The Cure have announced an intimate launch show in London for their new album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, along with details of a watch-along livestream.
The legendary band are preparing to release their first album in 16 years on November 1, and that night, they will be playing ‘Show Of A Lost World’ in full for the first time at the 3000-capacity Troxy in London.
Fans in the UK and Europe can pre-order their copy of the album here before 11:59pm on October 16 for the chance to access tickets for the show. Anyone who has already pre-ordered the album will automatically have access to the ticket sale. Tickets will then go on general sale at 3pm on October 17, with £1 from each ticket sold being donated to War Child.
For those unable to attend, the show will also be livestreamed for free on YouTube.
The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World : Album Launch Show
Live at Troxy London – 1st November 2024
Ticket info at https://t.co/63L11XJOKB
Free Global Live Stream on The Cure YouTube – More details to follow pic.twitter.com/1Nd8E3bsF6— The Cure (@thecure) October 11, 2024
The album launch show joins two previously announced shows that the band will be playing for the BBC. They will perform at the BBC Radio Theatre in London for ‘Radio 2 In Concert’ on October 30, which will be broadcast on Jo Whiley’s show the following day. They will also play a BBC 6 Music session on Huw Stephens’ show on October 31.
‘Songs Of A Lost World’ is the band’s first studio album since 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream’, and they have released two singles from the record to date, in the form of ‘Alone’ and ‘A Fragile Thing’.
The ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ tracklist is:
- ‘Alone’
- ‘And Nothing Is Forever’
- ‘A Fragile Thing’
- ‘Warsong’
- ‘Drone:Nodrone’
- ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’
- ‘All I Ever Am’
- ‘Endsong’
In a five-star review of ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, NME wrote: “The frontman suggested that another two records may be arriving at some point, but ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ feels sufficient enough for the wait we’ve endured, just for being arguably the most personal album of Smith’s career. Mortality may loom, but there’s colour in the black and flowers on the grave.”
The album has been a long time in the making, with Smith saying in a clip posted to the band’s Instagram account last month: “I don’t think there was really a kind of an official beginning to this album because it’s been kind of drifting in and out of my life for an awful long time. I mean if I have one regret is that I said anything at all about it in 2019 because I really shouldn’t have done that.”
He continued: “We had only just started creating it. I don’t know, there are various points where I thought ‘I think we are going to make a new album’ and then it’s kind of the idea, sort of like for various reasons, other things have happened and the idea’s been sort of pushed back. So I’m not sure but there have been definite points along the way where I thought ‘Ah, you know, this, you know, whether it be the first song.
“The key, I think, in the history of the band is if I know what the opening song is and I know what the closing song is, I think that’s the album halfway done, you know. That’s the key for an album.”
At the BandLab NME Awards 2022, he shared details about ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ and its sister album. He said: “So I’ve been working on two Cure albums, and one of them is finished,” he added. “Unfortunately, it’s the second one that’s finished. [On the other] I’ve got to do four vocals, and there are 10 songs on each album. We’re mixing next month on April 1, so I’ve got three weeks left.”
