Cure Cancels Fall Tour

Just heard it from Cheryl Waters on KEXP.

The first thing that popped into my head was this: My Goodness the Times have Changed. In the 80s it seemed there were a few hundred Mega Bands — you know, the ones on Warner Records, IRS Records etc. And then there was the underground scene.

Now that’s segmented into hundreds of subgroups, filled by tens of thousands of bands using the Internet to get their music out. Hooray for that. Look for this granularization to continue.

The money just isn’t there for big dinosaur tours, except for the ones that cater to suburban/SUV baby boomers like the Eagles or the Stones ($200 tickets? No thanks). And The Cure’s crappy new material doesn’t exactly help.

Not that I don’t like The Cure… au contraire, I risked (and received) a grounding by dad by going sans permission to see them on their Kiss Me tour at George Washington University in Virginia in 1987.

(Yea, I’m old. I drove to it from Maryland in my flesh-colored ‘79 Plymouth Volare wagon with music stickers on the back bumper, and my HS girlfriend Erika in the passenger seat. She didn’t get grounded.)

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