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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 12h

It's the infographic they said was IMPOSSIBLE They were WRONG Euler diagram showing body parts in song lyrics from 4th Cure album Pornography Winning body parts (no. of songs/8) Face 6 Hand 5 Eye 4 Head 3 Mouth 3 Blood 3 Winning song = title track Porno: Hand, Eye, Head, Mouth, Blood, Flesh, Body

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 14h

5/8 songs from 4th Cure album Pornography have the word Hand(s) in the lyrics

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 16h

Happy 4th birthday to Cure Gig Stats who debuted OTD 2022 with this banger🎉🍾🥳🎂

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 18h

30y record remains intact! Rotterdam OTD 1996 Cure play their longest set featuring zero song titles starting with definitive article THE 36 non-the-songs has been bettered 15x incl 42 at famous Foro Sol but not with this purity All time play counts of The-songs 👇

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 18h

Austin City Limits OTD 2019 Last gig b4 covid and Cure's longest spell out of the game Last Dance/Caterpillar/Just One Kiss not heard since Post-89 LastD only played Trilogy, 17/76 in 2016 and 30/33! in 2019 Caterpillar surprising popular 103/163 2012-19 after just 1 post-84 J1K 2012x10 & 2019x25

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Cure are famously among most clean-shaven alt rock bands in the business with limited exceptions

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Here is Queens Square today in all it's current glory Rumbelows is now @Poundland The listed bandstand moved to the Queens Square in 1958 from Gatwick racecourse, was dismantled in 2016, restored and reassembled in 2018 in nearby Memorial Gardens, shown before and after move

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gig details unavailable but likely Easy Cure played songs recorded as studio demos 2 days later: See The Children I Just Need Myself I Want To Be Old Pillbox Tales Meathook Since becoming frontman in 1977 Rob has sung at least 35,000 songs in concert

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

49ys ago today 18y old Rob Smith took Easy Cure lead vocal responsibilities for first time Original singer Peter O-Toole left for Kibbutz Rob: "I couldn't be any worse" Mike: "Most admirable thing I've seen Rob do" Crawley bandstand return not to be confused with prior summery appearance from SATS

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Were not Was Not to be confused with Was (Not Was) authors of 1988 banger Walk The Dinosaur

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seventeen Seconds The Cure, Belgium 1980 17S fizzled out of sets early 1981 Only reprises was a surprise Rob acoustic solo 2002 and Reflections 2011

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Alternative Cure Video #3 Let’s Go To Bed #AltCureVid #CarlaAndWeasel Amazingly LGTB is the song Boris played in concert more than any other (x349 vs 347 Forests) LGTB doesn’t even feature in any other members personal Top10 most played, except for Porl for whom it ranks #5

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a banger Would bring the house down in poppy encores

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was strange Cure didn’t play Happy the Man (Caterpillar bside) at Hammersmith Xmas shows 2014 when The Top was played in full Instead we got Man Inside My Mouth Hypothesis: Rob got his bsides muddled

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OTD 1984 began eventful Top Tour of NZ/AU/JA/CA/US featuring 3 drummers in 7wks Schedule documents gruelling 30h journey on 3 flights London to Wellington 100 hours in NZ: Recover from jetlag 2 gigs Press day Journeying Auckland to Wellington and back Credit to magical cure-concerts.de

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ewe’s eye view of Yr Wyddfa summit from Crib Goch yesterday Memorable Snowdon horseshoe in stunning weather 1055m total ascent 7h 5min

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

14 moons of The Cure to celebrate the harvest moon #CureWords #fullnoon #harvestmoon 🌕

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

SRTR is a better album than any the Durans did as the Durans

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Special mention to Gillingham FC's Priestfield Stadium, 28 miles west of Uni of Kent in Canterbury where fledgling Cure supported The Wire in 1978 And also to Burnley's Turf Moor which is 26 miles from Preston's Lancashire Poly where Cure played in 1979

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The English football league club most remote from any venue Cure have played is Grimsby Town FC, 36 miles and an awkward navigation across the Humber from Hull's City Hall where Cure played in 1979 supporting SATB The Mariners play at Blundell Park built 1898

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Premier League table if it was based on how many minutes walk to the nearest music venue played by The Cure

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cure song titles spelt entirely with 1 point Scrabble letters There Is No If... This Is A Lie Treasure Alt.End Torture Return Alone Trust Lost

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pancakes at Scotty’s Kitchen in Weston Super Mare

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I had this poster on my wall as a child

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Alternative Cure Video #7 Close to Me #AltCureVid CTM last played Troxy London 1st Nov 2024

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Denver Riot Fest OTD 2014 Last time Cure played a full gig* with no songs beginning with indefinite article A Lifetime A-song plays👇 Also only Cut Here since 2002 *excl Disintegration30 shows in Sydney

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Meet the team: Carla, Weasel and Fat Ronnie

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bloodflowers has longest song titles of any album 3.1 mean word count/15.7 characters Preceding album Wild Mood Swings has shortest song titles 1.9 words on average/9.1 characters Strong positive correlation between album's mean word count and mean character count Linear regression R²=0.70

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Leicester OTD 1979 SATB Join Hands tour resumed 11 days after Aberdeen bust up & 6 cancelled gigs, now with Bob The Banshee on double shift Filling the lull Cure productively went to Rotterdam New Pop Fest then came home to record JSET which got live debuted before De Montford students #JSETat47

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Comprehensive list of Cure songs needing all five vowels in the spelling How Beautiful You Are... Jumping Someone Else's Train A Man Inside My Mouth The Upstairs Room A Few Hours After This Why Cant I Be You? This. Here And Now. With You

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Top doublets in Cure history # plays as consecutive songs #1 is an understatement with many early sets undocumented

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Riot Fest 3ys ago today Last time Cure play 10:15 & KAA 10:15 into KAA is Cure's #1 doublet x432 and most common finale medley x210 In certain seasons (87 96 08 notably) KAA followed by Forest Faith or Forever (CTM>WCIBY is #2 doublet x278) Cure sometimes bashful about KAA but never abandoned

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Unlikely Cure will make a first return to Cov since 1981

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

20 Cure Ice Rink gigs have delivered: Cold x7 HHH x5 Burn x4 I'm Cold x0

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cure have played at least 20 gigs in 8 ice rinks in 5 countries Whitley Bay 85 UK Bordeaux Patinoire de Mériadeck 85 87 89 92 Lausanne Patinoire de Malley 89 92 Helsinki Jäähalli 92 22 +Hartwall Arena 16 Stockholm Isstadion/Hovet 87 89 96 08 +Avicii/Globe 92 16 22 Gothenburg Scandinavium 92 16 22 👇

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Before Newcastle Arena opened in 1995, Whitley Bay Ice Rink was THE premier venue in NE hosting Def Lep, ACDC, Wham, NKOTB, Take That, Stone Roses and others Oasis are banned following postgig incident in the bar 1996

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Experience the horror of that final encore Robert apologised in his introduction with the false promise that they would never play the two songs again (yet they would) Much more👇 www.youtube.com/watch?t=4772...

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The Cure - 1985 Whitley Bay - Ice Rink (England)

YouTube video by Adam “OTHER VOICES STAY CURED” Lipka

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

OTD 1985 Cure take Head Tour to Whitley Bay for REMARKABLE gig MOST NORTHERLY of 343 England gigs! ONLY UK GIG IN ICE RINK! But no I'm/Cold KINKS COVER! Repeated just twice: '85 & '87 I DIG YOU REVIVED, after Brighton 2days b4, this time sans Frank Bell Only one future IDY: Barfly'04 Tix £5 👇

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

anniversary was yday if anyone cares

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