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Post by curetradestaff on May 5, 2011 9:28:00 GMT -5
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Post by Seb on May 5, 2011 11:27:52 GMT -5
Seventeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by lovecat on May 5, 2011 11:34:00 GMT -5
Pitchfork leaked another one of details... " ... the whole thing will be recorded for a DVD. Pretty cool..."
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Post by thomas on May 5, 2011 11:40:13 GMT -5
Just amazing. Really good news. And maybe a DVD? Oh yes, please!!!
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Post by curefan77 on May 5, 2011 12:00:33 GMT -5
I am waiting...because it isn't confirmed yet on the official site.
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Post by monghi on May 5, 2011 13:08:14 GMT -5
lucky fans in Australia!!! And good for us that it will be filmed!!!! FANTASTIC!!!
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Post by lovecat on May 5, 2011 13:46:50 GMT -5
THE CURE “REFLECTIONS” LIVE AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSETHE CURE “REFLECTIONS” added to line up for stephen PAVLOVIC’S VIVID LIVE at Sydney Opera house Sydney Opera House today announced that the curator of Vivid LIVE, Stephen Pavlovic has secured one of the world’s most enduringly influential bands, The Cure to perform for Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House. Appearing onstage with a uniquely evolving line-up of band members past and present, The Cure “Reflections” will see the band perform their first three albums live, in their entirety, in an extraordinary concert experience exclusively for Vivid LIVE on May 31 and June 1.While punk was still reverberating through popular culture, The Cure’s unique blend of moody, atmospheric and unforgettable songs pioneered a new era in popular music and marked them forg reatness from the start. Their strong sense of theatricality and unique styling gave birth to entirely new subcultures and new generations continue to discover their signature sound and make it the soundtrack to their lives. The Cure have toured Australia many times but have never attempted a show such as this on our shores. Hear how they became the voice of generations with three releases that etched them into our consciousness. From the punchy, offbeat, starkly unadorned songs of Three Imaginary Boys, through the increasingly shadowy and quixotic pieces of SeventeenSeconds, to the singular melancholic grandeur of Faith, this is a rare chance to experience the origins of one of popular music’s greatest stories. Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House (May 27– June 5) is a curated music festival and is part of Vivid Sydney (May 27 – June 13), the city’s annualfestival of light, music and ideas. Following on from Brian Eno (2009) and Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson(2010), Australia’s Stephen “Pav” Pavlovic of Modular has taken the reigns as curator for this unique event for 2011. Vivid LIVE curator Stephen Pavlovic says "From my teenage years to the present day, The Cure have always been one of the most inspiring bands I have ever come across. To have the opportunity to include them in the line up is anhonour equal to curating VividLIVE" The Cure’s Robert Smith says, “Vivid LIVE is an exceptional event, and we are very excited to be taking part. We have played a lot of memorable shows in Australia – we first performed here in 1980, and this will be our seventh trip – but it will be our first time onstage in the Sydney Opera House, and we want to do something unique to mark the occasion. Combining Cure members past and present in a live filmed interpretation of our first three albums feels to me like it should do the trick!”The Cure join an incredible line up of local and international artists including Spiritualized, Bat for Lashes, Chris Cunningham, The Avalanches, Sonny Rollins, Yo Gabba Gabba!, WU LYF, OFWGKTA and 2manydjs and more. TheCure “Reflections”
Three Imaginary Boys (1979)
The Cure Trio: Robert Smith (voice & guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums)
Seventeen Seconds (1980)
The Cure Quartet: Robert Smith (voice & guitar), Simon Gallup(bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O’Donnell (keys)
Faith (1981)
The Cure Quintent: Robert Smith (voice & guitar), Simon Gallup(bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O’Donnell (keys & percussion), LaurenceTolhurst (keys & percussion)
Performance details: Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House presents The Cure “Reflections” Monday 31 May & (repeated) Tuesday 1 June 7pm 180 mins (2 intervals)Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House Tickets $109 – 180 sydneyoperahouse.com / 02 9250 7777 TICKETSON SALE THURSDAY 12 MAY Sign up to Vivid LIVE E-News for priority access vividlive.sydneyoperahouse.com/signup.aspxwww.thecure.com/blog/default.aspx?nid=35390
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Post by boneheadhagg on May 5, 2011 14:44:00 GMT -5
this is fantastic news, but where is Porl?
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Post by lovecat on May 5, 2011 15:23:51 GMT -5
2011 May 31: Vivid Live Festival, Sydney, Australia 2011 June 1: Vivid Live Festival, Sydney, Australia - Simon's birthday Who will go ?
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Post by Seb on May 5, 2011 17:48:58 GMT -5
my dream is to see "seventeen seconds" (the song) live ..... but 30 hours of plane for 3 hours of show......why why why there ? but it the best news since .....since what ? nothing i always had waiting this news.......seventeen....... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sydney is too far and as Johan said on FB the plane is 1.052 €. Happy to hear this awesome news and i am sure it will be a incredible nights ! lc
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Post by lovecat on May 5, 2011 22:21:57 GMT -5
Statement from Roger Hello everyone, by now most of you will probably know the news and if you don't, well you get to hear it from me first hand!
About a month ago I got an email from Robert asking me if the project he was working on game to fruition would I play with The Cure. I immediately though it was a hoax and sometime was using Robert's email, he of course thought that was hilarious and it turns out it was true.
The event is to play at the Vivid Festival in Sydney Australia on the 31st of May and 1st of June and it is to be like a Trilogy part 2 or actually Trilogy the sequel as we are going to play TIB, 17 Seconds and Faith consecutively with Lol also playing keys and percussion on Faith. Quite the reunion!!
I left the group in May 2005, contrary to popular myth I wasnt fired/sacked by email and if I hadn't been told by Robert that they were continuing as a three piece I would have told him I was leaving...
There comes a time in your career when you have to make some decisions as hard as they may be about what you want to do, what you want to achieve or try to achieve. If you work in a park at the bottom of a mountain, every day you look up and think I wonder what it would be like to climb that. One day you quit and you try, maybe you succeed maybe you fall but if at the end of your life you retire from the job in the park and you have never tried how would you feel?
I had to make my own music, to step out from the very comfortable covers of being in a hugely successful band and do it on my own. Thanks to all of you and your support I have spent the last 6 years doing exactly that climbing my own musical mountain. Yes and falling a few times hahaha but it has been amazing and I am so happy that I have done it and will continue to do it...
Many times over the last few years I wondered and have often been asked "would you play again with The Cure" .. There were times I was sad and some times bitter and said stupid things. When you love somebody/something as much as I have loved The Cure those times will always of course be difficult, breaking up is awful. My love for the band and the music always said yes to the answer though. The last thing Robert and I said on that phone call in 2005 was "never say never"...
When Robert sent me the email I did think about everything, what it would mean, losses, gains. How it would feel emotionally. I had a few sleepless nights over it but in the end I knew it was right. To be asked back to play on this incredibly special occasion is amazing. I don't know about any other plans of the band, what they are doing, where they are playing and I will enjoy this whole project without any preconceptions or doubts...
The whole thing is going to be filmed by the same team that did Trilogy so you will all be able to see. I have been working on the songs for the past few weeks and was relieved when they all came back like old friends. It was if I had played a show yesterday. In fact the last show I played with The Cure was in Germany, November 2004 and we mimed to Friday Im in Love hahahaha...
I cant wait to see everyone, I havent played with Lol since 1987! We were boys!....
Along with all this I have two Moog shows of my own on June 5th and 9th, the first in London on the Ship of Fools night and the second at the Wave Gothic Treffen festival in Leipzig. Then we start work on preparing and rehearsing for the Quieter Trees performance in London on July 2nd with the CYM. Ive said it before this will be incredibly emotional for me and I would love for as many of you who can come to hear the performance. I wont be playing, it will be all young musicians...
Finally, I just want to say a huge THANK YOU to you all, the support, love, understanding and inspiration you have given me is priceless. I consider you all friends and hope you feel the same way about me...
love Roger xxx ymlp.com/zB1Bb9
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Post by lovecat on May 5, 2011 22:25:00 GMT -5
From Lol on Face Book : "thank you everyone for your kind words! Yes I am really looking forward to seeing everyone again and playing these wonderful songs in such a beautiful place! Truth is truly stranger than Fiction!"
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Post by curefan77 on May 6, 2011 3:47:16 GMT -5
Do you realize this will be the first time they play Doubt ?
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Post by 100years on May 6, 2011 4:43:48 GMT -5
wow what for fantastic news. Unfortunately, it will not be possibly for me, drive to Sydney. All people can count themselves happy which will be present. I hope this of it a DVD will give. How with the "Trilogy Concert" from Berlin. At that time at least I was present.
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Post by thomas on May 6, 2011 9:28:53 GMT -5
Do you realize this will be the first time they play Doubt ? And I can´t wait to listen to it!
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Post by patrisse on May 6, 2011 13:35:30 GMT -5
at last some very good news! It's a real surprise and the best since years. I cannot believe that Roger and lol are back! Even if porl is one the best guitarist in the world, playing keys part with guitars was not enough! This new old line up make my day! And if they will not play anything about the last albums, it doesn't matter : we had "trilogy show" anyway! The Faith show will certainly be the most beautiful! i can't hardly wait to buy the dvd and the boots! Thank you The Cure, you still make me dream!
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Post by lovecat on May 7, 2011 4:19:41 GMT -5
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Post by curetradestaff on May 7, 2011 7:53:19 GMT -5
Just amazing. Really good news. And maybe a DVD? Oh yes, please!!! The shows will be filmed by Nick Wickham and the team that did Trilogy, and hopefully be released on DVD/Blu-ray later in the year.
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Post by curetradestaff on May 7, 2011 13:59:06 GMT -5
The Cure set to play in SydneyThe sounds of raw emotion will be taking over the Sydney Opera House this month, with The Cure set to headline the city's Vivid LIVE festival. The Cure, an English rock band known for its atmospheric and melancholic tunes, has been announced as the headlining act of the Sydney Opera House festival. Festival curator Stephen Pavlovic admitted on Friday that the move to get the band onboard was purely personal. "It was a 100 per cent selfish motive. I love them... I have always been a major fan," he said. "They are very emotive and expressive. They recognise that the world doesn't exist on sunshine alone." Pavlovic is founder of the label and touring company Modular, and became an industry name after securing the only Australian tour of the grunge sensation Nirvana. He said Vivid LIVE was a challenge to organise as he only had four months to build a line-up. "Most successful bands, they know what they are doing six to 12 months ahead," Pavlovic said. "But with The Cure timing was on my side." The Cure will play their first three albums, Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds and Faith, back to back in their entirety. The Cure's frontman Robert Smith said the triple performance will be a unique experience. "We have played a lot of memorable shows in Australia - we first performed here in 1980, and this will be our seventh trip - but it will be our first time onstage in the Sydney Opera House, and we want to do something unique to mark the occasion," Smith said in a statement. Pavlovic described the rest of the festival as "a mixed tape" of his favourite music at the moment, focussing on bands that combine visual elements with music. "I liked the idea of senses interfacing with other senses." In this respect, festival-goers can expect acts such as The Crystal Ark to have lighting installations and Chris Cunningham - to display videos. As to younger festival-goers who may not be familiar with The Cure's early work, Pavlovic assured them it's worth a listen. "I would say that The Horrors have captured the look. Interpol has captured the vibe, but no one has captured the magic. And that's why The Cure stand alone as The Cure." au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/9330083/the-cure-set-to-play-in-sydney/
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Post by curefan77 on May 9, 2011 3:48:08 GMT -5
I think they will play 'Forever' as an encore. What do you think, which songs will be played as encores?
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