getting started
New to taping/trading? Check the sites below, this section is for you!
- Neptune Pink Floyd tutorial: especially written for beginners.
- alt.music.bootlegs faq: originally written for the eponymous newsgroup. A most boring read, though a complete insight into the trading community.
- Source guide: to find out about recording equipments.
- Etree Wiki: the online most active trading community; plenty of useful links for traders.
- Dime A Dozen and the trader's den: the most popular sharing sites on the Internet, where you can download bootlegs in lossless format.
cure links
official site
- thecure.com: not a great design, but at least the site is regularly updated by Robert himself. You should also have a look at the old official site
references
- Boys Are Forever Drowning In Pornography: Concerts dates, setlists with extracts, live photos, press cuttings, live songs archive, artwork + forum and trading community.
- The Cure Concerts Guide: setlists, FM & TV shows, cancelled shows, bogus shows.
- A Reflection: Complete discography. You can also have a look at uyea archive(in German) for information on Cure records up to Bloodflowers and uyea after.
- Pictures Of You: Pictures Of The Cure all over the years
- Cure biography @ allmusic.com
news
- Check A Chain Of Flowers for ultimate and latest Cure information.
fan sites
For discs collectors:- Find a Cure: a private collection
- On Fiction: the famous Fiction label
- Pleasure Fill Up With My Dreams: another private collection (with huge scans and bootlegs covers)
- Candide's site: another private collection + other stuff
- A Collection Of Dream: another private collection
- The Upstairs Room: another private collection
- Wishful Things: another private collection
- Laurent (ficsx22);: another private collection
- Plainsong: complete and detailed discography (sadly, it seems it is not updated any more)
- the cure discography: another (not updated) discography page
- The Cure discography: another (not updated) discography page
- The Drumming Panda: another (not updated) discography page
- Stiff as toys and tall as men: Ex-Cure reference
- The Cure Record price guide. You can also check The Cure Price guide.
- Regular bootlegs list: ranked and reviewed
- Carnage Visors: artwork ressource
- CoverTheCure: artwork ressource
- Imaginary Boys: another artwork ressource
- Figure de Proue: another artwork ressource
- artwork: another artwork ressource . You can also find some covers here.
- Secrets - The Cure Tab Archive: guitar/bass tabs
- The Funeral Party: bass tabs
- In Your House: bass tabs
- A Wicked Dream: guitar/bass tabs by the tribute band The Curse
- Drapped In Black: bass tabs
- The Loudest Cure: photos, interviews, private collection
- Mindy's Pictures Of You: photos, private collection, fan tales
- To The Sky: an old fan's testimonial; press cuttings, tickets scans from the early eighties
- Your Tongue Is Like Poison: private pictures, private collection (clippings, adverts, records, etc.)
- There Is No If: privite live photos, downloads, private collection, etc.)
- Dream: testimonial of a couple of fans who attented concerts during the Dream tour.
- One Hundred Years: Danish fan testimonial, pictures
- Curiosity: a lot of stuff to download
- The CDR and Tape Traders Page: features of complete list of Cure songs (all different versions existing), Robert Smith quotes
- Beach Of Stone: references, photos, trade section, downloads, forum
- Mint Cure: fonts, wallpapers, themes & icons to download, pictures
forums
- Cure Trade: a forum for bootlegs traders
- A Pink Dream: the biggest Cure forum... (in several languages)
- Curefans: alternative Cure forum
traders
See my good traders section for links to trading pages.
other artists
pink floyd
- Orange Maze: the Pink Floyd Concerts database
- You Gotta Be Crazy: for bootlegs collectors
- Pink Floyd RoIO Cover Art: bootlegs artwork
depeche mode
- Depeche Mode live: concerts reference and traders list
- Depeche Mode Bootleg Trading: yahoo groups for DM collectors (very active!)
- Depeche Mode DVD cover: artwork DVD ressource
placebo
- The Placebo Bootleg Cover Archive: artwork
my other sites
- The Final Cut: a site about the groundbreaking Pink Floyd album!