SIGNAL NOISE DEBUT

Cure Gig Stats@curegigstats.bsky.social · last yr.

Live debut of Signal to Noise turns 20 today Debuted Benicassim Fest 2005 B-side to Cut Here went on to play all 9 festival dates of 2005 & remained in rotation to 2008 One surprise revival Denver 2014 Cut Here retired in 2002 after just 4 outings and would be outshone by STN which stepped out 22x

OTD 2005 2nd/2 appearances at Benicassim Fest 1st full gig for nu-look Rock Cure not counting Live8 Some songs made it on Festival 2005 DVD but no one knows which Gig thrice remarkable: Signal to Noise debut Bside to then-retired Cut Here played 9/9 fest dates in 05 outplaying Aside 22:4 2&3👇

OTD 1990 Leipzig enjoyed its Cure debut, two months before dissolution of GDR Only show post1989 billed as Prayer Tour 1st of 2 gigs in old E Germany 2nd came next day in Dresden Set well peppered with bangers, notably final Lament ex-UK Leipzig revisited 96 16 22 yet nothing from Bloodflowers 👇

3rd Aug one of four calendar dates to boast TWO Cure country debuts OTD 1985 Cure made their Finland debut OTD 1990 Cure played Czechoslovakia for first (and only pre-devolved) time Also 26/5 Germany debut 1980 Hungary 1989 28/6 Denmark 1985 Portugal 1989 29/7 Netherlands 1979 NZ 1980

Second NZ tour OTD 1981 Cure play 9th biggest city Palmerston North on North Island 175° 36′ 42″ E closest Cure have played to the antimeridian which lies 230 miles to the east Opposite side of the world from Madrid and 3rd furthest gig from Greenwich

Exactly half of all recorded Cure songs since Jason joined band 31ys ago have the word "world" in the lyrics #StrangeButTrue #CureFacts Evidence 37/74 👇

OTD 2007 Cure added Singapore as 36th country ticked Cure's smallest by land area/highest by pop density Only one of now-50 Cure countries not to play Forest 38 songs=joint longest gig not to play Forest 1°18′2″N closest Cure played to Equator which runs 87 miles to the south

Little Miss CGS passed her driving test first time today

Budapest OTD 2002 Cure went crazy opening gig with album opening tracks Sziget Fest first time album openers made 4 of 5 first slots in a set 5 of first 7 6 of first 8 Stunt would repeated with same songs/order x2 that week 8 album openers overall had been done 19x in 2000 as did record 9 twice

30ys ago today Cure took Swing Tour to Eugene OR to play their most westerly gig in the Americas 123.09°W Eugene's nickname is the Emerald City and official motto is "A Great City for the Arts and Outdoors" Only Oregon Catch

OTD 1983 Cure's comeback trail reached its western terminus at Elephant Fayre fest on a country estate in Cornwall, a crusty affair with a wicker mammoth First of 3 gigs, all in 1983, to play the holy quartet Faith Forest Porno Forever 2nd most westerly gig in GB More crusty Elephants👇

56% of all Cure songs released since the year 2000* have the word "world" in the lyrics #CureFacts #StrangeButTrue *songs from Bloodflowers, The Cure, 4:13, SOALW, b-sides, It Can Never BTS, StepITL, Another Happy BDay, Spilt Milk, A Boy I never Knew = 29/52

7/9 songs from 11th Cure album Bloodflowers have the word "world" in the lyrics

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Oh no, The Cure have stops #CureWords

Pretty interesting Forever in Bournmeouth Ozric Tentacles inspired sound effects and Walk snippets 1983-4 Forevers seem to abandon 3 chord structure of Three altogether youtu.be/9SbTxQLqVss?...

The Cure 1983 Bournemouth, England Perfect cold set!!!

YouTube video by Adam “OTHER VOICES STAY CURED” Lipka

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Cure are back! OTD 1983 After 13mo absence nu-look Cure made their concert comeback with 1st of 2 warmup gigs at tiny clubs in SW enroute to Elephant Fayre fest in Cornwall: Bournemouth's Midnight Express & Moles in Bath 1st live shows for Andy n Phil after appearing on TOTP with Walk a week before

9th Aug Estonia debut is 40th anniversary of famous Orange gig Q How credible is a set replication? A Entirely credible! 16/23 Orange songs have played so far in 2026 Kyoto 6DW 1015 & KAA all played SOALW Tour 2023 Outliers Sinking last played Cureation 2018 GMI (+Cooper Jnr?) & Piggy both 2016

HISTORIC Gabriel Cooper Cure debut in Nimes to smash sax solo on ANLT First EVER live sax on ANLT Cure’s first live sax/horns since Gone! played live on TV April 1996

CGS for an Elise feeling about Nimes

Cure Gig Stats@curegigstats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Increased %: LGTB HHH Never Enough Wrong No 6DW EOTW AltEnd Unstuck Suprise/occasional rotation: Elise Dressing Up Baby Screams HBYA Perfect Girl Snakepit Lovecats Expl Boy Mint Car Treasure Jupiter Wildcard comeback: Lament 35% probability of 1+ new songs

To my knowledge Rob said it was the end Wembley Jul 1989 Mansfield 1989 Brussels 1982 don't think Rob declared that was it, but de facto it was Any other towels thrown in?

Martin O'Gorman@martyogorman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have you got a stat on how many times RS has said it’s the last Cure gig ever? 😀

OTD 1989 3rd of 3 nights at Wembley to close Euro leg of Prayer Tour Cure play 35 SONGS in a set for first time ever, smashing previous PB of 33 at Wembley Night 3 in 1987 Handy 3-gig setlist tracker 👇 Bob: "Goodnight. We’ll hopefully see you again, but we probably won’t"

Cure B-sides that live debuted ahead of its A-side Splintered in Her Head NY 1981 approx 3wks before Charlotte in Australia Lament, one song before Walk Bath Moles 1983 The Big Hand Five songs before Elise at same gig at T&C 1991 Can never be quite sure about 10:15/Plastic Passion

OTD 1981 Cure debuted Splintered In Her Head, bside to Charlotte Sometimes Ritz NY 1st gig of 2nd US visit Aside Charlotte waited 3 more wks to debut &was lesser played of the pair in ‘81 Both songs recorded just 1wk earlier during fortnight window between Fuck Robert Palmer & 5wk US-NZ-AU-CA trip

Strange but true Of The Cure's entire studio output 1981-1984 (Faith, Pornography, Japanese Whispers, The Top, b-sides) Splintered in Her Head is the ONLY* song out of 38 not to mention one body part in the lyrics *doesn't include instrumental Descent

San Diego OTD 1986 Cure played the exact same songs in the exact same order as the famous Orange gig which would take place 16 days later

Cornetto Fest OTD 2002🍦 Second of just two gigs (the other a few days before) to play FIVE album title tracks in one set Incredibly four of them played back to back

OTD 1989 1st of 3 nights at Wembley to end Prayer Tour euro leg Cure closed gig with Untitled into Faith for final time U>F closed 31/50 gigs so far that tour, all time most common pairing of 2 album closing tracks to close a gig U>F would be used 2 further times that tour but not to close a gig

It's Sayonara Starmer and Bonjour Burnham as Andy becomes 12th Prime Minister to serve in epoch of The Cure Andy's first Cure gig (Wednesday in Nyon) lands on his third day at No 10 This makes him 3rd fastest PM to have a Cure gig, after Boris and Rishi who each had first gig on 2nd day in office