The latest Uncut Ultimate Music Guide is a 148-page celebration of the wayward genius of Robert Smith and The Cure, the band he formed nearly four decades years ago and which almost from the very beginning of their illustrious career he seems to have almost every year promised to walk away from, even as they have become one of British rock's most enduring and fascinating musical institutions.
The Cure's official photographer will release a new book featuring never-before-seen and rare photographs of the band.
Andy Vella's Obscure will be released on September 18 and includes a foreword from Robert Smith, who describes it as being "dreadfully funny, terribly honest and strangely melancholic."
The latest instalment Uncut's Ultimate Music Guide series is available now - and the subject of this current edition is The Cure.
This lavish, 148 page magazine includes brand new reviews by Uncut's team of writers of all The Cure's albums.
Meanwhile, we revisit classic interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME, charting first hand the band's journey from their home town of Crawley to the enormodomes of America.
We’re busy this week finishing the next issue of Uncut – the final pages are being signed off and sent as I write this. We’re also packing an ungodly amount of stuff into crates and boxes ahead of another office move this weekend to the floor below the one we’ve been calling home since the last time we packed up and moved.
The Cure frontman Robert Smith has revealed that the group's next album will be a mix of brand new material and unused material from 2008's 4:13 Dream, their most recent record.
Smith wanted that album to be a double, but a single album was eventually released.
Speaking to NME following the group's performance for Teenage Cancer Trust at London's Royal Albert Hall on Saturday (March 29), Smith said of the album: "There’s new stuff that we’re doing with this line-up and stuff we finished with the old line-up."
