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It is a wonderful week for those of us with a gothic persuasion. Not only is it Halloween on Thursday, but on Friday we’ll be in love as the Cure unveil their first new album for 16 years – Songs of a Lost World. Why not whet your appetite with our fiendishly difficult quiz about one of the most consistently brilliant British bands? There are no prizes, it is just for fun, but if you do score badly then the spiderman is having you for dinner tonight …

Take the quiz!

  1. 1.Before being reissued on the Fiction label that would be the band’s home for many years, which small indie label initially released the Cure’s debut single in December 1978?

  2. 2.The Cure were originally known as Malice, and then had another name before they settled on the Cure. What was it?

  3. 3.In which video are the band stuck in a wardrobe that eventually cheerfully plummets off the edge of a cliff?

  4. 4.Which of these household appliances is NOT on the album cover of Three Imaginary Boys

  5. 5.The Entreat live album featured live versions of tracks from Disintegration. Where was it recorded?

  6. 6.Simon Gallup usually has the flag of which football team on his bass amp during shows?

  7. 7.On the Faith LP, the song The Drowning Man tells of the death of Fuchsia, inspired by events in which series of books?

  8. 8.Which track did the Cure contribute to the soundtrack of the movie The Crow – the good one, not the recent remake …

  9. 9.Which guitarist, who worked with David Bowie, features on the new Cure album?

  10. 10.What are the backwards voices doing at the beginning of the title track of the Cure’s fourth album, Pornography

  11. 11.Robert Smith and Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Steven Severin collaborated on a 1983 album under which name?

  12. 12.Robert Smith wrote Lovesong as a wedding present for his wife. What is her name?

  13. 13.Which of these animals has NOT been in the title of a song by the Cure?

  14. 14.In 2014 The Cure played a 30th anniversary show for The Top at Hammersmith Odeon, where they had played a show on its original tour. They recreated the original 1984 bill by adding which support band?

  15. 15.Robert Smith has said that the opening track on Songs of a Lost World, Alone, was inspired by which poem?

  16. 16.When did the album Wish come out?

  17. 17.What was the b-side of Charlotte Sometimes in the UK?

  18. 18.The Cure have songs called Birdmad Girl and Sugar Girl, but which of these is also a Cure song with girl in the title?

  19. 19.Lengthy instrumental Carnage Visors, the soundtrack to a short film by Ric Gallup, was included as a bonus track on the UK cassette release of which album?

  20. 20.And finally, we all know that on Friday Robert Smith is in love. But which of these weekday features of its lyrics is the odd one out? You might have to sing the song all the way through in your head to work it out, but we know you know all the words …





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