They will be playing three albums in their entirerty – namely Three Imaginary Boys (1979), Seventeen Seconds (1980), and Faith (1981). Any die hard Cure fans will absolutely love the playlist. There’s nothing better than songs like 10:15 Saturday Night, A Forest or Play for Today being played live.

Look at the line up of who will be appearing – Awesome to see Lol Tolhurst back for this tour:

Three Imaginary Boys (1979)
The Cure Trio: Robert Smith (voice & guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums)

Seventeen Seconds (1980)
The Cure Quartet: Robert Smith (voice & guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O’Donnell (keys)

Faith (1981)
The Cure Quintet: Robert Smith (voice & guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O’Donnell (keys & percussion), Laurence Tolhurst (keys & percussion)

The Cure are playing at the Opera House which is unusual and new to the band, but I noticed that the performance will be recorded for distribution and broadcast so expect to see DVDs released in the future. Pity their other Oz tours from years back haven’t been recorded because they have done some good ones – hang on, all of them have been good! And it is being advertised as a 180 minute concert.

Can’t wait for this, and look for another post here after the concerts to report how good it was as I’m definitely going!

He hinted on the reform of the original group, telling News of the World: “Some of the Prince Charming lineup will be back – if they can make it through boot camp. I’m a hard task-master.”

Obviously no dates and locations have been set as yet, but watch this space.

Who can forget this 1980 classic:

“Do us all a favour”, Adam

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See how many you remember, and do you agree with the order?

1. Call Me – Blondie
2. Another Brick In the Wall – Pink Floyd
3. Magic – Olivia Newton-John
4. Rock With You – Michael Jackson
5. Do That to Me One More Time – Captain and Tennille
6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
7. Coming Up – Paul McCartney
8. Designer Music – Lipps-Inc.
9. It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me – Billy Joel
10. The Rose – Bette Midler
11. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) – Rupert Holmes
12. Cars – Gary Numan
13. Cruisin’ – Smokey Robinson
14. Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me – Girl Spinners
15. Lost In Love – Air Supply
16. Little Jeannie – Elton John
17. Ride Like the Wind – Cristopher Cross
18. Upside Down – Diana Ross
19. Please Don’t Go – K.C. and The Sunshine Band
20. Babe – Styx
21. With You I’m Born Again – Billy Preston and Syreeta
22. Shining Star – Manhattans
23. Still – Commodores
24. Yes- I’m Ready – Teri De Sario With K.C.
25. Sexy Eyes – Dr. Hook

The main face of Level 42 was Mark King, and in the early years (around 1979-1980) both he and Phil Gould (no longer in the band) became involved in Robin Scott’s pop project M — Gould contributed to the US number one single ‘Pop Muzik’.

Keeping up the momentum of this success, the band played at the Prince’s Trust concert in July 1987, with Eric Clapton standing in on lead guitar for a performance of Running in the Family.

With touring and personal health problems taking their toll on most ofthe band members, the band ended splitting up around 1994, but later in the decade played the odd private show after Mark King had gone solo (and brought in some members/former members in for his performances).

The band ended up reforming in 2001, and this year is their 30th anniversary year with multiple gigs lined up in the UK to be played.

Here is their best song:

And the best part of it is that you can play the game too. Click on ‘insert coin’

Enjoy it at Google.

To do so you had a trak ball to move your cross hair, and three buttons to shoot from your three respective anti-battery stations. From memory, it was one of the first arcade games that used the trak ball. If not, it was certainly the only game where it was the main control that was heavily relied on to play the game. From my youth, I remember slamming the ball at an angle, as hard as I could, to get my cross hair from one side to the other as quick as possible.

The game is split up into levels, with each one getting harder as more and more missiles being sent down the screen – faster and faster too.

The game ends when all your six cities have been destroyed. An amusing part of the game was the flashing, huge block lettered ‘game over’ message displayed on the screen. Typical retro stuff.

If you would like to play it online, go to the Atari site and have a go.

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