The Cure’s Robert Smith promises tour dates for 2027 “bursting with new songs”

Robert Smith has promised that more tour dates from The Cure are on the way for 2027, and that the setlists will be “bursting with new songs”.

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The band have been on the road throughout the summer, celebrating their latest album ‘Songs of a Lost World’ and recently wrapping up their European and UK festival tour, which included a huge show at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park plus Isle Of Wight, Primavera Sound Barcelona and Rock en Seine.

Now, the frontman has shared some good news with Nick Grimshaw’s BBC Radio 6 show, teasing that there are still more announcements set for 2027, including more shows and some new material.

Smith shared the message to acknowledging the band’s making the 6Music 2026 Artist of the Year shortlist, and shared that he will be adding it “to my personal music highlight list of 2026 so far”, alongside curating the Teenage Cancer Trust shows at Royal Albert Hall, joining Olivia Rodrigo for the live premiere of her song ‘What’s Wrong With Me’, and more.

A banda tem provocando outro álbum novo há algum tempo. Já em 2020, Smith disse ao NME que os fãs deveriam esperar “dois novos álbuns e um álbum de ruído”.

Later after the release of ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, he shared that another new album was “virtually finished”, as well as a third new record also on the way.

Eles posteriormente revelaram ter gravado 13 novas músicas para o primeiro de dois LPs no lendário Rockfield Studios em março de 2025, mas nenhum material desse álbum foi transmitido ao vivo ainda.

Smith also said that he could imagine the celebrations continuing all the way up until the band hits their 50th anniversary in 2028, and then confirmed earlier this summer that the two albums they were working on are “done”, with the first set to be more broody, and the second set to be more “poppy”.

The first upcoming record, he explained, will be “more dismal than ‘Songs Of A Lost World’”.

Em uma avaliação de cinco estrelas de “Songs Of A Lost World”, o NME escreveu: “Sem piedade? Sim, mas sempre há coração suficiente na escuridão e opulência no som para te manter e colocar essas músicas ao lado das melhores do The Cure.”.

The frontman suggested that another two records may be arriving at some point, but ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ feels sufficient enough for the wait we’ve endured, just for being arguably the most personal album of Smith’s career.

Mortality may loom, but there’s colour in the black and flowers on the grave.”.

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