The Cure - Bestival Live 2011

•    The Cure played their only UK festival in 2011 at Bestival on the Isle Of Wight on Saturday 10th September on the main stage in front of 50,000 ecstatic fans. The Bestival crowd welcomed them with open arms and embraced an incredible two and a half hour long set that covered the breadth of The Cure’s fantastic back catalogue, including many chart hits, fan favourites and a few surprises not played for many years.

•    Sunday Best are very proud to be able to make this incredible moment available for purchase in its entirety as a double CD and digital download.

•    All profits from the sale of this album will go to the Isle Of Wight Youth Trust at the request of Robert Smith himself. The Isle Of Wight Youth Trust is a charitable, independent and professional organisation offering counselling, advice, information and support services to young people aged 25 and under on the Isle of Wight and, in some cases, their parents or carers. Bestival has worked with the Isle of Wight Youth Trust for a number of years.

•    Since the release of their last album, 2008's ‘4:13 Dream’ and the band’s year-long world tour there has been little news for Cure fans. Robert Smith had returned from that tour to be showered in plaudits including NME's Godlike Genius award, but then for 18 months he all but disappeared. He recorded a handful of guest vocals, for Crystal Castles and the Japanese Popstars and then, in early 2011, The Cure's management got a call from Bestival who wondered if The Cure might want to headline this year's event. So Robert Smith, keyboardist Roger O'Donnell, bassist Simon Gallup, and drummer Jason Cooper took to the Bestival main stage and performed something very, very special.

•    “The Cure had pulled off the epitome of the ‘festival set’ akin to Bowie at Glastonbury 2000 or Macca at Glasto '04, and every bit as legendary [...] A show so perfectly constructed and immaculately representative of every phase and leaning of The Cure's career” - The Guardian; “Always underpinned by a sense of drama, the band revelled in the grand stage setting. The bittersweet, candid lyrics and warm, accessible hooks of songs such as ‘Just Like Heaven’ and rapturous encore highlight ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ were joyous - truly the stuff of rock-and-roll icons” - The Telegraph; “the set of the weekend” - NME.com

•    This album features a number of tracks previously unavailable on any official live Cure release, including ‘The Only One’, ‘The Hungry Ghost’, ‘The Lovecats’, ‘The Caterpillar’, ‘Hot Hot Hot!!!’, ‘Why Can't I Be You?’, ‘Boys Don't Cry’, ‘Jumping On Someone Else's Train’ and ‘Grinding Halt’.

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