Fact #160628
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Short story:
The Cure arrive in Beunos Aires, Argentina, South America, where they are to begin a South American tour.
Full article:
Robert Smith (The Cure, diary entry) : Buenos Aires is like the outskirts/underskirts of Mega City One, an unsettling mixture of the old and crumbling and the almost half-completed, out of which rises, suddenly, rudely and anachronistically, the enormous mirrored edifice of the Sheraton Towers - our home for the next four days. There are around 500 people milling about outside here, and as we pull up, they surge towards us: Not quite feeling up to love and conversation, we jump out and rush into the hotel, and I realize that I am feeling most peculiar...
Six hours in bed does the trick, and 5pm sees Team Cure poolside and beer. Gradually feeling restored, we decide to go out and mingle. The 100 or so people still waiting around outside are a friendly bunch, if almost totally incomprehensible, the exception being the head of the until-then-unknown 'Official' Cure 'Bananafishbones Club', who is gushingly clear in a Fawlty Towers sort of way. We have our photos taken endlessly before going off for a very sedate Italian (?) meal, and everyone gets to bed by 12. A strange day...
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Six hours in bed does the trick, and 5pm sees Team Cure poolside and beer. Gradually feeling restored, we decide to go out and mingle. The 100 or so people still waiting around outside are a friendly bunch, if almost totally incomprehensible, the exception being the head of the until-then-unknown 'Official' Cure 'Bananafishbones Club', who is gushingly clear in a Fawlty Towers sort of way. We have our photos taken endlessly before going off for a very sedate Italian (?) meal, and everyone gets to bed by 12. A strange day...