The Cure’s live show, its first in seven years here, felt like this summer’s black-mascara counterpart to Taylor Swift’s splashy and bedazzled Eras tour. After Saturday’s festival was cut short due to a threatening storm, Siouxsie and Iggy Pop returned on Sunday to perform for multiple generations of SoCal goths. The Cure isn’t the only celebrated survivor from its generation of U.K.
post-punk and new wave acts.
Depeche Mode is on the road in very fine form behind its strongest LP in years, and just this past weekend Siouxsie (who once counted Smith as a member of her Banshees) made a celebrated return to the American stage at Pasadena’s Cruel World festival. In November, Kate Bush will follow the Cure and Depeche Mode into the
Rock Hall thanks in part to last year’s discovery of her old song “Running Up That Hill” by young viewers of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” Why exactly this stuff seems to be in the air comes down to some extent to fortuitous exposure like that and like HBO’s recent use of Depeche Mode’s “Never Let Me Down Again” in “The Last of Us.” But there’s also something about this luxuriously gloomy music — the way in which it honors the exuberance of misery — that means it’s always drawing new fans. headtopics.com
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