tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87602403980688733552024-03-12T20:07:26.614-06:00Underneath the StarsRev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-69084203900891302172014-11-06T18:11:00.000-07:002014-11-06T19:00:14.780-07:00Introducing - Robert Skellington! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Bowing to great demand, the Nightmare shirts will now be available exclusively on Redbubble! I have renamed the series "Robert Skellington" and you'll notice they do not say "The Cure" in order to not infringe on their rights, and to keep this design in the "pop culture mashup" category. <br /><br />Redbubble will produce and handle the products and shipping, and this will make it much easier for you to get the perfect custom teeshirt or other items that you would like. <br />
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As of right now, there are four colors of the Classic style Nightmare shirts available, and one all new full color digital version. This new version has been created just for my Redbubble portfolio, and has never been offered before. The Classic designs have also been updated slightly. You can click on the images below to hit the product page and see what's offered, or just go to <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/halocure/portfolio" target="_blank">my main portfolio page</a>.<br />
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Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-36588854120827938982012-07-03T20:05:00.004-06:002012-08-14T01:39:54.191-06:00The Porl Thompson Auction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In late April of this year, it was announced that Omega Auctions in Manchester, England would be hosting an auction of items which were owned by Porl Thompson. A rock star garage sale, essentially.<br />
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I followed <a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2012/04/porl-thompson-auction.html">the progress of the announcements on Chain of Flowers</a> and decided to register for the auction, just in case. Like many people, I assumed that the items in the catalog would fetch hundreds to thousands of pounds each, but I wanted to be prepared, just in case there was something that was a bit more affordable.<br />
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On the emotional level, I was grieving the loss of Porl in the band, and in some sense trying to come to terms with the finality represented by the auction and by what was said in <a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2012/05/note-from-porl.html">the official statement</a>. It was a very strange mix of feelings, to be on the one hand very sad about it, and on the other, keenly anticipating the sale.
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On the day of the auction, I overslept! Upon awakening, though, my mind flashed to the thought to log on to the auction and so I was able to catch it from about just about halfway through.
After figuring out how to see the auction items and turn on the audio of the auctioneer, I watched with growing wonder as items went for shockingly small amounts.
I had only intended to bid on a couple of items, but I could not pass up the things that were selling for so little. This actually made me even sadder, that such historic things were on the block for what seemed like pennies.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-MU1-0Si2C_rJlMTFn-flb7udZ_OwCjF7_mb8T0CXEvsmhCeSqaUHTO5RqqHbb0GNP9uPHiqZEL9pxTcSvIq6hyt6QSmJ8JcdjvmfduumVbgcyebvHvioLzzCP6XTC-Gl49JEXcjauY/s1600/carnage_visors_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-MU1-0Si2C_rJlMTFn-flb7udZ_OwCjF7_mb8T0CXEvsmhCeSqaUHTO5RqqHbb0GNP9uPHiqZEL9pxTcSvIq6hyt6QSmJ8JcdjvmfduumVbgcyebvHvioLzzCP6XTC-Gl49JEXcjauY/s320/carnage_visors_web.jpg" width="320" /></a>The first thing that I put a bid on was lot #79. This was marked in the catalog as being ""THE CURE" FANZINE & POSTER SLEEVE FOR "THE WALK" - official fanzine, signed by Porl. Some markings to front and back cover. Also included is a poster sleeve for 1983 single "The Walk"."<br />
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In reality, the smaller item is the <a href="http://www.picturesofyou.us/tourprograms/tp-81-cv-ric.htm">tour book from the 1981 Faith / Carnage Visors tour</a>, and is extremely rare to see for sale. The other item was the insert from the 7" single for The Walk, and is also quite hard to find in any condition. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8VLcdDrrgwDwgU86VLUg-jN9xYABOHbNGf6t0je1QfZVQTAeytz_qWGQnCdnwCIidy_12fncT1zXjc5z2ONYuXlLsvSAQBNmEZIxMXgs2pNo4HD71FlZZYSJ5MI5BL9BD6yE93pPTVw/s1600/thewalk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8VLcdDrrgwDwgU86VLUg-jN9xYABOHbNGf6t0je1QfZVQTAeytz_qWGQnCdnwCIidy_12fncT1zXjc5z2ONYuXlLsvSAQBNmEZIxMXgs2pNo4HD71FlZZYSJ5MI5BL9BD6yE93pPTVw/s320/thewalk.jpg" width="320" /></a>This item is very interesting for any Cure historian. Here is an excerpt from the excellent website -<a href="http://www.impressionofsounds.com/coverart.html"> Impression of Sounds</a> about this poster: <i>"The Walk was an important
step as it marked the birth of Parched Art (Porl & Andy's design
company) and the beginning of the work on customised alphabets and type
logos for the name "The Cure". That particular one was based on a
modified lo<span class="text_exposed_show">wer case helvetica that had
been applied with a paintbrush. The original photograph was then
hand-tinted by Porl. "</span></i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCi-DXtDUWjbC9CHKm74zYGQF4k8iJCk5nBTgSnjy9roBrfKga2PjiPgoXgCea0Yh1f7l7dmLRf9tiju-91qjSCwmdGE4KItG4aC0c5uKDi_Netcs8_5KeoaKNDxoU8O5N8ehNyq8QrSE/s1600/caterpillar1_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCi-DXtDUWjbC9CHKm74zYGQF4k8iJCk5nBTgSnjy9roBrfKga2PjiPgoXgCea0Yh1f7l7dmLRf9tiju-91qjSCwmdGE4KItG4aC0c5uKDi_Netcs8_5KeoaKNDxoU8O5N8ehNyq8QrSE/s320/caterpillar1_web.jpg" width="320" /></a>The second thing I bid on was Lot #81, a 7" picture disc of "The Caterpillar", although this is an easier item to find, it is still somewhat rare to see for sale.<br />
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"THE CATERPILLAR" RARE LIMITED EDITION 7" SINGLE PICTURE DISC - rare picture disc for 1984 single "The Caterpillar" in clear sleeve (Cat: FICSP20). Condition: Excellent.<br />
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I didn't have a copy of this already, as my vinyl collection is still just in it's infancy, so being able to one one that was previously owned by Porl was a huge draw towards getting it.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid4jx490yXlWM_g0xE13-5qSr9WNS7_lt5X_Qg0m_M1QSYqrp462hc2p24yaIVBJ5WrZqgjDJ8lEykdVlLG6DFEbbumoGUgoKy40zF6xVowKkoWNoKBoAqaycs4WOVTgUo52Fc9bgSQZE/s1600/photo_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid4jx490yXlWM_g0xE13-5qSr9WNS7_lt5X_Qg0m_M1QSYqrp462hc2p24yaIVBJ5WrZqgjDJ8lEykdVlLG6DFEbbumoGUgoKy40zF6xVowKkoWNoKBoAqaycs4WOVTgUo52Fc9bgSQZE/s320/photo_web.jpg" width="320" /></a>Next up was Lot #90, an original photograph of Porl from the Inbetween Days video shoot. Having a soft spot for anything from "Head On The Door", this was a no-brainer.<br />
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ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF PORL FROM THE SHOOT FOR "IN BETWEEN DAYS" - approx 12" x 10", this photo of Porl is from the shoot for the video for 1985 single "In Between Days". The band were wearing fluorescent makeup and were filmed under black ultraviolet light.<br />
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I was always interested in owning an original Porl artwork, so this auction provided a good way to accomplish that!<br />
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By this time I was getting a little too close to my self-imposed budget, and I was beginning to worry that I would not be able to get the item that I most wanted!! I stopped bidding until finally Lot #106 came under the hammer. I was completely on edge, and when the hammer finally fell for the last time, I had come close to letting it go!!<br />
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HAND PRINT WITH CURE LOGO - The symbol within the hand print is an early "Cure" logo. It was designed by Porl following a challenge being set by Robert Smith for him to design a logo whereby "The Cure" could be formed using the reproduction of a single symbol. The design was created by covering his hand in ink, and then pressing it onto the page. </div>
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As many Cure fans know, this hand print was an integral part of the 1992 "Wish" album artworks. The "C" was the basis for the "Wish" logo and the hand print itself was featured on stickers, tee shirts, in the tour book and appeared on many items of this era.<br />
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Needless to say, I was beyond thrilled to be able to have this incredible piece of Cure memorabilia.<br />
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These are not the most expensive or amazingly rare items from the collection to be sure! However, each one represents a powerful part of the mystique and artistry that surrounds all things Cure. Beyond the fact that he is a talented guitarist, Porl is a unique and sensitive visual artist whose aesthetic has informed the band's image for decades. Regardless of his standing in the band now or in the past, he was a huge part of what made them special, and I feel a bit awed to have these items in my possession. Indeed, I even feel a bit like a museum curator whose mission is to preserve these items for future generations, and eventually, perhaps there will someday be an official Cure museum where fans can enjoy seeing things like this in person.<br />
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I am also very glad to know that some of the more expensive and historic items also went to fellow fans who will appreciate and keep them safe!!<br />
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All of the pieces have now been framed, and the two final items listed here were professionally framed in order to preserve and enhance them properly. The handprint was attached to acid-free Japanese rice paper in a non-destructive fashion so that it could be re-framed as needed without damaging the item. The canvas was framed with a photograph of the back mounted underneath it and so that the sides could be viewed.<br />
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Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-11172082968524111212011-12-10T11:33:00.011-07:002011-12-10T12:25:54.522-07:00Other Voices - Cure Members' Copies Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I'm very pleased to let everyone know that copies of the Other Voices books have been given to all of the currently active members of The Cure and also to original member Laurence (Lol) Tolhurst. I would love to give a copy to Porl (whose status with the band is unknown?) and to the ex-Cure members, so that's going to be a future part of this project.Thanks immensely once again to all the awesome contributors to the book, you really helped make it into an outstanding "thank you" letter to the band. <br />
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I found it to be highly appropriate and even somewhat poetic that the copies were given to the guys during the Reflections shows celebrating their first three albums, given that the original book was given to Robert shortly before the 30th Anniversary date of the release of Three Imaginary Boys. <br />
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And for those of you wondering, YES I did get to ask Robert about getting the original copy of the book, when we met him in Sydney! (He got it.)<br />
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Without further ado, here are the photos of the book being given to the various members! <br />
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In Sydney Australia, May 31, 2011 - just prior to the first Reflections show. With me are April (Lostwishes) and Chris (Curejunkie), both contributors to the book, and Paivi (Spiggy): <br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't manage to get a pic of Simon with his book, but he DID get it at this time! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Robert already has the original, but we took a pic with him anyway, who wouldn't? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below, Jason gets his copy of the book at the third night of Reflections in LA on Nov. 23rd, 2011: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><hr /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are the dedications written in the front of each book. I did one similar in Jason's book but did not have time to photograph it, sorry! Also there was a "This copy provided by:" blurb in the back of each one listing all of the wonderful, generous people who made donations so that I could buy the books for the band members. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Also as a side note to Jason, I'm so sorry we weren't able to give you your copy in Oz, and I apologize if you felt left out. The problem was solely economic, as the books are $100 each, I just didn't have enough money to buy four copies prior to the Reflections shows. So since it was Simon's birthday, and I didn't know if I'd see Roger and Lol again, I had a hard decision to make about the three books that I brought. I hope you weren't too upset! Much love and respect to you!<br />
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</div>Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-27774032435079676602011-03-17T00:17:00.003-06:002011-03-17T02:31:47.197-06:00Tim Burton & the Nightmare Before Curemas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">True confession time: I have NO IDEA why I didn't blog the heck out of this when it happened. I'll blame it on the migraines. Or the summer heat (back in June 2010, which was like, NINE months ago). Whatever. In fact it only occurred to me to put it down tonight! I supposed it had to gestate or something.<br />
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So, you all know and love the story of the Nightmare Before Curemas shirt, right? How I made the design and then miraculously ended up being able to give them to the band, and then getting an awesome signed one in return? (Thank you forever and ever KU!) No? If you missed out you can read about it <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/very-merry-curemas.html">here</a>.<br />
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Did you know that Tim Burton has ALSO seen and signed a Nightmare Before Curemas shirt? True story. But, alas, it didn't happen to me, it happened to Fuji! One fine day late last June, I got a little notice on my phone that I had been tagged in a photo.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">THIS Photo, to be specific: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtVWWmMmzIRM_w9lK1_YboQ8SZFktVgMmcviF4Hq1mPpYC4Nizd92gXC7yAz5z2vbVZKsdpcvbRy_uPDsSe4cHqU56JzQW2-gmNBoD-tyNdzo4Zafpi9qdG9bqNcAVuYeKqlzgQCG-4KY/s1600/36891_403157257927_517182927_4297341_5328333_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtVWWmMmzIRM_w9lK1_YboQ8SZFktVgMmcviF4Hq1mPpYC4Nizd92gXC7yAz5z2vbVZKsdpcvbRy_uPDsSe4cHqU56JzQW2-gmNBoD-tyNdzo4Zafpi9qdG9bqNcAVuYeKqlzgQCG-4KY/s1600/36891_403157257927_517182927_4297341_5328333_n.jpg" /></a></div><br />
The photo of course is Fuji's Nightmare Before Curemas teeshirt (taken while he was wearing it), with Mr. Burton's signature right smack there in the middle. You see, Fuji, being an Australian and living in Melbourne, "the best city in the world" was able to go to the grand opening of Tim Burton's exhibit which was at that the ACMI in Melbourne. At one point, there was a red carpet of sorts, and the fans (including Fuji, of course), were lined up along the sides. When Tim Burton walked by, he happened to notice Fuji standing there, and walked over to him and said "That's a cool shirt!" to which Fuji could only reply "God Bless Robert Smith".<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A few days after this post, a video of the moment surfaced (it's right at the beginning here) where you can actually HEAR Tim Burton and Fuji both, and you can see Tim walk over to the side line where he signs Fuji's chest. A big moment for me, but obviously, a much much bigger moment for Fuji since he was the one getting the very up close and personal autograph. </div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The best part about this story is that this was the SECOND time that Fuji had gotten an autograph on his chest while wearing a teeshirt that I made! The first time was in April of 2009, when he met Simon Gallup in Las Vegas and got his signature on the "Simon Gallup Kicks Ass" South Park style shirt. Both photos were also taken by Brad, so I am guessing that this is the magic combination for Fuji to meet celebrities. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Thanks again Fuji, for sharing some of the blessed life that you lead, and for being a standout guy wherever you go. Happy Birthday again! </div>Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-50682482973142335742010-04-22T13:13:00.002-06:002010-05-14T18:28:42.429-06:00The Cure Kick Ass Stickers!Do the Cure Kick ASS? Yes, yes they do. <br />
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Just in time for Robert's birthday<br />
Just in time for the 201st episode of South Park (with Robert Smith!)<br />
Just in time to rock your socks off<br />
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Now you can get a limited edition high quality gloss vinyl sticker of my own personal homage to The Cure and Robert Smith's appearance on South Park. This design is my own drawing of the Cure as they would appear as South Park characters. <br />
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Look closely and you'll see just how finely detailed this drawing is, from the design on Porl's guitar to the stickers on Robert's guitar, to Simon's forearm tattoo, this artwork was drawn by a true Cure fan. The sticker is 3" x 4" and was created with silkscreen ink on a very high quality UV laminated outdoor glossy vinyl so it will live happily for years on your laptop, car or anywhere else you'd like it to be. You can see the difference in ink thickness on the photos below, these suckers will last and last without fading. Since I want these to last on MY car, I made sure to create only the best so that they will last for you too!<br />
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Plus, this sticker comes with a small "cell phone size 1" square" bonus sticker featuring my "Robert is my Homeboy" design! <br />
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The stickers are 3.99 each and shipping in the USA is only .75. Shipping internationally is 1.50. These prices are for up to 2 stickers, if you want more than this, please email me at <a href="mailto:curehalo@gmail.com">curehalo@gmail.com</a> and I can give you the pricing. <br />
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Something I didn't mention in my last blog post, which some may not know, was that one of the reasons for the high anticipation regarding these shows was that they were immediately before Robert Smith's 50th birthday on April 21st, 2009 and just weeks before the 30th Anniversary of the official release of The Cure's first album, Three Imaginary Boys on May 8, 1979. There was a semi-coordinated effort to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=4DGmSAvSz4I&feature=channel">sing "Happy Birthday" to Robert at the Pearl</a>, but with the sudden end of the show, the celebratory mood had been severely dampened. So when the sun rose on the day of the Coachella show, we literally didn't know what would happen!<br />
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Some of the most die-hard among us had already <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25241&id=1217105580#!/photo.php?pid=450390&id=1217105580">staked their claim front and center</a> and were sweltering through the hot April day in extreme Southern California in order to be close to The Cure during their set. We had a leisurely breakfast in Las Vegas and then drove through the very scenic and deserted <a href="http://www.nps.gov/moja/">Mojave National Preserve</a> and the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/jotr/">Joshua Tree National Park</a> on our way down to Indio.<br />
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We arrived at Coachella and found parking, bought teeshirts, found <a href="http://www.eugelee.com/">a few</a> of our <a href="http://www.picturesofyou.us/">Cure friends</a> and got ready for the show! We did not have much trouble getting up close to the stage as people were leaving throughout the set and we ended up about 4 rows back from the front on Porl's side of the stage as we had been at the Pearl.<br />
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Hearing the waves break and roll into "Underneath the Stars" while actually out under the stars again was a huge treat, and for the most part the set was a repeat of the show at the Pearl. Did anyone else notice the inclusion of Wrong Number where the songs had been messed up at the Pearl? We thought it was a nice little insider joke from the band.<br />
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Of course, no mention of The Cure's set at Coachella would be complete without telling the story of the end. While we were all enjoying the show, the topic of the encores was pretty fraught with anticipation, since they had been interrupted mid-encore two nights before at the Pearl. Some sharp-eyed fans noted how swollen Robert Smith's right hand was, but nobody knew what had happened at the Pearl, or what was going to happen at Coachella. All bets were off. So as the main set finished and the guys launched into the same set of encores as at the Pearl, we were all holding our breath. Would we finally get to see the show finished with "Faith"?<br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The anticipation levels were sky-high. The band seemed to be in a very good mood, so we thought it seemed like a good omen. However, we were all aware that the curfew for Sunday night was midnight, and it was rapidly approaching. So when the first encore started, we were happy and relieved, it was happening! We swayed and sighed and closed our eyes to listen to "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" and watched in awe as Robert made his guitar scream through "The Kiss", despite a visible injury. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Then, a pause, holding our breaths again. It was now several minutes past curfew. A collective sigh of relief came when "At Night" began, and The Cure worked their way through the "Seventeen Seconds" encore. We cheered and laughed and bounced our way through "M" and "Play For Today" and clapped at all the right moments during "A Forest". </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Once more came the tension, even greater now. The clock was ticking, and <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/04/coachella-paul-mccartney-the-cure-ignore-curfews-the-cost-.html">every minute past midnight would cost the organizers money</a>. Would they come back? Uncertainty reigned and we stood there craning our necks toward the stage as some discussions took place between small knots of people to the right of the stage. This was the moment that we missed at the Pearl. No third encore, no Faith. Suddenly, the band launched into "Three Imaginary Boys" and the crowd exploded in cheers. Without pausing, they ripped through "Fire in Cairo" and we cheered louder and longer. Then the familiar melody of "Boys Don't Cry" came, and we danced harder. Suddenly the large video monitors and speakers on the sides of the stage went black. The crowed booed loudly, but the Cure still played on! Thousands of people sang along to the end of the song and they jumped right into "Jumping Someone Else's Train". Unfortunately, fewer people knew the words to this, so they listened to what they could hear coming from the stage monitors. The song ended, and there was hesitation on stage, but Robert was not to be stopped! He got Jason started on the drums and walked to the front of the stage, encouraging the crowd to sing along. Finally, he gave up and dropped his guitar into the lap of someone sitting at the front of the pit. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Personally, I've never heard of any show where the Cure was cut off like that as a headliner, ever. Even during the infamous <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GquE0zt47m4">"F*(& Robert Palmer"</a> video they did not get the plug pulled like this. Does anyone out there know if this was the first time? I'd love to hear about it if they were. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The fact that they tried so hard to give us the encores was incredible, and for weeks afterward I could only describe it with one word. EPIC. When I got back to Utah early on Tuesday morning the 21st of April 2009, it was Robert Smith's 50th birthday that day, and a Belgian radio station was doing a special show about it. Having a connection to a Cure fan that had submitted a page for the 30th Anniversary book, <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/04/studio-brussel-interviews.html">I was interviewed for the radio show</a> on that day just as I had awoken from a very short sleep after a very long weekend, and all I could say about it was EPIC. And it was. I'm glad I got to see it, and I know a lot of people who wish they had. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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Here's a set of about nine hundred pics of that night from various peeps on Flickr:<br />
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Finally happy birthday to Ms. Plainsong who got this show for her birthday present last year!!Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-66790277888826630962010-04-16T15:59:00.000-06:002010-04-16T15:59:13.519-06:00Happy Pearlaversary!One year ago today, the Cure peeps convened at the Rio in Las Vegas for a party of f*(&1#% EPIC proportions.<br />
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And finally, the Cure went onstage. There are about six hundred photos of that so I'm just gonna do a slideshow here:<br />
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And there was much anticipation regarding <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-30th-anniversary-book.html">a certain book about the 30th Anniversary being given to Robert</a>, (alas!) but the show ended early, to<a href="http://www.chainofflowers.com/april1709.html"> much despair and speculation</a>.<br />
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Finally, I took a crapload of video that night, and so did a lot of other people. Start watching here:<br />
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I love you, my Cure peeps!Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-55038498320299674662009-12-10T16:13:00.006-07:002009-12-13T20:59:06.853-07:00Ode to the Troubadour<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/3111275141_25eff9de54.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 324px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/3111275141_25eff9de54.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div><b>The Cure's Myspace Secret Show at the Troubadour</b> on Saturday, Dec. 13th, 2008 is a day that will live forever for those of us lucky enough to be there! I personally consider it to be one of my Cure miracles, <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-anuus-mirabilis.html">of which there were many in 2008</a>, but this show shares the top miracle slot only with my experience of <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/06/meeting-cure.html">meeting the Cure in person</a> for the first time.<br /><br />Looking back, it's hard to believe that a year has passed since this fateful weekend. As so many of our lives have entwined with this show, I have created this blog post as a way to collect everything that I could find or think of to post about it, so that we can keep all of this info in one place. If I'm missing anything, please let me know and I'll be happy to add it here.<br /><br />I also want to say again that I am eternally grateful to the wonderful Cure fans that I met there in Los Angeles and for those of you from the CoF boards that I had the opportunity to meet before that weekend. You all are the reason that this will be my number one show ever, from the support that we offered each other to the memories we shared, I will cherish all of you as my Cure family. The only thing that could make experiencing a gig like this even better is the knowledge that you have good friends to talk about it with for the rest of your lives.<br /><br />Without further ado, here is my little digital shrine to the Troubadour show.<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3112847464/" title="Myspace Secret Show @ the Troubadour by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/3112847464_11270cbd50.jpg" alt="Myspace Secret Show @ the Troubadour" height="333" width="500" /></a><br /></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=59213809&blogID=456082970">Original Myspace Secret Shows Announcement</a></div> </div><div><div><br /></div><div><b>Audio Downloads</b></div><div><br />BC recording in <a href="http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=227705">24 bit</a> or <a href="http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=227708">16 bit</a></div><div>Official Release of <a href="http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.singleplaylist&friendid=4118245">The Cure's Secret Show on Myspace </a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>My blog posts about the show</b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/curemas-miracle-part-3.html">A Curemas Miracle</a><br /><a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/1213-dream-evening-with-cure.html">12:13 Dream - An Evening with The Cure</a></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><b>Other blogs / posts about the show </b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://batcavers.blogspot.com/2008/12/lets-go-to-bed.html">We only go out at night</a> / <a href="http://cottonphotos.blogspot.com/2008/12/five-nights-five-shows-15-miles.html">Cotton</a> (kittencult) / <a href="http://vela.livejournal.com/24714.html">Ramble Ramble!<br /></a></div><div><a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainofFlowers/dec1308.html#reviews">COF Reviewers</a> / <a href="http://cerebralcure.blogspot.com/2008/12/when-it-comes-to-cure-i-am-indeed.html">Curiouser and Curiouser</a> / <a href="http://www.impressionofsounds.com/live131208.htm">Impression of Sounds</a> (graphic)</div><div><a href="http://www.thecure.com/user/blog/default.aspx?mjid=6218&mid=5415006">minisuperjennifer</a> / <a href="http://www.studioglyphic.com/blog/2008/12/14/cure-show/">Studio Glyphic</a> / <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/12/cure-conquer-tr.html">LA Times</a> / <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2008/12/15/los-angeles-gets-the-cure/">Reuters</a> / <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/live-in-la/if-youre-anything-like-the/index.php">LA Weekly</a> </div><div> <a href="http://gloriahawa.tumblr.com/post/64775658/hello-image">Glossolalia</a> / <a href="http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=61&p=5470">NME</a> / <a href="http://www.clashmusic.com/news/the-cure-play-secret-show">Clash Music</a> / <a href="http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=738982">Absolute Punk</a> (forum post) </div><div><a href="http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/2008-12-13.php">Cure Concerts Guide</a> / <a href="http://www.foreverdrowning.net/setlist.php?date=1297">Boys are Forever Drowning... listing</a></div><div><a href="http://hangout.altsounds.com/news/104073-the-cure-performs-secret-show-concert-for-fans-at-the-troubadour-club-in-la.html">Alt Sounds</a> / <a href="http://www.buzznet.com/cp/best-of-2008/best-live-shows-2008-j3512061/">Buzznet - Best live shows of 2008</a> / <a href="http://bernardalbrecht.xanga.com/">Bernard Albrecht</a></div><div><a href="http://forums.comingsoon.net/showthread.php?p=2525396">Comingsoon.net</a> (forum post, pics) / <a href="http://www.coachella.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24098">Coachella</a> (forum post, lots of pics)<br /><br /><a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2008/12/gathering-near-troubadour.html?commentPage=5"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CoF Live Show Commentary </span></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><b>Articles about the show</b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.pluginmusic.com/news/archive.php?id=4494">Plug In Music</a> / <a href="http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013424120">All Headline News</a> / <a href="http://www.livedaily.com/blog/3047.html">Live Daily</a> / <a href="http://www.antimusic.com/news/08/dec/16The_Cure_Played_Secret_Show_In_LA.shtml">AntiMusic</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Articles about the Live Album Release<br /><br /></b></div><div><a href="http://webinfront.net/?p=1844">Web In Front - The Cure Live at the Troubadour</a> (podcast)</div><div><a href="http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=8130">Undercover</a> / <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/35149-the-cure-stream-concert-on-myspace/">Pitchfork</a></div><div><br /><div><b>Video<br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXP1SmlVT4A">Underneath The Stars</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSg0YcoJjcA">Pictures of You 1</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahSqsMUkhi0">Pictures of You 2</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSg0YcoJjcA"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCkO__LGM-s">Lullaby Part 1</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohxwHSL_IJ0">Part 2</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohxwHSL_IJ0"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRP31ODrNIM">alt.end</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRP31ODrNIM"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ1tKVaWg4w">Reasons Why</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ogFwtn1FrI">Reasons Why (short)</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vdDnb1I68o">The Walk 1</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Pi2AmkZbk">The Walk 2</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTSU-a_T4WA">Lovesong</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTSU-a_T4WA"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2au7ZHeMwc4">Real Snow White</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2au7ZHeMwc4"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-aR84p0HP0">Hungry Ghost</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48UGyeZ7f4Y">Andy rocks out to Wrong Number</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQcmUM9Cg_Y">Sleep When I'm Dead</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQcmUM9Cg_Y"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dgqdJu3WS4">Push Part 1</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2P_p-pyb4">Part 2</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2P_p-pyb4"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-W1T_qLZy4">Inbetween Days</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-W1T_qLZy4"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvKVIT3SzUE">One Hundred Years</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag1GTU1jd0Q">Freakshow 1</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqoMEEGEwLk">Freakshow 2</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2_1E_5PF0I&feature=related">Freakshow 3</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw9plLJKkLo">Let's Go To Bed</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8aQ9aRxt24">Close To Me 1</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5jOyxFyRGY">Close To Me 2</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEfX38aiPwQ">Close to Me 3</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SD9XWV1ROk">Why Can't I Be You 1</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9_nCIRfYbg">Why Can't I Be You 2</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpyfdhI47M4">A Forest</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkDryrZXwkg">Boys Don't Cry 1</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMbgYh5o3m0">Boys Don't Cry 2</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeuw0MglGuI">Jumping Someone Else's Train</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ4uQCcO1vI">Grinding Halt</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZroT88SXTQ">10:15 Saturday Night</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9uLgW6Mwo0">Killing An Arab</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR9hx7WiPGA">Killing An Arab 2</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg7vNb9k9RM">Fans in the alley at the Troubadour</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZLlnyGODic">The Cure leave the Troubadour</a> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Youtube accounts with Troubadour Videos </b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/imapixie1">imapixie1</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LyndseyLA">Lyndsey LA</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mmmmpopmuzik">mmmmpopmuzik</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=issuesmg">issuesmg</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ThatCrazyCureGirl">ThatCrazyCureGirl</a> / <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/caterpillargrrl">caterpillargrrl</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/halocure">HaloCure</a> (after the concert)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Photos</b></div><div><br />My pics - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157612275254554/">Troubadour</a> / <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157611152298895/">Curemas Weekend</a> (all)</div><div><a href="http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=44431422&imageID=45565869#a=0&i=45565860">MySpace Secret Shows</a> / <a href="http://day19.com/text/?p=260">Day 19</a> / <a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/84028267?axd=DetailPaging.Generic%7C1&axs=0%7C84028267%2c84028268%2c84028269%2c84028264%2c84028265%2c84028266%2c84028270%2c84028277%2c84028278%2c84028279%2c84028273%2c84028275%2c84028276%2c84028252%2c84028253%2c84028254%2c84028244%2c84028248%2c84028250%2c84028255%2c84028260%2c84028261%2c84028263%2c84028256%2c84028258%2c84028259%2c84028281%2c84028368%2c84028370%2c84028380%2c84028350%2c84028363%2c84028367%2c84028381%2c84028406%2c84028419%2c84028781%2c84028390%2c84028392%2c84028397%2c84028320%2c84028324%2c84028327%2c84028283%2c84028284%2c84028311%2c84028330%2c84028342%2c84028343%2c84028345%2c84028333%2c84028335%2c84028338%7C0&mode=c">Getty Images</a> / <a href="http://www.pbase.com/craigparker/secret_show_at_the_troubadour">COF</a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyreiter/sets/72157611314793266/">KelBel</a> / <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32226747@N06/sets/72157611170720899/">Myspace Secret Shows on Flickr</a> / <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/she_said_boom/sets/72157616060145857/">Shesaidboom</a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusdarling/sets/72157594191152563/">marcusdarling</a> (crowd photos only) /<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/phot0matt/3105634935/">phot0matt</a> (wristbands)<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/glyphic/3106714654/">glyphic</a> / <a href="http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=22490803&albumId=2489865">Traci</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.troubadour.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Troubadour</span></a><br /><br />It goes without saying that this legendary club would be the perfect setting for this secret show. It seems that are pretty proud of this event as well, and have updated <a href="http://www.troubadour.com/history.php">their History page</a> on their website to include The Cure's set.<br /><br />For those who are reading this who are unaware of the history of the Troubadour, this small unassuming club in West Hollywood, California has been around since 1957 and has helped to launch some of modern music's biggest, most influential and best-known acts. Read that history page linked above for the whole scoop.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CoF Peeps who went to the Troubadour show</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(I'm sorry if I forgot anyone, I don't know every CoF peep,<br />so please let me know if I missed your name and I'll be glad to add you in here!)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rev. / Sean / Sugargirl / CrowbiWan / AutumnJade / Andythecurefan</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clockwise Cat / curejunkie / Sara B / Brandon / Steph / Debi / JeffLove</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Laura / ThatCrazyCureGirl / Xyla / Maggie</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Celebrities at the show</b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kikidunst/3117881744/in/photostream/">Kirsten Dunst</a> / <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32226747@N06/3107385120/">Gerard Way</a> / <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32226747@N06/3106553549/in/photostream/">Trey Parker</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">"Disintegration is the best album ever!"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32226747@N06/3106550843/">Brent Bolthouse</a> / <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32226747@N06/3106550843/">Jared Leto</a> / <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32226747@N06/3106549873/in/set-72157611170720899/">Tom Anderson / Chris DeWolfe</a> / <a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/84028775/Getty-Images-Entertainment">Eliza Dushku</a></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32226747@N06/3107382398/in/set-72157611170720899/">Nick Wheeler / Tyson Ritter</a> / <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32226747@N06/3107383286/in/set-72157611170720899/">Brandon Flowers / Ronnie Vannucci</a></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32226747@N06/3107384336/in/set-72157611170720899/">Hayley Williams / Chad Gilbert</a> / <a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/84028817/Getty-Images-Entertainment">Lukas Haas</a> / Laurence Tolhurst</div><div>Leonardo DiCaprio / Ryan Gosling / Davey Havok (spotted, no photos found)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paparazzi / Photographers </span><br /><br /><a href="http://day19.com/text/?p=260">Day 19</a> / <a href="http://www.frankmicelotta.com/">Frank Micelotta</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Concert Poster</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJy7BxZiHCkih6lsin6Pz4Zld0fGTO6pQiZFWJ7Fp2MzKuGS_Iv6mb3ONvuCRVtd98trFQvGeKFKUwHlkXW5-ytcXfB_xQaPW_QVrSg4sl4qC_CirVLZu0IdhgXHU2Ec0C3J7inEPgo-8/s1600-h/troubadour1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 297px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJy7BxZiHCkih6lsin6Pz4Zld0fGTO6pQiZFWJ7Fp2MzKuGS_Iv6mb3ONvuCRVtd98trFQvGeKFKUwHlkXW5-ytcXfB_xQaPW_QVrSg4sl4qC_CirVLZu0IdhgXHU2Ec0C3J7inEPgo-8/s400/troubadour1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411183871871011810" border="0" /></a><br />Series of 450 (I have #278) - 3 color on 100# Natural paper<br />Created by <a href="http://www.vahallastudios.com/">Vahalla Studios - http://www.vahallastudios.com/</a><br /><br />Looks like you can <a href="http://www.vahallastudios.com/store/detail/cure-lightbulb/">buy one at their site</a> too! The poster artist has told me that the posters that they have for sale on their are the artist proofs that they received from Myspace. They are part of the same series as the ones given away at the show, but they are labeled with "AP" instead of being numbered as part of the 450. They were printed during the same run as the ones given out.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">12:08 Dream Teeshirts</span><br /><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2780/4173984670_9e7fb1c1bf_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 240px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2780/4173984670_9e7fb1c1bf_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4173985030_3a7810af3d_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 240px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4173985030_3a7810af3d_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Available at the Troubadour event as well as at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas show the next day, 12/14. You can see more detailed photos of the shirts in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157612275254554/">my Flickr set here.</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Event Staff Teeshirts</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif4vZWoH5pAQNPeQdPYTkbDWOoZxMlbFbiR8Whjshqmbhncn3BATRa-ZXW3Cf5Wo8t-TPhQwPI6bGvI-3A1N2M_GBBMwUWmlbZL-kkRqZwI2YmnDfaVGS-ryNmaDJP9PUQEzbDoNLmjNI/s1600-h/teesh.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif4vZWoH5pAQNPeQdPYTkbDWOoZxMlbFbiR8Whjshqmbhncn3BATRa-ZXW3Cf5Wo8t-TPhQwPI6bGvI-3A1N2M_GBBMwUWmlbZL-kkRqZwI2YmnDfaVGS-ryNmaDJP9PUQEzbDoNLmjNI/s320/teesh.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411188063458901938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">(Photo courtesy of and thanks to </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyreiter/3112733978/in/set-72157611314793266/">Kelly R. Photography</a><span style="font-style: italic;">)</span><br /></div><br />Teeshirts with the poster lightbulb on the front and "12:13 Dream, an evening with The Cure" printed on the back were given to the staff at the event as well as to a very FEW LUCKY fans! It has been reported through the grapevine that only about 50 of these teeshirts were printed. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;">If anyone has one of these they would like to sell, please contact me as I am an avid teeshirt collector! :D </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Swag Bag</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4173229395_8f77e048c5_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 240px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4173229395_8f77e048c5_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/4173985656_5a87dafde9_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 224px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/4173985656_5a87dafde9_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Given away after the concert, these bags mostly contained promotional items for the Toyota Matrix, one of the show's sponsors, a magazine and CD from Filter and a new copy of The Cure's 4:13 Dream CD which had a small hole drilled in one corner to disable retail selling of the CD. You can see more detailed photos of the swag bag contents in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157612275254554/">my Flickr set here.</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Wristband</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/3119993198_f153a71757.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/3119993198_f153a71757.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />A beautiful sparkly metallic glitter red with The Cure and Myspace logos printed on it in white. Word of mouth reports estimated between 130-150 wristbands given out, the exact number is not confirmed. Once we received the wristband, we were told to scatter and not come back until 7 pm or our wristband would be cut off <span style="font-style: italic;">(said menacingly by a large man bearing scissors)</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div></div>Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-46484591553759463332009-10-20T00:13:00.010-06:002009-10-20T02:34:50.781-06:00The Cure for Halloween<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlR2A1sFDB78SM-dO_EMiZ6l9QcrQgjNOKYGT3WuKA6wZsIXBTqF8q6PflhKigrsSz4a6mvzLq7BWZWBrQOaJjcvPrxfJqZ28WC_aiTOpUyPV6YPoYlaypZXKb2H23RQ2GzbyWHaWuMs4/s1600-h/cure.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlR2A1sFDB78SM-dO_EMiZ6l9QcrQgjNOKYGT3WuKA6wZsIXBTqF8q6PflhKigrsSz4a6mvzLq7BWZWBrQOaJjcvPrxfJqZ28WC_aiTOpUyPV6YPoYlaypZXKb2H23RQ2GzbyWHaWuMs4/s320/cure.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394593866400155618" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span>This time of year is a favorite season for many Cure fans in the Northern Hemisphere as the weather begins to evoke some of our favorite Cure songs. The trees lose their leaves and the earth begins to chill, eerie mists fill the air and the sun hides behind a low, gray blanket of clouds. Beginning with the early brooding intensity of the first dark trilogy of Faith, Seventeen Seconds and Pornography, the Cure know how to evoke the emotions that come to us at of the onset of fall and early winter, and have captured some of the darkest nightmares of our psyches in musical format.</div><br />Since the atmosphere around Halloween is a perfect match for this music, I have brought together 31 of my favorite songs which speak to me of all of those haunted memories. This collection is naturally heavy on that early dark trilogy, however not all Cure albums are represented. There's not much Halloween feeling on <i>Wish</i>, for instance!<br /><br />I have tried to stay true to the emotions that are with us the most at this time of year, choosing songs that speak of terrors, of blood, fear, despair, lust, nightmares and monsters. Death and decay are also popular themes in these choices, as are the shadowy figures of ghosts, spirits and yes, even the spider-man.<br /><br />Most of all, these songs speak to me of the lonely journey of the soul through the dark night of the year. When the cold begins to surround us, it is a natural response to turn our minds inward, and begin to look closely at the things which frighten us the most, so that they will lose their power over us.<br /><br />I hope you will enjoy this playlist and please let me know what you think! What songs would you choose besides these ones? What are your top 31 Halloween Cure songs? 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Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-79213714552690249602009-10-09T16:13:00.007-06:002009-10-09T19:16:47.889-06:00A Cure Fan Wedding, Part 1This is the story of a friendship, and how it's grown throughout the years, and how that friendship would have been impossible without the Cure. It's also the story of one awesome Cure fan's wedding for those that know and love him and weren't able to be there.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the beginning...</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3616/3465279790_308e43979f.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3616/3465279790_308e43979f.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The three Cure-sketeers<br /></div><br />So, for many years I was a hardcore Cure fan, but didn't really know any others (with the exception of my wonderful husband) who were really as into the band as I was. Somehow, even though I'd been online for years, it didn't occur to me to actually go looking for other people who shared that particular passion, even though I read <a href="http://www.chainofflowers.com/">Chain of Flowers</a> on a pretty regular basis.<br /><br />However, some time very early in 2002, I discovered there was a Yahoo group dedicated to the Cure (called Procure) and joined it, discovering that there were regular weekly chats, (This being the origin of <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/86350718_0df4146875_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 180px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/86350718_0df4146875_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Friday Night Cure Chat in my world) and started participating. Sometimes there were a lot of people in the room, but many nights, it seemed to come down to just three people, myself, Fuji and Miss Throwing Shapes.<br /><br />We chatted together nearly every week and began shaping this friendship bond between the three of us, which we all share very strongly to this day. In 2003, we were able to meet Shapes and her hubby at the Inland Invasion show in California, and in 2004, Fuji traveled to the US with his new girlfriend to attend several of the Curiosa tour shows, and this was our first introduction to Fuji in person, and thankfully not the last. For many years, these two people were my only "Cure peeps", but fortunately that changed last year, and how!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">More Cure peeps...</span><br /><br />Skipping ahead a few years, I've already blogged about how the <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-anuus-mirabilis.html">Chain of Flowers blog comments</a> became a way for fans to meet each other, and many friendships have been started because of that specific forum.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/3453575789_7be9580136_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 208px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/3453575789_7be9580136_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> It has been so great to have a huge crowd of Cure peeps to travel with and experience shows with, and it's been amazing to meet so many wonderful people over the past year or so. However we meet each other, it seems to me that Cure fans can form a special bond through the mutual appreciation of the music and meaning of The Cure, and this past year's experience is no exception. This bond was one of the ways that many of us were able to travel to the NME awards shows and the Las Vegas show, <span style="font-style: italic;">(photo right, CoF peeps at the Las Vegas sign in April 09)</span> through mutual assistance and sharing of resources such as accommodation and transportation. It's wonderful to be a part of such a caring network of people, and it was obvious throughout the many shows that we shared that generosity and love are the norm for most fans <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(which is part of why it shocks me so tremendously when I see people acting selfishly and aggressively at Cure concerts, it just doesn't jibe with my experiences)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fuji and the Bride</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3378/3308312737_19e392ca5c_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 184px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3378/3308312737_19e392ca5c_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>One of the most generous and dedicated fans that I've ever met is this Australian fellow called Fuji. Those who have met him even once are always in awe of his love for other fans and the way that he can instantly make anyone feel at home. He is the person who has said to me repeatedly "Cure fans are the best people in the world", and then been the one who embodied that quote the most. He is one of the best people in the world, and as one who is privileged to call him a friend, I was completely honored to be able to participate in one of the most important days of his life, his wedding, to his beautiful and serene Bride, Melanie. I can honestly say that she is the calmest, most unruffled bride in the whole world, and Fuji is a lucky man for attracting someone as beautiful in spirit as he is. It was also such a blast to get to spend a week with some of the other best people in the world, fans like Elise, Shapes and Wendy and Chanell.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Wedding Week</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2526/3957999021_d9392e4c9e_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 240px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2526/3957999021_d9392e4c9e_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>If you really know Fuji, then you know that AFL or "footy" is his other great love besides his Bride and his music, so miss Shapes decided to land a bit early to take in some of the festivities around the Grand Finals (the AFL super bowl) and I followed shortly after, landing on Saturday, the day of the big game. His lovely bride greeted me at the airport and then we went to a GF watching party where the Geelong Cats won against St. Kilda which apparently made Fuji happy (don't ask me, I'm not a sports fan!) but Shapes was rooting for St. Kilda so she wasn't as happy. Then we retired to the Fuji and the Bride's homestead for just a little bit of Trilogy played on his massive home theater (sorry Kel, it was only three songs!) and the ceremonial Yank Vegemite initiation, which I flunked but the lovely miss Shapes did not, and then off to bed we went.<br /><br />We woke up on a rainy wet and cold Sunday and went off to downtown Melbourne for a peek at the<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3958785960/in/set-72157622339645113/"> first Costco in the Southern Hemisphere</a> and then a tram tour of the city. Because the Costco had only been open for a month, there was <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3958019345/in/set-72157622339645113/">a huge line to get a membership</a>. <span>We also walked around downtown Melbourne a little but it was too cold, windy and wet to do much touristy stuff, so we left downtown and went to a grocery story to stock up for favorite foodstuffs and piles of Aussie candy and of course Tim Tams. So basically, on Sunday we shopped. Then finally on Sunday night, Elise joined us at the homestead so it was a big Cure fan slumber party for the rest of the week that only got bigger and bigger as time wore on.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3958853314/" title="Roomies by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2599/3958853314_d969c467d0.jpg" alt="Roomies" width="500" height="379" /></a><br /><br />On Monday, we went off to the excellent <a href="http://www.zoo.org.au/HealesvilleSanctuary">Healesville Animal Sanctuary</a> and drove through some of the most beautiful rolling green hills that you can imagine to get there. Healesville is an amazing place and we were very lucky to get to see some amazing animals here. In particular we were blessed with a visit to the koalas enclosure where we got to see a baby koala and his mother interact and feed together. This video is from Fuji's camera.<br /><br /><object width="500" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kc7h1aEz3Ow&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kc7h1aEz3Ow&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="315"></embed><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kc7h1aEz3Ow&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kc7h1aEz3Ow&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kc7h1aEz3Ow&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kc7h1aEz3Ow&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kc7h1aEz3Ow&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"></a></object><br /><br />Following the sanctuary, we went to a local winery for some wine and cheese and then finally a drive through Fuji's home town of Eltham and dinner at Mexicali Casa before heading home.<br /></span><br /><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2423/3966080994_f7b4e5feaf_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 240px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2423/3966080994_f7b4e5feaf_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span>Tuesday dawned a bit warmer and brighter than Monday had, and so we went off to St. Kilda Beach after a few wedding-related errands. St. Kilda Beach is the home of the historic Luna Park which originally opened in 1912 and although we didn't go inside the park, I had a great time photographic it's scenic wooden rollercoaster with the palm trees all around it. I also got my first taste of the Australian dessert favorite, pavlova , with many thanks to Sarah from India for this recommendation. It was yummy! Kel was supposed to arrive this day, Tuesday, but that is her story to tell someday about her adventures in getting to Australia and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyreiter/3974183884/">her trip through Fiji</a>.<br /><br />On Wednesday we added a few people to the wedding cohort when Wendy and her daughter Chanell arrived from Sydney and we moved from the homestead into the Plum apartments in Southbank, in downtown Melbourne. </span><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2451/3971752078_b579d7e22f_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 180px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2451/3971752078_b579d7e22f_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span>Two three-bedroom apartments on the top floor of an apartment block were now stuffed with Cure fans in anticipation of the big day. We got settled in and then met everyone for a big dinner on the riverbank and got our first introduction to the insanely cool fire fountains on the riverwalk. Yes I said FIRE FOUNTAINS. They are very cool and there are five of them which go off in synchronized patterns. Here's a youtube video I found that shows several of them.<br /><object width="340" height="285"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4eyzudkCBio&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4eyzudkCBio&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"></embed><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4eyzudkCBio&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4eyzudkCBio&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4eyzudkCBio&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4eyzudkCBio&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4eyzudkCBio&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hd=1&border=1"></a></object><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/3971392561_88ea726107_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 169px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/3971392561_88ea726107_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>We woke up very early on Thursday morning and went out on a tour of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ocean_Road">Great Ocean Road</a> which is an extremely windy road that hugs the coastline of Australia west of Melbourne for 243 km, and which encompasses</span><span> some of the most scenic views that this area has to offer. One of the biggest attractions on the Great Ocean Road, besides the quaint villages and breathtaking coastline views is the limestone rock formations known as <a href="http://www.visit12apostles.com.au/">the 12 Apostles</a>. Unfortunately there are a few less than 12 now due to erosion, with one falling only the week before we arrived. We had to cut our day a little short and get back to Melbourne quickly, as there was a special treat due at the wedding and a rehearsal was in order! During the rehearsal, Kel finally arrived in Melbourne after her epic journey across the Pacific and so we were able to welcome the last Cure peep to the cohort.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/3985632713_726129b057_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 10px 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 180px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/3985632713_726129b057_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Friday was filled with the final preparations for the wedding and a short visit to the famed <a href="http://www.qvm.com.au/">Queen Victoria's Market</a> in downtown Melbourne. After collecting everyone together underneath the clocks at Flinders Street Station in downtown Melbourne and seeing the Robert Smith mural that Chanell had discovered in a vintage clothing store, we went off to the market. We wandered the stalls in search of souvenirs to take home and then struck off after the market visit in different directions each according to our own tastes and needs. Shapes and I went over to visit the famous <a href="http://www.opals.net.au/">Lightning Ridge Opals</a> store which was very hard for me to leave due to my obsession with black opals. Finally, it was time to go back to the apartment for drinks and then over to Southbank again for a final pre-wedding dinner for Fuji.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznXTuzH9NCHoxFOgV7U0B9878q6Gk7Hw4qwFGDNOoxCSgX-1O_dOf-QJgrnYgcAvx8zFeexh2hC3aDFEAFNkEm6WHKa53I_M-WU7u1Tg7WgSxP24DX02oe4zoBSc6SvgWExHWcjxOzVI/s1600-h/3989534728_7f4cf7fc5b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznXTuzH9NCHoxFOgV7U0B9878q6Gk7Hw4qwFGDNOoxCSgX-1O_dOf-QJgrnYgcAvx8zFeexh2hC3aDFEAFNkEm6WHKa53I_M-WU7u1Tg7WgSxP24DX02oe4zoBSc6SvgWExHWcjxOzVI/s320/3989534728_7f4cf7fc5b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390767941476399538" border="0" /></a><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyreiter/3989534728/in/set-72157622534302778/">Photo courtesy of Kelly (KellyR Photography)</a></span><br /></div><span><br /><br />You can see all of my pictures from this adventure here in the slideshow or just click on through to Flickr.<br /><div align=center><br /><object width="400" height="300"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbluheron%2Fsets%2F72157622339645113%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbluheron%2Fsets%2F72157622339645113%2F&set_id=72157622339645113&jump_to="> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbluheron%2Fsets%2F72157622339645113%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbluheron%2Fsets%2F72157622339645113%2F&set_id=72157622339645113&jump_to=" width="400" height="300"></embed><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></a><a class="caapzqcieetwfusfdppp" href="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></a></object><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Part 2 coming soon!<br /></span></span>Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-80321727668992110012009-09-11T01:30:00.001-06:002009-09-11T01:30:42.020-06:00Heron on Carson<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrown_ut/3907757104/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2565/3907757104_80a9d9fb12_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrown_ut/3907757104/">Heron on Carson</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/rbrown_ut/">Dr Claw's keeper</a></span></div>One of my flickr friends noticed me in the audience on Carson Daly, it was repeated this week.<br clear="all" />Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-33138988362186122632009-06-19T18:19:00.003-06:002010-04-19T15:54:13.024-06:00Anuus Mirabilis - My year of miraclesThe 12 months spanning May 2008 - May 2009 were undeniably the most pleasurably memorable stretch of 12 months in my entire life up to now. And although I will undoubtedly see the Cure many more times, the past year has been such an amazing collection of incredible experiences that it will be hard to top. It was, as the title of the post implies, an Anuus Mirabilis, a year of wonders, a year of miracles, a year where anything was possible.<br />
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I was just thinking about how this weekend will be a year since I saw the Cure on the Summer Solstice at Madison Square Garden, and how even at that moment I had NO idea what was to come in the months ahead. I realized that I haven't really written about it all, although there are bits and pieces here and there and so the idea for this blog post was born. After that show, I thought that was the end of my seeing the Cure for the year! But let's back up just a little and start over, and I apologize in advance that this will be a little long!<br />
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I've been a Cure fan since about 1984. It took me nearly 5 years to get to see them for the first time at Dodger Stadium on the Prayer Tour in 1989. For the 18 years between 1989 and 2007, I saw them a total of 9 times and considered that I was a lucky person to see them twice in both 2004 and 2007! Prior to 2008, I knew only a couple of the more "hardcore" fans very well and had traveled with them in 2003 and 2004 but had not really met that many other "diehards".<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Then along came 2008.</span><br />
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I will start by saying that I've been a fan of the <a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainofFlowers/">Chain of Flowers</a> website since the late 90's, discovering it some time in 97 or 98, and checked it on an irregular basis. In the fall of 2001, after the first birthday of our daughter and after watching a terrible year's worth of bad news <span style="font-style: italic;">(I used to be a news junkie and actually had television in my house! Strange to think of, I know!)</span> I basically thought to myself that the only news I cared to keep up with was news about the Cure.<br />
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So I switched my homepage on my browser from CNN to CoF, and there it stayed. A daily ritual of checking in with my favorite band and their comings and goings made for a peaceful and happy start to my day, as it still does. I was finally brave enough to send in a "Curespotting" in 2003 and started volunteering server space mirrors for the various audio and video files, but any involvement with the site was minimal. I watched though, always ready to hear about news of the Cure. I was REALLY happy when Craig decided to switch the format of the news to Blogger, but I don't think anyone really knew what that would mean for those of us that were fans of the site.<br />
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It began so slowly and grew so organically that would almost be hard to pinpoint when the comments on the blog began to take on a much greater meaning. The European shows were very time-offset compared to the US, so the catalyst was really when the Cure entered the US in May for the start of the US part of the tour. Each show setlist thread started to grow with commentary, and by the time that the 4-Tour reached Chicago, people from all around the world had started to tune in to the blog for the chance to chat with each other during the "live show" and comment on the set list as it arrived, and as the 4-Tour progressed, individual personalities began to emerge from the woodwork and interact with each other. Many of the people that would become important to my life later on in the year were those that I first met in the comments on the Chain of Flowers blog during the "show chats".<br />
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For our part, we started out with our original planned 2 dates to see them <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/06/4-tour-memories-red-rocks-salt-lake.html">at Red Rocks and in Salt Lake City</a>. <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/06/meeting-cure.html">We met the Cure</a> just before their Salt Lake City show and I got <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/07/secret-language-of-cure-tattoos.html">my permanent autograph</a>. We went to see them for the third time in 2008 in <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/06/4-tour-memories-sunrise-fl.html">Sunrise, FL</a>, and for the first time met some of the people that we had interacted with on the CoF blog.<br />
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Following the FL show, interacting with other people on CoF convinced and conspired to bring me to <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/06/4-tour-memories-madison-square-garden.html">Madison Square Garden</a>, where I recorded much of the soundcheck from an undisclosed location, then met a metric ton of Cure and CoF peeps and then got to the third row for an incredible show... and then thought that my Cure days for 2008 were done! The 4 Tour was officially over, and many of us that had met and interacted at shows and during the show chats were feeling a little, well, lost. So, <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html">the birth of the Meebo chat room</a> was a direct result of the ending of the 4 Tour and the live show chats.<br />
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The rest of the summer and fall passed, mostly uneventfully, with the release of the rest of the singles and then the album release. I had passed the time by writing several Cure-related articles, and by <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/08/nightmare-before-cure-mas.html">designing another new teeshirt</a>.<br />
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Then, on one otherwise uneventful evening in in November, it was less than two days before my 40th birthday when I got the news, the Cure were going to be taping shows in LA in December! I got the show tickets for the <a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2008/12/carson-daly-tickets-available.html">Carson Daly taping on Friday the 12th</a>, and then when it was confirmed, we bought plane tix. However, we wouldn't be able to take enough time away to do the earlier show (<a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2008/12/cure-play-tonight-show.html">Leno on Thursday the 11th</a>) or the later taping (<a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2008/12/kimmel-tickets-available-now.html">Jimmy Kimmel, on Monday the 15th</a>) so I took a little bit of heat from my significant other over the idea that we were heading down to California for just one three-song concert. However, I asserted that since I was using the occasion as my 40th birthday present, it was my choice to go. Of course, this later turned out to be the best decision, like, ever, given that we just HAPPENED to be in LA for the now-legendary<a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2008/12/gathering-near-troubadour.html"> Secret Show at the Troubadour</a>. And of course I got to give the Cure a batch of my Nightmare shirts and got a signed one back, (thank you so much forever, Keith!) but you can read about ALL of these adventures <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/very-merry-curemas.html">here</a>, <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/curemas-miracle-part-3.html">here</a> and finally the actual 12:13 Dream show <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/1213-dream-evening-with-cure.html">HERE</a>.<br />
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The dust had barely begun to settle from the LA shows when <a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2009/02/live-reports-from-nme-awards.html">the NME Awards</a> were announced in London, and at first, I didn't even consider going. The economy was tanking, the holidays were just past, and everything was up in the air. The <a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2009/04/live-coverage-from-coachella-festival.html">Coachella date</a> wouldn't be announced until the end of January, and so it looked like the NME shows were the only game in town. Then more and more people were going, and the cost to go got smaller and smaller. Shared accommodation, shared transportation, meals at home, a week's pass for the Tube, reduced airfare due to the tanking economy and inexpensive show tickets sealed the deal, and before I knew it, I was spending a week in London. I got to see <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3310805143/">Tim Burton give Robert and the Cure the Godlike Geniuses award</a>, and then stood at the front of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157614541441297/">O2 Arena with 20,000 other people</a> and a whole crowd of Cure peeps from all over the globe. Getting to see <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157614322701341/">Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Bath, Avebury, Hyde Park, the Royal Albert Hall, Big Ben and scores of other sights</a> with some of my favorite people on the planet just put the icing on the cake. These two shows marked the first time that I had ever traveled overseas for the Cure, and it was only due to the intense level of cooperation and coordination between a worldwide network of other fans that it even happened.<br />
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Speaking of Coachella, <a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2009/04/live-reports-from-pearl-in-las-vegas.html">the Pearl show in Las Vegas</a> just prior to the Coachella show had been announced while we were all in London for the O2 show, and you should have seen the panic when the US peeps realized that the announced ticket sale time was in the middle of the night in the UK! But of course we all took care of one another as we always do and eventually everyone had a ticket to what was hotly anticipated as the nearest thing to the Troubadour show that those who had missed it could imagine.<br />
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Somewhere in between the Troubadour show and deciding to actually go to London, <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-30th-anniversary-book.html">I came up with the idea for the BOOK</a>. Although the original plan was to give it to them at the NME awards, I think that <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/02/30th-anniversary-book-announcement.html">the decision to wait and give it to them in April</a> was the right one, as it really did allow a much greater level of participation and the end result was much more meaningful than it would have been, and I met so many amazing and wonderful fans through the project that it really took on a life of it's own.<br />
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So plans were made again and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157615682554028/">the fans converged on Las Vegas</a> on one very warm weekend in April, and this time the reunion of the peeps was even more massive and heartwarming than the one before in London. Many CoF fans that had kept in touch via the Meebo chat were able to come together and for many, meet for the first time. We even managed to coordinate <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3453575789/in/set-72157615682554028/">a group photo next to the Las Vegas sign</a>! Although it was a disappointing ending that we now know was a bizarre fluke, <a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2009/04/live-reports-from-pearl-in-las-vegas.html">the Pearl show rocked</a>! And most of you know that story, as well as <a href="http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2009/04/live-coverage-from-coachella-festival.html">the incredible story of Coachella</a> and some may have even read about <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/04/studio-brussel-interviews.html">the Belgian radio interview on Robert's 50th Birthday</a>. The <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/04/other-voices-signed-sealed-delivered.html">Other Voices book</a> was successfully given to the Cure, and <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/04/other-voices-print-version.html">the hardcopy versions</a> were created. Finally, <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/05/happy-30th-anniversary-to-cure.html">on May 8th, 2009, the 30th anniversary of the release date of Three Imaginary Boys arrived</a>.<br />
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And now sitting here in June of 2009, and looking back at those last 12 months, my heart is blown wide open with the amazingness of it all and how much everything has changed. I met the people that I've admired and loved for over a quarter of a century, <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/06/meeting-cure.html">in person</a>, and have <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/07/secret-language-of-cure-tattoos.html">a permanent reminder of that day</a>.<br />
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In the past 12 months I met more "diehard" Cure fans than I ever expected to meet. I've made some amazing friendships that I hope will be lifelong. Some of those are only now just beginning and others are deepening and becoming even more important, and there are even more people to meet and get to know better in the future.<br />
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I saw 10 shows in 12 months, and many of those have been with some of the most amazing people that I am now honored to call my friends. I've shared so many beautiful experiences with my wonderful husband, and had his solid support for those things that we could not share together.<br />
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And although these are not necessarily Cure-related, these events definitely added to the miraculous feel to the year. In August of 2008, I changed jobs to be in a much more supportive and appreciative environment. President Obama was elected in November of 2008, and later that month, I turned 40 years old. Over the week of Thanksgiving, we took our children on a family vacation and spent a week in the Florida Keys, where we were married in February of 2000 - it was the first time we had taken our children there. In April of 2009, I bought <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3408953722/">a VW Beetle</a>, which has been my dream car for many years, and we took it on our big road trip to Vegas and Coachella.<br />
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Moving forward from now, I definitely consider the 12 months from May 2008 to May 2009 to be my Anuus Mirabilis, my most miraculous year to date. Thank you to the Cure for bringing us all together, and to everyone I've met and interacted with in the past year, thank you ALL for being the best Cure peeps on the planet!<br />
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Here are the blog posts that I've finished, there are several more to come, but it's going to be a little while until they are done, so I wanted to get this out sooner rather than later.<br />
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The Year of Miracles - 12 months - 10 shows<br />
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1. 4Tour - Red Rocks, Morrison, CO - <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/06/4-tour-memories-red-rocks-salt-lake.html">Blog</a> | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605205621046/" target="_blank">Photos</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9BC199297DF2E42B">Video</a><br />
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2. 4Tour - <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>Salt Lake City, UT - <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/06/4-tour-memories-red-rocks-salt-lake.html">Blog</a> | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605222808964/">Photos</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=63F622E2979244AA">Video</a><br />
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3. 4Tour - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605599845078/"></a>Sunrise, FL - <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/06/4-tour-memories-sunrise-fl.html">Blog</a> | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605599845078/">Photos</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=590FE831BEAC7BC7">Video </a><br />
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4. 4Tour - Madison Square Garden, NYC, NY <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/06/4-tour-memories-madison-square-garden.html">Blog</a> | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605762180279/">Photos</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=240ABCAD7E8B4AE9">Video</a><br />
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5. LA Shows - Carson Daly Show Taping, Burbank, CA - <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/very-merry-curemas.html">Blog</a> | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157611152298895/">Photos</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgar2191bVw">Video</a><br />
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6. LA Shows - Secret Show @ the Troubadour, W. Hollywood, CA - <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/curemas-miracle-part-3.html">Blog 1</a>, <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/1213-dream-evening-with-cure.html">Blog 2</a> | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157612275254554/">Photos</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZLlnyGODic">Video</a><br />
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7. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157614464438988/"></a>NME Awards - O2 Academy, Brixton, UK - Blog | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157614464438988/">Photos</a><br />
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8. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157614541441297/"></a>NME Big Gig - O2 Arena, Greenwich, UK - Blog | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157614541441297/">Photos</a> | Video<br />
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9.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> The Pearl Theater - Las Vegas, NV - <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-pearlaversary.html">Blog</a> | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157617165365564/">Photos</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=88127F587603EDC1">Video</a><br />
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10. Coachella Festival- Indio, CA - <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-curechella-versary.html">Blog</a> | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157617449205555/">Photos</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0B0E686DFE09946A">Video</a>Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-41847051755002476732009-06-12T00:33:00.000-06:002009-06-19T17:58:31.650-06:004 Tour Memories - Madison Square GardenThe events surrounding my attendance at the NYC MSG show were an interesting series of coincidences that I can only place under the "meant to be" category. So many things converged to make it possible that it would literally take a book to write about all of it. So in the interest of not boring my audience too much, here are the highlights.<br /><br />1. Meeting SugarGirl - although she did not know me at the time and we had never met in person, this was the first thing that made it possible to go. She graciously offered me her spare sofabed in her room and then we made plans to share a room on Friday evening after the concert. I can honestly say that my now-friendship with the beautiful, sweet and gracious SugarGirl was one of the best things about the trip. Our adventures together that weekend were still the start of my year of miracles, and much of the subsequent events were shared with her as well. Thanks Sugar for being so wonderful, I couldn't have done it without you! :D<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/2601546829/" title="Rev and Sugar Girl by the Cure trucks by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2307/2601546829_f0de0989de.jpg" alt="Rev and Sugar Girl by the Cure trucks" width="500" height="375" /></a><br /><br />2. Meeting all the other CoF peeps! - The meeting at the Fridays ahead of the MSG show was my first experience at meeting other Cure fans <span style="font-style: italic;">en masse</span>, and to meet so many people that I had chatted with or interacted with on the CoF blog threads was so much fun!<br /><br />3. Videoing the Soundcheck - That was literally the first time I'd ever done anything like that and sharing it with SG was a blast.<br /><br />4. Last but most definitely NOT least, the MSG show itself! My experience started with the fan meetup at Fridays, and then I went to meet the person (another CoF fan) who had offered to sell me their spare ticket. Going inside, I braved the ten-person-deep crowd around the merch booth to pick up a Cure keyring and such. Heading down to the floor, I spotted several empty seats very close to the front that were open, and when they weren't filled before the lights went down, we took our chances and ended up in the fourth row for most of the show, moving up as people left (LEFT??!!! I KNOW!) to be in the third row and nearly centered between Porl and Robert.<br /><br />This is one of my all-time favorite videos from the MSG show, when Robert spots the CoF sign during Push<br /><br /><object width="580" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4wN0EwYKBPM&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4wN0EwYKBPM&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="360"></embed></object><br /><br />You can see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=240ABCAD7E8B4AE9">my MSG videos here</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605762180279/">my photos here</a>Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-81339524820831930352009-06-07T00:11:00.000-06:002009-06-19T18:24:59.646-06:004 Tour Memories - Sunrise FL<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3483043421/" title="Robert Smith Kicks Ass! by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3574/3483043421_f3509f3cff_m.jpg" alt="Robert Smith Kicks Ass!" width="194" align="right" height="240" /></a>Before I write about the show, I need to give you a little background on how this show is tied in with my Kick Ass teeshirts. I first did the design of Robert from South Park in late 2001, after searching in vain for a "Robert South Park" teeshirt to buy. Then I discovered a place which would print my designs on teeshirts, and thought to myself "Why not make your own?" So the first generation of Cure / South Park shirts were born. Originally, it was just Robert, and then my (then) new friend Fuji asked me in early 2002 to make him a Simon one. I made several generation of the shirts, eventually adding the guitar and putting him in all black. At some point, the company that was printing them decided it was no longer prudent to do so, and the idea withered on the vine for a few years.<br /><br /><br />Sometime in early 2008, I revisited the design, adding Porl and Jason and putting them all together into what we know of as the Kick Ass design that you have seen on my site. The way that this ties into the Sunrise show is that I wanted to give the Cure some of the Kick Ass teeshirts, so I finally made a bunch and brought them with me to the FL show, and gave them to the Cure, which you can see here.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/2578645010/" title="CoF Kittens (Peace) by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3054/2578645010_82e7c85663.jpg" alt="CoF Kittens (Peace)" width="500" align="left" height="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You can also see Ms. Cat there in the background, as Sunrise was the first of many shows that we would see together!</span><br /><br />The Sunrise, FL show was notable for the hordes of tanned Floridians looking as if they'd just strolled in from the beach to the concert venue, but again, I digress!<br /><br />We had really great seats in the 6th row, but were prevented from taping the show by some overzealous security folks, so we did not come back with a great amount of video. Again, we got some really nice rarities and since Robert was feeling much much better as compared to the Red Rocks and SLC shows, the energy level in the venue was very high and Robert and the band seemed very playful and affectionate. My most memorable songs were The Baby Screams and Signal to Noise.<br /><br />We got four encores at Sunrise, but of course by far, what grabbed our attention was the very last few minutes of the show as "A Forest" wound down and Robert added some extra lyrics. I was half-convinced we would end up with "Forever", but instead the band decided to wind things up with a kiss!<br /><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vwY_tOFl-gs&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vwY_tOFl-gs&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-63430032594736043112009-06-06T23:15:00.000-06:002009-06-19T18:20:37.417-06:004 Tour Memories - Red Rocks & Salt Lake CityWe started out in 2008 with our original planned 2 dates to see them at Red Rocks and in Salt Lake City. So on May 21st, 2008 we flew out to Denver, checked into the hotel and then met up with our friends and headed out to Red Rocks to see the Cure! The evening was beautifully warm and breezy with a blue sky overhead that soon turned into a heavenly arch of stars. If there ever was a perfect setting to hear "Underneath the Stars" for the first time, this was it!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/2516010542/" title="The Cure Live at Red Rocks by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2516010542_3a6188131c.jpg" alt="The Cure Live at Red Rocks" width="500" height="375" /></a><br /><br />We had heard a rumor of two new songs that had been played for the first time in Kansas City, and so I was ready with the video camera. Well, make that ALMOST ready. When the crashing waves began, I didn't recognize that it was the beginning of the show for nearly two minutes! Since it was an outdoor concert and there were no lights to dim as a signal, we had only the waves to let us know something was happening. They start out very softly and then grow louder and louder, and as soon as I realized what was happening, I fumbled for my camera and flipped it on and caught <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2okRgW5GLM">Underneath the Stars</a> as it was played for only the second time in concert! And although Robert had been very ill and his voice was very raw and rough, it was absolutely magical to see them in the legendary amphitheater at Red Rocks. As the night progressed, the full moon rose slowly in the distance behind and to the right of the stage, and the vision of the moon, stars, clouds and the city in the distance helped this night be very special.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/2525384884/" title="The Cure live at Red Rocks by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/2525384884_b3d27f623f.jpg" alt="The Cure live at Red Rocks" width="375" height="500" /></a><br /><br />We felt very bad for Robert when we could tell that he was holding back on his voice on many of the songs. It's such a torn feeling to be a fan of the Cure and want to see them perform, just as much as you want Robert to save his voice and not sing!<br /><br />Near the end of the show, I caught the other new song, which at the time was titled <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXmxo2RAGdA">Baby Rag Dog Book</a> (later to be re-titled "It's Over" on the album. Then we were still treated to three encores! It never ceases to amaze me how much the Cure love their fans, and you know that by the end of the show Robert's voice had to be hurting, but they didn't quit early even though they could have easily skipped 1 or 2 encores!<br /><br />We got back to the hotel extremely late but I tried uploading my videos anyway, only to be blocked from uploading, I am guessing by the hotel's firewall settings. I tried again in the morning, but gave up and went to the airport. Then a funny thing happened while we were entering the airport, and a tornado struck the ground in northwestern Colorado. The airport stopped all outgoing flights and we were stuck in the terminal. Luckily, I found an "office rental" kiosk and went in and used their awesome fast broadband to upload both the videos of the new songs to YouTube while we waited.<br /><br />This was also the sight of our first Cure-spotting of the 4-Tour, as we managed to see Simon walking through the terminal as well.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/2524639853/" title="YouTube at the Airport by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/2524639853_b5344a49b7_m.jpg" alt="YouTube at the Airport" width="240" height="180" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/2525472368/" title="Simon looks for an Ice Cream Cone by bluheron, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2525472368_f7db7544a9_m.jpg" alt="Simon looks for an Ice Cream Cone" width="240" height="180" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Returning to Salt Lake City, we were very excited for the show there as it was the first time we had front row center seats (which we ended up getting screwed out of, thank you E-Center, but I digress) On the way to drop our children off with their grandparents, we got a tip that the Cure were at their hotel in downtown Salt Lake. Rushing back to the city, we took up position on the sidewalk near the hotel and waited for our big chance to meet them.<br /><br />Interestingly enough, the band Rancid were there as well, for a wedding as it turned out, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/2524689837/">I got to meet Lars</a> just before meeting Robert. <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/06/meeting-cure.html">I've written about meeting the Cure here</a>, but as an addendum to that I will just say that I didn't do anything I thought I would do when meeting Robert in particular. Which is to say, I didn't faint, puke, fall over, scream, die or turn blue from holding my breath. I also managed not to pinch myself, pinch Robert, run screaming or cry.<br />Although I did do almost all of those immediately after meeting him. I'm pretty sure that I held a reasonably coherent sort of conversation and didn't babble TOO terribly aimlessly, although that part is still a bit fuzzy. I vaguely remember asking him to sign my arm, which of course also turned into a year-plus <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/07/secret-language-of-cure-tattoos.html">Cure tattoo project</a>, commencing within an hour of getting his signature on my skin. Hindsight being what it is and all, I kicked myself later for not asking Porl and Simon for theirs as well. I guess those will be coming later, eh?<br /><br />So once we'd found a tattoo parlor and indelibly inked my Robert autograph, we went home, changed quickly and went down to the E-Center. I'm not even entirely sure what went on with our seats, as we had section BB and seats 13-14 which should have been located directly in front of Robert. However we ended up pushed all the way over to the other side of Simon, and that was that. The show was of course a great one, with Robert sounding much stronger than at Red Rocks, and also with some really nice rarities like Other Voices (prescient!) and A Letter to Elise.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/2521725173/" title="The Cure live in Salt Lake City by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/2521725173_b49aebcc0a.jpg" alt="The Cure live in Salt Lake City" width="375" height="500" /></a><br /><br />Following the show, we went around to the back of the venue to wait for the bus to come out with other fans and this was the first time that we got to meet BC! All in all it was a tremendously exciting couple of days and a great start to my Anuus Mirabilis!Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-10020151049212792002009-05-08T01:13:00.000-06:002009-05-18T02:25:49.562-06:00Happy 30th Anniversary to the Cure!<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXJLCzQGiJ7CTxprMU_X_a5H4QT9Jg-N3S06c0oCV_z_wPhnkcPf5kK9a6puWObeamXw6Sge8JmnAATBjMlTeNRcqTW2txhAWQMA3h6bau4bF-KxCF_1apO60j0xkTx9LSGXN8A4CfqOM/s1600-h/3IBcover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXJLCzQGiJ7CTxprMU_X_a5H4QT9Jg-N3S06c0oCV_z_wPhnkcPf5kK9a6puWObeamXw6Sge8JmnAATBjMlTeNRcqTW2txhAWQMA3h6bau4bF-KxCF_1apO60j0xkTx9LSGXN8A4CfqOM/s400/3IBcover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333347646460581506" border="0" /></a>May 8th, 1979 - May 8th, 2009<br /></div><br />Thirty years ago today, the album "Three Imaginary Boys" made it's official debut in the UK. These 13 tracks worth of burning philosophical angst, nervously jangly pop, and spare, shivering ballads marked the birth of the commercial and artistic entity that is The Cure. Certainly, there will be much written about this milestone in the coming months, so I won't attempt to distill all of the wonder that it encompasses here in this posting.<br /><br />I just want to say that to me, the thing that makes The Cure so consistently amazing is that even after performing hundreds of concerts in the past thirty-odd years, witnessing how they can still close down a major festival with the same joyous punk ferocity first embodied in this album makes me proud to be a fan. Thank you again to Robert and the band for providing millions of people around the world a sense of coming home, a light through the darkness, and the best music we've ever heard. May you have many beautifully happy returns of this anniversary!Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-90701121185837976532009-04-30T01:13:00.000-06:002009-05-18T02:28:28.236-06:00Other Voices - Print VersionGreetings Cure peeps! You will be happy to know that the printed version of the Other Voices book is now available to order from Blurb books!<br /><br />The book is available in a large format, similar to the actual book dimensions, and also in a smaller and less expensive version in order to make it available and affordable to everyone.<br /><br />I want to assure you again that I am not making any sort of profit from this book at all. The prices shown on the book pages are the base prices that Blurb charges for the actual production of the book, and have not been "marked up" in any way. The final book is missing 10 of the original pages due to the wishes of the individual authors. I have added a couple of pages at the end that contain some of the detail of the book and there is also a page with photos of the band playing onstage at the Pearl theater on the night they were given the original.<br /><br />Again, I do not do any of the printing, shipping or order fulfillment for these books, they are from the Blurb print-on-demand service and Blurb will handle all of the transactions and customer service for the print books, so if you have any problems at all, please contact Blurb directly. We also plan to buy a few copies of the large format version to send to the band so that all of the members have a version of the book for themselves.<br /><br />So, without further ado, please click one of the books below to be taken to the different size versions. Remember to click through to the Preview so you can get a sense of how it will look in person!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/663965">Large Format 11" x 13"<br /><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/663965"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikSRtaDKe_Ob0Jzl0cX7e3EnjGP0Wmw7Bs1tfWvpTiu_j4WjfPMYbj8Tec2YMUoka4daa7IBTvttyg0VE-mhriCOZNZ5Vhy5h5d8naKFogZQnObyJUmMrhBvIkavz3Y4LV1SF2x9__wKI/s320/othervoices_SM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330382330486409858" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/663965"><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/663989">Medium Format 8" x 10"<br /><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/663989"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX98s5Aq7Rb-ZEi6VPLwB7h52m46ZkNncUKLJKs6v_U860ln0IEh7-SiArxj7qhm2NdfP54TYKE4WyMXp0mXjjBRN4wjwckqhP2xSu2ouBMRkw8cGV5PC6lNTkqoHJspcB1ns_ZLYCdS4/s200/othervoices_SM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330382871558339746" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/663989"><br /></a>Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-52704139182585615062009-04-28T18:27:00.000-06:002009-04-28T18:35:23.202-06:004 "new" teeshirt designs & updateGreetings peeps! By popular demand, I'm now offering standalone designs of the Cure South Park drawings. You can now order a shirt with only Robert, Simon, Porl or Jason, as your taste may be. These shirts have been discounted, and I'm also offering a great deal, buy all four shirts as a package for only $12.50 each! Click the shirts to order!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/04/cure-standalone-south-park-tees.html"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 107px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_lc9_DfEyWsrvsVwoQK2W7cSByqvkfdZ2NrQLzxBmQ1tMci6EJhknDf5_hBHrCxhksIoTiSXz7fy5sU2Ii_4P4DqmTAXYwwETAF767jyJtkThG83S97C7EgYrKR-ipocrph3Kb7JOP8/s400/all42.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329904727678341522" border="0" /></a><br />Now for an update on the other designs:<br /><br />Lovecats design - I am almost sold out of the Lovecats design, and I don't think I'll be making more any time soon. They are too difficult to make in the gold foil and cost much more than the normal screen print, so if you want one of the originals, this is the time to get it! Here's what I currently have in stock in both design types / shirt styles -<br /><br /><a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/lovecats-ornate.html">Simple design - V-neck - 2 SM, 2 L, 2 XL</a><br /><a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/lovecats-ornate.html">Ornate design - V-neck - 3 SM, 3 L, 3 XL</a><br /><a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/lovecats-simple.html">Ornate design - Crew - 1 L, 1 2XL</a><br /><br /><a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/11/nightmare-shirts-in-stock.html">Nightmare design</a> - I have a few of the V-necks left, mostly in M,L,XL and in the crew neck I have a few of everything but XL.Rev. 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Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-76802491894503056752009-04-27T20:56:00.001-06:002009-05-18T02:29:01.657-06:00Other Voices - Signed, sealed & delivered!Those of you that have been watching the updates on Chain of Flowers know that the book was delivered to the band in Vegas. Here is the "official" story of the how and why and when, as well as the extenuating circumstances surrounding it.<br /><br />When Friday, April 17th, 2009 dawned in Las Vegas, Nevada, those of us who were there for the concert were full of optimism that it would be a very special night, indeed. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQVfJx_Q_tiWNbmOy0J2ILRaFhwNHLv_hl29BE10w3nhbmk5lTZr3oAjGGy_xdAtF23ycIcO6zFfn9kJ-S3YKJHs0E2Gip2rOVaDBHyr5NQ-ogypv8pEV_U_yf59mHsmWlOJOCDQCQwA/s1600-h/book_palms.jpg"><img style="margin: 20pt 20pt 20px 20px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQVfJx_Q_tiWNbmOy0J2ILRaFhwNHLv_hl29BE10w3nhbmk5lTZr3oAjGGy_xdAtF23ycIcO6zFfn9kJ-S3YKJHs0E2Gip2rOVaDBHyr5NQ-ogypv8pEV_U_yf59mHsmWlOJOCDQCQwA/s200/book_palms.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329574524474840466" caption="courtesy caterpillargirl2" border="0" /></a>The Cure were in town for an intimate show at the Pearl Theater, and many CoF peeps had gathered from all corners of the globe. We spent the afternoon at the casino in front of the box office, socializing and pretending to gamble. I received two last-minute pages at the casino and took over the concierge desk at the Palms so that I could put them in the album and make sure that the book was in top form before giving it to the Cure.<br /><br />Returning to the "line" near the box office, several people had asked to see the book, and so we pulled up some chairs and went through the book several times so that people could see their pages and the cover and other decorations. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOIyuuzYjER0tqVt4sRD-Z30SBVxRXml_ur4TMGJx-wSwqUAI_v-aCox1EFwzDz_bXHjoZoJdUHaMoa69PrJRMIfHBh7aLlF7JFN9-x4sdiklcEKZa_jUtxIuuZy5v2sgPhBDYarfkGlw/s1600-h/book_pearl1.jpg"><img style="margin: 20pt 20px 20px 20pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOIyuuzYjER0tqVt4sRD-Z30SBVxRXml_ur4TMGJx-wSwqUAI_v-aCox1EFwzDz_bXHjoZoJdUHaMoa69PrJRMIfHBh7aLlF7JFN9-x4sdiklcEKZa_jUtxIuuZy5v2sgPhBDYarfkGlw/s200/book_pearl1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329580535951104018" border="0" /></a>Many people commented on how much better the artwork pages looked in person, and I agree, it was hard to capture the real beauty of the pages of the book in photos, and I hope that can assure all of the contributors that the band will be very impressed at all of your dedication, all of the love you have for the Cure and their music was very evident in the pages that you sent in.<br /><br />Many fans who were waiting at the box office got to meet Simon at one of the nearby bars, and if I had only known how the night was to end, I would have given the book to Simon, as I was one of the first fans to approach him that afternoon. Hindsight, as they say...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj8tqAhOYltohkrtkbtl6TDUOUlqJMswoH8jMuzaQ0Zep1k8Nlm2hb7M0WXaWmLvZa4zSGp4aFu2EXcsVKLzS5kysnpYlyZ0HaC5WIwD4s8hd5XwahNQekdktuO6zQNAwdrh2PAZMGZAU/s1600-h/book_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 20pt 20pt 20px 20px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj8tqAhOYltohkrtkbtl6TDUOUlqJMswoH8jMuzaQ0Zep1k8Nlm2hb7M0WXaWmLvZa4zSGp4aFu2EXcsVKLzS5kysnpYlyZ0HaC5WIwD4s8hd5XwahNQekdktuO6zQNAwdrh2PAZMGZAU/s200/book_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329582975685835330" border="0" /></a><br /><br />When the concert began, I had at least three separate avenues lined up to be able to connect with the band prior to or following the show, but as we all know, the concert did not end as expected. When the lights went up after "A Forest", I had a strong feeling that I should try to give it to them that night, in case something went wrong and they canceled their Coachella appearance. We weren't sure quite why the concert had ended early, and when the setlist with the encores on it was given out to those in the crowd, it confirmed to us that there was something going on. There was a lot of speculation that night about just what had happened, but in the heat of the moment, all that mattered to me was that it was my one chance that I was certain of to make sure that people that I trusted were able to take the book from me and deliver it to the band. So I handed it to Darren (Simon's guitar tech) as he was onstage breaking down the equipment, and he promised me at that time that he would give it to them. I confirmed through my contacts that the Cure were not receiving visitors backstage following the show at the Pearl.<br /><br />When we were at Coachella on Sunday, I approached Darren after the show to confirm that they received it, and he assured me that he would give it to them at the soonest possible time. One of my contacts had also emailed a person connected to the band who confirmed on Monday morning that it had been given to Robert and the band. My original plan was to try to get a photo of the band with the book, but as we know now, Robert had injured himself at the Pearl, and it was not possible to do so.<br /><br />So, will Robert or the band acknowledge the project somehow? Of course we would love him to do so, but most likely, he will not. Their own 30th anniversary celebrations must be getting underway, and of course with an injured hand he cannot type very well, so I think that we can be happy knowing that they have gotten it safely and that our messages have been signed, sealed and delivered. However, if I DO hear anything, I will be sure to let you all know!<br /><br />Thank you again to all of the contributors and supporters for being a part of this amazing project. I am still doing the hard copy of the book and I will be announcing that here when they are ready to order, they will be available very soon.<br /><br />P. S. - If you haven't yet heard the interviews with myself and Vicky, one of the contributors to the book on Studio Brussel, you can <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/04/studio-brussel-interviews.html">read about that here and also listen to the archived interviews</a>. We were interviewed about the book and I was also asked about the Cure's set at Coachella.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30773748@N03/3466055883/">Photo 1 courtesy of Caterpillargirl2</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bkuhns1/3461296530/">Photo 2 courtesy of Barb / Thistle</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/faithdesired/3453120250/in/set-72157616983704792/">Photo 3 courtesy of Faithdesired</a></span>Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-80858200358884606972009-04-22T10:21:00.000-06:002009-05-18T02:28:12.891-06:00Studio Brussel InterviewsThanks to Vicky from Belgium, I got a fantastic opportunity on the day of Robert Smith's 50th Birthday to be interviewed on Studio Brussel (part of the Belgium national radio station) regarding my experiences at Coachella and about the 30th Anniversary book. I will be posting more about that here soon, but for now you can read Vicky's translation of her interview (<a href="http://curefans.com/index.php/topic,6154.0.html">first posted at Curefans.com</a>) and you can listen to both of our interviews on the archive pages from the radio station. Thank you again to Vicky for this great opportunity, I can't believe I got to say Happy Birthday to Robert on Belgium radio! What an exciting and fun way to celebrate!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">More about my interview</span> (added 4/28):<br /><br />I woke up early on Tuesday, April 21st (which is to say, early for me, as I am an extreme night owl) after arriving home at nearly 3 am from the long trek driving home from Indio, CA. We had also had to make two stops on the way home to pick up our dog and our children, so it was a very long night from the night before, and we had not had very much sleep! When I awoke, I reached for my phone as I always do, and updated my email. There were two messages about the interview, and so I responded to them quickly from my laptop and then jumped into the shower to get ready to go to work. Almost before I could get dried off completely, I had a phone call from one of the people at Studio Brussel, who spoke to me for a moment about doing the interview, mainly just long enough to get my permission, and told me that I would recieve a call back. I was finishing up getting ready for work when I got the call back just a few minutes later. Bram was the interviewer, and he spoke to me for a few moments and then started to interview me. I admit that I did stumble on my words much more than usual, sorry Bram! But that's what happens when I have to do interview within 20 minutes of waking up, haha...<br /><br />He started the interview by asking about Coachella and our experiences with attending the concert, and about seeing the plug be pulled on the Cure at the end of the night.<br /><br />I also thought that the part with the "fuck" was funny too, even if I misquoted Robert. I didn't think they would play the full bit on air though! I remembered the "HA!" and the "fuck" clearly but it was only later that I got to hear it again and heard his actual comment.<br /><br />After the Coachella part, Bram asked me to describe the book a little bit, and then thanked me for the interview and asked me what song I would like to request them to play at the end of the interview. Initially, I wanted to choose a song from 4:13 Dream in order to help promote their new album. He wanted me to pick a "deep cut", something that was more unusual and not very well known. So at first I said "The Hungry Ghost" or "Underneath the Stars" or "This. Here and Now. With You." would do fine. Then someone looked for the album and they came back and said that it was not in the studio, so I started trying to think of something else. I kind of doubted that they would have Bloodflowers too, and so I went a bit farther back in the catalog and chose "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea". I warned him that it was a bit of a longer song, but he said it was fine, no worries. Aren't you glad I didn't say Never Enough? I also overused the word EPIC a bit too much, but it was less than 48 hours after the show itself so I was still a bit excited to have seen such a legendary concert. I was glad that I remembered to say Happy Birthday to Robert before they hung up with me, and that they also aired that part of the interview.<br /><br />Once I was done with the interview, I went to work and started listening to the Studio Brussel internet stream. I wasn't sure when it would go on but Vicky helped me out a lot by letting me know when it would be coming up. I had also let <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1886767188052333210&postID=3533098889660540784">Craig from Chain of Flowers know about the interview</a> and a lot of our CoF peeps were able to listen in too. Even though I don't speak Dutch, I was very amused to hear my name and "superfan" in the same sentence.<br /><br />Many thanks again to Vicky for letting me have this great chance, and also thanks to the kind people at Studio Brussel.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.stubru.be/node/90744?page=1">My Interview</a> (click on cure-fan in bold type) <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/ggf44i">Andy's MP3 download</a> (thanks Andy!)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.stubru.be/node/90744?page=1">Vicky's Interview</a> (click on ZIJ VERTELT in bold type)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3379675618/" title="The Cure 30th Anniversary Book by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3619/3379675618_4e0dd95c63_m.jpg" alt="The Cure 30th Anniversary Book" width="240" height="171" /></a><br /><br />The Translation (because almost nobody can understand Dutch) by Vicky<br /><br />Sam: Vicky, sended a page for the anniversary book, I don't understand it very well so I goanne call her.<br />Sam: Vicky, Vicky ...Are you there?<br />Me: Good afternoon Sam.<br />Sam: Can you tell me more about that anniversary book?<br />Me: Yes, sure, it's not alone Robert's Birthday today, it's almost 30 years ago that there debutalbum came out. It was May 1979. Because of that fact, they descided in the US to make a fanbook and they asked all the fans arround the world to make a page for this book.<br /><br />Sam: Oh so beautiful!<br />Me: Yes, they received arround 50 pages for that book, from everywhere in the world. From Australia, Russia, USA, and many more country's also Belgium.<br />Sam: And you are in that book?<br />Me: Yes, I have also a page, I've sended it also!<br />Sam: So YOU have a page in that great fanbook, THE Anniversary book for The Cure, THE Anniversary Book for Robert Smith!<br />Me: Yes, indeed, that's correct ! I've maded a page with Calligraphics. I put my thanks on it.<br />Sam: FANTASTIC!<br />Me: The book was given last Friday 17/04 in Las Vegas. The Cure was given there a show.<br />Sam: Send HE (RS) you an email to thank you?<br />Me: No we haven't received anything yet; who knows maby on the off. site from The Cure a word of thank ...Huh<br />The nice thing of the book is that it's goanne be published in a printed version. In two sizes, one like the original and one in an smaller format to make it possible for every person!<br />Sam: Really??<br />Sam: That's amazing good news !!!!!<br />I've hearded you are a HUGE fan from The Cure<br />Me: Ok if they say that, it's goanne be right. Ha. Others say it all the time so I guess it's correct.<br />Sam: You are celebrating this birthday of course but I've hearded you are also celebrating another Birthday?<br />Me: That's correct; It's also my husband's Birthday today. His 40th Birthday.<br />Sam: No, it's not truth, you choose him just for that!<br />Me: No it's pure coincidence!!<br />Sam: Yes, Yes, ... pure coincidence ??<br />Me: So by this, also my Birthday wishes to my husband of course!<br />Sam: Of course. Also a hip hip hoi for your husband! 40 years can also count ... difficult age ?? But 50 years is much heavier to wear! Still 10 Years to go!<br />Sam: Please your husband and turn a lot of Cure-Music<br />Me: Sure; I will do that! Can I say just one thing more ??<br />Sam: Go on you can tell it.<br />Me: To all the curefans out there. If you wanna now more about The Cure! Go and visit www.curefans.com. The meeting point for curefans worldwide. a great forum where you can find several things.<br />Sam: Congratulation about your page in the fanbook for Robert Smith. Have fun today! Bye<br />Me: Bye<br /><br />So, I hope everyone can understand me now grin<br /><br />Later at the evening the called Heron from the US about the Coachella show. She's also the creator of the book.<br /><br />It was an special experience and I hope you all enjoying this.<br /><br />Greetings,<br /><br />Trust...Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-57485383842879579812009-04-08T02:13:00.000-06:002009-04-08T13:13:26.773-06:00Other Voices - A Cure Fan TributeOne week to go! As of today, Wednesday, April 8th, there is officially 1 week left before the pages have to be in. Remember that they have to reach me before the end of the day on April 15th, as we are leaving for Vegas early on the 16th and will not be here for the mail to arrive. Please note that from now forward, all of the pages will be put into the book based strictly on when they arrive in my mailbox. This change is due to the limited time remaining to finish the project and solidify the page numbering. The pages and promises of pages have both been arriving fast and furious, and I am thinking that it looks highly likely that we may have to do a second album for the overflow pages, but we shall see what the next 7 days bring!<br /><br />There have been some interesting developments in the book project, and I'm really excited to share them with everyone! First, the book officially now has a name. As you may have guessed, I've titled it - Other Voices - A Cure Fan Tribute, which is a much more evocative name than<br />"30th Anniversary Book". The name was suggested by Sara / Shapes in a brainstorming session, and evokes all of the "voices" represented by all of the different pages and letters in the book.<br /><br />Second, over the course of the project I have gotten some of the most amazing artwork and heartfelt, beautiful letters from everyone. I thought that there should be some way of preserving these gifts to the Cure, beyond a simple online slideshow. So I decided to create a real, hardcopy version of the book so that any of the contributors or other fans could have one for themselves. The book will be available in a large format, similar to the actual book, and also in a smaller and less expensive version in order to make it available and affordable to everyone.<br /><br />You can preview the hardcopy book versions here:<br /><br />Large format 11" x 13" <a href="http://www.blurb.com/books/631815" target="_blank">http://www.blurb.com/books/<wbr>631815</a> (Don't order these, preview only)<br />Med. format 8" x 10" <a href="http://www.blurb.com/books/631834" target="_blank">http://www.blurb.com/books/<wbr>631834</a><br /><br />I want to assure you right now that I am not making any sort of profit from this book at all. The prices shown on the book pages are the base prices that Blurb charges for the actual production of the book, and have not been "marked up" in any way. The contributors to the book have been asked to sign a publication release, and so the final book may or may not contain all of the pages seen in the online album, based on the individual contributors' wishes.<br /><br />Once the book has been completed with all of the pages and has been given to the Cure, I will send out an announcement stating that the book is ready to order. Again, I do not do any of the printing, shipping or order fulfillment for these books, they are from the Blurb print-on-demand service and the company there will handle all of the transactions.<br /><br />Thanks again to all of the awesome Cure fans that have sent in their pages. You have all made this project a joy to work on, and Iam sure that the band will appreciate all of your letters.Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-54768445720857946822009-04-02T00:02:00.000-06:002009-04-02T00:56:16.950-06:00My page for the 30th Anniversary Book<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3390039135/" title="The Cure 30th Anniversary Book by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3617/3390039135_bc372a1dd5.jpg" alt="The Cure 30th Anniversary Book" width="500" height="365" /></a><br /><br /><br />Here's the story behind this design:<br /><br />I wanted to do a painting of the night sky as it was over Crawley on the date that the first album was released (Three Imaginary Boys) on May 8th, 1979. This date is the one listed on the Cure's website as the release date for their album, so in essence it is the official "start" of the band, as the first album released from a major label. I was trying to come up with something that would represent The Cure in all of their incarnations, as there were so many people involved with the band over the years that contributed to their sound and success.<br /><br />So I went back to the beginning, not just the beginning as the date but the beginning as in the geographic location. I imagined the Cure coming out of some pub or house in Crawley after the celebration of their first album release and looking up at the night sky, what would they have seen? Could they even have imagined at that moment in time what their future would hold, and that their career would span over three decades and take them all around the world, gathering millions of fans in the process? I wonder if they even had a glimpse of what was to come, all those years ago.<br /><br />The subject of the painting also ties in with Robert's deep interest in astronomy and science, as well as my own interest in astronomy and in the implications of a specific time, date and location.<br /><br />The first time I did this painting, it was just a depiction of the night sky over a much more generic looking rolling hills countryside. I decided it wasn't distinctive enough to be immediately recognizable, and so I went and did some research.<br /><br />First I had to find a good photo of Crawley's High Street and a building that was recognizably from that street. Once I decided which building I wanted in the painting, (which turned out to be the Gainsborough House) I then had to figure out which direction you were looking at in the photo. Google Earth was a huge help in this process.<br /><br />Finally, I had to see what constellations would have been showing if you stood in that location and looked up at the sky at that precise date and time. I chose 11 pm because it would have been reasonably dark at that time, being that the sunset would have been near 8 pm.<br /><br />The border contains the names of the constellations (although Cameleopardalis is spelled wrong), and the moons along the sides show two phases of the moon, crescent and gibbous in both waxing and waning phases. The constellation lines and the stars on the border are both rendered in gold foil, everything else is either watercolor or ink. Very geeky, yes, but how could it be otherwise? :D<br /><br />I started by measuring out and sketching in the main elements of the picture.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3390033757/" title="032709_06 by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/3390033757_cc63f7b1ce.jpg" alt="032709_06" width="500" height="378" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/3390033545/" title="Drawing for my page, detail by bluheron, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3662/3390033545_2cbb38bba7_m.jpg" alt="Drawing for my page, detail" width="240" height="180" /></a><br /><br />Then I painted the buildings and the main wash over the sky and started on the detail elements. Finally, I did the gold leafing on the constellations and the border stars. The painting was finished with a clear coat over the gold constellations and then placed in the book after a little while under some heavy books to flatten it out.Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-88222060331318855572009-03-25T00:54:00.000-06:002009-03-25T01:36:13.793-06:00Countdown to Coachella!Greetings Cure fans and Cure friends! I just wanted to give you a gentle reminder that today, March 25th is exactly three weeks before the pages are due on Weds. April 15th for the 30th Anniversary Book!<br /><br />So, you officially have 21 days from today to finish your pages and quit procrastinating sending them in to me! Get off the sofa, find an envelope and a bit of stiff cardboard and send that puppy onward! <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Yes, it is best if you actually mail them to me</span> ahead of time so that the final pages don't end up in a last minute hack job down in Vegas or Indio. *You* want your pages to look good for Robert and the guys, and *I* want your pages to look good for Robert and the guys, so please get them in well before the deadline so that they will be put in with all the loving care that they deserve. Not that they won't be put in with loving care anyway, but it is much harder to do things at the last moment, and should your page present a unique mounting problem, it would be best to be able to resolve it at leisure.<br /><br />I also wanted to give everyone an update on the status of the book as of right now. I have received 31 beautiful, amazing pages filled with heartfelt emotion and love! Thanks again to all of the contributors to the book for sending a little piece of you to go in the book.<br /><br />Given that the actual album only holds 50 pages total, it is well over halfway full, with several more pages promised as of this writing, I've been asked several times "What happens if you get more than 50 pages?" and that's a good question! The answer is that if we get closer to the date and it looks like the album will be full up, I will buy a secondary album to mount the pages in, and decorate it in a similar way to the first one. All the pages sent in will be treated with the loving care and respect that they deserve. Obviously I won't be able to spend as much time on it as I did the first one, but all the pages will go in a book. And honestly, I think that would be a great "problem" to have!<br /><br />The book now has a case! My sweet husband is very skilled at the art of the sewing machine (he used to make those big funky hats in the 1990's) and his contribution to the book project was to help out with making the case. The case is made with a very nice high quality black velvet fabric and has two black velvet ribbons that are the ties. I hope to be able to decorate the case with some gold metallic embroidered ornamentation soon.<br /><br />I created a set on my flickr for the "detail" photos of the book and it's creation. In this set you can see how pages are actually mounted in the book and also more details about the cover and case. I made a second set in order to avoid cluttering the "virtual book" with detail photos.<br /><br />As always, see <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-30th-anniversary-book.html">the original announcement about the project here</a> if you still need my mailing address, page specifications or dimensions or any other information.<br /><br />Finally, here's the slideshow from the "details" flickr set:<br /><div align="center"><br /><object width="400" height="300"> <param name="flashvars" value="&offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbluheron%2Fsets%2F72157615449217369%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbluheron%2Fsets%2F72157615449217369%2F&set_id=72157615449217369&jump_to="> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=67348"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=67348" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="&offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbluheron%2Fsets%2F72157615449217369%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbluheron%2Fsets%2F72157615449217369%2F&set_id=72157615449217369&jump_to=" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /></div>Rev. Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978515318693798097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760240398068873355.post-78758345751432183082009-03-19T02:23:00.001-06:002014-10-20T18:37:23.665-06:00My Cure Shows<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Just as a way for me to keep track of them, here's the list of all the shows I've been to. Not nearly as many here as a lot of fans have seen, for sure! Links to reviews, photos or video may take you off-site, so you might want to open them in a new window or tab. A couple of the early ones lead to the original Chain of Roberts site.<br />
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1. <a href="http://www.bornpagan.com/chain/link_1.htm">My First Cure Show</a> - Dodger Stadium - LA, CA - Sept. 8, 1989<br />
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2. Wish Tour - Salt Lake City, UT - July 7, 1992<br />
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3. Swing Tour- Salt Lake City, UT - August 8, 1996<br />
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4. Dream Tour - West Palm Beach, FL - May20, 2000<br />
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5. <a href="http://www.bornpagan.com/chain/II3.htm">Inland Invasion</a> - Devore, CA - Sept. 20, 2003<br />
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6. Curiosa Tour - Denver, CO - Aug. 17, 2004<br />
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7. <a href="http://www.bornpagan.com/chain/SLC_2004.htm">Curiosa Tour</a> - Salt Lake City, UT - Aug, 18, 2004 - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLzuX5ixDKc" target="_blank">Video</a><br />
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8. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605289368214/">Ultra Music Festival</a> - Miami, FL - March 23, 2007 - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVAjjajez80" target="_blank">Video</a><br />
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9. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157602318862866/" target="_blank">Download Festival</a> - Mt. View, CA - Oct. 6, 2007 - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCveIQjPuvw" target="_blank">Video</a><br />
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10. 4Tour - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605205621046/" target="_blank">Red Rocks</a>, Morrison, CO - May 21, 2008 - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2okRgW5GLM" target="_blank">Video</a><br />
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11. 4Tour - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605222808964/" target="_blank">Salt Lake City</a>, UT - May 23, 2008 - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ciJfluBxA&feature=user" target="_blank">Video</a><br />
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12. 4Tour - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605599845078/">Sunrise, FL </a>- June 13, 2008 - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwY_tOFl-gs">Video</a><br />
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13. 4Tour - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157605762180279/">Madison Square Garden, NYC, NY</a> - June 20, 2008 - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii_o0MUbkBg">Video</a><br />
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14. LA Shows - <a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/very-merry-curemas.html">Carson Daly Taping</a>, Burbank, CA - Dec. 12, 2008<br />
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15. LA Shows -<a href="http://chainofroberts.blogspot.com/2008/12/1213-dream-evening-with-cure.html">Troubadour Myspace Secret Show</a>, W. Hollywood, CA - Dec. 13, 2008<br />
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16. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157614464438988/">NME Awards</a> - O2 Academy, Brixton, UK - Feb. 25, 2009<br />
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17. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157614541441297/">NME Big Gig</a> - O2 Arena, Greenwich, UK - Feb. 26, 2009<br />
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18. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluheron/sets/72157617165365564/">The Pearl - The Palms</a>, Las Vegas, NV - April 17, 2009<br />
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19. Coachella Festival- Indio, CA - April 19, 2009<br />
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20. Reflections, Vivid Festival - Sydney, Australia - May 31, 2011 <br />
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21. Reflections, Vivid Festival - Sydney, Australia - June 1, 2011 <br />
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22. Bestival - Isle of Wight, UK - Sept. 10, 2011 <br />
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23-25. Reflections - Los Angeles, CA - Nov. 21-23, 2011<br />
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26. Reading Festival - Reading, UK - Aug. 23, 2012<br />
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27. Leeds Festival - Leeds, UK - Aug. 24, 2012<br />
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28. South America Tour 2013 - Santiago, Chile - April 14, 2013<br />
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29, South America Tour 2013 - Lima, Peru - April 17, 2013<br />
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30. Riot Fest 2014 - Denver, CO - Sept. 20, 2014<br />
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