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The Cure

March 2024

  • Cars in the Formula 1 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix.

    Brief letters
    How to bring thrills back to Formula One

    Brief letters: Fast cars | Red carpet crash | Fat shaming | Budget crimes | Short shrift

January 2024

  • Michael Kiwanuka, Robert Smith of the Cure, and Ariana Grande – all expected to release new music in 2024.

    ‘I’d take a mediocre album rather than nothing!’: the new music readers want to hear in 2024

    Guardian readers are longing for returns by artists from Ariana Grande to Archie Shepp –and even possibly Kate Bush?

October 2023

  • Whitby Goth weekend<br>Ana Franco (left) attends the Whitby Goth Weekend in Whitby, Yorkshire, as hundreds of goths descend on the seaside town where Bram Stoker found inspiration for 'Dracula' after staying in the town in 1890. Picture date: Sunday October 29, 2022. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

    The Guardian view on goth: not just for Halloween

    Editorial: A series of weighty new studies points to a revival of interest in a saturnine subculture. It may be a sign of the times
  • Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee … (l-r) Budgie, Tolhurst and Lee

    ‘Like the Three Tenors, but with drummers’: Budgie, Lol Tolhurst and Jacknife Lee on their supergroup rebirth

    The drummers from the Banshees and the Cure joked about a collaboration until – with megaproducer Lee on board – they were soon jamming with The Edge and Bobby Gillespie. They talk pop, alcoholism and leaving the UK
  • Laura Snapes

    Don’t play the hits! Rarities are one of the great joys of live music

    Laura Snapes
    From the National to U2 and Taylor Swift, artists are digging beyond their best-known songs to affirm the connection they share with their loyal fans

September 2023

  • Patrick Stewart dressed in Tom Ford for the Observer Magazine.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

    From David Mitchell in a crown to Motsi Mabuse in a suit: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in September 2023
  • Lol Tolhurst (second from left) with the Cure in 1985.

    Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst review – the dark is rising

    The former Cure drummer traces the genre from its 18th-century literary roots to its flourishing as a music subculture
  • Lol Tolhurst, left, and Robert Smith of the Cure, 1983.

    The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst: ‘Goth is about being in love with the melancholy beauty of existence’

    The band’s co-founder on reconciling with Robert Smith and the real meaning of the dark music subculture

March 2023

  • Taylor Swift performing in Glendale, Arizona, on 18 March.

    ‘They’re an endurance test!’ Will Taylor Swift begin the era of the three-hour concert?

    With cash-strapped fans eager for epic setlists, Swift isn’t the only artist doing extra-long gigs – but performers and fans alike will need to toughen up
  • Robert Smith of The Cure performs on stage in London in December 2022

    The Cure’s Robert Smith convinces Ticketmaster to refund ‘unduly high’ fees after fan anger

    Ticketing giant will refund $10 to fans who bought cheapest tickets on the band’s US tour, and $5 to everyone else after frontman asks for an explanation
  • Robert Smith of the Cure performing at the Ovo Arena Wembley in London, 12 December 2022.

    The Cure: Robert Smith tells fans he is ‘sickened’ by Ticketmaster fees as US tour goes on sale

    The frontman said that artists had no way to limit the ticketing giant’s fees but his band had declined to participate in the ‘greedy scam’ of dynamic pricing

February 2023

  • Release the bats … Jon Klein, Nik Fiend, Olli Wisdom and Jonny Slut.

    Goth’s undead! The dark return of Britain’s spookiest subculture

    From Wednesday Addams to Gen Z’s body-modified clubbers, the black-eyeliner brigade is back – and wearing its deathhawk hair higher than ever. But did it ever go away?

December 2022

  • The Cure’s Robert Smith with guitar, light streaming down behind him, on stage in Leeds.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    The Cure review – the doyens of doom

  • the Cure performing at the Ovo Hydro, Glasgow, 4 December 2022.

    The Cure review – top goths tease their bleak but beautiful new album

December 2021

  • Clockwise from top: Michael Kiwanuka, Dua Lipa, Dave, Wet Leg

    2022 culture preview
    Abba to Zappa: pop, rock and classical music to look forward to in 2022

    UK rap’s biggest star goes on tour, Wet Leg drop a deadpan debut and Rosalía gets into reggaeton. Here are the albums, concerts and tours the big hitters have in store

December 2020

  • Robin Ince, press image

    Robin Ince's 24-hour carnival of comics, comets and the Cure

    From Harry Hill to Helen Sharman, Ince’s Christmas mashup of comedy, science and music – Nine Lessons and Carols for Socially Distanced People – reached dizzy heights

November 2019

  • Siouxsie Sioux, London 1980.

    'From Abba to Zappa': Michael Putland's shots of rock royalty – in pictures

    Putland, who died this week aged 72, was said to have snapped every major musical star from A-Z. Here’s a selection of images from a new book that pairs images of the many stars he captured over his 50-year-career with his own memories

July 2019

  • Robert Smith on stage at Hyde Park, London

    The Cure: Anniversary 1978-2018 Live in Hyde Park London review – communal celebration

    Robert Smith revives all the old goth bangers with muscular, life-affirming brio in Tim Pope’s sedate concert film
  • Robert Smith of the Cure at Glastonbury festival.

    Glastonbury 2019: Sunday with the Cure, Kylie and Miley Cyrus – as it happened

    The festival’s closing day brought Kylie gold, while Cyrus rocked out and David Attenborough made a surprise appearance. Plus, Christine and the Queens, the Streets and Vampire Weekend
  • Robert Smith of the Cure, playing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2019.

    The Cure at Glastonbury 2019 review – still the world's most reluctant pop stars

    Robert Smith’s band of goth-pop veterans focus on their imperial phase: a catalogue that can’t help but be anthemic
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