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THE CURE HAVE JUST ANNOUNCED DETAILS OF A 44 DATE EUROPEAN TOUR TAKING IN 22 COUNTRIES AT THE END OF 2022 WITH THE TWILIGHT SAD SUPPORTING ON ALL DATES.

TICKETS FOR ALL SHOWS GO ON GENERAL SALE LATER THIS WEEK AND YOU CAN FIND TICKET DEAILS AT THECURE.COM/SHOWS/

THE FULL LIST OF TOUR DATES:

06 – RIGA Arena 08 – HELSINKI Hartwall Arena 10 – STOCKHOLM Avicii Arena 12 – OSLO Spektrum 13 – GOTHENBURG Scandinavium 14 – COPENHAGEN Royal Arena 16 – HAMBURG Barclays Arena 17 – LEIPZIG Quarterback Immobilien Arena 18 – BERLIN Mercedes Benz Arena 20 – KRAKOW Tauron Arena 21 – LODZ Atlas Arena 23 – VIENNA Marx Halle 24 – PRAGUE O2 Arena 26 – BUDAPEST Arena 27 – ZAGREB Arena 29 – MUNICH Olympiahalle 31 – BOLOGNA Unipol Arena

01 – FIRENZE Mandela Forum 03 – PADOVA Kioene Arena 04 – MILAN Forum 06 – GENEVA Arena 07 – LYON Halle Tony Garnier 08 – MONTPELLIER Sud De France Arena 10 – BARCELONA Palau Sant Jordi 11 – MADRID WiZink Center 13 – TOULOUSE Zenith 14 – BORDEAUX Arkea Arena 15 – NANTES Zenith 17 – FRANKFURT Festhalle 18 – STRASBOURG Zenith 19 – BASEL St Jakobshalle 21 – STUTTGART Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle 22 – KOLN Lanxess Arena 23 – ANTWERP Sportpaleis 25 – AMSTERDAM Ziggo Dome 27 – LIEVIN Stade 28 – PARIS Accor Arena

01 – DUBLIN 3Arena 02 – BELFAST SSE Arena 04 – GLASGOW OVO Hydro 06 – LEEDS First Direct Arena 07 – BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena 08 – CARDIFF Motorpoint Arena 11 – WEMBLEY OVO Arena 12 – WEMBLEY OVO Arena (Added due to demand) 13 – WEMBLEY OVO Arena (Added due to demand)

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The Cure have shared details of a 44-date UK and European tour next year, including five arena shows in the UK. Check out full dates and ticket details below.

• READ MORE: On the cover: Exclusive – Robert Smith on 40 years and the future of The Cure

The band will kick the shows off in Riga, Latvia at the city’s arena on October 6, 2022 before wrapping things up at London’s SSE Arena on December 11.

Fans will be treated to a 135 minute show, with mention in a press release of a “67 minute” new album that is yet to be announced. The Cure’s last album was 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream’.

In a tweet to fans, Smith also confirmed that shows in the rest of the world were being “finalised” and would “announced in due course” – as well as promising to air material from the new album.

The Cure have also confirmed that the line-up for the tour will feature bassist Simon Gallup, who said back in August that he had left the band “with a slightly heavy heart,” writing that he’s “fed up of betrayal,” before appearing to confirm in October that he had re-joined the band .

'ROW' SHOWS ARE BEING FINALISED – A LOT OF THEM GOT PUSHED BACK – THEY WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN DUE COURSE – BUT WON'T NOW HAPPEN UNTIL SPRING 2023… AND YES, WE WILL BE PLAYING SONGS FROM 'THE NEW ALBUM' IN 2022 X #waitingforgodot — ROBERT SMITH (@RobertSmith) December 6, 2021

Tickets for the upcoming tour go on sale this Friday (December 10) at 10am and will be available from venues’ online box offices, selected ticket agents and via Bookings Direct . Head to The Cure’s website for further details.

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The Cure’s 2022 UK/European tour dates are:

OCTOBER 06 – ARENA, Riga, Latvia 08 – HARTWALL ARENA, Helsinki, Finland 10 – AVICII ARENA, Stockholm, Sweden 12 – SPEKTRUM, Oslo, Norway 13 – SCANDINAVIUM, Gothenburg, Sweden 14 – ROYAL ARENA, Copenhagen, Denmark 16 – BARCLAYCARD ARENA, Hamburg, Germany 17 – QUARTERBACK IMMOBILIEN ARENA, Leipzig, Germany 18 – MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA, Berlin, Germany 20 – TAURON ARENA, Krakow, Poland 21 – ATLAS ARENA, Lodz, Poland 23 – MARX HALLE, Vienna, Austria 24 – O2 ARENA, Prague 9, Czech Republic 26 – ARENA, Budapest, Hungary 27 – ARENA, Zagreb, Croatia 29 – OLYMPIAHALLE, Munich, Germany 31 – UNIPOL ARENA, Bologna, Italy

NOVEMBER 01 – MANDELA FORUM, Florence, Italy 03 – KIOENE ARENA, Padova, Italy 04 – FORUM, Milan, Italy 06 – ARENA, Geneva, Switzerland 07 – HALLE TONY GARNIER, Lyon, France 08 – SUD DE FRANCE ARENA, Montpellier, France 10 – PALAU SANT JORDI, Barcelona, Spain 11 – WIZINK CENTER, Madrid, Spain 13 – ZENITH, Toulouse, France 14 – ARKEA ARENA, Bordeaux, France 15 – ZENITH, Nantes, France 17 – FESTHALLE, Frankfurt, Germany 18 – ZENITH, Strasbourg, France 19 – ST JAKOBSHALLE, Basel, Switzerland 21 – HANS-MARTIN-SCHLEYER-HALLE, Stuttggart, Germany 22 – LANXESS ARENA, Cologne, Germany 23 – SPORTPALEIS, Antwerp, Belgium 25 – ZIGGO DOME, Amsterdam, Netherlands 27 – STADE, Lievin, France 28 – ACCOR ARENA, Paris, France

DECEMBER 01 – 3ARENA, Dublin, Ireland 02 – SSE, Belfast, Northern Ireland 04 – OVO HYDRO, Glasgow, Scotland 06 – FIRST DIRECT ARENA, Leeds, England 07 – UTILITA ARENA, Birmingham, England 08 – MOTORPOINT ARENA, Cardiff, Wales 11 – THE SSE ARENA, Wembley, London, England

pic.twitter.com/yqmpY1KedO — ROBERT SMITH (@RobertSmith) December 6, 2021

The news follows the band speaking about their new album, which they previously described as their “most intense, saddest and most emotional record” .

In 2019 frontman Robert Smith told  NME that they were looking to finish their “merciless” new album that year – 11 years after its predecessor – adding that it had the working title of ‘Live From The Moon’  and that it was one of  three new Cure albums in the works .

A year later keyboardist Roger O’Donnell told Classic Pop magazine about what fans can expect from the new record(s), and how he and Smith have felt the pressure after more than a decade without new music.

“Four years ago, I said to Robert, ‘We have to make one more record,” O’Donnell said. “It has to be the most intense, saddest, most dramatic and most emotional record we’ve ever made, and then we can just walk away from it.’ He agreed. Listening to the demos, it is that record. I think everybody will be happy with it.”

He continued: “The problem is, it’s 12 years since the last album so it becomes precious. When you’ve got a back catalogue like The Cure, it’s a lot to live up to. Robert has said, ‘if The Cure say any more, it had better be important and it had better be fucking good’.

“It is, it’s going to be an amazing record. I just suggest a little patience.”

Speaking to  NME  backstage at the NME Awards 2020 in London last year, where the band won Best Festival Headliner , Smith said that “there are only really two [new albums],” calling the reported third new record “literally just an hour of noise”.

“I wouldn’t call it an album. The first one will definitely be out. We’re just wrapping it up now, it’s going to be mixed. Until it’s out, no one will believe me. I look forward to it coming out, more than anybody else – trust me,” he said.

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The 44 shows begin in Riga, Latvia on October 6, 2022 and wrap at London’s SSE Arena on December 11.

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The Cure have shared details of a 44-date UK and European tour next year, including five arena shows in the UK. Check out full dates and ticket details below.

The band will kick the shows off in Riga, Latvia at the city’s arena on October 6, 2022 before wrapping things up at London’s SSE Arena on December 11.

Fans will be treated to a 135 minute show, with mention in a press release of a “67 minute” new album that is yet to be announced. The Cure’s last album was 2008’s 4:13 Dream.

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The news follows the band speaking about their new album, which they previously described as their “most intense, saddest and most emotional record”.

In 2019 frontman Robert Smith told NME that they were looking to finish their “merciless” new album that year – 11 years after its predecessor – adding that it had the working title of ‘Live From The Moon’ and that it was one of three new Cure albums in the works . A year later keyboardist Roger O’Donnell told Classic Pop magazine about what fans can expect from the new record(s), and how he and Smith have felt the pressure after more than a decade without new music.

The Cure have also confirmed that the line-up for the tour will feature bassist Simon Gallup, who said back in August that he had left the band “with a slightly heavy heart,” writing that he’s “fed up of betrayal,” before appearing to confirm in October that he had re-joined the band.

Tickets for the upcoming tour go on sale this Friday (December 10) at 10am and will be available from venues’ online box offices, selected ticket agents and via Bookings Direct. Head to The Cure’s official website for further details. Support for all shows comes from The Twilight Sad.

The Cure play the following UK and European tour dates in 2022:

OCTOBER: 06 – ARENA, Riga, Latvia 08 – HARTWALL ARENA, Helsinki, Finland 10 – AVICII ARENA, Stockholm, Sweden 12 – SPEKTRUM, Oslo, Norway 13 – SCANDINAVIUM, Gothenburg, Sweden 14 – ROYAL ARENA, Copenhagen, Denmark 16 – BARCLAYCARD ARENA, Hamburg, Germany 17 – QUARTERBACK IMMOBILIEN ARENA, Leipzig, Germany 18 – MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA, Berlin, Germany 20 – TAURON ARENA, Krakow, Poland 21 – ATLAS ARENA, Lodz, Poland 23 – MARX HALLE, Vienna, Austria 24 – O2 ARENA, Prague 9, Czech Republic 26 – ARENA, Budapest, Hungary 27 – ARENA, Zagreb, Croatia 29 – OLYMPIAHALLE, Munich, Germany 31 – UNIPOL ARENA, Bologna, Italy

NOVEMBER: 01 – MANDELA FORUM, Florence, Italy 03 – KIOENE ARENA, Padova, Italy 04 – FORUM, Milan, Italy 06 – ARENA, Geneva, Switzerland 07 – HALLE TONY GARNIER, Lyon, France 08 – SUD DE FRANCE ARENA, Montpellier, France 10 – PALAU SANT JORDI, Barcelona, Spain 11 – WIZINK CENTER, Madrid, Spain 13 – ZENITH, Toulouse, France 14 – ARKEA ARENA, Bordeaux, France 15 – ZENITH, Nantes, France 17 – FESTHALLE, Frankfurt, Germany 18 – ZENITH, Strasbourg, France 19 – ST JAKOBSHALLE, Basel, Switzerland 21 – HANS-MARTIN-SCHLEYER-HALLE, Stuttggart, Germany 22 – LANXESS ARENA, Cologne, Germany 23 – SPORTPALEIS, Antwerp, Belgium 25 – ZIGGO DOME, Amsterdam, Netherlands 27 – STADE, Lievin, France 28 – ACCOR ARENA, Paris, France

DECEMBER: 01 – 3ARENA, Dublin, Ireland 02 – SSE, Belfast, Northern Ireland 04 – OVO HYDRO, Glasgow, Scotland 06 – FIRST DIRECT ARENA, Leeds, England 07 – UTILITA ARENA, Birmingham, England 08 – MOTORPOINT ARENA, Cardiff, Wales 11 – THE SSE ARENA, Wembley, London, England.

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The Cure have announced a 44-date UK, Ireland and Europe tour for 2022.

The rock band will begin in Latvia and perform around Europe, including dates in Italy, Poland, France and Germany, before beginning the UK leg.

Tickets for the tour go on sale on Friday 10 December at 10am. Buy them here .

The Twilight Sad will support throughout the tour.

See the UK and Ireland dates below:

DECEMBER 2022

1 December – 3ARENA, Dublin, Ireland

2 December – SSE, Belfast, Northern Ireland

4 December – OVO HYDRO, Glasgow, Scotland

6 December – FIRST DIRECT ARENA, Leeds, England

7 December – UTILITA ARENA, Birmingham, England

8 December – MOTORPOINT ARENA, Cardiff, Wales

11 December – THE SSE ARENA, Wembley, London, England

A press release for the tour said each show would last 135 minutes, and also hinted at a forthcoming announcement for the band’s new album. Their last record, 4:13 Dream, was released in 2008.

The release also confirms the lineup will include longtime bassist Simon Gallup , after he appeared to temporarily quit the band in August .

Gallup, 61, said he was “fed up of betrayal” in a post to his Facebook page, before appearing to confirm he had rejoined The Cure in October.

He first joined The Cure in 1979 after performing in frontman Robert Smith’s side project, Cult Hero. He temporarily left in 1982 after an altercation with Smith while on the Pornography tour, rejoining in 1984.

After Smith, he is the band’s longest-serving member.

The Cure were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. In a recent interview with The Sunday Times , Smith said the band’s next album could be their last, as he was struggling to write lyrics for the new material.

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The Cure have announced UK tour dates for 2022.

Robert Smith and his alternative rock legends have confirmed 44 dates across Europe in total so far, with UK shows plotted for December 2022. The band have also confirmed that the dates will feature a "New 135-minute show" in support of a "New 67-minute album".

Robert Smith and co will start off their UK dates on the 1st December 2022 at Dublin's 3Arena and cap them off with a show on 13th December at London's OVO Arena Wembley.

Find out where The Cure are headed on their UK tour dates and how to buy tickets.

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• 2nd December 2022: SSE Arena, Belfast
• 4th December 2022: OVO Hydro Arena, Glasgow
• 6th December 2022: First Direct Arena, Leeds
• 7th December 2022: Utilita Arena, Birmingham
• 8th December 2022: Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff
• 11th December 2022: OVO Arena, Wembley
• 12th December 2022: OVO Arena, Wembley
• 13th December 2022: OVO Arena, Wembley

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The dates will mark The Cure's first UK gigs since their 2019 Glasgow show and their first European tour since 2016.

It's now 14 years since the last Cure album, 2008's 4:13 Dream and frontman Robert Smith claimed that new material has been completed and that there are enough songs for two albums: "One of them’s very, very doom and gloom and the other one isn’t," he told Apple Music 1 last June.

However, the singer also hinted that the album could be their very last.

Speaking to The Sunday Times, Smith said: "The new Cure stuff is very emotional. It’s 10 years of life distilled into a couple of hours of intense stuff.

"And I can’t think we’ll ever do anything else. I definitely can’t do this again."

It's not the first time that Smith has threatened to call time on The Cure. 2000's Bloodflowers was their final album for the Fiction label and was widely touted as their final piece of work. However, three years later, they went into the studio to work with producer Ross Robinson on what became their 2004 self-titled LP.

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The Cure Reveals 2022 Dates

by Paul Cashmere on December 7, 2021

The Cure have announced a 44-date UK and European tour for 2022.

The Cure will kick off in Riga, Latvia on October 6 before concluding five arena shows in Britain at London’s SSE Arena on December 11.

Fans will be treated to a 135 minute show and a “67 minute” new album has also been mooted which would mark the group’s first record since 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream’.

The group have confirmed that the line-up for the tour will feature bassist Simon Gallup, who said in August that he had left the band “with a slightly heavy heart” as he was “fed up of betrayal”. Two months later, however, he appeared to confirm that he had re-joined The Cure.

Tickets for the tour will go on sale on Friday (10.12.21) and the group will be supported at all shows by The Twilight Sad.

Frontman Robert Smith previously suggested that their next two albums will be their final full-length releases as the ‘Just Like Heaven’ group have invested a lot of emotional energy into their new work.

The 62-year-old musician said: “The new Cure stuff is very emotional.

“It’s 10 years of life distilled into a couple of hours of intense stuff.

“And I can’t think we’ll ever do anything else. I definitely can’t do this again.”

The Cure 2022 UK Tour Dates:

4 December – Glasgow Ovo Hydro 6 December – Leeds First Direct Arena 7 December – Birmingham Utilita Arena 8 December – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena 11 December– London The SSE Arena Wembley

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The Cure are a band formed in 1976 hailing from Crawley, West Sussex, in the United Kingdom. Fronted by lead singer and songwriter Robert Smith, they came from the post-punk scene of the early 80’s to become one of the biggest and most influential bands in modern rock.

When a band gets to be as truly worshipped as The Cure, it can be an interesting and slightly bizarre thing to look at their early days. A little bit like seeing your favourite actor wondering whether they’re going to go with white or brown bread in a local Tesco. Or an important politician spotted zoning out on public transport, it brings them back down to earth and reminds you that they’re not all-conquering, all-powerful cosmically divine extra-dimension visitors who know the secrets of the universe, but a guy from the Sussex suburbs who formed a band to play at a school concert.

They probably looked ridiculous at their first shows, and not in the awesome way. They probably wrote some godawful songs. Some punters probably watched an early incarnation of The Cure and thought, for good reason, that they were a bunch of no-hopers. Every band has those days and if they haven’t one should be very, very suspicious of them. What makes The Cure so special is that they absolutely had those days, but knowing about them doesn’t take the sheen off them at all. They’re still a vitally important band, influential to thousands of bands the world over and that’s enough to make them legends, before the image and before the imitators.

And it all began with a school concert. In April 1973, five students from Notre Dame Middle School in Crawley formed Obelisk, the first tentative musical project of one Mr Robert Smith, who was the bands pianist. Future Cure cohorts Mick Dempsey and Lol Tolhurst backed him up on guitar and percussion, respectively, but it wasn’t until 1976 that the trio began to take making music more seriously. The band was reshuffled to feature Smith on the guitar, Dempsey on bass and Tolhurst left the now renamed Malice, but it was only to last a year until their lead guitarist left as well.

The remaining members got Tolhurst back as their drummer and renamed themselves again.This time, they would be called Easy Cure. By September 1977, Smith took over lead vocals after several unsuccessful auditions and by the start of 1978, they had dropped the Easy from their name and had recorded their first demo tape. This tape found its way to Polydor Records scout Chris Parry, who was so taken with the band that he signed them to his own label Fiction in September of that very year. In a move that nobody would get away with now, their track “Killing An Arab” was released soon after as their very first single.

It was a move that gained as much acclaim as controversy, to the extent that a re-release of the single had to be packaged with a sticker on the cover denying its supposedly racist connotations. Thankfully, the bands energetic post-punk got more attention, and their hype was considerably heightened with a session on John Peel’s legendary Radio One show. By the following year, their debut album “Three Imaginary Boys”, was released, and as part of its promotion, the band embarked on their first major support tour opening for Siouxsie And The Banshees.

This was to be a major step forward for the band, as Smith was coaxed into playing guitar for The Banshees after their original axe-man left shortly before the tour. The experience of being a Banshee profoundly changed Smith’s attitude towards the music that his band played, and when before he was most influenced by The Buzzcocks and Elvis Costello, afterwards he wanted to match the power that he felt while playing Siouxsie’s music. The result was 1980’s “Seventeen Seconds” and arguably, that was when they became The Cure that we know today.

Since then, they’ve been most known for essentially creating Goth music with the aforementioned record, its follow up “Faith”, and 1982’s bleak masterpiece “Pornography”. However, after those records they released some of the most romantic, beautiful and downright succesful pop of the 1980’s and early 90’s, with albums like “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me”, “Wish” and “The Top” showing just what Smith could do with a lovelorn lyric and a truly gorgeous melody. It’s their mastery of these two extremes that really show why The Cure are as loved as they are. They exemplify the human condition, and reflect when one is ecstatic and when one is at their lowest with equal skill and sensitivity.

There’s no-one else like them, and it’ll be a while before we see their likes again. See this band as soon as possible.

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Reviewing a show of one of your favorite Bands who have the distinction of being in your Top 5 (if not #1) live experiences of all time can be a bit daunting.

It can go a number of ways.

1. Another Great show as hoped.

2. Sub par and a let down.

3. The Band just "mails it in" (which is the worst).

The Cure, who have been around since 1976 (Easy Cure) and haven't toured the States anyway with a new album since 2008 are currently embarking on a substantial North American tour and with no new album I was really only expecting a "Greatest Hits" type show honestly? And given their Longevity and slew of "Hits" from the heyday of MTV I guess I couldn't blame them and I would have been satisfied more than likely?

Ah, but that was not the case in Boston (6-16-16) at Agganis Arena!

The Cure came out full throttle with a high energy level for what would turn out to be a marathon show of 3 hours which included.

Not 1. Not 2. Not even 3. But 4. Yes. 4 Encore Sets!!!

Were the standards there? Of course how can they not be.

"Inbetween Days", "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" "Let's Go To Bed", "Boys Don't Cry" etc etc etc

And all played with a kicked up, but not hurried, sense of urgency and excitement!

Mixed in though were surprising live Gems like:

"Burn" (1st The Crow soundtrack), "M", "Kyoto Song" and the surprising "Snakepit"!!

"Fascination Street" which has one the most perfect Bass lines ever IMO was a whirlwind of insanity as Simon Gallup just pushed the Band forward.

And the songs just kept coming one after the other while the crowd basked in Robert Smith's wonderfully childlike sense of wonder and emotion in his lyrics and vocals and understated guitar work.

Most Cure fans (me included) knew every single song played which is typical of The Cure fanbase.

But when they launched into the new "It Can Never Be the Same" with it's rumbling Bass line and heart felt lyrics to Robert Smith's Mother(?) I was amazed at how well it slid into this already fantastic set and really really really hope it gets a proper release soon, if it hasn't already and I have somehow missed it?

Robert Smith is an enigma of a front man. He demands your attention but. I don't believe, has never come to grips with his fans adulations and is still obviously shy individual. And I really don't think it's an act?

Simon Gallup is without doubt the energy of this Band still! He stalks the stage and never stops moving. All the while laying down a very unique Bass foundation that compliments Roberts Jangly sparse guitar style perfectly.

Simon does not get the recognition he deserves as a force on the Bass (along with John Taylor of Duran Duran) and if you play Bass you really should take a close listen to his work with The Cure.

Jason Cooper I think has finally come out from the shadow that was Boris Williams and seems comfortable in pushing his style now more in the drumming Dept. which I believe is another reason for the energy level of the Band live.

Roger O'Donnell is sublime on the keyboards and brings that soaring majestic sound needed for anything done from DISINTEGRATION while jumping right over to the nursery rhyme key tinkling of The Cure's early 80's Synth Pop era easily.

Reeves Gabrels who is the current 2nd guitarist in the ever rotating slot is a masterful musician in his own right (David Bowie folks) and honestly I was surprised at how long He has stayed with the Band? But He steps out very tastefully when required and ads his unique flair to the sound. I will admit to missing Porl Thompson who I just think was/ is the elusive component to the Band. But if you have to have Mr. Gabrels who am I to complain?.

Honestly this review could have been round up with one word: "EPIC"

But that, would be "mailing it in".

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I first saw the Cure in 1982 in this very same venue, the effectionatelg named by U.S. Muso's as the Hammy Odeon.

Tonight some 30 years later I'm back. I feel at home especially as I'm stranding and I'm where I should be.... Down the Front

Our evening starts with And Also The Trees a reformed eighties outfit who previously supported the Cure on their 1984 tour.

The thing about Robert smith is that he is a prolific song writer and the bands back catalogue is immense which results in us experiencing a three hour plus spectacular.

And what a treat. Hits rained down and more randomly than normal. Tracks from The Top album seemed dominate. Just like Heaven, Charlotte sometimes, Hundred Years, The End and of course the gems Primary, play for today and the classic A Forest.

Of course I'd liked more from Seventeen Seconds and Faith but that would have been greedy. There were plenty of folk here tonight who weren't born when these albums were released

With so much to play we were presented with four encores and finally at 11.15 it all ended with Boys Don't Cry.

It meant so much for me to have returned to this awesome venue to see my favourite band.... The place and the band that started me on my gig going journey

Cheers Robert.... Fantastic

The Cure are a special band and should be heard in a special environment, that is why I saw them at Red Rocks in Colorado. It was a cool night and the sun was sitting low in the sky. That famous colorful Colorado sky fell down across the stage.

The fans were are pretty relaxed and were mostly 25 plus in age. Everyone seemed to be poised for a night of great music. You could hear conversations coming from every direction, everyone hoping their favorite songs will be played.

Just as it was getting dark the band took the stage. Everyone stood and applauded Robert Smith as he paced across the stage and made his way to the microphone stand. As the band members struck a few random chords then the band jumped into “Just Like Heaven”. The frenzy only grew as the bad started without pause to play “Friday I’m In Love”. Everyone was having so much fun. The music sounded better then I have ever heard it before.

Robert Smith played an amazing set list of all the hits over the years. The band played all the old songs like “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Pictures of you” with a fresh take and with a new energy. This band has been around a while and still worth seeing live!

The Cure are legends and any band that will give you a 2 1/2 hour show deserves your respect. That being said this "greatest hits" + a few back-catalogue approach is what you'd expect from the Rolling Stones not from what is still an underground act. That in and by itself wouldn't even be that bad but aside from a few songs 39, A Night Like This, 100 Years sounded bland, uninspired and as though they were just going through the motions... Great light show, technical perfection but no soul! I've seen them twice in the 90's and came out of those shows thrilled, energized and inspired. Those were magical shows where the band managed to transform reality and all (the band included, to judge by their faces) came out of it exhausted and amazed, carried off as by some shamanistic ritual to dark and dangerous lands where we learned to overcome our fears and face the world around us with new hope. This wasn't one of those shows. This was Robert Smith giving his audience 30 of his best songs and not once making a spiritual connection with either the music or the crowd...

Obviously being way too young to remember The Cure the first time around (sort of, ish, ahem, etc), this was the first time seeing this bunch of post-punk proto-goths and inevitably they didn't disappoint.

Despite most of the band heading pretty swiftly towards free-bus-pass age, the gig show kicked along at a pace, with young Mr. Smith barely pausing for breath as they band kicked on through a back catalogue spanning 30+ years.

Having spent the past few weeks attempting to brush up on my Cure knowledge (via Spotify) I can gladly add this band to an ever-growing list of "if you thought the studio version was good...", as tracks like Lullaby, Lovecats and Friday all sounded immense performed live.

Main issue of the night was technical; the lack of big screens at Wembley Arena means if you're right at the back, the band are mere specks on the stage up front. The lighting design was beautifully done though, and went some way to compensate for the lack of being able to see Robert Smith gurning earnestly into the microphone.

Two review, first for The Cure. It was a wonderful show! They were willing to perform hits along with other unknown songs and sounded great at doing it. They had a half and half crowd, some diehard fans and some who thought they were bigger fans than they actually were. With it being May in Pac NW the temperature dropped quickly freezing alot of people enough to say they had seen enough. This wasnt The band's fault for lack of inspired fans. They were everything I expected from a goth rock band from the late 70s and 80s. About the venue: I love the venue as well! We have been living in Portland for 5 years but have never made a point to catch a show in the Washington Amphitheater. Wow! We felt like we were home in the south. Nice concert under the stars and the price was a great as well, considering the crappy prices shows in Portland go for. We will be going back to Sunlight Supply in August.

Buon concerto del gruppo, rovinato dalla pessima acustica del Mediolanum Forum.

L'esecuzione è stata quasi impeccabile, l'interazione col pubblico buona (Robert Smith ha persino azzardato un "Grazie mille", unica ed acclamatissima frase che il pubblico ha capito), alcune canzoni elegantemente riarrangiate.

La qualità sonora, inizialmente pessima (purtroppo tale è rimasta per tutta l'esibizione dei Twilight Sad che aprivano il concerto), è migliorata durante l'esibizione grazie al lavoro ingrato dei fonici e al fatto che gradualmente le chitarre elettriche distorte sono state sostituite con le acustiche o con suoni più docili.

Penso che sia l'ultimo concerto che andrò a vedere al Mediolanum Forum, che è vergognosamente inadatto ad ospitare concerti rock dal punto di vista acustico (peccato, perché dal punto di vista logistico non è male). Ridateci l'arena!

What a concert!

We managed to get front row side view, only a few meters from the stage.

I'd seen them in 1985 in Madrid, 2008 in Melbourne and now in Milan. Awesome songs, still as good as always. A massive repertoire to choose from, but they performed most of their hits, plus a new one, It Can Never Be The Same. Robert as grand as always, he really enjoyed the show.

Simon at his best, he inspired me when I was 17 to play bass guitar, his usual moving around the stage with his bass at knee level!

I missed Porl, though, he has always been the colourful note at the right end of the stage!

Roger as sculptural as always in front of the keyboards and Jason performing at his best.

A magnificent show, what can I say.

I hope to see them again in a couple of years!

The Cure - Barcelona, Palau Sant Jordi. November 26th 2016

My 5th Cure concert, and probably the best I've seen. No doubt it was far better than the last one, also in Barcelona in 2008 (without Roger O'Donnell on keys)

The band is great with Reeves Gabrels and Roger. Jason Cooper sounds better than ever on drums and Simon's bass is terrific.

Missed some gems such as Plainsong, Jupiter Crash, Want, Letter to Elise, but setlist was OK, 32 songs, focusing on The Head on the Door (1985) + Disintegration (89) + Kiss Me (87).

1 great unreleased song: It Can Never Be The Same on 1st encore.

Robert's voice was fine, powerful and clean. Athmosphere was good, proactive and the pop songs encouraged fans to sing along.

Looking fw to a new tour and maybe new album?

3 (three) hours of pure pleasure. 31 songs.

They sang as if they were recording the original albuns. Perfect!

Great quality and performance.

Great respect for the fans, as I never saw.

Best was not possible, im glad I went to this concert. Thank you CURE!

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The Cure review – top goths tease their bleak but beautiful new album

Ovo Hydro, Glasgow Robert Smith and his men in black deliver haunting headphone music on a megadome scale in a sprawling set of greatest hits and tasters of the upcoming Songs of a Lost World

E lectric shock of voluminously frazzled hair, baggily dressed in what else but black, the Cure ’s singer, songwriter and guitarist Robert Smith is one of those rare rock stars whom you can recognise even in silhouette. His band’s shadowy yet anthemic music – comfortably the creepiest thing to crawl out of Crawley, West Sussex circa 1978 – remains every bit as unmistakable. Pop from the dark side, gloomy post-punk that reaches for the light – call it what you like. The Cure are still top of the goths.

What was originally planned as a tour in support of their long-awaited 14th album Songs of a Lost World – still apparently unfinished, despite its title being publicly announced – proves a sprawling mix of greatest hits set, assorted root through lesser-visited corners of their discography, and a road-test for new material. At two-and-a-half hours in length, there’s plenty of time for all three.

Having haunted arenas longer than some ghosts haunt cathedrals, the Cure have their live sound down to a towering tee – headphone music at megadome scale. Featherlight guitar filigrees land like hammers, dolorous synth string drones rumble from the deep. Smith’s agelessly yearning and yelping vocals, his lyrics steeped in suburban ennui and true love against the big, bad world, are the voice of the eternal moody teen. Pictures of You, the shimmering seven-minute reverie that launched a thousand shoegaze wig-outs, is a chest-punch both figurative and real that sounds and feels more vivid and alive than any 33-year-old song has a right to. Not bad coming from six men who look like they’re on their way to a dressed-down funeral.

The Cure are one of the few bands upon which practically any artist ever labelled “alternative” can surely agree, and the DNA of movements they’ve helped seed are scattered everywhere in their set. The hopelessly devoted Lovesong we can perhaps squarely credit with inspiring emo; The Walk will later map out the shiver and clang of industrial electronica. If stock still and lost in the dream is the Cure’s default stage stance – keys player Roger O’Donnell so much so that you wonder if someone shouldn’t give him a friendly shake just to check he’s still with us – leather clad, bequiffed and tattooed Simon Gallup as usual hasn’t gotten the memo. One of the coolest bass players ever to do it, he prowls the stage, mounts the monitors and deadeyes the crowd, instrument slung so low it’s nearly scraping the floor.

Shaped by the deaths of several members of Smith’s family, Songs of a Lost World threatens to be a bleak record even by the standards of a band whose biggest album, 1989’s four-million selling Disintegration, is a hallucinogenic exploration of clinical depression. And yet, several new songs sound rooted in the sweeping, enveloping end of the Cure repertoire that dares to be beautiful – the operatic And Nothing Is Forever, for instance, or the post-rock machinations of Endsong. “I could die tonight of a broken heart,” sings Smith on A Fragile Thing, lest anyone worry that the 63-year-old goth godfather is going soft in his advancing years. On I Can Never Say Goodbye, a tribute to his late brother, Smith goes one further by quoting a witch in Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Something wicked this way comes.”

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The first of two encores mines some of the darkest nights of the Cure’s soul. Faith’s funereal dirge precedes the atonal, queasy churn of One Hundred Years, as discomfortingly embellished by black and white photographs of 20th-century warfare, culminating with a mushroom cloud. It all apparently gets too much for Smith somewhere in that sequence and his eyeliner starts to run. “It’s really hard sometimes being on stage when I start crying, for fuck’s sake,” he mumbles, mildly embarrassed.

Come the second encore, we get a whole other side of the Cure – pop infiltrators, relentless Top 40 hit machine, unlikely legends of the indie disco. Friday I’m in Love jangles, Close to Me wriggles and shakes, In Between Days and Just Like Heaven are a brace of breathless, rushing euphoria. Boys Don’t Cry ends by taking us back to the start of their career, with a spry, scrappy and fearless post-punk song about masculinity versus unbridled emotion that still says the unsayable today, much less in the late 1970s. The Cure contain multitudes yet still somehow never sound like anyone else but themselves. Boys may not have cried, but one or two grown men undoubtedly did.

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Finger Lakes Tour de Cure participants gear up for diabetes cycling fundraiser

by Karen Edwards

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — The Finger Lakes Tour de Cure isn't for another six weeks, but riders have been pedaling forward to raise money for the American Diabetes Association.

Training is already underway for the June 8 cycling fundraiser . One of the final indoor training rides was held at IslandFit on Commerce Drive in Rochester.

"We've got to give back to the community, right?" posited IslandFit Co-Owner Eke Aiono. "If I can help people prepare for the tour, that's great! It's all helping each other out."

Aiono has been a tour rider for about 15 years. He rides for his sister and late mother, who were both diagnosed with diabetes.

"I think we all know somebody who's affected by diabetes," he said.

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Tour Chair Todd Buzard has been riding since 2018.

"There are millions of people in New York State alone who have diabetes," Buzard said. "There are millions of others who don't know they're pre-diabetic."

For Buzard, the disease also hits close to home. He's been riding with his teen son, Ryan, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 8.

"He's my main 'why' and my main reason, but I also just want to make life better for everyone who lives with diabetes," Buzard explained.

The father-son duo are just two of hundreds of people who are raising money and awareness in the fight to end diabetes.

"It's really important to me because all these people want to support people and they have their own reasons why," said Ryan. "So, it's just really important to know that there's people who really want to cure this disease."

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As they prepare to take their training to the next level, they say they are ready to hit the pavement.

"This is one of the most favorite things I do all year long," said Todd Buzard. "I tell my family all the time."

"It feels great because there are a lot of likeminded people around you so it's a lot of fun," said Ryan.

There's still time to sign up, join the tour and raise money for the American Diabetes Association .

CLICK HERE to register.