Robert Smith recently revealed when fans can see The Cure on stage again.
Robert Smith opens up on The Cure’s return
In the new issue of Uncut, Robert Smith revealed:
“We’ll be playing an album show this year. We were going to play festivals next year, but a couple of weeks ago I decided that we wouldn’t be going to play anything next summer. The next time we go out on stage will be autumn next year. But then we’ll probably be playing quite regularly through until the next anniversary-the 2028 anniversary-which is looming on the horizon. I’m 70 in 2029 and that’s the 50th anniversary of the first Cure album. That’s really it, if I make it that far. So in the intervening time, I’d like us to play concerts as part of the overall plan. The last 10 years of playing shows have been the best 10 years of being in the band. It pisses all over the other 30-odd years! There was an enormous freedom and great joy in just going out and playing music.”
Some sequence of events led to the spur for writing much of their new album Songs Of A Lost World, but it also prompted Smith to start looking even further ahead, to The Cure’s 50th anniversary in 2028 and beyond.
The Cure is set to return in just a few weeks and on Wednesday, October 9th, the Robert Smith-led group pulled back the black curtain a bit more on their anticipated Songs of a Lost World album by revealing the tracklist and latest single, “A Fragile Thing.”
