Ten years on tour. Two lenses. One pen. An art book printed in one thousand copies.
Shake Live Shake is the first photography book dedicated to the last decade of The Cure on stage, from Austin’s City Limits Festival in 2013 to the Songs of a Lost World tour in 2022. One hundred and sixty-four pages in A4 format (210 × 297 mm), one thousand 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 — 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: two hundred and forty pages in A4 · 210 × 297 mm square 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-four pages. Scroll horizontally — each spread comes from a concert documented by hand.
Printed in France, hand-finished. One single run, one single price — forty-nine euros, shipping from 7 December 2026.
Leave your address and you’ll hear first at every step — the unpublished photographs, the opening of the copies, and the day the last one goes.
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 Austin’s City Limits Festival in 2013 to the London shows of December 2022.
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 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 two thousand and twenty-six.