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Neil Young says he will follow The Cure by not using ‘bad’ dynamic pricing

The US-Canadian musician is headlining Somerset’s Glastonbury and the BST Hyde Park festival in London this year.

Evening Standard

“My management and agent have always tried to cover my back on the road”: Neil Young just axed premium gig tickets following advice from The Cure’s Robert Smith

Smith’s anti-dynamic, pro-fans rant on “driven by greed” ticket pricing, has opened up Young’s heart of gold

MusicRadar

Neil Young rejects dynamic pricing for concert tickets, credits the Cure’s Robert Smith for decision

Young’s forthcoming Love Earth tour will not use Ticketmaster’s ‘platinum’ ticketing scheme – described by Smith as ‘a greedy scam’

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Neil Young dropping overpriced Platinum tickets on The Cure's Robert Smith's suggestion

Neil Young has decided to cull Platinum tickets after hearing Robert Smith's view.

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Vista’s CEO is the second richest African American. He says companies will hire the best people—and this group will be diverse

Robert Smith says access to education has changed the way we think about diversity.

Fortune

Charli XCX versus The Beatles: who will win at The Brits – and who should win

The Brit Award nominations are out and it looks set to be Charli XCX’s year... but should it be? In a year when, well, The Beatles had a single out. Martin Robinson gives his verdict

Evening Standard

The Cure’s new album could be out this summer, and Robert Smith has just detailed two songs set to appear on it

The Cure’s new album Songs Of A Lost World took 16 years to come out. Their next one may take just a few months.

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Robert Smith refuses to stream music

Robert Smith will not stream music "on principle" and listens to records on "loads and loads" of iPods instead.

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Robert Smith says he ‘felt bad’ about viral Rock and Roll Hall of Fame interview

The Cure frontman was the subject of a viral exchange with an enthusiastic reporter on the red carpet at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony

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"I felt bad about that actually." The Cure's Robert Smith on hilarious viral interview clip from Rock Hall induction

We all chuckled at The Cure frontman's typically British reaction to excitable red carpet interviewer

Louder

The ten best albums of 2024 – according to music experts

With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. And what a soundtrack this year’s newsletters have had. From Charli XCX’s global domination with Brat to Kendrick Lamar’s rap game-changing GNX,…

The Conversation

Robert Smith considering Christmas song for The Cure

Robert Smith has penned a "really catchy pop song" that he is considering releasing as a Christmas single.

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“I think I just need to stick some Christmas words on it and get it out there!” Have The Cure written the feel-bad holiday hit of the year?

Robert Smith claims he’s written a “really catchy” pop song, and it could be the next Christmas chart-topper

Louder

“It's not quite as dark, but it explores other subjects a little bit more”: Robert Smith confirms existence of ‘companion’ album to Songs Of A Lost World

And there’s a third in the works too

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Robert Smith promises 'companion piece' to The Cure album Songs of a Lost World

Robert Smith has confirmed that The Cure have finished work on a "companion piece" to their latest album 'Songs of a Lost World' and also have a separate album in prospect.

Guitar World

“I played and sang Suffragette City and everyone else was doing Foxy Lady – I was so drunk, I didn’t even know”: The Cure’s Robert Smith on his disastrous first show as a singer and guitarist... when he butchered a Jimi Hendrix classic

Smith only carried on fronting the band because he’d fallen out with everyone who filled the role

The Guardian - UK

The 20 best songs of 2024

Here are the year’s most outstanding tracks – from Fontaines DC to Beyoncé via Kendrick Lamar – as voted for by 26 Guardian music writers

Louder

The Cure announce new live album plus expanded edition of #1 album Songs Of A The Lost World

The Cure's royalties from sales of Songs Of A Live World Troxy London MMXXlV will be donated to War Child

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A feminist fertility film, sci-fi nuns and a sonic gothic masterpiece – what you should watch and listen to this week

“Women presume we can have children. There is a biological and social expectation. Nothing can make that absence worse. But we have the possibility of making it better.” New to Netflix, Joy follows the British scientists who invented in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) – Bob Edwards (James Norton), Jean Purdy (Thomasin McKenzie)…

The Conversation

How The Cure went back to their gothic roots for their new number one album

At Shrewsbury train station, there is a poster advertising The Cure’s new album, Songs of a Lost World. The confident, monochrome minimalism of the art is at odds with the rambling Victorian brickwork, yet there is a kind of sympathy there also.

MusicRadar

“I'd rather listen to two foxes shagging in the bushes at 5.30 am”: Guess which classic British band Liam Gallagher is talking about?

Plus that new Oasis album… it doesn’t exist. It was a joke all along!

Louder

"I'd rather listen to two foxes shagging in the bushes." Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher isn't buying into all the excitement around The Cure's triumphant comeback

Oasis leader Noel Gallagher might be a long-time fan of The Cure, but, not for the first time, his little brother Liam doesn't share his opinion

The Guardian - UK

The Cure score first UK No 1 album in 32 years with Songs of a Lost World

Robert Smith says getting first chart-topper since 1992’s Wish is ‘enormously uplifting’ and ‘genuinely heartwarming’

The Guardian - UK

The Cure review – an intimate, poignant show from a band more focused than they’ve been in years

Material from new album Songs of a Lost World fits perfectly amid two hours’ worth of back-catalogue hits, all performed with giddy intensity

Louder

“No stone goes unturned”: The Cure celebrate their new album, a goth classic and everything else that makes them great at spotless London show

At the intimate Troxy venue, The Cure celebrate the newly released Songs Of A Lost World and so much more, offering three hours of surprises, singalongs and pure emotion

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