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“Hope you will joining us in wishing Simon the speediest of recoveries. And Eden – thanks”: Son of Gallup saves the day for The Cure

Young bassist is filling in for his dad

MusicRadar · Jul 13

“I told them I was dying and they didn’t believe me. I could tell by the look on my doctor’s face that there was something very, very wrong with me”: Robert Smith on the madness and the magic of The Cure’s early days

The goth legends’ ‘Doom Trilogy’ was aptly named

MusicRadar · May 22

The Cure win first two Grammy Awards of their entire career

The Cure won their first two Grammys on Sunday (01.02.26) but missed the ceremony due to the funeral of Perry Bamonte.

BANG Premier · Feb 2

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“I could write songs as bad as Wham’s if I really felt the urge to, but what’s the point?”: Dreams, red wine and the desire to explode - Robert Smith’s songwriting approach in his own words

The Cure’s godfather of goth remains one of music’s key figureheads, yet his attitude to songwriting is anything but orthodox

MusicRadar · Mar 20, 2025

“I wanted to make the ultimate record. And then the band could stop”: How The Cure’s Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers albums became goth’s great ‘Dark Trilogy’

The Cure’s Robert Smith looks back on the albums that turned the band into the goth icons they are today

Metal Hammer · Sep 28, 2024

The Cure drop first single in 16 years

Frontman Robert Smith says the new single, "Alone," is "the track that unlocked the record"

Salon · Sep 26, 2024

"I think the whole thing was turned around in two days": The two-man Cure lineup that recorded one of the greatest film soundtrack songs of all time for The Crow

30 years on, it remains an undeniably potent piece of Cure history

MusicRadar · Jun 21, 2024

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"I listened to Pornography and Disintegration one weekend. I got very drunk": How Robert Smith completed The Cure's Dark Trilogy

For many, The Cure of the 1980s was that of smudged lipstick and funny pop songs, but albums like Pornography and Disintegration showed the reality was much darker

Louder · May 2, 2024

The Cure’s Simon Gallup has been gigging with 2 gnarly new-look bass guitars – and now Schecter has released them as his latest signature models

A cosmetically updated Ultra Spitfire and a new semi-hollow stunner dubbed the Corsair have been unveiled

Guitar World · Aug 16, 2023

Schecter gets graphic on its new signature models for The Cure bassist Simon Gallup

Gallup gets a new EMG-equipped semi-hollow Corsair to join a newly refreshed Ultra Spitfire solidbody, and they are hard to miss with those red finishes and lion graphics

MusicRadar · Aug 15, 2023

The Cure plays generous assortment of old and new at United Center

English rockers road-test deliciously depressing new fare alongside forlorn favorites and a sprinkling of whimsical gems.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 11, 2023

The Cure review – the doyens of doom

A devoted multi-generational audience aren’t disappointed as Robert Smith and band double down on desolations old and new

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2022

The Cure review – top goths tease their bleak but beautiful new album

Robert Smith and his men in black deliver haunting headphone music on a megadome scale in a sprawling set of greatest hits and tasters of the upcoming Songs of a Lost World

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2022

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