Ten years on tour. Two lenses. One pen. An art book printed in one thousand numbered copies.
Shake Live Shake is the first photography book dedicated to the last decade of The Cure on stage, from the Reflections tour in Sydney 2013 to the Songs of a Lost World tour 2022-2024. One hundred and sixty A4 pages, one thousand numbered copies, printed in France on 150 gsm silk paper, sewn binding, hardcover with matte lamination and 3D UV varnish. A collector's item to buy The Cure on tour photo book, for lovers of Robert Smith and live music photography.
Existing books on The Cure stop in 2005 (In Between Days) or cover the band's full history in text format (Curepedia, Never Enough, Cured). Shake Live Shake is the only premium photo book dedicated to the years 2013-2024 — the era of the comeback, new songs, and Songs of a Lost World, the most acclaimed album of the decade.
Shake Live Shake is not a book about a band — it is a book about the ritual of an audience, a light, a held breath the moment before a guitar bleeds.
From Miami to Montpellier, from Chicago to Paris, two photographers — Mauro Melis and William Soragna — alongside the pen and graphic design of Julien Bremard, followed the tour for a full decade.
No distance, no filter. Their images, their notes, their setlists scribbled in ballpoint pen compose the volume: one hundred and sixty pages in A4 portrait format, printed in four-colour process on 150 gsm silk-coated paper, sewn binding.
These last ten years have been the ten best years of my life in this band.Robert Smith · Paris 2024
A taste of the one hundred and sixty pages. Scroll horizontally — each spread comes from a concert documented by hand.
Printed in France, hand-finished, individually numbered. One single run, one single price — forty-nine euros, delivered in September 2026.
This work, entitled Shake Live Shake — A Photographic Chronicle, was set in Fraunces for headings and EB Garamond for body text. The chapters were assembled from the photographic, literary and design archives of Mauro Melis, William Soragna and Julien Bremard, gathered from the Reflections tour in Sydney in 2013 to the Paris residency at the Accor Arena in 2024.
Printed in four-colour process (4/4) on 150 gsm silk-coated paper. The padded hardcover is laminated on 2.5 mm grey board (135 gsm silk-coated wrap), finished with anti-scratch matte lamination and a 3D selective UV gloss varnish (40 μm); left-edge sewn binding, print run limited to one thousand numbered copies.
Edited and published by Dumkit Editions, an independent publisher dedicated to author-driven music photography, founded in Paris in 2018. Distribution in France and Europe handled by the house; printing completed in September two thousand and twenty-six.