The Cure to Perform Huge 2026 U.K. and Ireland Outdoor Shows

The Cure volition header a bid of monolithic outdoor shows successful the U.K. and Ireland adjacent summer.

The tally of dates is scheduled to footwear disconnected successful Dublin’s Marlay Park connected June 26, earlier continuing connected to Belfast’s Belsonic astatine Ormeau Park (June 28), Wythenshawe Park successful Manchester (Aug. 21) and a nighttime astatine the Royal Highland Showgrounds (Aug. 23) arsenic portion of the Edinburgh Summer Sessions. See the afloat trek below.

Tickets for each shows spell connected merchantability this Friday (Oct. 3) astatine 9 a.m. (BST) via The Cure’s authoritative website, portion fans who person antecedently signed up to the band’s mailing database volition beryllium fixed entree to the pre-sale information. 

Support for each of the shows volition alternate betwixt Mogwai, The Twilight Sad, Slowdive, Just Mustard, Stella and the Dreaming, and The Slow Readers Club. 

In summation to the newly-announced gigs, The Cure are acceptable to header the Isle of Wight Festival adjacent summer, arsenic good arsenic European festivals including Primavera Sound, Nova Rock, and Rock en Seine.

Last fall, The Cure released fourteenth workplace medium Songs of a Lost World, which topped the Official U.K. Albums Chart and landed astatine No. 4 connected the Billboard 200 – their highest-charting effort successful the US since 1992’s Wish. The grounds reached the acme connected 5 alternate Billboard charts: Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums, Vinyl Albums and Indie Store Album Sales.

Frontman Robert Smith told the Official Charts Company astatine the time: “It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to acquisition specified a fantastic absorption to the merchandise of the caller Cure album. To everyone who has bought it, listened to it, loved it, believed successful america implicit the years – convey you!”

Songs of a Lost World marked the legendary act’s archetypal full-length grounds successful 16 years. They performed it successful afloat astatine Troxy successful eastbound London connected merchandise day, arsenic good arsenic 2 shows astatine the BBC Radio Theatre.

In June, meanwhile, Smith joined Olivia Rodrigo connected stage during her Glastonbury Festival header slot. Rodrigo introduced him arsenic “a idiosyncratic hero” and “perhaps the champion songwriter to travel retired of England” earlier the brace duetted connected 2 anthems by The Cure: “Friday I’m In Love” and “Just Like Heaven.” 

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