Category Archives: cure

I Talk To The Trees

Posted on June 8, 2010 by

A preacher at the dear old Baptist church I used to frequent  said of John 1:1 that it was such a perfect piece of writing that one could not possibly comment on it, and then added, “And our closing hymn … Continue reading →

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A Kitchen Sink Drama

Posted on September 8, 2007 by

Question: What has ever come out of Crawley, West Sussex? Answer: me (I lived there from 1971-3), and The Cure (who were formed there in 1976). Robert Smith, permanently looking like a toilet brush on acid, wrote some gloomy and … Continue reading →

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Your Festive Fifty: an introduction

Posted on August 3, 2007 by

Readers of my blog (all five or six of you) know what the Festive 50 was: but there may be some people stumbling on this who do not know what I’m talking about. Well, John Peel, the seminal DJ who … Continue reading →

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