
Rock acts on television this week include the Cure, who perform on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on Thursday and Good Charlotte’s Joel and Hoobastank, who appear on ‘Total Request Live’ on Friday.
Rock acts on television this week include the Cure, who perform on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on Thursday and Good Charlotte’s Joel and Hoobastank, who appear on ‘Total Request Live’ on Friday.
Cooper Temple Clause, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Muse, Rapture, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Cure, and The Rapture performed at The Curiosa Festival at Randalls Island on Saturday (July 31) in New York. Check out pictures fromn RexFeatures and WireImage.
Dan Aquilante of the New York Post reviewed Saturday’s out-of-doors music festival Curiosa on Randalls Island, featuring acts such as Interpol, the Rapture, and the Cure. Aquilante writes that the Cure “sounded incredible; frontman Robert Smith, who appeared in his usual raccoon mascara and red lip stick, was incorrigible — and the music was often incurably romantic. The band took the stage just as the full moon peaked above the southern horizon. The summer humidity not only made the moon seem enormous, but the thick air softened the acoustics, lending the Cure’s sound a warmth and fullness that is elusive in the din of a typical open-air concert.” The full review at nypost.com has since been removed.
Blender magazine spoke with the Cure frontman Robert Smith in a Q&A and asked if he ever heard blink-182 before they asked him to be on their latest album. “I’d heard a couple of singles, but I couldn’t really see how I could sing on anything or write any words,” he said. “But the demos for the album that eventually came out were fantastic. I think they suffer in a way that we suffered in that people weren’t allowing them to become something else. If another band put that new CD out as their first album, people would go crazy.”
The Cure, Keane, and Elbow performed on stage on the second day of the 4-day Move Festival at Lancashire County Cricket Club on Friday (July 9) in Manchester, England. Check out pictures from GettyImages.
The Cure performed ‘Just Like Heaven’ at the Sessions@AOL studios. Watch the performance via YouTube below.