For episode 60 it's a special episode on the actual greatest band in the universe (The Cure, obviously), to celebrate our guest's new book, Curepedia - An A-Z Of The Cure which is out now! This month music journalist, author, DJ, & podcaster Simon Price joins us to talk about Mojo Magazine's Why Can't I Be You, a cd of Cure covers from January 2021. Simon is another of the music journalists who's work Colin grew up reading in Melody Maker, and is now a member of the Chart Music podcast team along with our previous guest Neil Kulkarni.

The cd's full tracklisting is -
1 - Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven
2 - The Wedding Present - High
3 - Luna - Fire In Cairo
4 - Frankie Rose - Play For Today
5 - Phoebe Bridgers - Friday I'm In Love (Recorded At Spotify Studios NYC)
6 - A.A. Williams - Lovesong
7 - Cowboy Junkies - Seventeen Seconds
8 - Tricky - The Love Cats
9 - Akala - I Don't Know
10 - Strange As Angels - The Walk
11 - The Separate Ft Mark Lanegan - Close To Me
12 - Liela Moss - Prayers For Rain
13 - 8:58 Ft The Unthanks - A Forest
14 - Woodpigeon - Lullaby
15 - Nadja - Faith

Simon's epic new book Curepedia - an A-Z of The Cure is out now and can be bought in all good bookshops and online here - https://geni.us/Curepedia

You can find links to all of Simon's writing and other work here - https://linktr.ee/simonprice

Find the utterly amazing Chart Music podcast (also known as Colin's favourite ever podcast) at https://chartmusiccouk.wordpress.com/ or at pod.link/1225229780

If you're anywhere near Brighton and dig music of an alternative 80s persuasion then Simon's club night Spellbound takes place on the third saturday of every month at Komedia.

Plus if you want EVEN MORE Cure & Cure related music (and why would you not?) then Simon's made a spotify playlist of his DJ set from the book launch for Curepedia which can be found here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/250akLsTIYBLEdiBX921Cd?si=7c651defc7bb40eb

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/17142433-Various-Why-Cant-I-Be-You-Mojo-Presents-A-Tribute-To-The-Cure

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts

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