MONORAIL MUSIC PRESENTS

Over the past five decades, The Cure have created a musical mythology and canonical body of work
that straddles the worlds of music, film and art, which continues to resonate with audiences around
the world with their irreverent, defiant and mythical spirit.

On 9 November, the UK’s leading music book imprint White Rabbit will publish Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure – an encyclopaedic biography of The Cure written by one of the UK’s greatest music writers Simon Price with a foreword by Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite and illustrations by Andy Vella – the designer behind The Cure’s iconic visual identity for the past 30 years. Curepedia is the definitive guide to the band’s past and present, painting a comprehensive portrait of the band’s inimitable legacy, politics, image and their rich cultural influences from existentialist writers like Albert Camus;
Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast series set in a decaying Gothic castle; to the menacing literary, musical and cinematic connotations behind ‘A Forest’ – a definitive, epically long single that has mutated over the years through series of covers.

Book launch with Simon Price on Sunday the 3rd of December doors 8pm