The Cure: Trilogy in Brussels on 7 November was not used. Robert Smith is quoted on the sleeve about the "trilogy" concept and its eventual execution: "The albums "Pornography", "Disintegration" and "Bloodflowers" are inextricably linked in so many ways, and the realisation of this "Trilogy" show is one of the highlights of my time in The Cure." Smith began arranging the concerts days after seeing David Bowie's Heathen Tour concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 29 June 2002, when Bowie played 10 of the 11 "Low" tracks consecutively (though not in album order), and the whole of the "Heathen" album
The Borrible Trilogy have been republished as a single volume. In June 2002 the trilogy was printed in the UK by Pan Macmillan as a trade paperback with an introduction by China Miéville; in April 2003, the UK branch of Tor Books reissued the trilogy in a smaller paperback volume. Tor released the trilogy as three separate paperback volumes in the US in late 2005. The trilogy is set in the large city of London. Borribles are runaway children, who eventually become "Borribled," when they wake up and find their ears have become pointed. Visually very similar to the mischievous elves and pixies