The longest Cure song title to appear in the lyrics of a different song is Round and Round and Round, which precedes "It's Coming Apart Again" in 1989 title track Disintegration

OTD 2004 supergroup The Placebo Cure delivered a one-off performance of If Only Tonight We Could Sleep in Paris to make Cure’s biggest onstage gathering since their ill-conceived but brief mariachi phase 8ys prior

OTD 1996 Swing Tour took an eclectic turn by playing Round & Round & Round into Figurehead for the only time ever

OTD 2022 Stockholm Gig 3 of Shows of a Lost World tour Cure revived forgotten concept of 3 consecutive songs from Pornography in main set for first time since 2004 2002 Trilogy shows aside, the main set Porno hattrick has been achieved just 4x this side of 1984 2003 2004 2022x2

Benicio Del Toro wearing a T-shirt of The Cure's "Disintegration" 💙

OTD 2019 Cure played their final gig before covid at Austin City Limits Second of two heroic stand-ins by Eden Gallup Austin bid farewell Caterpillar, Never Enough, Last Dance & Just One Kiss, songs which played at 97% 94% 90% and 81% of 31 gigs in 2019 (ex-Reflections30)

Happy 3rd Birthday to Cure Gig Stats 🎉🍾🥳🎂

OTD 1977 Robert Smith of post-punk wannabe upstarts Easy Cure took the mike for first time Previous lead singer Peter O'Toole left the band, and country for good measure Easy C took month off before returning for a second gig at Crawley's bandstand this time with new vocalist Bob

To CGS knowledge, all live Mint Cars are racoon-free with Bob busy on his guitar solo Thus the Racoon was born on the album recording, necessarily featured in the video, but soon discarded in the trashcan of Cure's mumbled lyrics

The only mimed performance of Minty on WMS promo circuit Bob didn’t even pretending to to Racoon Had the mischievous procyonid been disowned for good?

Official recording and video, certainly some Racoons on the roof

Racoons in Mint Car is a controversial animal in the Cure menagerie The evidence for and against No Racoons in sleeve lyrics on WMS <thread>

Fun fact The wig throw at start of Cure in Orange was filmed the day after the famous gig before no audience

Cure’s champion animal album is The Top 8/10 songs from album mention an animal in lyrics with 8 species in its ecosystem Cure’s champion animal song is Sleep When I’m Dead which mention an incredible 5: Bunny chicken kitten monkey and puppy 🐇🐔🐱🐒🐶

The Toppy Hammersmith Xmas shows 2014 hold the record for the most songs in one set that mention an animal in the title 🐶🐷🐟🐛🐤🦜😻

The Cure's lyrical menagerie 3IB X 17S X Faith🐦🐱 Pornography🐦🦟🐷🕷️🐯🪱 Japanese Whispers🐱🐱🐱🐯🦇 The Top🐦🐦🐦🐱🐛🐶🐟🐷🐷🐻‍❄️🦅 KMKMKM🦜🐶🐶🐟🐍🦇🐒 Disintegration🐊🕷️🐵 Wish🐱 WMS🐝🐦🐶🦟🐍🦋 Bloodflowers🐦 The Cure X 4:13 Dream🐦🐰🐔🐈🐒🐕🐳🐒🦅 SOALW🐦

Correction Perry back after almost 18ys

The almost 3 year interval between gigs in Austin 2019 and Riga 2022 is the longest sabbatical in Cure history, and for Rob However individual members have had longer time-outs between shows Porl, Reeves, Perry and Lol all returned to stage with The Cure after 12y+ spells out

Alone and Endsong live debuting at Cure's first ever gig in Latvia 3ys ago today is the first time Cure have premiered a new song on a country debut since IBD & Baby Screams first stepped out in Barcelona 1985 at Cure's first gig in Spain

3ys ago today Cure debuted Alone in Riga First live song since signing off Austin City limits with BDC 3ys earlier First song debut since 2019 Pirate Ships at Disintegration30 (+6 other deepcuts) before that Exploding Boy 2016 Alone opened 92/last 92 gigs https://t.co/gYGVZdsNmZ