The Cure Band Tour: 25 Shows in North America Scheduled for 2016 & a New Album Released? [Rumor]
- Ma. Elena
- Oct 07, 2015 06:00 AM EDT
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The Cure will embark on a concert tour next year.
The news of the 25-date tour in North America was announced on Tuesday, Yahoo! News reported. So far, the band only made three tour dates known: May 22 in Los Angeles, California's Hollywood Bowl; June 10 in Chicago, Illinois' UIC Pavilion; and June 18 in New York's Madison Square Garden, CoS listed. The complete itinerary will be revealed in January.
Check out the tour's poster here.
The English rock band, which was formed in 1976, last released an album in 2008 called "4:13 Dream," Yahoo! News noted. They didn't perform in any venues this year and only appeared in select dates in 2014, including charity shows in London. In the last half decade, The Cure headlined major music festivals, such as Lollapalooza, Osheaga, and Riot Fest, CoS noted.
Scottish band The Twilight Sad will accompany the group's upcoming tour, Vanyaland wrote. Earlier in 2015, The Cure singer and guitarist Robert Smith did a cover of the band's song "There's a Girl in the Corner." Listen to it here.
Smith, now 56, is known for his "on-stage stamina," frequently performing for three hours with minimum interruption. The band is responsible for shaping the Goth rock genre especially with the 1982 record "Pornography," which was full of "thundering dark chords and suicidal lyricism," Yahoo! News added.
Back in 2014, Smith said in interviews that the band had worked on a new album tentatively called "4:14 Scream," but they are unsure of releasing it, Yahoo! News further reported.
"The songs came from sessions for the last album, '4:13 Dream,' which Smith said was meant to be a double album but was condensed at the insistence of the band's label," the news outlet added.
Last year, Smith said that "4:14 Scream" is "a bit of a sore point" because it was recorded by a different lineup, Pitchfork reported. He also said that the album will likely be released via their old label home Fiction.
"We're in a weird predicament in that I've finished singing and mixing an album that was made by a band that no longer exists. I'm not sure it happens that often. This band is trying to make an album with this lineup, and it's an album that I'm tempted to make, that's really different to anything else we've done. So trying to be convinced that I should release the second half of what is an effectively an album that came out in 2008, it's a bit of a sore point, really, to be honest, amongst this current lineup," Smith explained, as quoted by Pitchfork.
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