The Cure New Album: Songs of a Lost World
by James Kevin Stott
- About The Cure
- The Cure Discography
- The Cure New Album: Songs of a Lost World
- Songs of a Lost World Track Listing
- Best Album of The Cure
- The Cure 2023 Tour
- The Cure’s Setlist, Kaseya Center, Miami, July 1, 2023
- Encore #1
- Encore #2
- The Cure Merchandise
- The Cure Live at The Troxy in London on November 1
- How to Get Cheap The Cure Tickets
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About The Cure
The English rock band The Cure was created by songwriter, guitarist, and lead vocalist Robert Smith in Crawley, West Sussex, England back in 1976. These alt-goth rockers have seen numerous lineup changes through the years, but Smith has always remained a constant and the backbone of this group.
Currently, The Cure is made up of Smith (vocals, guitar, six-string bass, keyboards), Simon Gallup (bass)—a member of The Cure for all but three years—Jason Cooper (drums, percussion), Perry Bamonte (keyboards, guitars), Roger O’Donnell (keyboards) and Reeves Gabrels (guitar).
The Cure album covers have always been artistic and strange and the cover of the upcoming new album release Songs of a Lost World, their 14th studio album, is no different.
The Cure Discography
Three Imaginary Boys (1979)
Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Faith (1981)
Pornography (1982)
The Top (1984)
The Head of the Door (1985)
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)
Disintegration (1989)
Wish (1992)
Wild Mood Swings (1996)
Bloodflowers (2000)
The Cure (2004)
4:13 Dream (2008)
Songs of a Lost World (2024)
The Cure New Album: Songs of a Lost World
The first new studio album in 16 years from The Cure, Songs of a Lost World, from Lost Music, Polydor, and Capitol Records, comes out on Friday, November 1, and will see eight new songs hit the streets including live versions of “And Nothing is Forever” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye” on eco-vinyl.
The Release of this much-anticipated 14th studio album was made public when The Cure sent out postcards announcing it to fans. The Cure’s last and 13th studio album, 4:13 Dream, came out back in 2008, so it has been a long wait for diehard The Cure fans.
You can order Songs of a Lost World from The Cure’s official website.
Songs of a Lost World Track Listing
Alone
And Nothing is Forever
A Fragile Thing
Warsong
Drone:Nodrone
I Can Never Say Goodbye
All I Ever Am
Endsong
Best Album of The Cure
Naming the best album of any group is always a subjective thing, but the best album of The Cure is probably 1989's Disintegration. The alternative rockers really hit a groove starting in 1985 with The Head of the Door (Close to Me) and 1987’s Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (Why Can’t I Be You, Just Like Heaven), but 1989 probably gave us The Cure Best Album with the release of Disintegration.
The group’s highest-selling record to date with over four million copies worldwide, Disintegration reached No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 12 on the US Billboard 200™. The 12-song album which was released on May 2, 1989, included four wonderful singles, and much of the musical spinal cord of the Crawley, West Sussex, gothic group.
The first single from Disintegration was the ethereal Lullaby and it was followed by Fascination Street, Lovesong—which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100—and the mesmerizing Pictures of You, making it as muscular of an album as you could find back then.
Recorded with co-producer David M. Allen from late 1988 to the early part of 1989 at Hook End Recording Studios in Checkendon, Oxfordshire, The Cure’s Disintegration was ranked a respectable No. 116 in the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list compiled by Rolling Stone.
The Cure 2023 Tour
The Cure toured North America for the first time in seven years in 2023 with its Shows of a Lost World tour, concluding on July 1, 2023, at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida. The setlist from that show can be found below.
The Shows of a Lost World tour had 35 shows in North America across the U.S. and Canada, grossing over $37.5 million and selling more than 547,000 tickets, making it the band’s highest-grossing tour to date.
Besides the closing night in Miami, The Cure played in many big cities, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, Austin, Seattle, Detroit, Cleveland, Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland, Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal.
Shows averaged 15,629 attendees per night, a healthy 43% increase from the band’s tour back in 2016.
The group then headed to South America for three standalone gigs and four appearances in festivals with the tour coming to an end in September.
The Cure’s Setlist, Kaseya Center, Miami, July 1, 2023
Alone
Pictures of You
A Fragile Thing
A Night Like This
Lovesong
And Nothing is Forever
Burn
Charlotte Sometimes
Push
Play For Today
A Forest
Shake Dog Shake
From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Endsong
Encore #1
I Can Never Say Goodbye
Trust
Plainsong
Prayers For Rain
Disintegration
Encore #2
Lullaby
The Lovecats (Tour debut)
The Walk
Friday I’m In Love
Close to Me
Why Can’t I Be You?
In Between Days
Just Like Heaven
Boys Don’t Cry
10:15 Saturday Night
Killing an Arab
The Cure Merchandise
If you are looking to buy The Cure merchandise, there is no better place than the band’s official Shop The Cure Official Store located on The Cure’s website which features The Cure UK Store, The Cure EU Store, and The Cure AU Store.
There you can purchase The Cure New Album 2024 in a variety of formats including the Songs of a Lost World CD ($16), CD/Blu-Ray ($30), Cassette ($13), the Songs of a Lost World Dual Cassette ($24), the Standard Bio Vinyl ($34), the Online Exclusive White Bio Vinyl Album ($34), and the Half-speed Master 2-LP Bio Vinyl ($42).
Besides being able to pre-order The Cure’s new album 2024, fans can also buy Live Collections, 2023 Tour Merchandise, The Cure Specials like masks ($15) and Ukraine Charity T-shirts ($25), The Cure Apparel, and fun Accessories like The Cure Funko Pop! Vinyl Figure 5-Pack ($60).
The Cure Live at The Troxy in London on November 1
On Friday, The Cure announced their only live performance of 2024 to support the new album which comes out that day, the “Show of the Lost World” at the Troxy on Commercial Road in Stepney, London on Friday, November 1.
The Cure will be performing the songs off Songs of a Lost World in full, and lucky for all of us, the show will also be live-streamed free on The Cure’s YouTube channel. In-person sales for tickets for the show will start on Thursday, October 17 (3 pm BST) through the ticketing platform DICE. The charity War Child will receive £1 from each ticket sold.
Built as a movie theater in 1933, the Troxy (capacity 3,100) closed in 1960 and became a training venue for the London Opera Center and was eventually converted into a Grade II-listed Art Deco space to host live events in 2006.
And besides this unique one-off concert at the Troxy, The Cure will also be playing a live session at the BBC Radio Theatre in London’s Broadcasting House on October 31. The performance will be airing on BBC 6 Radio Music as well as BBC Radio 2.
How to Get Cheap The Cure Tickets
There has not been any official announcement that The Cure will embark on a world tour in 2025 to support The Cure new album Songs of a Lost World, but after the announcement of this show at the Troxy on Friday, November 1, and the massive record-breaking financial and ticket sales success of the Shows of a Lost_World in 2023, expectations are the now 65-year-old Robert Smith and the band will hit the road to support the new material.
To try to get tickets for The Cure’s upcoming Troxy show in London, you have to use different routes from different countries:
The Rest of the World (Participating countries)
The Rest of the World (Non-participating countries)
Should the iconic band elect to go on tour in 2025, tickets may be hard to come by and expensive, but by finding the right time, platform, and promo codes, you can easily get cheap The Cure tickets. By using the best resale platforms that don’t use dynamic fees, like TicketX, you can find some really great deals.
Although buying tickets from the band’s website is always a reliable option, shopping around for the best prices you can find on the secondary market is also a smart idea.
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