Founded: 1977
Location: United Kingdom
The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex. Throughout numerous lineup changes since the band's formation, guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter Robert Smith has remained the only constant member, though bassist Simon Gallup has been present for all but about three years of the band's history. Their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), along with several early singles, placed the band at the forefront of the emerging post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the United Kingdom. Beginning with their second album, Seventeen Seconds (1980), the band adopted a new, increasingly dark and tormented style, which, together with Smith's stage look, had a strong influence on the emerging genre of gothic rock as well as the subculture that eventually formed around the genre.
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All profits from the live album will be donated to the UK charity, War Child.
“I’m 70 in 2029, and that’s the 50th anniversary of the first Cure album. If I make it that far, that’s it,” Robert Smith said.
You can pre-order the album to access tickets to the album launch show. Yes, even if you're from Australia.
Coming this November, it’ll be the band's first studio release in 16 years.
Robert Smith previously described the apparent upcoming album as “the doomiest thing that we’ve ever done.”
The keyboardist has received treatment over the last eleven months, and his prognosis is "amazing."
The band opened the first show of the 'Lost World' tour in Riga, Latvia with the dreamy new song 'Alone' and closed out their set proper with the ambient sounds of the appropriately titled 'Endsong'
The news was shared via Facebook over the weekend.
"I'm ok… just got fed up of betrayal."
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