"Le Monde"/"ADEN" newspaper from the 04/19/2000 :

he big pink bus registred in the UK tries to clear a path in the streets of Grenoble. Behind it, a whole army of cars jump the lights ans screech...

An errand is ran with a taste of hystery. For its new tour, the Cure can see that its popularity has reach the same proportions as in its glorious days. "We hadn't see that since '87", says Roger, the clavierist safe at last but out of breath in the hall of the hotel.

At the time, on the top of the curemania, there was not any french highschool without its ten Robert Smith's clones (hairs, make-up and dark clothes, by the way).

That's in France that this "new-wave" british band had the greatest impact. Today, after twenty years at the head of The Cure, Robert Smith can be proud of their several generations of fans.

"The most part of the audience ha got the same age, between 15 and 25, as thay had ten years ago, says Robert. That's wonderful. We get old, not them ! And there are still the old faithful ones who react to the older songs".

In front of him, a boy, whose gaze seems lost, has sat down. "Let me watch him please, just watch him" (to the security).

No easy choice for this new tour but songs who fit well with the identity of the band. "We have chosen to play atmospherical songs, and very few singles. But still some peoples regulary ask us to play lullaby". The Cure refuses to play shows which look like a "best-of...", but proposed new songs which stand definitively among the best ever written.

At the time of the recording of Bloodflowers, Robert Smith decided to continue the trilogie began with

Pornography (1982) and Disintegration (1989). Made of smoggy pieces with some psychedelical stresses, the new album revives the singularity the sound of Cure, so many times copied but never really captured.

Among the number of candidates (Placebo, Smashing Pumpkins), The Cure recognize only one successor : the noisy scottish band Mogwaï.

No one ever takes the threats of farewell as a serious matter however, perhaps because Dreamtour is far from looking like the burnying of the band, but on the contrary show it at the top of its capacity ; and also because R.S., more touching than ever, is still glad to take an audience that wasn't born at the begining of his carrier for "river-shows" which last mlore than three hours.

Written by Olivier Nuc.

Translated from french by Loïc Jallais (thx!!!).