Dark Entries presents:
THE CURE: IN ORANGE
with Q&A and Book Signing from Lol Tolhurst plus Live Music
Lol Tolhurst is best known as the co-founder of The Cure, one of their generation's most influential, successful, and critically acclaimed bands.
Tolhurst first met his childhood friend Robert Smith at age five while they were in school in the London suburb of Crawley. They formed The Cure in 1978, with Tolhurst initially playing drums. The band toured the globe multiple times to support their groundbreaking albums, including, Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and Pornography. Tolhurst transitioned to keyboards before departing the band in 1989 after recording their masterwork, Disintegration.
Tolhurst then relocated to Southern California, where he wrote, recorded, and toured with his band, Levinhurst. In 2011, he had a most meaningful reunion tour titled Reflections with The Cure, performing together for the first time in over twenty years.
The musician and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee also became an author with the release of his memoir, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys, in 2016. His second book, Goth – A History, was released in 2023, and The Guardian said, "Goth can plausibly claim to be the near-definitive word on the subject." Book number three ( and four ) are underway!
Tolhurst's musical journey continued after an unexpected meeting with his old friend Budgie from Siouxsie and the Banshees in Los Angeles in 2022. With producer JacknifeLee (known for his work with U2 and Taylor Swift), Lol released new music in 2023 as Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee. Their debut album, Los Angeles, includes contributions from an impressive lineup of guest vocalists and musicians, such as The Edge (U2), James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream), and more.
In the summer of 2024, Tolhurst and Budgie went on tour with Miki Berenyi Trio in the USA to promote the Los Angeles album. Their debut playing live was at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, California, in May 2024.
Lol enjoyed the experience so much that he's performing with Miki again In Europe in 2025. This time without Budgie but aided and augmented by his favorite musicians - His son Gray Tolhurst and Ollie Cherer from MB3!
Amazingly, things are coming full circle as Lol's old band is back again at the very top of the charts in the USA and UK, with a number one album on both sides of the Atlantic after performing for nearly five decades!
It seems the music that Lol helped pioneer will always be in fashion- as Lol promises, "This next year will be full of surprises!"
THE CURE: IN ORANGE
The first concert film by goth-fathers The Cure brings the band’s classic-era quintet to the big screen. A shockingly short-haired Robert Smith leads the band over two August nights at the bucolic, Roman-era Théâtre antique d'Orange in France’s Provence region, not far from where the group would go on to record their seminal double-album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. The set boasts a slashing “One Hundred Years” and crowd chant-along “Play For Today” in addition to high-powered cuts from their latest LP The Head on the Door. Directed by longtime visual collaborator and music video director Tim Pope, The Cure in Orange captures five imaginary boys on the edge of enormity.
DOORS 7:00 PM | MUSIC 7:30 PM | FILM 8:15 PM | Q&A to follow the FILM