Robert Smith has said that The Cure are likely to go out on tour next year.
To mark the release of their new album, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, which arrives today, the band are already set to perform the second of two shows in London today, with no further dates announced as things stand.
Earlier this month, The Cure had released a new single, ‘A Fragile Thing’, which will also feature on this album. Check this out and Nova’s report here.
Robert Smith Outlines Plans For The Cure
In a long-ranging interview filmed by the band with Matt Everitt, The Cure frontman Robert Smith outlined the band’s plans for next year.
“We’ll start up again next year,” stated Smith. “Seriously, I have to finish the second album. We were going to play festivals next year, but then I decided that we weren’t going to play anything next summer. The next time we go out on stage will be autumn next year”.
Smith continued: “But then we’ll probably be playing quite regularly through until the next anniversary – the 2028 anniversary! It’s looming on the horizon. The 2018 one, I started to think about in late 2016, thinking, ‘I’ve got a year and a half, it’s easy!’ And yet I still didn’t manage to get there in time. Now, I’m starting to think, ‘2028, I must get things in order’; so [that’s] the documentary film and things like that”.
Robert Smith also ambitiously stated that the Cure would carry on into their 50th anniversary in 2029.
“I’m 70 in 2029, and that’s the 50th anniversary of the first Cure album. That’s it, that really is it. If I make it that far, that’s it. In the intervening time, I’d like us to include playing concerts as part of the overall plan of what we’re going to do. I’ve loved it; 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 years! It’s been great”, he said.
“Not having a new album for all that period of time, we’ve played 130 or 150 different songs because we’ve turned into a live band that draws on the catalogue. We can go out and play shows, and we can play two hours of 30 songs and completely different songs each night. There’s a freedom to that”.
