The Cure announce details of intimate London shows at the BBC
The rock icons will play two shows later this month.
By Nick Reilly
The Cure have announced details of two world exclusive performances they’ll deliver at the BBC later this month.
The first will be the ‘Radio 2 In Concert’, where the band will perform for a select audience of fans at the BBC Radio Theatre in London on October 30.
It’s set to be followed by ‘6 Music Session: The Cure Live’, which will broadcast on Huw Stephens’ show on Thursday October 31 between 4-7pm GMT, alongside another interview with the legendary frontman.
Hopeful fans can apply for a maximum of one pair of tickets to the first London performance here, which will be allocated by a random draw.
“It’s not often we perform such intimate shows, so we’re really looking forward to this, and to sharing more tracks from the new album for the first time on 6 Music and Radio 2,” said Robert Smith in a statement.
For those who don’t get to attend, the Radio 2 Breakfast Show will also feature some exclusive tracks from the Radio 2 recording on November 1, while both performances will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer on the evening of October 31.
It’s all in celebration of Songs Of A Lost World, the group’s anticipated first album in sixteen years.
The Crawley goth-rock icons’ latest album will drop on November 1, marking their first record in 16 years.
Describing the lead single ‘Alone’, which sees the group on typically gloomy form, Robert Smith said: “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded I knew it was the opening song, and I felt the whole album come into focus.
“I had been struggling to find the right opening line for the right opening song for a while, working with the simple idea of ‘being alone’, always in the back of my mind this nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line should be… as soon as we finished recording I remembered the poem ‘Dregs’ by the English poet Ernest Dowson… and that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.”
The band’s last album came in 2008’s 4:13 Dream, but they have been teasing the follow up with increasing intensity in recent weeks.
After wiping clean the band’s official website earlier this month, U.K. fans also received a postcard in the mail with the embossed words “Songs of a Lost World” and a group of Roman numerals that, when converted to European date/month format, translate to November 1, 2024.