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Perry Bamonte, longtime guitarist of The Cure, dies aged 65

The post-punk band confirmed the death of their guitarist and keyboard player following a short illness over Christmas.

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The Cure’s Perry Bamonte dies aged 65: “He was a warm hearted and vital part of the Cure story”

The Cure confirm that longtime guitarist and keyboard player Perry Bamonte has passed away

Louder

"If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I’ll eat meat - that’s how much I hate Morrissey." The story of the hugely-entertaining, long-running beef between Robert Smith and Morrissey

The Cure and Smiths frontmen had a long-running war of words beginning back in 1984 and here are some of the best bits.

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‘All roads lead to Grace Jones’: visual artists on the music that fires them up in the studio

Chris Ofili loves steel pans. Lindsey Mendick adores Self Esteem. And Ragnar Kjartansson enjoys everything from Bach to the Cure. Artists reveal the bangers that get their creative juices fizzing

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“It’s a pretty bizarre day when you find an email from Robert Smith in your inbox”: Electronic polymath Daniel Avery on the genre-blurring magic of new album Tremor and remixing the Cure

Now on his sixth studio album, we speak to Daniel Avery and hear how he mixed the distorted with the ethereal to create the sonic universe of Tremor

MusicRadar

“One of my favourite things about Robert Smith is his ability to really convey the sadness”: the eight best Robert Smith guest spots

The Cure leader is no stranger to a guest vocal, as this prime selection of his finest cameos proves

Louder

AFI Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... review: Davey Havok and his crue have gone full goth, and it's resulted in their best album in over a decade

AFI embrace their love of The Cure, Bauhaus and Sisters Of Mercy to create a modern goth classic

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The Cure announce huge summer 2026 UK and Ireland shows with star-studded supporting cast

Mogwai, Slowdive, The Twilight Sad and more will support The Cure in Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh and Manchester in 2026

Louder

The Cure, Lewis Capaldi and Calvin Harris to headline Isle Of Wight Festival

The event next summer will also feature the Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter, The Last Dinner Party, Wet Leg, and Teddy Swims.

Evening Standard

Direxion's Ultra-Leveraged CURE ETF Offers An Opportunity To Play The Potential Valuation Reset

Amid rising concerns about stagflation, investors have continued to bid up the equities sector. As evidence, the benchmark SP 500 sector is up over 13% year-to-date. However, the concern is that most of these tremendous gains are now concentrated in an elite minority of tech players known as the Magnificent…

Benzinga

The Cure announce new festival show for next summer

Robert Smith & co. appear to be gearing up for a busy 2026 – but is it the beginning of the end?

Louder

“It serves as proof to me that performing Friday I’m In Love and Just Like Heaven with The Cure’s Robert Smith wasn’t a dream”: Olivia Rodrigo is releasing her highly acclaimed Glastonbury set on vinyl

“The collective energy of the band that day was really infectious,” said Rodrigo’s lead guitarist Arianna Powell

MusicRadar

“It's a really good chord progression, I couldn't believe no-one else had used it”: How the Cure sidestepped the gloom and wrote one of the most uplifting songs ever recorded

The Cure’s life-affirming indie pop classic remains the ultimate Friday tune

MusicRadar

Watch Doctor Who and The Thick Of It legend Peter Capaldi perform a surprise cover of one of The Cure's best-loved songs at his first ever solo show

Watch former punk rocker and acting legend Peter Capaldi channel his inner Robert Smith at hometown gig in Glasgow

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How do the stories we tell shape our experience of chronic illness? Katherine Brabon charts an elusive search for ‘the cure’

Early in Katherine Brabon’s fourth novel, one of her two protagonists, a woman named Vera, turns to the internet for advice on falling pregnant. Among the articles and advertisements suggesting “surely miraculous” remedies, she finds something similarly potent with promise: stories.

Guitar World

“Our MD told us, ‘This is very secret – you cannot tell anyone, but Robert Smith is going to be joining us.’ And I swear to God, I started crying”: The moment Olivia Rodrigo guitarist Arianna Powell found out she’d be playing with a Cure legend

Smith had some words of wisdom for Rodrigo’s band ahead of his surprise guest spot at one of the most star-studded music festivals in the world

MusicRadar

“He is perhaps the best songwriter to come out of England, he is a Glastonbury legend and a personal hero of mine”: Olivia Rodrigo surprises fans during her headline Glastonbury set by duetting with The Cure’s Robert Smith

He joined her for Friday I’m In Love and Just Like Heaven

Guitar World

Move over Taylor Swift: Olivia Rodrigo is this generation’s Eddie Van Halen – her Glastonbury performance proved it

The headlining star’s set was filled with pyrotechnic guitar solos, crunching riffs and a guest spot from the Cure’s Robert Smith. It will inspire a generation of new guitarists

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Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury review – full of bile and brilliance, this is easily the weekend’s best big set

With a genuinely surprise appearance from the Cure’s Robert Smith and a magnificent theatricality to her lovelorn songs, Rodrigo totally steals the entire festival

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Olivia Rodrigo expresses her 'love' of England at Glastonbury

Olivia Rodrigo performed some of her best-known hits as she closed this year's Glastonbury Festival.

Guitar World

“Siouxsie tried out her newfound kung fu on me and barged me in the back. That was enough – I walked out and Kenny came with me”: A brawl ended John McKay’s tenure with Siouxsie and the Banshees, but not his influence on a generation of players

A two-year stint left McKay with fans including the Edge, Robert Smith and Geordie Walker, plus a stack of demo tapes that he’s finally turned into an album

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Yungblud bonds with The Cure and Smashing Pumpkins over tackling high ticket prices

Yungblud is striving to keep ticket prices low for his concerts - including Bludfest - and he's got some handy allies in the form of Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, and The Cure's Robert Smith.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve met people with tattoos of it’: Andy Vella on shooting the Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry cover

‘The guitar, the hair, the mystery – I think I captured who the Cure are with this picture. When I showed it to Robert Smith and the band’s manager, they jumped up and down’

Metal Hammer

Hear Deftones frontman Chino Moreno’s remix of The Cure track Warsong

It’s taken from the transformative project Remixes Of A Lost World, out on June 13

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“A fabulous trip through all eight songs by 24 wonderful artists and remixers... way beyond anything I could have hoped for”: Robert Smith announces new Cure remix album

Mixes Of A Lost World is out on 13 June

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