Not A Tribute: The Cureheads’ Own Songs

Everyone knows what we do on a Friday night. Thirty-six years of it. But there is another side to this band, and it is sitting in the shop right now.

Imagine music written in the style of The Cure, with a bit of Bowie. That is the record.

Ten original songs. Written and played by the same people you see on stage, and first released under another name, The Hiram Key, before finding their way home to The Cureheads. Same voices, same hands, same record collection: The Cure, Bowie, Bauhaus, the Psychedelic Furs, Joy Division, Gary Numan.

What the press made of it

Terrorizer made these songs their Band of the Week, likened the line-up to a gothic Travelling Wilburys, and heard in the vocal “Ian McCulloch impersonating Bowie” over a backing somewhere between The Cure and the Sisters of Mercy. Hard to argue with any of that.

Reflections of Darkness scored the album 7 out of 10, marking the production up to an 8, and picked out the more expansive moments as the ones that showed where the band could go next.

BelleSong

One of these songs is for Belle Star, who played drums on them. You can hear it on the Audio page. It is the reason this record matters to us more than any set of covers ever could.

Where to get it

Digital and CD through the Shop page. Vinyl at live shows only, and we bring a limited number to each one, so do not leave it until the encore.

Thirty-six years of playing somebody else’s songs beautifully. Turns out we had a few of our own all along.