For anyone lucky/old enough to have seen them during The Prayer Tour in 89 this record is the ideal document because it captures the raw energy and pulsating talent of what was the definitive live line-up: Smith. The band’s opposing tendencies came to a head on 1989’s Disintegration, The Cure’s masterpiece: The highs (like Lovesong) had never sounded more unburdened, nor the lows (The Same Deep Water as You) more hopeless.
Watch today's performance below, and be sure to check out KEXP's exploration of the band's iconic release on its 30th birthday here. The perfect companion peace to Disintegration, recorded at a time when The Cure were at their peak both artistically and in concert. But probably about Christmas time we’ll come back." In addition to the 20-track Alternative Rarities 1988-1989 posted last week, that makes two additional discs’ worth of unreleased material to supplement the 3CD expanded edition of Disintegration. So we need to do somewhere that’s just big. As promised, Robert Smith has started streaming The Cure’s live performance of Disintegration recorded in Dallas in 1989 on the band’s website. I think when we did the first three albums we did three nights at the Beacon in New York. But I kind of feel like we should do it in a bigger venue. We’re holding home theaters in New York and Los Angeles. "When we did the last festival, I said, 'this is it.' But once we’ve rehearsed it, I know it’s going to be really good.
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"It’s inevitable, I think," he told them. The last show from the Cures five Disintegration shows at the Sydney Opera House in 2019 - that album in full to celebrate its 30th anniversary, rare B-sides and demos from that era, and a few songs that fit with it (plus a 40th anniversary celebration) to close.Very clear 24-bit recording here, and a strong performance as well. To be fair, I've got quirky tastes as a Cure fan - I love The Top and Pornography but think Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is very overrated. Rolling Stone magazine caught up with frontman Robert Smith backstage at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction earlier this year, where he shared that the band are working on plans to bring the Disintegration 30th anniversary shows to the US. Disintegration is definitely amongst my favorite Cure albums, but I've always found it to be a slog to listen all the way through. Although the concert is now over, the stream is still available to watch below. Starting at 6 AM EST, the Grandfathers of Goth celebrated the 30th anniversary of Disintegration by playing the album in its entirety, along with some B-sides they’d never played live before. The performance was directed by British filmmaker Nick Wickham.
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The show is the last in a series of five concerts as part of Sydney’s Vivid LIVE festival. The band will be celebrating that landmark by playing it live in full at four. " An immaculately glacial, majestic album marrying raw, intense emotion with some of the biggest hits of their career, Disintegration links the spectral sorrow of Unknown Pleasures with the menacing catharsis of Nevermind.The Cure are delivering the ultimate Throwback Thursday by livestreaming tonight's concert from Australia's Sydney Opera House. Good news - The Cure are playing Disintegration in full at upcoming gigs. Sydney Opera House Head of Contemporary Music and Vivid LIVE Curator, Ben Marshall, added, “ Disintegration sealed The Cure’s undisputed position of global dominance while defiantly remaining outsiders who created an artistic body of work of lasting significance. Die Blu-ray Disc The Cure: 40 Live - Curtion 25 - Anniversary jetzt probehren und. " Our Reflections shows in 2011 were truly memorable experiences, and with the excitement surrounding those early album performances in mind, we are more than delighted to be announcing our return in May 2019 to present the world premiere of Disintegration - 30th Anniversary.”
“ Vivid LIVE is a wonderful international event," Robert Smith said. It will be the band’s first time in Australia since they headlined ‘Splendour In The Grass’ festival back in 2016. The Cure have shared a live video of them performing Disintegration from their forthcoming 40 LIVE: CURÆTION-25 + ANNIVERSARY double live film. They will be performing four shows at the iconic Sydney Opera House in May in what will be the world premiere of their anniversary tour. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of their critically-acclaimed eighth album, Disintegration, melancholy goth-rockers, The Cure will be returning to Australia to headline Sydney’s ‘Vivid LIVE 2019’.
Robert Smith of The Cure at Glastonbury Festival, 1995.