Photo: Paul Bachmann
After their headline booking at Glastonbury added to many other European festival bookings for The Cure last week, Robert Smith has confirmed that work on a new studio album is finished.
Smith was discussing a first Cure album since 2008’s 4:13_Dream when he told SiriusXM that curating the 2018 Meltdown Festival had proved to be a big inspiration for the record, and he’s now given a further update on The John Maytham Show, insisting that his big plans for the band this year are still being done ‘for the right reasons’.
Before the new album, The Cure will remember their 1989 LP Disintegration when they perform it in full during four shows in Sydney in May.
Tour dates:
May
24,25,27,28 – Sydney, Opera House
June
8 – Malahide Castle, Dublin, Ireland
13-16 – Nova Rock Festival, Nickelsdorf, Austria
16 – Firenze Rocks, Florence, Italy
21-23 – Hurricane Festival, Scheessel, Germany
21-23 – Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany
24-26 – InMusic Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
26-30 – Glastonbury Festival, Somerset, UK
28 – Rock Werchter Festival, Belgium
29–July 6 – Roskilde Festival, Denmark
July
4 – EXIT Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
6 – Roskilde Festival, Denmark
11 – NOS Alive Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
13 – Mad Cool Festival, Madrid, Spain
17 – Ejekt Festival, Athens, Greece
18 – Colours Of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
22 – Rock The City Festival, Bucharest, Romania
26-28 – Fuji Rock Festival, Japan
August
3 – Afisha Picnic, Moscow, Russia
7 – Oya Festival, Oslo, Norway
8-10 – Way Out West, Gothenburg, Sweden
9-11 – Flow Festival, Helsinki, Finland
16 – Summer Sessions, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, United Kingdom
23 – Rock En Seine, Paris, France