Twenty years ago tonight, Robert Smith and the rest of The Cure — aided by a pair of American DJs and shadowed by MTV and the music press — set up a pirate radio station at the headquarters of Fiction Records with plans to illicitly premiere their soon-to-released remix album ‘Mixed Up’ over the London airwaves.
31
Aug
2010
Milestones: Robert Smith’s ‘Cure FM’ pirate radio broadcast was 20 years ago tonight
Tags: 120 Minutes, 91X, Cure FM, De La Soul, Digital Underground, Dinosaur Jr, Elektra Records, Fiction Records, Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, KROQ, Lewis Largent, Mike Halloran, Mixed Up, MTV, Robert Smith, Rubaiyat, The Cure, The Doors, The Human League
08
Oct
2009
The Cure’s ‘Disintegration’ gets 3CD deluxe reissue in 2010, plus ‘In Orange’ on DVD
Tags: BBC, Disintegration, Entreat, In Orange, Mixed Up, Robert Smith, Rubaiyat, Show, The Cure, Wendy Waldman
The Cure will reissue its 1989 masterwork Disintegration in an expanded and remastered 3CD edition next spring, Robert Smith announced today, the first salvo in what appears to be a flood of new archival releases from the legendary band — including the first-ever DVD release of 1987’s long-out-of-print “In Orange” concert film.












