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The Cure frontman Robert Smith performs at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Thursday 28 July 2016.

The Cure frontman Robert Smith performs at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Thursday 28 July 2016.

The Cure Record First Album in 10 Years

by Paul Cashmere on March 20, 2019

in News

The Cure have been in the studio working on their first album in over a decade.

The last album for The Cure was “4:13 Dream” in 2008.

Robert Smith revealed details of the new album in an interview on South Africa’s The John Maytham Show. The Cure are touring in South Africa for the first time.

Smith told Maytham that the band “just recorded a new album for the first time in 10 years,” and added, “I’m still doing this for the right reasons because it’s us doing it, it sounds us.”

There is no timeline on the when the new album will be released.

The Cure’s most recent show was for Rock The Lawn in Johannesburg, South Africa last Saturday 16 March 2019.

Here is the setlist:

Plainsong (from Disintegration, 1989)
Pictures of You (from Disintegration, 1989)
High (from Wish, 1992)
A Night Like This (from The Head on the Door, 1985)
The End of the World (from The Cure, 2004)
Lovesong (from Disintegration, 1989)
Push (from The Head on the Door, 1985)
In Between Days (from The Head on the Door, 1985)
Just Like Heaven (from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
A Strange Day (from Pornography, 1982)
Play for Today (from Seventeen Seconds, 1980)
A Forest (from Seventeen Seconds, 1980)
Primary (from Faith, 1981)
Shake Dog Shake (from The Top, 1984)
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Disintegration (from Disintegration, 1989)

Encore:
Burn (from The Crow soundtrack, 1994)
Fascination Street (from Disintegration, 1989)
Never Enough (from Mixed Up, 1990)
Wrong Number (from Galore, 1997)
Lullaby (from Disintegration, 1989)
The Caterpillar (from The Top, 1984)
The Walk (from Japanese Whispers, 1983)
Friday I’m in Love (from Wish, 1992)
Close to Me (from The Head on the Door, 1985)
Why Can’t I Be You? (from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987)
Boys Don’t Cry (from Boys Don’t Cry, 1979)
Jumping Someone Else’s Train (from Boys Don’t Cry, 1979)
Grinding Halt (from Three Imaginary Boys, 1979)
10:15 Saturday Night (from Three Imaginary Boys, 1979)
Killing an Arab (from Boys Don’t Cry, 1979)

The Cure will perform for Vivid Live in Sydney 24, 25, 27 and 28 May 2019

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