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THE CURE HAVE JUST ANNOUNCED DETAILS OF A 44 DATE EUROPEAN TOUR TAKING IN 22 COUNTRIES AT THE END OF 2022 WITH THE TWILIGHT SAD SUPPORTING ON ALL DATES.

TICKETS FOR ALL SHOWS GO ON GENERAL SALE LATER THIS WEEK AND YOU CAN FIND TICKET DEAILS AT THECURE.COM/SHOWS/

THE FULL LIST OF TOUR DATES:

06 – RIGA Arena 08 – HELSINKI Hartwall Arena 10 – STOCKHOLM Avicii Arena 12 – OSLO Spektrum 13 – GOTHENBURG Scandinavium 14 – COPENHAGEN Royal Arena 16 – HAMBURG Barclays Arena 17 – LEIPZIG Quarterback Immobilien Arena 18 – BERLIN Mercedes Benz Arena 20 – KRAKOW Tauron Arena 21 – LODZ Atlas Arena 23 – VIENNA Marx Halle 24 – PRAGUE O2 Arena 26 – BUDAPEST Arena 27 – ZAGREB Arena 29 – MUNICH Olympiahalle 31 – BOLOGNA Unipol Arena

01 – FIRENZE Mandela Forum 03 – PADOVA Kioene Arena 04 – MILAN Forum 06 – GENEVA Arena 07 – LYON Halle Tony Garnier 08 – MONTPELLIER Sud De France Arena 10 – BARCELONA Palau Sant Jordi 11 – MADRID WiZink Center 13 – TOULOUSE Zenith 14 – BORDEAUX Arkea Arena 15 – NANTES Zenith 17 – FRANKFURT Festhalle 18 – STRASBOURG Zenith 19 – BASEL St Jakobshalle 21 – STUTTGART Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle 22 – KOLN Lanxess Arena 23 – ANTWERP Sportpaleis 25 – AMSTERDAM Ziggo Dome 27 – LIEVIN Stade 28 – PARIS Accor Arena

01 – DUBLIN 3Arena 02 – BELFAST SSE Arena 04 – GLASGOW OVO Hydro 06 – LEEDS First Direct Arena 07 – BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena 08 – CARDIFF Motorpoint Arena 11 – WEMBLEY OVO Arena 12 – WEMBLEY OVO Arena (Added due to demand) 13 – WEMBLEY OVO Arena (Added due to demand)

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The Cure have announced a 44-date UK, Ireland and Europe tour for 2022.

The rock band will begin in Latvia and perform around Europe, including dates in Italy, Poland, France and Germany, before beginning the UK leg.

Tickets for the tour go on sale on Friday 10 December at 10am. Buy them here .

The Twilight Sad will support throughout the tour.

See the UK and Ireland dates below:

DECEMBER 2022

1 December – 3ARENA, Dublin, Ireland

2 December – SSE, Belfast, Northern Ireland

4 December – OVO HYDRO, Glasgow, Scotland

6 December – FIRST DIRECT ARENA, Leeds, England

7 December – UTILITA ARENA, Birmingham, England

8 December – MOTORPOINT ARENA, Cardiff, Wales

11 December – THE SSE ARENA, Wembley, London, England

A press release for the tour said each show would last 135 minutes, and also hinted at a forthcoming announcement for the band’s new album. Their last record, 4:13 Dream, was released in 2008.

The release also confirms the lineup will include longtime bassist Simon Gallup , after he appeared to temporarily quit the band in August .

Gallup, 61, said he was “fed up of betrayal” in a post to his Facebook page, before appearing to confirm he had rejoined The Cure in October.

He first joined The Cure in 1979 after performing in frontman Robert Smith’s side project, Cult Hero. He temporarily left in 1982 after an altercation with Smith while on the Pornography tour, rejoining in 1984.

After Smith, he is the band’s longest-serving member.

The Cure were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. In a recent interview with The Sunday Times , Smith said the band’s next album could be their last, as he was struggling to write lyrics for the new material.

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The Cure announce UK shows as part of 44-date European tour, tease new album

The Cure line up European tour for 2022, including dates in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland

The Cure will play shows in Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Cardiff and London as part of a 44-date, 22-country, European tour lined up for 2022.

Robert Smith’s band have also teased the fact that they have recorded 20 new songs, at least some of which seem destined for release on a new, as-yet-untitled, 67-minute Cure album. Thirteen new songs were recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales in February 2019, with a further seven songs added when the group returned to Rockfield in September 2019. Logic would suggest that the new album will emerge ahead of the group’s extensive 2022 touring schedule.

The Cure’s 2022 European tour will call at: Oct 06: Arena Riga, LAT Oct 08: Hartwall Arena Helsinki, FIN Oct 10: Avicii Arena Stockholm, SWE Oct 12: Spektrum Oslo, NOR Oct 13: Scandinavium Gothenburg, SWE Oct 14: Royal Arena Copenhagen, DEN Oct 16: Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg, GER Oct 17: Quarterback Immobilien Arena Leipzig, GER Oct 18: Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin, GER Oct 20: Tauron Arena Krakow, POL Oct 21: Atlas Arena Lodz, POL Oct 23: Marx Halle Vienna, AUS Oct 24: O2 Arena Prague, CZE Oct 26: Arena Budapest, HUN Oct 27: Arena Zagreb, CRO Oct 29: Olympiahalle Munich, GER Oct 31: Unipol Arena Bologna, ITA Nov 01: Mandela Forum Florence, ITA Nov 03: Kioene Arena Padova, ITA Nov 04: Forum Milan, ITA Nov 06: Arena Geneva, SWI Nov 07: Halle Tony Garnier Lyon, FRA Nov 08: Sud De France Arena Montpellier, FRA Nov 10: Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona, SPA Nov 11: Wizink Center Madrid, SPA Nov 13: Zenith Toulouse, FRA Nov 14: Arkea Arena Bordeaux, FRA Nov 15: Zenith Nantes, FRA Nov 17: Festhalle Frankfurt, GER Nov 18: Zenith Strasbourg, FRA Nov 19: St Jakobshalle Basel, SWI Non 21: Hans-Martin-Schleyer-Halle Stuttggart, GER Nov 22: Lanxess Arena Cologne, GER Nov 23: Sportpaleis Antwerp, BEL Nov 25: Ziggo Dome Amsterdam, HOL Nov 27: Stade Lievin, FRA Nov 28: Accor Arena Paris, FRA Dec 01: 3Arena Dublin, IRE Dec 02: SSE Belfast, NI Dec 04: OVO Hydro Glasgow, SCO Dec 06: First Arena Direct Leeds, ENG Dec 07: Utilita Arena Birmingham, ENG Dec 08: Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, WAL Dec 11: SSE Arena London, ENG

The Twilight Sad will support The Cure on all dates. 

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The Cure have shared details of a 44-date UK and European tour next year, including five arena shows in the UK. Check out full dates and ticket details below.

The band will kick the shows off in Riga, Latvia at the city’s arena on October 6, 2022 before wrapping things up at London’s SSE Arena on December 11.

Fans will be treated to a 135 minute show, with mention in a press release of a “67 minute” new album that is yet to be announced. The Cure’s last album was 2008’s 4:13 Dream.

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The news follows the band speaking about their new album, which they previously described as their “most intense, saddest and most emotional record”.

In 2019 frontman Robert Smith told NME that they were looking to finish their “merciless” new album that year – 11 years after its predecessor – adding that it had the working title of ‘Live From The Moon’ and that it was one of three new Cure albums in the works . A year later keyboardist Roger O’Donnell told Classic Pop magazine about what fans can expect from the new record(s), and how he and Smith have felt the pressure after more than a decade without new music.

The Cure have also confirmed that the line-up for the tour will feature bassist Simon Gallup, who said back in August that he had left the band “with a slightly heavy heart,” writing that he’s “fed up of betrayal,” before appearing to confirm in October that he had re-joined the band.

Tickets for the upcoming tour go on sale this Friday (December 10) at 10am and will be available from venues’ online box offices, selected ticket agents and via Bookings Direct. Head to The Cure’s official website for further details. Support for all shows comes from The Twilight Sad.

The Cure play the following UK and European tour dates in 2022:

OCTOBER: 06 – ARENA, Riga, Latvia 08 – HARTWALL ARENA, Helsinki, Finland 10 – AVICII ARENA, Stockholm, Sweden 12 – SPEKTRUM, Oslo, Norway 13 – SCANDINAVIUM, Gothenburg, Sweden 14 – ROYAL ARENA, Copenhagen, Denmark 16 – BARCLAYCARD ARENA, Hamburg, Germany 17 – QUARTERBACK IMMOBILIEN ARENA, Leipzig, Germany 18 – MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA, Berlin, Germany 20 – TAURON ARENA, Krakow, Poland 21 – ATLAS ARENA, Lodz, Poland 23 – MARX HALLE, Vienna, Austria 24 – O2 ARENA, Prague 9, Czech Republic 26 – ARENA, Budapest, Hungary 27 – ARENA, Zagreb, Croatia 29 – OLYMPIAHALLE, Munich, Germany 31 – UNIPOL ARENA, Bologna, Italy

NOVEMBER: 01 – MANDELA FORUM, Florence, Italy 03 – KIOENE ARENA, Padova, Italy 04 – FORUM, Milan, Italy 06 – ARENA, Geneva, Switzerland 07 – HALLE TONY GARNIER, Lyon, France 08 – SUD DE FRANCE ARENA, Montpellier, France 10 – PALAU SANT JORDI, Barcelona, Spain 11 – WIZINK CENTER, Madrid, Spain 13 – ZENITH, Toulouse, France 14 – ARKEA ARENA, Bordeaux, France 15 – ZENITH, Nantes, France 17 – FESTHALLE, Frankfurt, Germany 18 – ZENITH, Strasbourg, France 19 – ST JAKOBSHALLE, Basel, Switzerland 21 – HANS-MARTIN-SCHLEYER-HALLE, Stuttggart, Germany 22 – LANXESS ARENA, Cologne, Germany 23 – SPORTPALEIS, Antwerp, Belgium 25 – ZIGGO DOME, Amsterdam, Netherlands 27 – STADE, Lievin, France 28 – ACCOR ARENA, Paris, France

DECEMBER: 01 – 3ARENA, Dublin, Ireland 02 – SSE, Belfast, Northern Ireland 04 – OVO HYDRO, Glasgow, Scotland 06 – FIRST DIRECT ARENA, Leeds, England 07 – UTILITA ARENA, Birmingham, England 08 – MOTORPOINT ARENA, Cardiff, Wales 11 – THE SSE ARENA, Wembley, London, England.

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The Cure have announced a 44-date UK and European tour for 2022.

The 'Friday I'm In Love' band will kick off in Riga, Latvia on October 6 before concluding five arena shows in Britain at London's SSE Arena on December 11.

Fans will be treated to a 135 minute show and a "67 minute" new album has also been mooted which would mark the group's first record since 2008's '4:13 Dream'.

The group have confirmed that the line-up for the tour will feature bassist Simon Gallup, who said in August that he had left the band "with a slightly heavy heart" as he was "fed up of betrayal". Two months later, however, he appeared to confirm that he had re-joined The Cure.

Tickets for the tour will go on sale on Friday (10.12.21) and the group will be supported at all shows by The Twilight Sad.

Frontman Robert Smith previously suggested that their next two albums will be their final full-length releases as the 'Just Like Heaven' group have invested a lot of emotional energy into their new work.

The 62-year-old musician said: "The new Cure stuff is very emotional.

"It’s 10 years of life distilled into a couple of hours of intense stuff.

"And I can’t think we’ll ever do anything else. I definitely can’t do this again."

The Cure 2022 UK Tour Dates:

4 December – Glasgow Ovo Hydro

6 December – Leeds First Direct Arena

7 December – Birmingham Utilita Arena

8 December – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena

11 December– London The SSE Arena Wembley

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The Cure are a band formed in 1976 hailing from Crawley, West Sussex, in the United Kingdom. Fronted by lead singer and songwriter Robert Smith, they came from the post-punk scene of the early 80’s to become one of the biggest and most influential bands in modern rock.

When a band gets to be as truly worshipped as The Cure, it can be an interesting and slightly bizarre thing to look at their early days. A little bit like seeing your favourite actor wondering whether they’re going to go with white or brown bread in a local Tesco. Or an important politician spotted zoning out on public transport, it brings them back down to earth and reminds you that they’re not all-conquering, all-powerful cosmically divine extra-dimension visitors who know the secrets of the universe, but a guy from the Sussex suburbs who formed a band to play at a school concert.

They probably looked ridiculous at their first shows, and not in the awesome way. They probably wrote some godawful songs. Some punters probably watched an early incarnation of The Cure and thought, for good reason, that they were a bunch of no-hopers. Every band has those days and if they haven’t one should be very, very suspicious of them. What makes The Cure so special is that they absolutely had those days, but knowing about them doesn’t take the sheen off them at all. They’re still a vitally important band, influential to thousands of bands the world over and that’s enough to make them legends, before the image and before the imitators.

And it all began with a school concert. In April 1973, five students from Notre Dame Middle School in Crawley formed Obelisk, the first tentative musical project of one Mr Robert Smith, who was the bands pianist. Future Cure cohorts Mick Dempsey and Lol Tolhurst backed him up on guitar and percussion, respectively, but it wasn’t until 1976 that the trio began to take making music more seriously. The band was reshuffled to feature Smith on the guitar, Dempsey on bass and Tolhurst left the now renamed Malice, but it was only to last a year until their lead guitarist left as well.

The remaining members got Tolhurst back as their drummer and renamed themselves again.This time, they would be called Easy Cure. By September 1977, Smith took over lead vocals after several unsuccessful auditions and by the start of 1978, they had dropped the Easy from their name and had recorded their first demo tape. This tape found its way to Polydor Records scout Chris Parry, who was so taken with the band that he signed them to his own label Fiction in September of that very year. In a move that nobody would get away with now, their track “Killing An Arab” was released soon after as their very first single.

It was a move that gained as much acclaim as controversy, to the extent that a re-release of the single had to be packaged with a sticker on the cover denying its supposedly racist connotations. Thankfully, the bands energetic post-punk got more attention, and their hype was considerably heightened with a session on John Peel’s legendary Radio One show. By the following year, their debut album “Three Imaginary Boys”, was released, and as part of its promotion, the band embarked on their first major support tour opening for Siouxsie And The Banshees.

This was to be a major step forward for the band, as Smith was coaxed into playing guitar for The Banshees after their original axe-man left shortly before the tour. The experience of being a Banshee profoundly changed Smith’s attitude towards the music that his band played, and when before he was most influenced by The Buzzcocks and Elvis Costello, afterwards he wanted to match the power that he felt while playing Siouxsie’s music. The result was 1980’s “Seventeen Seconds” and arguably, that was when they became The Cure that we know today.

Since then, they’ve been most known for essentially creating Goth music with the aforementioned record, its follow up “Faith”, and 1982’s bleak masterpiece “Pornography”. However, after those records they released some of the most romantic, beautiful and downright succesful pop of the 1980’s and early 90’s, with albums like “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me”, “Wish” and “The Top” showing just what Smith could do with a lovelorn lyric and a truly gorgeous melody. It’s their mastery of these two extremes that really show why The Cure are as loved as they are. They exemplify the human condition, and reflect when one is ecstatic and when one is at their lowest with equal skill and sensitivity.

There’s no-one else like them, and it’ll be a while before we see their likes again. See this band as soon as possible.

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Reviewing a show of one of your favorite Bands who have the distinction of being in your Top 5 (if not #1) live experiences of all time can be a bit daunting.

It can go a number of ways.

1. Another Great show as hoped.

2. Sub par and a let down.

3. The Band just "mails it in" (which is the worst).

The Cure, who have been around since 1976 (Easy Cure) and haven't toured the States anyway with a new album since 2008 are currently embarking on a substantial North American tour and with no new album I was really only expecting a "Greatest Hits" type show honestly? And given their Longevity and slew of "Hits" from the heyday of MTV I guess I couldn't blame them and I would have been satisfied more than likely?

Ah, but that was not the case in Boston (6-16-16) at Agganis Arena!

The Cure came out full throttle with a high energy level for what would turn out to be a marathon show of 3 hours which included.

Not 1. Not 2. Not even 3. But 4. Yes. 4 Encore Sets!!!

Were the standards there? Of course how can they not be.

"Inbetween Days", "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" "Let's Go To Bed", "Boys Don't Cry" etc etc etc

And all played with a kicked up, but not hurried, sense of urgency and excitement!

Mixed in though were surprising live Gems like:

"Burn" (1st The Crow soundtrack), "M", "Kyoto Song" and the surprising "Snakepit"!!

"Fascination Street" which has one the most perfect Bass lines ever IMO was a whirlwind of insanity as Simon Gallup just pushed the Band forward.

And the songs just kept coming one after the other while the crowd basked in Robert Smith's wonderfully childlike sense of wonder and emotion in his lyrics and vocals and understated guitar work.

Most Cure fans (me included) knew every single song played which is typical of The Cure fanbase.

But when they launched into the new "It Can Never Be the Same" with it's rumbling Bass line and heart felt lyrics to Robert Smith's Mother(?) I was amazed at how well it slid into this already fantastic set and really really really hope it gets a proper release soon, if it hasn't already and I have somehow missed it?

Robert Smith is an enigma of a front man. He demands your attention but. I don't believe, has never come to grips with his fans adulations and is still obviously shy individual. And I really don't think it's an act?

Simon Gallup is without doubt the energy of this Band still! He stalks the stage and never stops moving. All the while laying down a very unique Bass foundation that compliments Roberts Jangly sparse guitar style perfectly.

Simon does not get the recognition he deserves as a force on the Bass (along with John Taylor of Duran Duran) and if you play Bass you really should take a close listen to his work with The Cure.

Jason Cooper I think has finally come out from the shadow that was Boris Williams and seems comfortable in pushing his style now more in the drumming Dept. which I believe is another reason for the energy level of the Band live.

Roger O'Donnell is sublime on the keyboards and brings that soaring majestic sound needed for anything done from DISINTEGRATION while jumping right over to the nursery rhyme key tinkling of The Cure's early 80's Synth Pop era easily.

Reeves Gabrels who is the current 2nd guitarist in the ever rotating slot is a masterful musician in his own right (David Bowie folks) and honestly I was surprised at how long He has stayed with the Band? But He steps out very tastefully when required and ads his unique flair to the sound. I will admit to missing Porl Thompson who I just think was/ is the elusive component to the Band. But if you have to have Mr. Gabrels who am I to complain?.

Honestly this review could have been round up with one word: "EPIC"

But that, would be "mailing it in".

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I first saw the Cure in 1982 in this very same venue, the effectionatelg named by U.S. Muso's as the Hammy Odeon.

Tonight some 30 years later I'm back. I feel at home especially as I'm stranding and I'm where I should be.... Down the Front

Our evening starts with And Also The Trees a reformed eighties outfit who previously supported the Cure on their 1984 tour.

The thing about Robert smith is that he is a prolific song writer and the bands back catalogue is immense which results in us experiencing a three hour plus spectacular.

And what a treat. Hits rained down and more randomly than normal. Tracks from The Top album seemed dominate. Just like Heaven, Charlotte sometimes, Hundred Years, The End and of course the gems Primary, play for today and the classic A Forest.

Of course I'd liked more from Seventeen Seconds and Faith but that would have been greedy. There were plenty of folk here tonight who weren't born when these albums were released

With so much to play we were presented with four encores and finally at 11.15 it all ended with Boys Don't Cry.

It meant so much for me to have returned to this awesome venue to see my favourite band.... The place and the band that started me on my gig going journey

Cheers Robert.... Fantastic

The Cure are a special band and should be heard in a special environment, that is why I saw them at Red Rocks in Colorado. It was a cool night and the sun was sitting low in the sky. That famous colorful Colorado sky fell down across the stage.

The fans were are pretty relaxed and were mostly 25 plus in age. Everyone seemed to be poised for a night of great music. You could hear conversations coming from every direction, everyone hoping their favorite songs will be played.

Just as it was getting dark the band took the stage. Everyone stood and applauded Robert Smith as he paced across the stage and made his way to the microphone stand. As the band members struck a few random chords then the band jumped into “Just Like Heaven”. The frenzy only grew as the bad started without pause to play “Friday I’m In Love”. Everyone was having so much fun. The music sounded better then I have ever heard it before.

Robert Smith played an amazing set list of all the hits over the years. The band played all the old songs like “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Pictures of you” with a fresh take and with a new energy. This band has been around a while and still worth seeing live!

The Cure are legends and any band that will give you a 2 1/2 hour show deserves your respect. That being said this "greatest hits" + a few back-catalogue approach is what you'd expect from the Rolling Stones not from what is still an underground act. That in and by itself wouldn't even be that bad but aside from a few songs 39, A Night Like This, 100 Years sounded bland, uninspired and as though they were just going through the motions... Great light show, technical perfection but no soul! I've seen them twice in the 90's and came out of those shows thrilled, energized and inspired. Those were magical shows where the band managed to transform reality and all (the band included, to judge by their faces) came out of it exhausted and amazed, carried off as by some shamanistic ritual to dark and dangerous lands where we learned to overcome our fears and face the world around us with new hope. This wasn't one of those shows. This was Robert Smith giving his audience 30 of his best songs and not once making a spiritual connection with either the music or the crowd...

Obviously being way too young to remember The Cure the first time around (sort of, ish, ahem, etc), this was the first time seeing this bunch of post-punk proto-goths and inevitably they didn't disappoint.

Despite most of the band heading pretty swiftly towards free-bus-pass age, the gig show kicked along at a pace, with young Mr. Smith barely pausing for breath as they band kicked on through a back catalogue spanning 30+ years.

Having spent the past few weeks attempting to brush up on my Cure knowledge (via Spotify) I can gladly add this band to an ever-growing list of "if you thought the studio version was good...", as tracks like Lullaby, Lovecats and Friday all sounded immense performed live.

Main issue of the night was technical; the lack of big screens at Wembley Arena means if you're right at the back, the band are mere specks on the stage up front. The lighting design was beautifully done though, and went some way to compensate for the lack of being able to see Robert Smith gurning earnestly into the microphone.

Two review, first for The Cure. It was a wonderful show! They were willing to perform hits along with other unknown songs and sounded great at doing it. They had a half and half crowd, some diehard fans and some who thought they were bigger fans than they actually were. With it being May in Pac NW the temperature dropped quickly freezing alot of people enough to say they had seen enough. This wasnt The band's fault for lack of inspired fans. They were everything I expected from a goth rock band from the late 70s and 80s. About the venue: I love the venue as well! We have been living in Portland for 5 years but have never made a point to catch a show in the Washington Amphitheater. Wow! We felt like we were home in the south. Nice concert under the stars and the price was a great as well, considering the crappy prices shows in Portland go for. We will be going back to Sunlight Supply in August.

Buon concerto del gruppo, rovinato dalla pessima acustica del Mediolanum Forum.

L'esecuzione è stata quasi impeccabile, l'interazione col pubblico buona (Robert Smith ha persino azzardato un "Grazie mille", unica ed acclamatissima frase che il pubblico ha capito), alcune canzoni elegantemente riarrangiate.

La qualità sonora, inizialmente pessima (purtroppo tale è rimasta per tutta l'esibizione dei Twilight Sad che aprivano il concerto), è migliorata durante l'esibizione grazie al lavoro ingrato dei fonici e al fatto che gradualmente le chitarre elettriche distorte sono state sostituite con le acustiche o con suoni più docili.

Penso che sia l'ultimo concerto che andrò a vedere al Mediolanum Forum, che è vergognosamente inadatto ad ospitare concerti rock dal punto di vista acustico (peccato, perché dal punto di vista logistico non è male). Ridateci l'arena!

What a concert!

We managed to get front row side view, only a few meters from the stage.

I'd seen them in 1985 in Madrid, 2008 in Melbourne and now in Milan. Awesome songs, still as good as always. A massive repertoire to choose from, but they performed most of their hits, plus a new one, It Can Never Be The Same. Robert as grand as always, he really enjoyed the show.

Simon at his best, he inspired me when I was 17 to play bass guitar, his usual moving around the stage with his bass at knee level!

I missed Porl, though, he has always been the colourful note at the right end of the stage!

Roger as sculptural as always in front of the keyboards and Jason performing at his best.

A magnificent show, what can I say.

I hope to see them again in a couple of years!

The Cure - Barcelona, Palau Sant Jordi. November 26th 2016

My 5th Cure concert, and probably the best I've seen. No doubt it was far better than the last one, also in Barcelona in 2008 (without Roger O'Donnell on keys)

The band is great with Reeves Gabrels and Roger. Jason Cooper sounds better than ever on drums and Simon's bass is terrific.

Missed some gems such as Plainsong, Jupiter Crash, Want, Letter to Elise, but setlist was OK, 32 songs, focusing on The Head on the Door (1985) + Disintegration (89) + Kiss Me (87).

1 great unreleased song: It Can Never Be The Same on 1st encore.

Robert's voice was fine, powerful and clean. Athmosphere was good, proactive and the pop songs encouraged fans to sing along.

Looking fw to a new tour and maybe new album?

3 (three) hours of pure pleasure. 31 songs.

They sang as if they were recording the original albuns. Perfect!

Great quality and performance.

Great respect for the fans, as I never saw.

Best was not possible, im glad I went to this concert. Thank you CURE!

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The Cure add third London date to 2022 UK tour and here’s where you can buy tickets

• Harriet Flook
• Published : 8:48, 4 Feb 2021
• Updated : 10:04, 4 Feb 2022

THE Cure have announced a huge UK tour for 2022, playing some of the countries biggest arenas.

Due to overwhelming demand, they've now added an extra London date to their UK tour and here's how you can get tickets.

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The huge tour will see the band play an incredible nine UK shows next December.

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Tickets are available now from AXS and Ticketmaster now, but you'll need to be fast if you want to get your hands on them as we're sure they'll sell out fast.

Following on from their 2019 Glastonbury headline slot, the new tour coincides with the release of new material.

The band have also confirmed that the dates will feature a "New 135-minute show" in support of a "New 67-minute album".

The Cure 2022 UK Tour Dates

• December 1: 3Arena, Dublin - buy here
• December 2: SSE Arena, Belfast - buy here
• December 4: OVO Hydro Arena, Glasgow - buy here
• December 6: First Direct Arena, Leeds - buy here
• December 7: Utilita Arena, Birmingham - buy here
• December 8: Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff - buy here
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• December 13: SSE Arena, Wembley *EXTRA DATE* - buy here

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Speaking to Apple Music in June, frontman Robert Smith spoke about the new material, claiming there was enough for two albums: ""One of them’s very, very doom and gloom and the other one isn’t," 

Their last album, 4:13 Dream was released in 2008 making it 13 years since we last heard new music from the legendary eighties band.

Radio X also reported that this could be the last time you could see them too, "

Speaking to  The Sunday Times,  Smith said: "The new Cure stuff is very emotional. It’s 10 years of life distilled into a couple of hours of intense stuff.

"And I can’t think we’ll ever do anything else. I definitely can’t do this again."

Tickets are available to buy now from Ticketmaster , just don't hang around as you won't want to miss this.

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The Cure Reveals 2022 Dates

by Paul Cashmere on December 7, 2021

The Cure have announced a 44-date UK and European tour for 2022.

The Cure will kick off in Riga, Latvia on October 6 before concluding five arena shows in Britain at London’s SSE Arena on December 11.

Fans will be treated to a 135 minute show and a “67 minute” new album has also been mooted which would mark the group’s first record since 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream’.

The group have confirmed that the line-up for the tour will feature bassist Simon Gallup, who said in August that he had left the band “with a slightly heavy heart” as he was “fed up of betrayal”. Two months later, however, he appeared to confirm that he had re-joined The Cure.

Tickets for the tour will go on sale on Friday (10.12.21) and the group will be supported at all shows by The Twilight Sad.

Frontman Robert Smith previously suggested that their next two albums will be their final full-length releases as the ‘Just Like Heaven’ group have invested a lot of emotional energy into their new work.

The 62-year-old musician said: “The new Cure stuff is very emotional.

“It’s 10 years of life distilled into a couple of hours of intense stuff.

“And I can’t think we’ll ever do anything else. I definitely can’t do this again.”

The Cure 2022 UK Tour Dates:

4 December – Glasgow Ovo Hydro 6 December – Leeds First Direct Arena 7 December – Birmingham Utilita Arena 8 December – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena 11 December– London The SSE Arena Wembley

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We’ve waited hours for this. The Cure have announced they will be going on a 44 date tour around Europe and the UK next year. 

The tour, which includes five arena shows in the UK, will kick off on 6 October in Riga, Latvia, and finish in London’s SSE Arena on 11 December. 

Not only are the band treating fans to a 135-minute show full of the classics but also teased there will be a brand new 67-minute album with fresh material.

We’ve been looking so long at pictures of them, but now we can see them in person and with new music!

In a tweet to fans, lead singer Robert Smith confirmed they would be airing songs from their new album on the tour. He also confirmed that shows around the rest of the world were in the works and would be “announced in due course”.

Bandmember Roger O’Donnell said he thinks fans will be happy with the new album in an interview with Classic Pop magazine. 

He explained: “Four years ago, I said to Robert, ‘We have to make one more record. It has to be the most intense, saddest, most dramatic and most emotional record we’ve ever made, and then we can just walk away from it.’ 

“He agreed. Listening to the demos, it is that record. I think everybody will be happy with it.”

He went on: “The problem is, it’s 12 years since the last album, so it becomes precious. When you’ve got a back catalogue like The Cure, it’s a lot to live up to. Robert has said, ‘if The Cure say any more, it had better be important, and it had better be f***ing good’.

“It is. It’s going to be an amazing record. I just suggest a little patience.”

Many fans have also questioned whether bassist, Simon Gallup, would be appearing on tour after he announced, “with a slightly heavy heart” he was leaving the band because he was “fed up with betrayal.” 

However, in October he confirmed that he had rejoined, and The Cure also stated he will feature in the line-up for the tour. 

Supporting them on the tour will be The Twilight Sad, a Scottish post-punk/indie rock band.

For more information on getting your hands on tickets to see these Lovecats, go to The Cure’s official website.  

See full list of tour dates below:

06 – ARENA, Riga, Latvia

08 – HARTWALL ARENA, Helsinki, Finland

10 – AVICII ARENA, Stockholm, Sweden

12 – SPEKTRUM, Oslo, Norway

13 – SCANDINAVIUM, Gothenburg, Sweden

14 – ROYAL ARENA, Copenhagen, Denmark

16 – BARCLAYCARD ARENA, Hamburg, Germany

17 – QUARTERBACK IMMOBILIEN ARENA, Leipzig, Germany

18 – MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA, Berlin, Germany

20 – TAURON ARENA, Krakow, Poland

21 – ATLAS ARENA, Lodz, Poland

23 – MARX HALLE, Vienna, Austria

24 – O2 ARENA, Prague 9, Czech Republic

26 – ARENA, Budapest, Hungary

27 – ARENA, Zagreb, Croatia

29 – OLYMPIAHALLE, Munich, Germany

31 – UNIPOL ARENA, Bologna, Italy

01 – MANDELA FORUM, Florence, Italy

03 – KIOENE ARENA, Padova, Italy

04 – FORUM, Milan, Italy

06 – ARENA, Geneva, Switzerland

07 – HALLE TONY GARNIER, Lyon, France

08 – SUD DE FRANCE ARENA, Montpellier, France

10 – PALAU SANT JORDI, Barcelona, Spain

11 – WIZINK CENTER, Madrid, Spain

13 – ZENITH, Toulouse, France

14 – ARKEA ARENA, Bordeaux, France

15 – ZENITH, Nantes, France

17 – FESTHALLE, Frankfurt, Germany

18 – ZENITH, Strasbourg, France

19 – ST JAKOBSHALLE, Basel, Switzerland

21 – HANS-MARTIN-SCHLEYER-HALLE, Stuttggart, Germany

22 – LANXESS ARENA, Cologne, Germany

23 – SPORTPALEIS, Antwerp, Belgium

25 – ZIGGO DOME, Amsterdam, Netherlands

27 – STADE, Lievin, France

28 – ACCOR ARENA, Paris, France

01 – 3ARENA, Dublin, Ireland

02 – SSE, Belfast, Northern Ireland

04 – OVO HYDRO, Glasgow, Scotland

06 – FIRST DIRECT ARENA, Leeds, England

07 – UTILITA ARENA, Birmingham, England

08 – MOTORPOINT ARENA, Cardiff, Wales

11 – THE SSE ARENA, Wembley, London, England

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• 8 December 2021

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The band will play five UK arena shows as part of their European tour

Light some candles, recline on your single bed, set the CD player to repeat and have a good cry while The Cure's Disintegration washes over you in all of its beautiful sadness. Such was the life of any self-respecting teenager who allowed Robert Smith and his heart-breaking lyricism to govern their formative years. Or maybe that was just us.

Either way, we'll all be able to wallow with The Cure (or bop around to 'Friday I'm In Love', whatever you fancy) when they hit UK venues for the first time since 2018 as part of their 44-date European tour.

These shows are guaranteed to sell out, so to help you nab tickets we've put together this nifty guide. Read on to find out when and where The Cure are playing, how you can get pre-sale tickets, when the band are releasing new material and more. To receive an email alert half an hour before tickets go on sale, click the 'I'd love a reminder' button at the bottom of this article.

Where and when will The Cure be performing in the UK?

The Cure will be playing a handful of arenas throughout the UK. Kicking off in Glasgow on Sunday 8 December, the tour will then hit arenas in Leeds, Birmingham and Cardiff throughout December, culminating in a massive show at the SSE Arena in Wembley on Sunday 11 December.

Here's a detailed list of The Cure's UK tour dates: Sunday 4 December – OVO Hydro, Glasgow Tuesday 6 December – First Direct Arena, Leeds Wednesday 7 December – Utilita Arena, Birmingham Thursday 8 December – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff Sunday 11 December – The SSE Arena, Wembley

When do tickets for The Cure go on sale?

Tickets for The Cure's UK dates go on sale at 10am on Friday 10 December. Venue presales begin at 10am on Thursday 9 December, so check with your preferred ticketing provider to find out how you can access them.

Where can I buy tickets for The Cure?

Tickets for all dates on The Cure's UK tour are available from Ticketmaster . Tickets for the performance at The SSE Arena are available from AXS .

How much will tickets for the gigs cost?

Ticket prices for The Cure's UK dates are currently TBC, but we'll update this section as soon as we know. There is a ticket limit of six tickets per person and per credit card for each show.

Who'll be supporting The Cure on the tour?

Supporting Crawley's favourite goths on their arena tour are Scottish post-rock survivors The Twilight Sad , who Smith has relentlessly promoted since inviting them on tour in 2016. Since that run of shows, the Sad lads have joined Smith a handful of times, including as special guests on the bill for The Cure's stint at The British Summer Time festival in 2018.

Smith also acted as an advisor for the band's fifth studio album It Won't Be Like This All The Time , and released a frankly excellent cover of Sad tune 'There's A Girl In The Corner' in 2014. James Graham, lead singer of The Twilight Sad, said of the experience , 'We'd just come offstage after a gig in San Francisco when he sent us the song, we put it on in the van heading back to the hotel. We listened to it three or four times without talking, then someone said "holy shit …". That's something I'll remember for a long, long time, it was a special moment.'

Here's the cover if you haven't heard it yet:

The Cure and The Twilight Sad are perfect bedfellows, their melodramatic lyrics and cacophonous guitars stoking an emotional firestorm in any crowd that sees them live. We can't think of a better choice to support Smith and co.

What'll be on The Cure's setlist?

The Cure are rock's most bipolar of bands, with tracks like 'Friday I'm In Love' and 'Close To You' exploring the ecstatic highs of uncomplicated love while entire albums like Faith , Pornography and Disintegration channel the depths of human misery and desolation. To say their setlist will be a mixed bag is something of an understatement.

Whatever they play, the band have become infamous for their love of performances that can last (and sometimes exceed) the two hour mark. They're not the cheapest band to see live, but you will get your money's worth.

Are The Cure working on new material?

Smith has been teasing new material for over a decade since the release of the band's poorly received last album 4:13 Dream in 2008, but 2022 looks like it might be the year that The Cure finally bring out their 14th AND 15th studio albums, alongside a solo project from Smith. Honestly, You wait 14 years for a classic goth revival and three come along at once.

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 , Smith said, 'We were doing two albums and one of them is very, very doom and gloom and the other one isn't.

'And they're both very close to being done. I just have to decide who's going to mix them. That's really all I've got left to do.'

Smith has also suggested that these albums may be the band's last: 'The new Cure stuff is very emotional.

'It's 10 years of life distilled into a couple of hours of intense stuff. And I can't think we'll ever do anything else. I definitely can't do this again.'

What else have The Cure been up to?

Smith has grown comfortable in his dotage as the grandfather of alternative music, happily contributing his distinctive vocals to bands he loves. This year saw him loan his mournful howl to new CHVRCHES single ' How Not To Drown ' and the faintly unhinged Gorillaz track 'Strange Timez'.

Ever wondered what the world would be like if Robert Smith was the moon? Then check out the decidedly odd video for 'Strange Timez' below:

In more dramatic news, long-standing bass player for The Cure Simon Gallup abruptly left the band earlier this year – then re-joined with no explanation.

Gallup wrote on Facebook on Saturday14 August, 'With a slightly heavy heart I am no longer a member of the Cure. Good luck to them all…'

When one of his followers asked how he was, Simon replied, 'I'm OK… just got fed up of betrayal.'

Then, in a turn-around that would make Boris Johnson proud, Gallup confirmed he was back in the band by replying 'Yes I am' to a fan who asked 'Is Simon still a member of The Cure?' on social media. The cause of Gallup's minute-long departure remains a mystery, but his puppyishly excitable energy makes him the perfect foil to Smith's stiff on-stage presence and made him an invaluable member of the band. Please Simon, for the sake of the live shows, stick around.

How can I guarantee that I'll get tickets?

There are a few effective ways to increase the odds of getting your hands on tickets for The Cure this Friday. Don't refresh your browser when you're in the queue, log into your preferred ticketing provider ahead of time, stay patient and make sure you're using a steady internet connection. To receive a reminder half an hour before tickets go on sale, click the 'I'd love a reminder' button at the bottom of this article.

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The Cure has announced the tour of the UK, Europe and Ireland for 2022, The Cure is the band, and its last concert was held on 20 October 2020 , the fans are now really excited to be a part of the concert around the world and waiting for them to have its concert in the UK. Social media platforms also talk about the show after its interview and announcement by the Cure members. Talking about the last album of The Cure, which was released in 2008, “4:13 Dream” gave a thrilling feeling to their fans and the music industry by their incredible efforts. After a long time, they are now launching their new album in the market, and the fans cannot wait to listen to the live show. Therefore, they search for seats, tickets, dates, and the concert venue. 

AIIIEEEE! pic.twitter.com/yNtmXGYWzB — The Cure (@thecure) December 7, 2021

Well, are you a big fan of The Cure? And If you are searching about the dates, venue, where to buy the tickets and the cost of the keys, we have gathered the information that will help you to purchase the tickets at an affordable price and also you can plan about attending the concerts of The Cure according to the dates and venue of the tour concerts. Please review all the information below,

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When Does The Cure UK Tour Start And End?

The Cure began from Europe Latvia 1 December 2022 , performing around different countries like Ireland, Walsh, Scotland and will end the tour on 22 December in the city of London.

How Long Will The Concert Last For The Cure UK Tour?

In an interview, the Cure members said each concert would last after 135 minutes and gave a hint about launching its fourth album soon.

Who Will Be Part Of The Cure UK Tour?

Twilight will be a part of the tour; from an interview, it is also confirmed that Simon Gallup, who rejoined the band in August, will also be a part of the tour. He joined the Cure long before 1979 but separated in 1982 due to several circumstances. 

What Are The Songs Included In The Cure UK Tour?

The songs may differ from tour to tour around the different countries. Well, the band’s most likely songs included in its list are Lovesong, a night like this, picture of you, Fascination street, Push, in-between days, Play for today, Lullaby, and much more.

What Is The Cost Of The Ticket For The Cure UK Tour?

The price of the tickets may vary due to several factors on different websites, the lowest price of the ticket is $32 , and the average cost is about $123.

Where To Buy The Tickets For The Tour Of The Cure?

The tickets are on sale from 10 December Friday at 10 am , and fans can buy the tickets from Ticketmaster ( www.ticketmaster.com ) and TicketNetwork ( www.ticketnetwork.com ) . If you hurry to reserve your seat, you can see the hearts on the Vivid Seat ( www.vividseats.com ). Well, all of these websites are considered to be reputable among the ticketing websites. These websites however, provides the customers the range of amazing features such as featured tickets, attractive discounts and great customer care.

The Cure’s 2022 UK/European tour dates are:

OCTOBER 06 – ARENA, Riga, Latvia 08 – HARTWALL ARENA, Helsinki, Finland 10 – AVICII ARENA, Stockholm, Sweden 12 – SPEKTRUM, Oslo, Norway 13 – SCANDINAVIUM, Gothenburg, Sweden 14 – ROYAL ARENA, Copenhagen, Denmark 16 – BARCLAYCARD ARENA, Hamburg, Germany 17 – QUARTERBACK IMMOBILIEN ARENA, Leipzig, Germany 18 – MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA, Berlin, Germany 20 – TAURON ARENA, Krakow, Poland 21 – ATLAS ARENA, Lodz, Poland 23 – MARX HALLE, Vienna, Austria 24 – O2 ARENA, Prague 9, Czech Republic 26 – ARENA, Budapest, Hungary 27 – ARENA, Zagreb, Croatia 29 – OLYMPIAHALLE, Munich, Germany 31 – UNIPOL ARENA, Bologna, Italy

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By Dan Biggane | April 16, 2024

The Cult commemorate 40 years as a band with UK tour.

The 8424 Tour will sees The Cult perform songs spanning their 11-album discography.

In late 2023, vocalist Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy reformed Death Cult for a series of live performances  including back-to-back sold out shows at the Brixton Electric.

Duffy said: “Following up from the great energy of Death Cult 8323 shows, I’m looking forward to bringing that sense of celebration of the band’s music, and the communion with our fans, to Cult 8424. CFFC. Let the ceremony commence!”

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From Duffy’s formative, and influential, years in the Manchester underground, to Astbury’s groundbreaking Gathering of the Tribes, the duo has left an indelible mark on modern music, shaping its trajectory in profound ways.

Formed in 1984, the seminal post-punk band dubbed “Shamanic goths”, found international renown with the 1985 album, Love , which featured the enduring rock anthem She Sells Sanctuar y, as well as the oft-heard follow-up single, Rain .

Electric arrived in 1989, featuring the memorable tracks Love Removal Machine, Wild Flower and Lil’ Devil

The Cult will embark on a UK tour throughout autumn, starting in Leicester on 21 October. It will include stops in cities such as Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, and London, with a show at the Royal Albert Hall.

21 October – Leicester De Montfort Hall 22 October – Swansea Arena 24 October- Edinburgh Usher Hall 25 October – Manchester O2 Apollo 27 October – Bristol Beacon 29 October – York Barbican 30 October – Newcastle O2 City Hall 01 November – Portsmouth Guildhall 02 November- Wolverhampton Civic Hall 04 November – London Royal Albert Hall

Tickets go on general sale on Friday 19 April at 10am. Click here

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The Cult announce 40th anniversary UK tour for winter 2024

The dates conclude with a stop at London’s Royal Albert Hall

The Cult have announced details of a UK tour, which will celebrate their 40th year as a band. Find upcoming dates and ticket details below.

Announced today (April 16), the shows are set for later this year and will see the iconic ‘80s rock group perform in 10 cities across the country. The dates come in celebration of a huge milestone for Ian Astbury and co., as this year marks four decades since the band formed as we recognise them today – swapping their name from the original title ‘Death Cult’ into ‘The Cult’.

“Following up from the great energy of Death Cult 8323 shows, I’m looking forward to bringing that sense of celebration of the band’s music, and the communion with our fans, to Cult 8424,” guitarist Billy Duffy said of the new announcement. “CFFC. Let the ceremony commence!”

The shows all take place this winter, and kick off on October 21 with an opening night at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester. This is followed the next night with a gig at Swansea Arena (22), followed by stops in Edinburgh (24), Manchester (25), Bristol (27), York (29) and Newcastle (30).

The final run of the new tour dates will take place in the first week of November; including a slot at Guildhall in Portsmouth on the 1st, and a show at Civic Hall in Wolverhampton the following night. The dates wrap up with a closing show at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall in London on November 4.

Tickets go on sale this Friday (April 19) at 10am BST. Visit here to get tickets and find a full list of tour dates below.

The Cult 2024 tour dates are:

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OCTOBER 21 – Leicester, De Montfort Hall 22– Swansea, Swansea Arena    24 – Edinburgh, Usher Hall  25 – Manchester, O2 Apollo  27 – Bristol, Beacon     29 – York, Barbican 30 – Newcastle, O2 City Hall      

NOVEMBER: 1 – Portsmouth, Guildhall 2 – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 4 – London, Royal Albert Hall

The dates for 2024 come following a tour the band embarked on last year, celebrating 40 years since their first formation under the name ‘Death Cult’ .

Taking place around the UK, Ireland and the US, the tour was called ‘Death Cult 8323’ and saw Duffy and Astbury return to play iconic venues they previously performed in at the start of their career.

The live shows focused on Death Cult and their eponymous EPs, and also boasted a setlist that spanned “the three phases of the band, from Southern Death Cult, to Death Cult, and The Cult’s first two albums: ‘Dreamtime’ (1984) and ‘Love’ (1985).”

More recently, Billy Duffy joined Johnny Marr on stage in Frome last summer to play tracks by The Smiths and Depeche Mode .

The on-stage appearance was the latest of the multiple times the two musicians have joined forces, as they both have a long history of playing music together – stemming back to their adolescent years.

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Fontaines DC: ‘We can generate ideas that sound like they’ve been carved in stone for a thousand years’

Influenced by Korn and moving beyond their native Ireland, the band are ready to be one of the biggest in the world. They explain how panic attacks and parenthood came to bear on a bold new LP

C arlos O’Connell isn’t merely excited about the release of Fontaines DC’s new single. He’s “giddy for it. I’m giddy ,” he emphasises, reclining in his dressing gown in a sunlit corner of his north London home. His attire is far from rock star loucheness: it’s 9am and the guitarist has already been up for hours with his one-year-old daughter. “There’s no time to get ready!” His effusiveness doesn’t feel like a stretch: the prospect of any new material from the celebrated Dublin band is thrilling enough; the fact that Starburster marks a wholly unexpected sidestep into antic, irreverent, Korn-inspired nu-metal is enough to make any interested parties come over slightly light-headed.

Yet later that afternoon, Fontaines frontman Grian Chatten is finding it difficult to muster the same enthusiasm. Perhaps because he can’t quite bring himself to listen to the thing – or, in fact, any of the band’s forthcoming fourth album, Romance. He tells me this from a more stereotypical hot seat, a characterfully cluttered old-school pub in Camden Town, although he’s not cleaving to rock cliche, either. We are on the Diet Cokes and the only pharmaceuticals around are his ADHD medication, which he remembers to take halfway through the interview. “Want one?” he offers, snapping the blister pack.

There are four whole months until Romance is released in August: is there a chance Chatten may give it a spin in the meantime? “I’m considering it,” he says, seriously. “Which is more than I could have said for any album we’ve done before.”

Those previous albums were raging successes, winning the band a Brit award, Grammy and Mercury prize nominations and, in the case of 2022’s Skinty Fia, a place at the top of the UK charts (its predecessor, A Hero’s Death, narrowly lost a well-publicised chart battle with Taylor Swift). They also put the five-piece in the running for best rock band in the world, though they have little competition for the title.

Yet you can understand why Chatten finds it hard to revisit them. Fontaines’ 2019 debut Dogrel – a blast of penetrating post-punk teeming with pickaxe-like hooks – spotlit Chatten, who might as well have been shouting his jagged evocations of small-town malaise down the phone at you. A Hero’s Death and Skinty Fia gilded the clattering bones of their original sound with simmering atmosphere, baggy swagger, and clever but memorable melodies. Yet they were still essentially vehicles for Chatten’s vocals: guileless, strident, uninhibited. “I’ve put a lot of myself out there the past few years,” he says.

Chatten’s solution to this overexposure is – somewhat counterintuitively – to go bigger. In the autumn, Fontaines supported Arctic Monkeys on their US tour; before that, Chatten saw Blur at Wembley. Both showcased what he saw as the appealing “universality” and reciprocity of the stadium experience; ocean-like crowds chanting lyrics about big emotions seemed like a way of sharing the burden of self-expression, a kind of “armour” for the artist. Chatten decided a potentially arena-filling “grandiosity” would be Romance’s animating principle. “I didn’t want to write, like, a Champagne Supernova, but I did want to do something that felt like it was deep within and far without,” he says, with his own trademark grandiosity, one that jars in the best way coming from this slightly uneasy 29-year-old in a pair of poppered 90s trackies.

The sweeping singalong strategy is also a way of transcending the theme the band has become synonymous with: Romance is Fontaines’ “least Irish” album, says Chatten. Until now, the country has been setting, subject and spectre, rendered through densely referential lyrics (the DC in their name stands for Dublin City; the rest refers to singer Johnny Fontane from The Godfather). Dogrel opens with the line: “Dublin in the rain is mine / A pregnant city with a Catholic mind”, while penultimate track Boys in the Better Land caricatures an Anglophobic cabby: “He spits out ‘Brits out!’, only smokes Carrolls”. Jackie Down the Line, from Skinty Fia – an album which reckons with the internal conflict of leaving Ireland for London – initially seems to be about an abusive relationship, but that warps like a stereogram when you hear Chatten’s belief that it’s really about “Irishness surviving in England”.

O’Connell thinks the band’s focus on Ireland was always about something broader; he says the songs were ultimately “meditations on identity and belonging, understanding your own place in the world”. For Chatten, it’s just “a colour I didn’t really feel like painting with at the moment, especially with the intensity with which we did. I don’t want to write something that feels like a sequel.”

Hence: Korn. In a break with their signature style, Starburster sees the band channel the forbidding nu-metal pioneers in a “tongue-in-cheek” trip down memory lane, says Chatten. For O’Connell, it was an exercise in post-ironic nostalgia towards “this thing I loved when I was 14 and stopped listening to for years and now I love again”. He also cites the Californian band’s contemporaries Deftones and Alice in Chains as influences. But for Chatten it’s Korn – a band that “scared the shit out of me as a kid” – and Korn alone (“I fucking hate Limp Bizkit and don’t even really like Rage Against the Machine”).

Most nu-metal sounds like a panic attack in sonic form; Starburster literally is. In January, Chatten was travelling to the studio to record some “shite lyrics” for the track when he had a panic attack. He sat down in London’s St Pancras station, completely “stultified”, he says. “I couldn’t talk to anyone. I couldn’t leave the table, because I wouldn’t be able to pick up the right things.” The only thing he could do, he found, was rewrite the words of the song. The result is a dark, funny maelstrom of wild, flailing desire, Chatten’s way of airing his frustration with his actual physical “inertia; not being able to get the motor going inside me”. Panting punctuates the ranting, echoing the hyperventilation he tends to experience with a panic attack.

Chatten used to get panic attacks a lot before he started medication for ADHD; he received his diagnosis three weeks after the St Pancras incident. Previously, he would have them attempting to leave the house, running “up and down the stairs 12 times” to ensure he had everything. “With each trip, I’d be chipping away at my self-confidence, feeling like I’m incapable of looking after myself.”

He says things have improved on that front, but it’s clear he still gets anxious – especially in public. Rock stardom may not have the attendant fame it once did, but phones have made Chatten feel “doubly exposed for half the celebrity I am”. He is perturbed by people filming him and strangers Googling him in plain view. Recently, in a cafe, he ended up cancelling his order and leaving because all “these people were staring at me”.

The bad news is that Chatten is destined to become even more recognisable; I would be very surprised if Romance, a new creative peak, doesn’t fast-track Fontaines to those prospective arenas. Does their trajectory frighten him? “Yes, but I’m up to the challenge of getting better.”

That trajectory has been a remarkably old-fashioned, reassuringly meritocratic one: no viral hits, no big label leg-up – Romance marks their signing to XL – no starry co-signs. The band – which also features Tom Coll on drums, Conor Curley on guitar and Conor Deegan III on bass – formed in Dublin in 2014, having met as students at the city’s Bimm music institute; Chatten was born in Cumbria but they all grew up in Ireland, bar O’Connell, who spent his childhood in Madrid, although his mother is from Dublin. (I’m speaking solely to Chatten and O’Connell, as Fontaines prefer not to be interviewed as a group.) Then, they just “gigged and gigged and gigged” their way to recognition, says Chatten. They paid their dues – extortionate Dublin rents meant in the early years they dossed down in a disused business centre full of beds (“Curly shared mine. It was awful”) – but Chatten can’t say there were years of frustration; broadly speaking, Fontaines have had a seamless rise.

Ultimately, the only way to be a successful young rock band today is to genuinely rival the greats – and Fontaines do. That’s partly because all their songs feel like undiscovered classics, to the extent that I wonder how often O’Connell worries they actually are forgotten favourites as he writes. “All the time!” he replies breezily, face haloed by prongs of faded pink hair. “Sometimes you’re like: fuck, that’s that other Beatles song.” Especially strong melodies stop him in his tracks. “But if you can’t place it then you just hope it’s not a rip-off,” he says, very much the nonchalant foil to Chatten’s brow-furrowed overthinker.

All that thinking is the other key to Fontaines’ success: it’s helped Chatten write lyrics so scintillating they make you yearn for the days of album liner notes to pore over. As a child, Chatten’s father bribed him with packets of football stickers to memorise poems; he also alerted him to the poetry of pop songs. Soon he was listening to Bob Dylan and the Cure, copying out the words to Just Like Heaven and having a go himself. In retrospect, he thinks, he was trying to reach beyond the banality of everyday life. “Robert Smith isn’t going out on the pints and saying words like that to people, but in the current day we can generate ideas that sound like they’ve been carved in stone for a thousand years.”

Chatten does do a great line in plausibly ancient truisms. “They say they love the land but they don’t feel it go to waste / Hold a mirror to the youth and they will only see their face,” he sings on I Love You, Skinty Fia’s dismayed ode to an Ireland left behind. That song also showcases the musician’s piercing specificity (“Now the morning’s filled with cokeys tryna talk you through it all / Is their mammy Fine Gael and is their daddy Fianna Fáil?”). It’s all deeply considered, brilliantly rendered and very deliberate.

Despite relinquishing their focus on Ireland, Romance’s moreishly gorgeous finale, Favourite – a jangling whirl of circularly melodic, rainbow-lit melancholy reminiscent of Morrissey’s Why Don’t You Find Out for Yourself – does sound like a love letter to their home town. O’Connell isn’t sure: “It’s hard to know when Grian writes the love songs if it’s about his fiancee or if it’s about Dublin.” Chatten says he was trying to capture the feeling of “George’s Street, Camden Street in Dublin in the rain, outside the pubs there”, although his main subject was “booze and drugs, and depression … darkness as a warm bath to slip into”.

In person, Chatten comes across as friendly and self-effacing rather than downbeat or tortured, but his answers do read rather bleakly on the page. At one point he suddenly starts fretting about his ability to parent his future children if he gets writer’s block. “This relationship I have with creativity is what will keep me stable enough to raise kids. If that thing I have with the songwriting goes, I’m worried I’ll be a hard person to be around.” I try to reassure him that once he has children it’s unlikely he’ll have the mental space to even think in those terms. “Anyway, Carlos has a kid and he’s really creative and it’s all good,” he nods.

For O’Connell, having a child has made the band’s jam-packed touring schedule for 2024 – a string of festivals leading up to a European and US tour – a positively relaxing prospect: “You get more sleep on the road than you do at home.” Last year, he took paternity leave from the band’s Australian tour for the birth of his daughter with his partner, French actor Joséphine de La Baume. It was a “super easy” decision: “I wanted to do everything perfect for her.”

O’Connell isn’t sure how much of Romance the band will be “allowed” to play at summer festivals before its release, but can’t wait to showcase their enjoyably brash new look, an amalgam of shiny sportswear, nu-metal jean chains, Keith Flint-style cyberpunk and grungy androgyny. O’Connell spearheaded the style; Romance’s songs made him see “neon green everywhere”.

It’s the first time the band have had a considered, holistic aesthetic. Initially, says their frontman, “we had a vague idea of ourselves under-dressing. I loved wearing the same shirt every day for two weeks and shit like that.” This being Chatten, however, it is no surprise to discover that his grubby top was actually doing double duty as a profound metaphor for his conflicted views on fame, success and the blossoming legacy of Fontaines DC.

“It was almost a way of counteracting the sense of upward trajectory of the band at the time,” he says wistfully. “It just made me feel like nothing’s changing.”

Romance is released by XL Recordings on 23 August. Starburster is out now. A European tour begins 12 June including dates at Glastonbury and Reading & Leeds festivals .

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