Overview
- The Cure kicked off their 2026 European tour at Primavera Sound in Barcelona on June 5 with a roughly two‑and‑a‑half‑hour headline set that reopened the band’s live schedule after 2024.
- The set mixed two songs from 2024’s Songs of a Lost World with decades of hits and a string of revived rarities, including “Mint Car,” “alt.end,” “2 Late,” and “Wrong Number.”
- The full Primavera performance was streamed on Amazon Prime Video, extending the show beyond the Parc del Fòrum audience to a global livestream.
- The appearance was the band’s first public show since the reported December death of Perry Bamonte and featured Eden Bamonte onstage, showing how the lineup is adapting in public.
- Robert Smith has said a follow‑up album is “virtually finished” with a third in progress, and the band moves next to Porto’s North Festival on June 7 before continuing a summer run of UK and European dates.