Despite laying down hints that American audiences would see The Cure play Disintegration in full later this year, Robert Smith made it clear in a radio interview Friday that it’s unlikely that’ll happen — and the band isn’t planning to mount a tour of the U.S. before 2020. Instead, the band’s planning a festival in L.A.
The Cure today announced the band’s first U.S. live dates since 2016, a pair of headlining appearances at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas, this October — though it’s not yet known whether these will be 30th anniversary performances of Disintegration. See full information right here.
Further indications of what The Cure has planned for 2019 emerged this morning with the announcement that Robert Smith and Co. will headline a pair of European festivals in June and July, coming a few months after the band’s first-ever concerts in South Africa. See more details right here.
In the build-up to this year’s festivities celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Cure, bandleader Robert Smith said fans could expect further touring in 2019 — and we now have the first evidence of that, with the announcement that the band will play two dates in South Africa next March. Tickets go on sale Friday.
The long-running German electropunk/industrial act Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft — better known simply as D.A.F. — will stage what is being billed as the first-ever American live performance of its 40-year career this November at the Cloak & Dagger festival in Los Angeles. Full lineup right here.
New Order has lined up a second U.S. festival appearance this year, with plans to follow up its headlining set at the inaugural InCuya Music Festival in Cleveland this August with another headlining appearance, this time at the Music Tastes Good Festival in Long Beach, Calif. Get the full details here.
New Order will join The Avett Brothers, SZA and Awolnation as headliners of the inaugural InCuya Music Festival in downtown Cleveland this August, a brand-new, two-day event that’s being put on by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and promoter AEG Presents. Full details right here.
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