The Cure's Robert Smith has shared plans for the band's 2025 tour and 50th anniversary in an interview with Matt Everitt that is available on the band's Songs of A Lost World website. The singer stated that The Cure would complete another record before returning to touring in 2025:
"We’ll start up again next year. 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. But then we’ll probably be playing quite regularly through until the next anniversary-"
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The singer continued,
"– 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."
The singer shared his hope of reaching the 50th anniversary of The Cure's first album, which is 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."
The singer continued,
"It pisses all over the other 30 years! It’s been great. 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."
More on Robert Smith's statement on The Cure's future
Robert Smith stated that the definitive documentary on The Cure first revealed to be in the works in 2019, was still ongoing, with the preliminary process of digitizing currently ongoing.
Robert Smith has stated that The Cure documentary will be a historical piece containing footage, recordings, and other never-before-seen content. The documentary will be "revealing," said the documentary.
Robert Smith previously clarified that the documentary will showcase The Cure's history as he envisions it while keeping true to the band's facts and figures and clarifying misconceptions about the band that he believes are persistent in the media.
Robert Smith has also elaborated on why The Cure's album Songs of A Lost World was delayed for so long. The singer stated that the album had been drifting as a project and regretted saying anything about it in 2019.
Songs of A Lost World will be released on November 1, 2024. The album's tracklist is given below:
- Alone
- And Nothing IS Forever
- A Fragile Thing
- Warsong
- Drone: No Drone
- I can Never Say Goodbye
- All I Ever Am
- Endsong
The Cure will perform at the Show Of A Lost World in support of its upcoming album. The band will perform the entire album at the concert, and part of the proceeds will be given to the organization War Child.
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