Bernard McWeeney

Two Scandinavian festival sets complete the tour’s latest leg, with Oslo given a deep 28-song programme and Gothenburg a tighter closing-night sequence.

Vilnius and Tallinn turn two March announcements into genuine landmarks as The Cure’s summer tour enters the Baltic states for the first time.

Jason Cooper’s 17-year-old son joins all three sold-out Nîmes concerts, giving “A Night Like This” its live saxophone line inside the Roman arena.

When illness removes Simon from the Berlin shows, Eden Gallup moves from guitar to bass; a week later father and son are both onstage at Electric Castle.

The Cure frontman adds chiming guitar to “Divine Intervention”, then reappears on synth and backing vocals elsewhere on the Rolling Stones’ new album.

A surprise Primavera performance introduces Olivia Rodrigo’s first credited feature: a full duet with Robert Smith that bridges two generations of emotionally direct pop.

The darker follow-up to Songs of a Lost World is complete, while Smith is also shaping a separate, brighter collection—though no release date is fixed yet.

Barcelona gets the first Cure show in eighteen months, an expanded live line-up and a two-and-a-half-hour set that reaches well beyond the usual festival script.

Seven nights chosen by Robert Smith bring Elbow, Mogwai, Manic Street Preachers, My Bloody Valentine, Garbage, Placebo and Wolf Alice together for Teenage Cancer Trust.

A Swiss festival return and first-ever concerts in Lithuania and Estonia add three significant stops to The Cure’s expanding European summer.

A signed, numbered screenprint brings Chuck Sperry’s luminous concert-art language to The Cure, with the store’s net profits directed to Médecins Sans Frontières.

Songs of a Lost World and “Alone” give the band two victories at the 68th Grammy Awards—their first wins after more than three decades of nominations.

Forty years after Robert Smith re-sang the vocal, the elusive “New Voice – New Mix” gets a fresh remaster and its first official digital release.