More Info →The Cure Made the Stadium Sizzle

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 5th August 1981.

"The Cure like to have a concert atmosphere controlled as soon as their audience walks in the door. "That's why" said guitarist, vocalist and keyboard player Robert Smith, "members of the band made a film to support their New Zealand tour. We wanted an atmosphere we could control and regulate from the very beginning. We wanted to set the mood and rather than leave it to some support band, we made a film.

The 30-minute film was projected on to two huge screens above the stage in the Manawatu Sports Stadium last night. The idea for the film originated during the making of the British band's second album "Seventeen Seconds". We had some ideas left over after the recording, and rather than just sort of throw them away, as usual we thought about a film. "Carnage Visors" turned out to be a chunk of black and white animation - a single, flowing piece with puppets jerking and writhing to the specially written sound-track."

[The full article can be read on the newspaper microfilm held at the City Library.]

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

August 3, 1981

Digitisation ID

2021N_2017-20_038209_001

Format

B&W negative

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