The Cure-Memorial Day wknd on Sirius XM First Wave

[ebbhead]

Not sure if this has been posted - didn't see it. If so, sorry.

A four day special featuring The Cure started today on Sirius XM's First Wave. It will include their Hollywood Bowl show from 08 and interviews, etc. http://www.sirius.com/1stwave (Get a free 3-day trial at their site...)


SIRIUS XM Radio to Broadcast 4-Day Celebration of the New Wave Band, The Cure, During the Memorial Day Holiday
--"4 for The Cure Memorial Weekend" will feature The Cure in concert plus a rare interview with lead singer Robert Smith exclusively on SIRIUS XM's 1st Wave channel

NEW YORK, May 15, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- SIRIUS XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) today announced it will broadcast a four-day celebration of the iconic New Wave band, The Cure. "4 for The Cure Memorial Weekend" will feature an exclusive, rare interview with frontman, Robert Smith, a previously unreleased concert recording and music spanning the band's three-decade career. "4 for The Cure Memorial Weekend" will launch on 1st Wave, SIRIUS channel 22 and XM channel 44, starting Friday, May 22 through Monday, May 25.

For the SIRIUS XM special broadcast, 1st Wave channel host Richard Blade spoke to Robert Smith. Robert will offer SIRIUS XM listeners a glimpse into his very private personal life and discuss his band's music--both old favorites and new songs--songwriting, recording, and performing live. The Robert Smith interview will air one-time only on Sunday, May 24 at 11 am ET.

SIRIUS XM will also broadcast The Cure's previously unreleased concert performance from the band's appearance at Los Angeles's Hollywood Bowl on May 31, 2008. This exclusive 3-hour broadcast will air on Friday, May 22 at 6 pm and will be rebroadcast on Saturday, May 23 at 12 pm ET; Sunday, May 24 at 10 pm ET and Monday, May 25 at 4 pm ET.

Additionally, Robert Smith will guest deejay throughout Memorial Day weekend, introducing Cure songs and offering his insights into the band's music, including the New Wave classics "Let's Go to Bed," "Just like Heaven" and "Friday I'm in Love."

SIRIUS XM's 1st Wave channel broadcasts the first wave of alternative music from the era that defined alternative. On the channel, SIRIUS XM listeners will hear The Cure, Depeche Mode, U2, R.E.M., The Smiths, The Police, New Order, Pretenders, The Clash, Morrissey and many others.

For more information on SIRIUS XM Radio and for a 3-day free-trial, please visit www.sirius.com or www.xmradio.com.

[ebbhead]

As an unpromoted capper to the weekend, Sirius aired a strange but killer Robert Smith's Top 30 of the 80s, hosted by Fat Bob himself. Some unusual choices...or at least unexpected. LOL

Tom Waits - In the Neighborhood
Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing
Sugarcubes - Birthday
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence
Psychedelic Furs - Heaven
Prince - Starfish & Coffee
The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong
The Pixies - Gigantic
Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice
New Order - Everything's Gone Green
Mel & Kim - Respectable
My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath
Madness - Return of the Lost Palmas Seven
Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
Joy Division - The Eternal
Jesus and Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking
Human League - Human
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
Echo & The Bunnymen - Killing Moon
Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
D.A.F. - Sex Unter Wasser
Christina - Things Fall Apart
Cocteau Twins - Persephone
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
Bananarama and Funboy 3 - It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way that You Do It)
David Bowie - Let's Dance
The Associates - Tell Me It's Easter on Friday
ABC - Look of Love

[Frau_Blucher]

A reverse-alphabetical scroll of his iTunes list? It seems punitively unextraordinary. Tsk-tsk Bob.

[Riverman]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>A reverse-alphabetical scroll of his iTunes list? It seems punitively unextraordinary. Tsk-tsk Bob.
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Much better than hearing the crap they play normally! I doubt any dj - apart from R. Blade there has even heard of the Associates.