Unsurprisingly the Cure - BBC Sessions has shot to the most looked at post on the blog, given the events of the last few days. Those in the UK have been well served by the BBC over Halloween with the broadcast of a session on BBC 6Music and a live performance in front of a small audience broadcast on BBC Radio 2FM.
This post is for those Cure fans that live outside the UK. The quality of the UK digital station BBC 6Music is higher in the UK than for those outside. I've recorded the live broadcast on BBC 6Music and present it here for Cure fans around the world.
The Cure at the BBC, 2024
Programme broadcast on Thursday 31 October, 2024
BBC 6Music 5-30pm: Huw Stephens with the Cure's Robert Smith In Conversation.
BBC 6Music 6-7pm: 6Music Artist Collection: The Cure / Huw Stephens presents an exclusive and intimate session from the Cure.
Plainsong / Last Dance / I Can Never Say Goodbye * Burn / And Nothing Is Forever * / At Night / A Forest / All I Ever Am * / Prayers for Rain / Disintegration
Tracks 1,2,9 & 10 - Disintegration, 1989 / Tracks 3, 5 & 8 - Songs For A Lost World, 2024 / Track 4 - Movie Soundtrack: The Crow 1994 / Tracks 6 & 7 - Seventeen Seconds, 1980
The Huw Stephens programme began at 4pm. The relevant Cure section is complete and was broadcast just after the news at 5-30pm, and is in two parts - the interview followed by the session.
Recorded from the live BBC 6Music broadcast on the UK i-player (which has a higher bit-rate, 320k+ than the rest of the world)
Recorded: thebasement67 (Thursday October 31, 2024)
Lineage: i-sound recorder for Windows 7/10 > BBC i-player stream (UK) > Wav 16bit 44.1kHz > dbpoweramp > Flac (8)
I have also recorded the complete Jo Whiley programme broadcast on BBC Radio 2 FM also on the 31 October, 2024. This will be the next upload.