The Cure look to be gearing up for a summer of live activity in 2026, releasing news on their social media accounts of a fresh festival headline slot in addition to last week’s news that Robert Smith & co. would be topping the bill at Paris festival Rock En Seine at the end of August next year. They will head to Austria two months before that to headline Nova Rock Festival on Friday 12th June.
It seems highly unlikely they will keep the diary free between the two events, with the implication being that we’re set for a summer of Cure headliner slots. Robert Smith had originally hinted that the band would tour in autumn of this year, telling 6Music presenter Matt Everitt for an interview on the band’s website that he wanted to finish the follow-up to their 2024 record Songs Of A Lost World first – presumably, in trademark Smith fashion, those sessions have overrun.
