When did the Cure become universally beloved?
From our UK edition
My, how other so-called legacy acts must envy the Cure. There are plenty of bands of 40 or 50 years standing where the original fanbase brings along their offspring to concerts– but very few where so many tribes seem to gather so willingly under their own steam. From post-punk survivors to domesticated millennials, Gen Xers and Zeders, pop kids, neo-goths and sundry alternative types, the Cure seem to say something specific and urgent to each constituency. Perhaps it’s something about their songs speaking to the child in the adult, and the adult in the child. In any case, there we all were, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, on a warm summer Sunday, rising and falling to the music as the planes came and went at the airport next door.
