From The Cure:
THE CURE PLAY BULGARIA FOR THE FIRST TIME - HEADLINING PHILLGOOD FESTIVAL JULY 2026.
TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 10:00 CET (11:00 EET)
https://ticketstation.bg/en/p5589-phillgood-festival-2026
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Cure bio updated...album update, Lost World FILM coming
Didn't realize The Cure's bio on the official site had been updated.
Show of a Lost World FILM? Nice!
And official confirmation that Perry is out again.
Thanks, Dennis.
The Cure spent the spring of 2024 finishing 8 of the songs recorded back in 2019, with mixing and final mastering happening in the summer. In September news of a new studio album was announced, and on Friday 1st November Songs Of A Lost World was released, the event marked with a 3 hour launch show at Troxy London, free streamed globally to more than a million people. The album was universally acclaimed by both fans and critics, reaching #1 in more than 30 countries around the world. In March 2025 the band went back into Rockfield Studios to record 13 more songs for a follow up album. On Friday 13th June the 24 track Mixes Of A Lost World was released, containing remixes and reworks by 24 incredible artists including Four Tet, Mogwai, Paul Oakenfold, Chino Moreno and Orbital. In June Robert guested with Olivia Rodrigo on a couple of Cure songs during her Glastonbury headline show, before heading back into the studio to help re-edit and re-mix The Show Of A Lost World film...
(Tim Brothers)
THE CURE (2026):
ROBERT SMITH - VOICE & GUITAR
SIMON GALLUP - BASS
JASON COOPER - DRUMS
ROGER O'DONNELL - KEYBOARD
REEVES GABRELS - GUITAR
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
3rd show added for Berlin
From Roger:
Due to unprecedented demand we, The Cure, have added a third show in Berlin on July 12th. If you didn’t manage to get tx for 1 or 2 good luck with 3!
From The Cure:
DUE TO HUGE DEMAND FOR PRE-SALE TICKETS, A THIRD SHOW AT BERLIN WUHLHEIDE HAS BEEN ADDED FOR 12TH JULY 2026
PRE-SALE TICKETS ON SALE WED 15TH
SIGN UP AT THECURE.COM
Monday, October 13, 2025
Friday, October 10, 2025
Cure play Cardiff in 2026
From Itsoncardiff:
Fans can sign up for next Thursday’s 10am pre-sale via blackweirlive.com/thecure.
From Livenation UK:
Bag tickets in our #LNpresale next Thursday at 10am here.
From The Cure:
WALES! NEW DATE IN CARDIFF BLACKWEIR FIELDS!
FANS SIGNED UP TO THE MAILING LIST WILL GET PRE-SALE ACCESS! REGISTER AT THECURE.COM/SHOWS/
Cure play Way Out West 2026
From The Cure:
EXCITED TO RETURN TO SWEDEN FOR @WAYOUTWESTGBG 2026
TICKETS ON SALE OCT 13TH VIA WAYOUTWEST.SE/TICKETS
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Videos for Projections
From Roger:
Teaser video for Pojections by Mimi Supernova... shes actually making videos for all the songs. Digital release 10/29 and vinyl a couple of weeks later by pre order now!
The observant amongst you may have noticed the teaser video I just posted is made up of old video tapes that Ive taken over the past 40 years... lots more to come... from the vault and the editing of Ms Supernova.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Update from Roger
Update: https://mfl-stores.myshopify.com/collections/roger-odonnell
"Pre sale for Projections will go live at 17:00 BST tomorrow. Vinyl, t shirts and badges and lots of excellent bundles!! All extremely limited editions."
2 nights in Berlin too
From The Cure:
GERMANY - 2 NIGHTS ANNOUNCED FOR JULY 2026 AT BERLIN WUHLHEIDE
PRE-SALE BEGINS 13.10.2025
REGISTER NOW AT https://uk-umg.com/um-forms/curesignup.html
Cure play Rock Werchter on July 5th
From The Cure:
THE CURE HEADLINE ROCK WERCHTER FESTIVAL 2026
REGISTER FOR PRE-SALE ACCESS AT ROCKWERCHTER.BE
TICKETS ON SALE NOVEMBER 21ST AT 10AM
Monday, October 6, 2025
Cure In Orange screening in San Francisco
Join us October 15th for a screening of THE CURE IN ORANGE at @4StarTheater at 7pm
The Cure co-founder @LolTolhurst will be there for a Q&A and Book Signing 📖 Plus live performance by r.image
https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/lol-tolhurst-in-orange
Update on Roger's new album
From Roger O'Donnell:
Big announcement coming Wednesday!! Link to pre sale of Projections and some nice bundles of t shirts and the vinyl! Everything is limited to a very small number so get on that pre sale!
Friday, October 3, 2025
Ticket update
From The Cure:
TICKETS FOR MANCHESTER & EDINBURGH ARE NOW SOLD OUT
A SMALL NUMBER OF TICKETS HAVE APPEARED ON CERTAIN ABOVE FACE-VALUE WEBSITES - WHICH WE ARE WORKING TO REMOVE - PLEASE DON'T BUY THESE AS THEY WON'T BE VALID FOR ENTRY
WALES - ANNOUNCEMENT SOON!
RSX
Tickets on sale today, Wales date soon
Update: Edinburgh and Manchester are sold out.
From The Cure:
2026 UK & IRELAND SUMMER SHOWS
TICKETS ON SALE AT THECURE.COM/SHOWS
MANCHESTER / EDINBURGH - 9AM
DUBLIN / BELFAST - 12PM
WALES - HOPING FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT SOON!🤞
Thursday, October 2, 2025
NME interview with Roger
From NME:
Roger O’Donnell talks beating cancer, new solo album ‘Projections’, and what’s next for The Cure
"It was just nice to be alive, for one thing! And nice to make music again. During the treatment I was so emotional the whole time that I couldn’t touch an instrument."
Roger O’Donnell has spoken to NME about his new solo album ‘Projections’ – made in the wake of his battle with cancer and returning to record with The Cure.
Arriving on O’Donnell’s 70th birthday on Friday October 29, ‘Projections’ marks the keyboardist and composer’s eighth solo album, in the latest of his life of writing scores and other projects away from the limelight of The Cure. The artist explained how this record leans more into his tastes and influences in minimal electronica.
“I did two electronic records in the early 2000s, and I always felt that it wasn’t a completed episode,” O’Donnell told NME. “Two is no good, you have to have three of something. I always felt that there was always another electronic album in there. The first two I recorded entirely using a Moog Voyager, and for this one I gave myself a little bit more space.
“I introduced quite a few more different instruments, but it’s like finishing that era.”
The album also comes after O’Donnell last year shared with fans that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of lymphoma. However, he is happy to reveal that he’s now beaten cancer – enabling him to return to the creative life with gusto.
“After having gone through all the health stuff in 2023-2024, I was determined not to make a record that made a meal out of being ill,” he admitted, “but it was a time for reflection, looking back, looking forward and really restating where I am now as a musician and musically.
“I feel it really accomplished that. The album has got tinges of everything in it. I can hear influences from everything that I’ve ever been influenced by. I’m very happy with this record, and people seem to like it as well – which is strange!”
Stripped back but warm, ‘Projections’ comes loaded with the feel of a wintry embrace – something O’Donnell was keen to capture while recording.
“It’s definitely a winter record,” he said. “I never go in the studio in the summer. I just like being outside. The summer is always a non-productive time for me, whereas the winter is very evocative, isn’t it?”
O’Donnell – who has been a part of The Cure since 1987 – said that he was very much looking forward to hitting the road with the band in 2026 on their recently announced run of festivals including Isle Of Wight, Primavera Sound in Spain, Norway’s Øya, Rock En Seine in France, Austria’s Nova Rock, and Open’er in Poland, as well as a run of massive outdoor UK and Ireland shows.
Check out our full interview below, where O’Donnell told us about his battle with lymphoma, his hopes of inspiring others with the disease, the design of his new solo project, returning to touring with Robert Smith and co, and the chances of the follow-up of ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘ emerging in the coming months.
NME: Hello Roger. What can you tell us about the mood of ‘Projections’ when first approaching it?
Roger O’Donnell: “It was very much reflecting on what I’d been through. I’d had lymphoma and it was a pretty devastating period. It was just nice to be alive, for one thing! And nice to make music again. During the treatment I was so emotional the whole time that I couldn’t touch an instrument – I would just burst into tears. It was just a nice feeling to be back in the studio and to be able to take a breath and think, ‘OK, I’ve been there, this is where I am and where I’m going’. This record really summed all of that up and felt very natural.”
How are you now?
“I’m fine, thank you! I’m 100 per cent fighting fit. I’m a year out of treatment, I’ve had a couple of blood tests and everything is normal. My haematologist, who was a real rockstar, he said that normally they don’t use the word ‘cure’ in that sort of world, but then he said: ‘I’m going to say we can cure you’.”
Having been through that, what have you learned that you’d like to share with others?
“First of all, if you’ve got any kind of symptoms then go see a doctor. Don’t put it off. I put it off. I felt something at the start of 2023, then we did a whole American tour. I was trying to suppress what I thought it might be, then at the end of the tour I finally gave in and went to see a doctor who told me I had nothing to worry about! Then I went and got a scan on my own and all hell broke loose. For god’s sake: don’t be embarrassed and don’t be scared. They can fix most things these days. The thing they can’t do is wind back time. They can’t go back to a place where they might have been able to do you some good if you’d gone earlier.
“Also, put your faith in modern medicine. It’s an incredible thing. I had some drugs that were like science fiction. They were these things that latch onto cells, break the cells open, and then fire drugs in at a cellular level. It’s just mind-warping what they can do, and it keeps getting better. I’ve been doing some fundraising for Lymphoma Org and they’re on the cutting edge. They’re very close to a cure. We did a fundraiser last week and I have to thank everyone that called in and pledged money because they raised thousands. It’s nice to know that people care about it.”
Did the idea of returning to music give you strength through recovery?
“The amazing thing for me was that after just over a year of being diagnosed, I was back on stage with the lads playing at The Troxy and a couple of things at the BBC. That was very strange – to be back. It gives other people hope.
“When I was in the midst of it all and I was reading that Mark Hoppus from Blink-182 had the same thing, I thought, ‘Wait a minute, I’m not on my own’. Jeff Bridges had it too. That’s why I decided to go public with it. It’s a very personal thing and it’s a big decision whether or not you want to make your health public. There are always idiots that are going to turn into something negative. The positives outweigh that. I hope that I did some good and made some people feel better about their diagnosis.”
The diagnosis can seem like an overwhelming black cloud, but it doesn’t have to mean the end…
“No. Usually waiting for the diagnosis is the hardest thing. My partner and I were walking through the house like zombies until we finally got the diagnosis, then you feel like you can actually do something. You can get your head down, get on with the treatment and have an end in sight.”
How does a diagnosis like that change your approach to your work? How does it colour the way you make music and look back upon what you’ve done?
“Music has always been an emotional outlet for me. I live a very happy life, I’m a pretty happy person, and the emotion comes out in the music. I was unable to play while I was going through it because my emotions were at number 11. To sit down at the piano, I would just burst into tears. It was a very difficult period for me emotionally and creatively. As soon as I was over it, it was like the floodgates opened.
“People ask if it changed me as a person. I think in some ways it did. It’s like, what’s your biggest fear: cancer or the mad axe murderer knocking at your door? You open the door and the mad axe murder is standing there, what do you do? You try and talk him out of it. It’s the same with cancer, you just plough into the treatment. I was very involved with my haematologist and was doing my own research.”
Did you enjoy those few shows The Cure played last year all the more?
“It was kind of surreal. All of a sudden I was back into The Cure world, playing on stage to a global audience of thousands and thousands, and it was as if nothing had happened. I turned up at rehearsals and everything was normal. You don’t want to be treated specially or like some kind of weirdo, I didn’t want special treatment. Maybe a few more cups of tea made for me, but it was typical Cure world: get back in there and get on with it.
“It was great to play those shows and realise that I could do it again. At the start of it I said, ‘I’m still really suffering from fatigue’ and Robert said, ‘Don’t worry – we’ll only play for two hours’. Then by the end of rehearsals the set had gone up to three hours! I said, ‘I’m not sure if I can do this’ and he was like, ‘You can have a stool if you want. You might get the sympathy vote’. It was fine and the adrenaline got me through it.”
Are you ready for a heady summer 2026?
“Yes, I’m very ready and happy to be doing festivals. We’ve got a few announced. I love playing festivals and it’s always such a cool tour. It’s not the intensity of normal Cure tour and it’s usually much more of an upbeat show. You get to hang out with other bands, it’s a nice vibe, it’s through the summer, and we get to come home during the week so it’s like a part-time job.”
Is it going to be a full-scale festival tour across all continents?
“I don’t know. They’re trickling the dates out one by one and I don’t know what’s coming next. I know as much as you do. It’s more to do with when the festival tickets go on sale and when they want to announce. It’s like a Christmas gift that keeps on giving.”
Robert is acting as curator for Teenage Cancer Trust in 2026. Does that mean we can expect The Cure to be playing Royal Albert Hall?
“I thought that it was likely, but I don’t know. Maybe he thinks it wouldn’t be right for the band to play there the first year [he’s curating it]. We’ve done it a few times, it’s a cool gig and it’s obviously a cause that’s very close to my heart – a bit too close. We do a lot for those kinds of things. It’s nice that Robert’s been asked to curate that.”
Robert also said he wanted the follow-up to ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ to be finished before the tour. Is that still likely to be the case?
“You’d have to ask him about that. I didn’t know that ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ was finished until he sent the songs to us to learn for the Troxy show! I don’t know what’s going on. I know that Jason [Cooper] did a lot of drum tracks in about April, and there was talk of us getting together to play but I haven’t heard much lately. I think Robert is in one of his very deep creative modes, because he’s pretty quiet at the moment.”
Is it the case where you record your parts then leave Robert to tinker forever?
“Yeah, well hopefully not another 18 years!”
Are you hopeful we’ll get in the coming year or so?
“I would think so. We were all very happily surprised by the success of ‘Songs Of A Lost World’. For it to do what it did after we had that much time away is fantastic. There’s a bar that The Cure never drops below, so it’s always going to be fantastic – it’s just about whether it’s going to be mega or not.”
The Cure will be touring throughout 2026.
Roger O’Donnel releases ‘Projections’ on October 29.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Update from Roger
From Roger:
Some Projections news in the middle of all this Cure frenzy. Sadly a further delay to the vinyl which will
now ship on the 12th of November. Pre orders and webstore announcement on October 8th... Digital release will still be on my birthday 10/29 X
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