Now is your chance to bid on a bass guitar owned, donated & signed by me - with all proceeds going to the Forever Manchester grassroots music fund.

The grand auction takes place on September 12th but online bids are open now here: musicforthesenses.co.uk/auction

Photo credit to @steverapport.bsky.social
On of my all time favorite videos and images of the band!

The Cure: Designer Andy Vella on creating art for the goth rockers Andy Vella has been designing record covers for more than 40 years, most predominately for The Cure.

Article on BBC news site today about artist Andy Vella, and his participation in the Secret 7" exhibition at NOW Gallery, Greenwich Peninsula in London (running until 1 June) (that is @alanstap.bsky.social ) #thecure

bbc.com/news/article...

Canadian musician Bells Larsen, who is trans, has been forced to cancel his upcoming US tour dates after immigration authorities required government-issued IDs to match "one's assigned sex at birth" → cons.lv/MM0Vfl

Home - Secret 7” Secret 7" brings together 7 iconic tracks from 7 of the world’s top musicians, each pressed just 100 times onto a 7” vinyl.

If you missed out, you can still bid on 700 unique Secret 7” records from The Cure, Gregory Porter, Frank Turner, Jessie Ware, Keane, Scissor Sisters and Sophie Ellis-Bextor!

All the money raised will help War Child provide essential aid - secret-7.co.uk

@recordstoredayuk.bsky.social

From Secret 7":

Some beautiful covers from @thecure.com singles over the years 🥀
Just over a week until the Secret 7" 2025 picks go on display and 100 unique covers for The Cure's Warsong: Troxy Live 2024 are revealed

🔗 Get your exhibition tickets now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-child-...

Love this photo! @steverapport.bsky.social

Count me in!

Flood Google with this:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico.
2. it says Gulf of America
3. Click three little dots to the right of it
4. hit "Send Feedback"
5. hit "Gulf Of America"
6. hit "Inaccurate content".
7. hit "Incorrect", then tell them its name: ‘This body of water is the Gulf of Mexico’
8. Repeat

The Cure are nominated for 3 BRIT awards, including Best Alternative/Rock Act.

You can vote for them once a day until 14th February 11.59pm GMT via Whatsapp.

Info on voting: brits.co.uk/vote/

VOTE NOW FOR #THECURE!
BEST ALT / ROCK ACT BRITS 2025
YOU CAN VOTE ONCE EVERY DAY FOR 2 WEEKS. 15 VOTES IN TOTAL
VOTE AT brits.lnk.to/vote

@andydeane.bsky.social where can we find your tour schedule and dates?

@bunnymen.com @steverapport.bsky.social
Thank you! Best Christmas gift! Happy Chistmas, to all!

Merry Christmas...

💭

From @robert.thecure.com:

IT APPEARS THERE ARE QUITE A FEW 'SIGNED GUITARS' POPPING UP ONLINE?A HEADS UP:UNLESS IT IS ONE OF MY SCHECTER MODELS, YOU CAN BE 99.999% SURE A 'SIGNED GUITAR' HAS NOT BEEN SIGNED BY ME (AND IF THE SALE IS NOT BENEFITTING CHARITY,YOU SHOULDN'T BUY IT ANYWAY!) ...ONWARDS X

SONGS OF A LIVE WORLD: TROXY LONDON MMXXlV’
OUT NOW ON VINYL, CD & CASSETTE

ALL CURE RECORD ROYALTIES FROM THIS LIVE RELEASE WILL BE DONATED WAR CHILD
LISTEN/ORDER AT thecure.lnk.to/TroxyLiveAlbum

The Cure have announced Songs of a Live World, a companion live release featuring songs from their comeback album, Songs of a Lost World → cos.lv/l4jZ50UiENJ

'SONGS OF A LIVE WORLD : TROXY LONDON MMXXIV'. ROBERT SMITH AUDIO MIX NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER. ALL CURE RECORD ROYALTIES FROM THIS LIVE RELEASE WILL BE DONATED TO WAR CHILD. PRE-ORDER AT thecure.lnk.to/TroxyLiveAlbum. WATCH THE FULL TROXY SHOW WITH ORIGINAL LIVE AUDIO MIX ON YOUTUBE.

From The Cure on Instagram.

Pre-order Songs of a Live World.

thecure.lnk.to/TroxyLiveAlb...

I am also still waiting for a Grey marble vinyl copy to arrive.