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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
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
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
‘It was like dancing into the apocalypse’: how the death-disco pulse of goth music ruled the underground
John Robb tells Peter Murphy about his new book, The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth
Gorillaz: Cracker Island - Damon Albarn squeezes as much joy and pathos as possible into their best album to date
The virtual band’s LA-influenced eighth album is one of their best to date
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
‘Grand Theft Aero’ sends shock waves through Irish aviation industry
Russia’s move to re-register foreign jets flouts decades-old treaties
The Simpsons creeps from the shadows to remind us it was once a defining cultural force
The show gave Morrissey a prime opportunity to moan like an underappreciated maiden aunt
Gorillaz: Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez review – great songs sandwiched between the disposable and cartoonish
Elton John, Robert Smith, St Vincent and Skepta guest on virtual band’s seventh
Getting older is an exciting privilege, now more than ever
I feel more confident as I get older. I know more and worry less
The Cure at Malahide Castle: Brilliant, contagious, swoonsome
Review: The supposedly gloomy band treat the crowd to two-and-a-half-hours of pure joy
The Cure at Malahide Castle: Everything you need to know
Set list, tickets, weather, restricted items and transport for the band’s Dublin summer gig
That way Madness lies... This week’s best pop and rock gigs
Also: Primal Scream, Forbidden Fruit, Michael Bublé, Snow Patrol, The Cure, Metallica
Corrupt admissions scandal taints joy of US college graduations
America Letter: Mortar boards up in air as indebted graduates exit dysfunctional system
The Cure announce Malahide Castle concert for June 2019
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, October 10th
England football team remains Ireland’s dark obsession
Our neighbour threatening to win a World Cup still raises the hackles of many Irish
The Cure’s Robert Smith: ‘I survived. A lot of people in London didn’t’
The singer and songwriter is planning to record the first Cure album in 10 years
Scott Hutchison of indie band Frightened Rabbit reported missing
Family, friends and police appeal for information about disappearance
David Bowie and Prince among Record Store Day exclusive releases
The annual celebration of independent record shops takes place on April 21st
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