Robert Smith shares plans for The Cure’s 2025 tour – and 50th anniversary plans

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The Cure‘s Robert Smith has shared the band’s plans for a full world tour in 2025, likely stretching into their upcoming 50th anniversary as a band.To mark the release of long-awaited 14th album ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘, the alt-rock icons are set to play two London shows – one for BBC Radio 2 on October 30 and another intimate album release show at Troxy on November 1 – but have no further tour dates in the diary.

Now, in a new and long-ranging interview filmed by the band for fans in conversation with Matt Everitt (shared via unlocking their ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ website), Smith has shared when fans can see them on stage after that.The same interview saw Smith reveal that The Cure have another new album that’s “virtually finished” – with a third new record also on the way.

Speaking about the band’s plans for a full world tour, the frontman said he’d be aiming to complete one of the LPs before hitting the road again in 2025.“We’ll start up again next year,” said Smith. “Seriously, I have to finish the second album.

We were going to play festivals next year, but then I decided that we weren’t going to play anything next summer. The next time we go out on stage will be autumn next year.“But then we’ll probably be playing quite regularly through until the next anniversary – the 2028 anniversary!