With a long setlist from all 14 studio albums and over 40 singles, the English rock band from Crawley will first headline a sold-out Marlay Park show in Dublin this Friday, June 26th and will then head to Belsonic Festival in Belfast on Sunday the 28th.
In Marlay Park, they will be joined by Scottish band The Twilight Sad and Irish bands Just Mustard and Stella and the Dreaming.
Since their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys in 1979, The Cure have performed around 1,800 live concerts.
Tickets for their Marlay Park show are priced between €81.25 and €91.25 and unfortunately have sold out, although some resale tickets are available on Ticketmaster.
The Cure opened their 2026 European Tour at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound on the 5th of June, where they sang Mint Car for the first time in a decade. Their three-hour-long 2012 Primavera appearance is remembered as holding the record for the longest concert in the history of festivals. Most of their 2026 shows so far have reflected this length with performances ranging for 2.5-3 hours.
At Primavera this year, frontman Robert Smith joined pop singer Olivia Rodrigo in a duet for What’s Wrong With Me, a song featured on her new album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.
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Rodrigo told the audience that she “can’t believe this song exists with the person that it exists with. I’m just so f******* over the moon."
After the release of the band's latest 2024 album, Songs of a Lost World became the band’s first Number 1 album in 32 years.
Frontman Robert Smith told the Official Charts Company: “It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album. To everyone who has bought it, listened to it, loved it, believed in us over the years – thank you!”
In April this year, Smith talked about the likelihood of upcoming gigs and the 2028 anniversary of The Cure.
“We’ll probably be playing quite regularly through until the next anniversary – the 2028 anniversary – which is looming on the horizon. I’m 70 in 2029 and that’s the 50th anniversary of the first Cure album," he said.
He reflected on the last decade of the band, saying the last 10 years of playing shows have been “the best 10 years of being in the band. It pisses all over the other 30-odd years! There was an enormous freedom and great joy in just going out and playing music.”
