, london, w1p 1lb.
as you all know by now boris decided to leave the band late last year and has been replaced by jason cooper, it's great to welcome roger o'donnell back on keyboards too.
i hope lots of you got to a least one of the festival dates during the summer, just for the record the band played at the following.
6 june panathinaikos stadium, athens, greece
10 june sonoria festival, milan, italy
16 june rock am see festival, konstanz, germany
25 june greenpeace festival, glastonbury, england
30 june roskilde festival, denmark
1 july torhout rock festival, belgium
2 july wercher rock festival, belgium
7 july les eurockeennes, belfort, france
9 july lisbon super rock, gare maritima de alcantada, portugal
14 july gurten festival, bern, switzerland
18 july plaza de toros de las ventas, madrid, spain
i went to glastonbury where unfortunately if i stood near enough the stage to hear i couldn't actually see anything and if i went up the hill to get a good view the sound wasn't too hot!! consequently glastonbury '95 will not go down as being one of my favorite cure shows! bbc radio one broadcast the majority of the show live and channel four included some highlights in their coverage of the event.
the following friday chris and i decided to fly to denmark for the roskilde festival - this time i was taking no chances - we were allocated 'all access' passes therefore allowed to stand on the stage. great view, great sound. great show. afterwards we went with the band over to another stage to watch supergrass who were performing. another great show. we all went back to supergrass's changing room for a couple of beers before being virtually dragged out by our driver for the treaterous drive back to copenhagen in a very dodgy mini-bus. luckily perry's and simon's jokes kept our minds off the fact that the driver was going at about 120mph in the pouring rain through the road works!!!
for the record, the cure played a total of 30 songs, including three new titles, across the festivals, which are as follows: want, fascination street, a night like this, pictures of you, lullaby, push, just like heaven, trust, jupiter crash, dressing up, high, the wak, friday i'm in love, inbetween days, from the edge of the deep green sea, shiver and shake, disintegration, mint car, close to me, let's go to bed, why can't i be you?, charlotte sometimes, a forest, end, boys don't cry, 10.15 saturday night, a strange day, three imaginary boys, killing an arab, forever.
before heading off on the festival tour of europe the band recorded 'dredd song', their contribution to the soundtrack of sylvester stallone's movie hit 'judge dredd', the soundtrack was released worldwide by sony.
they've also covered bowie's 'young americans' - their contribution to '104.9' a compilation album to promote xfm's application for a london-wide radio license.
robert met with david bowie for the first time a couple of months ago to record an interview with him for xfm.
they chatted about such diverse subjects as art, touring, fame, their favorite records and barry manilow!!
one last album to look out for is a compilation called 'devolution' alternative rock classics 1975-85 - it includes the original 12" mix of 'a forest' (the only time this track has been available on cd), other artists include joy division, new order and killing joke.
the official cure calenar has just been published by danilo. if features all new very strange photos by paul cox.
the band's answers to your questions on the following pages were completed during the summer, so some are a bit out of date - iv'e decided to include everything anyway, as they still make interesting reading.
robert has very kindly given me two signed shirts to give away - these will be donated to anyone who sends an entry for the next issue - so get writing - reviews, experiences, curefriends, pictures, puzzles, anything at all!
the first two 'out of the bag' get the shirts.
many thanks to everyone who helped with this issue, particulary perry - it's great to have you on board! and a special thank you to daryl and brian of looking after us in copenhagen!
until next time..happy christmas...see you next year...
love
janie
