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Ian Robert Astbury [1] [2] (born 14 May 1962) is an English singer, best known as the lead vocalist, frontman and a founding member of the rock band the Cult. [3]
Frontman Ian Astbury in 2011. In 1999, Astbury and Duffy reformed the Cult with former drummer Matt Sorum and ex-Porno for Pyros bassist Martyn LeNoble. Their first official concert was at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in June 1999, after having rehearsed at shows in the Los Angeles area.
It was a full moon out, and Cult frontman Ian Astbury, with bloody bandage hands that miraculously could still bang on his tambourine, started singing part of Bauhaus’ Bela Lugosi’s Dead before stopping himself, stating, “Whoops, wrong band, Peter Murphy is Goth.”
In a new interview with Barbara Caserta of Italy's Linea Rock, THE CULT frontman Ian Astbury spoke about the tour celebrating the band's 40th anniversary.
Forty years after their debut, goth pioneers The Cult are returning to their post-punk roots on tour as Death Cult. Over curry in Los Angeles, singer Ian Astbury talks to Kevin E G Perry about...
ON THEIR current 8424 tour, Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy celebrate 40 years since they retired their Death Cult moniker and embraced an unknown future. “I don’t think of it as a retrospective, or an anniversary, though,” Astbury tells MOJO.
Ian Astbury is best known as frontman of the legendary hard rock/post-punk outfit The Cult, a band responsible for 1980 hits like She Sells Sanctuary, Love Removal Machine and Fire Woman....
Ian Astbury speaks slowly, methodically. The front man for the historic British rock band The Cult, which plays Monday at The Moore Theatre, is thoughtful when he recounts his early introduction to music.
Part of what has made the Cult remain consistent and resonant for four decades is Ian Astbury’s constant thirst for knowledge. The well-read Cult singer-songwriter has always been a huge fan of...
The Cult's eleventh album, Under The Midnight Sun, found Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy investing the primal energies of their mid-80s peak with the wisdom of age. Both reaffirming old glories and giving The Cult one of their best albums in years.