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The Cure
The Cure’s Robert Smith: ‘I wear lipstick, I’m 65. I’m not the person to stand up to say what’s wrong with the world’
The Cure’s Robert Smith interview: With his band’s first new album in 16 years just released, post-punk’s dark prince discusses enduring on his own terms and clashing with the most powerful company in live music
Robert Smith of The Cure: ‘I still feel like that 10-year-old kid staring at the moon’
The Cure’s power comes from the singer’s two sides – he’s ‘part of the world but also not part of it’. That’s still evident on Songs of Lost World, the band’s new album
The Cure: Songs of a Lost World track by track review – Majestically desolate, gorgeously grim
Robert Smith is at the height of his melancholic powers on The Cure’s first album since 2008
What I Read This Week: A harrowing American football tale and a pilgrimage to the Falkland Islands
Sports reporter Gordon Manning on the stories that caught his eye from Cian Healy’s milestone to the Cure’s new song
Alone, The Cure’s first new song in 16 years, is a huge aching sigh of darkness that brings great comfort
The track, which comes ahead of the release of new album Songs Of A Lost World, is refreshingly, gloomily Cure-ish
Heaven Sent: The Rise of New Pop 1979-1983 review: Inventiveness and experimentation from start to finish
This fresh form of forward-thinking UK music upended machismo, put anarchy back in its box and reinvented pop
Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Los Angeles - A guest-packed sonic extravaganza
Former drummers of The Cure and Siouxsie and The Banshees unite with producer Jacknife Lee
Lol Tolhurst: We had seen the disease of Thatcher’s Britain. The Cure was inevitable
The Cure objected to being called goth. But that’s exactly what Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey and I were as we searched for meaning in the malaise around us
Goth: Three fascinating books explore a musical subculture that is both dead and very much alive
Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst; Season of The Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth; and The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth by John Robb offer different and fascinating insights into a musical subgenre with literary roots and a long reach
Electric Picnic: 15 of the most memorable moments, from a blistering Fontaines DC’s set to Lana Del Rey’s tears
Stradbally has welcomed thousands of acts since 2004. As this year’s festival approaches, here are 15 moments that stick in our minds
The Cure at 3Arena: Wizened goths, stylish millennials and a giddy sugar rush of hits
Robert Smith and company are still a band apart. For this rare, 28-song Irish gig, the Dublin venue is packed to the rafters
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2019 nominees revealed
The Cure, Radiohead, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks and LL Cool J among the 2019 cohort
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