The classic eighties post-punk and new wave band have announced that they will be embarking on a new tour around the UK and Europe. Planning to start in October 2022 and ending in December, the band will visit 22 different countries with 44 dates planned, seeing the likes of Glasgow, London, Poland, France and Italy. The group says that performances will all be 135 minutes long, so it should be an eventful night for fans. They will be supported by Scottish post-punk/indie rock group The Twilight Sad.
— ROBERT SMITH (@RobertSmith) December 6, 2021
The tour will also definitely include bassist Simon Gallup, who announced his departure from the group back in August, citing on Facebook that he was “fed up with betrayal”. He rejoined back in October, which is lucky for fans, what with Gallup being the second longest-serving member, only surpassed by frontman Robert Smith. It’s not the first time tensions have been high, with Gallup temporarily leaving before back in 1982 due to an altercation with Smith.
Amid this exciting news, the band have also talked about the release of their new album, their first release since 2008’s 4:13 Dream. Having been in the works for the past few years, band member Roger O’Donnell noted how the group had been feeling some pressure due to their lack of original material for quite a while. He said: “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.“
Having the working title of Live From the Moon back in 2019, the album’s still a bit of a mystery, but will reportedly be 67 minutes long, featuring some of the twenty new songs the band recorded back in 2019 in Rockfield Studios. There seem to be some conflicting reports on how much we can expect from the group at the moment. Smith claimed back in 2019 that they’d been working on three different albums, although last year he narrowed that down to two, claiming one of them was “literally just an hour of noise”. And in an interview with The Sunday Times, Smith even said this might be The Cure’s last album, due to struggling with writing new lyrics.
Whatever the outcome, fans of The Cure can rejoice. Tickets for the tour will be on sale this Friday from 10 am and you can look here for details of tour dates and tickets.
