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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 8h

grrr

Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 10h

Fans of goofy Cure songs live in hope for 13 of them incoming in the next few months, 17 years after the last one The Only One

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 10h

Indeedy
But the universe of Cure songs here are ones Rob has played in concert

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 12h

On TV but not in concert

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · Jun 8

Robert Smith has played 194 Cure songs in concert

Simon is just one song short of that total
Happy the Man would make Simon a happy man

Reeves has 69 song debuts to catch up with Rob

Handy Euler diagram showing which Cure songs are outstanding for each of the current members not called Robert

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 12h

The Swing Tour gig in Rotterdam 1996 is the longest set in Cure history to include no song titles that begin with definitive article The

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 13h

OTD 2022 Cure went to Hamburg and played the unique and unrepeated coupling of The Last Day Of Summer into The Figurehead

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 1d

Interestingly the pole of inaccessibility in the South Pacific is so far from civilisation that occupants of a lifeboat would often find the closest humans on ISS

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 1d

I have anniversary of furthest UK gig from the sea scheduled for Nov, watch this space

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 1d

OTD 1985 Cure took Head Tour to Boulder setting a record that stands to this day

CU Events Center on Uni of Colorado campus is the furthest ever Cure gig from sea or ocean

793 miles from Pacific Ocean in Sonora province of Mexico, close to epic volcanic crater/biosphere reserve El Pinacate

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 1d

Epilogue
Mike's time with The Cure wasn't quite over
Mike's silhouette returned to film vid to Boy's Don't Cry 1986 rerelease and joined fellow alumni at R&RHOF 2019

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 1d

OTD 1979 SATB Join Hands Tour reached its terminus in Hammersmith and Michael Dempsey's final gig with The Cure

Mike had become disenchanted with Cure's direction
Rob's status as a Banshee excluded Mike from tour bus & top table at breakfast
With Simon waiting in the wings Lol called to break news

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 1d

The final Taking Off is undocumented, so here is a TV appearance instead

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsUm...

The Cure - 'Taking Off' Live on Jools Holland

YouTube video by GhostlyWays

www.youtube.com

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 1d

OTD 2004 Cure bid farewell to Taking Off

Superior self-titled pop titbit enjoyed just 7 concert outings in 2004 plus several TV appearances before reaching its final destination en Paris

Bring it back? I'll get it down for sure
Vid👇

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 1d

Yippee!
Happier outcome than Troxy but still stressful

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone got the presale link for Cardiff?
Presale 10am tomorrow I want to be first in queue

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 2d

Never Three

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 2d

Linguists might disagree but The Dream's is ok for The Dream since the "'s" is a contraction of "is" with the apostrophe showing where letters in the second word has been omitted

The dreams (plural) would not be ok

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 2d

6 in Disintegration not counting M Pushed or Screamed

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 2d

The contrived extraction of Push from pushed is unacceptable
By the same absurd token one might declare M from murmured

You also missed Three which is disappointing

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 2d

Is there a Cure song called If?

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 2d

No

Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 2d

no

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 2d

The longest Cure song title to appear in the lyrics of a different song is Round and Round and Round, which precedes "It's Coming Apart Again" in 1989 title track Disintegration

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 2d

OTD 2004 supergroup The Placebo Cure delivered a one-off performance of If Only Tonight We Could Sleep in Paris to make Cure’s largest onstage gathering since their brief mariachi phase 8ys prior

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