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THE CURE ANNOUNCE U.S. SUMMER FESTIVAL TOUR

NEW ALBUM TO BE RELEASED ON I AM/GEFFEN RECORDS JUNE 29TH

Santa Monica, California, May 10, 2004 - The Cure have unveiled their plans for a U.S. Tour this summer! The Curiosa Festival 2004 will kick off July 24th in West Palm Beach, Florida and continue through the end of August (see below for initial dates and cities). The headlining bill will include The Cure, Interpol, the Rapture and Mogwai. A second stage will also be part of the festivities showcasing the talent of Muse, Thursday, Cursive, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Cooper Temple Clause and Head Automatica. Second stage performers will rotate throughout the tour.

The Cure recently returned home to the U.K. after a successful trip to the U.S. where they performed their debut single, "The End Of The World" on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and performed to over 50,000 fans at the second day of the Coachella Festival in Indio, California.

The new self-titled disc will be the band's 13th studio record and their first album of new music since 2000's Bloodflowers. The Cure was recorded at London's Olympic Studios, with Ross Robinson (Korn, Limp Bizkit, At The Drive In) producing and arrives in stores June 29th on Ross Robinson's imprint label, I Am Records, through Geffen Records.

Led as always by lead singer/guitarist Robert Smith, the Cure line-up since 1994 comprises longtime bass player Simon Gallup, guitarist Perry Bamonte, drummer/percussionist Jason Cooper, and keyboardist Roger O'Donnell. Perennially popular with fans all around the world, the band is currently enjoying a huge resurgence of interest. Earlier this year, Fiction Records released a compelling Cure collection, Join the Dots: B-sides & Rarities 1978- 2001, a 4-cd 70 song box set. Among a number of genre spanning collaborations undertaken in the last few months Smith has sung on the track "All Of This" from the new blink-182 cd, "Truth Is" on the new Tweaker cd, and the dance smash "Da Hype" with Junior Jack. 311 recently went to number 1 in the U.S. modern rock chart with a cover of The Cure's "Love Song" as featured in the film "50 First Dates" soundtrack, and numerous new bands such as Interpol, the Rapture and Hot Hot Heat! have been outspoken in their admiration for the Cure.

The Cure first formed in southern England in 1976 as Easy Cure. In 1978 the 'Easy' was dropped, and The Cure was signed to the Fiction label. In May 1979 their debut album 'Three Imaginary Boys' was released to great acclaim.

Other landmark Cure albums include Pornography (1982), The Head on the Door (1985), Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987), Disintegration (1989), Wish (1992), Wild Mood Swings (1996) and the Grammy-nominated Bloodflowers (2000).

Below is an initial list of tour dates and cities for The Curiosa Festival 2004. More cities and venues will be announced shortly.

July 24th West Palm Beach, FL

July 25th Tampa, FL

July 28th Nashville, TN

July 29th Atlanta, GA

July 31st New York, NY

August 1st Camden, NJ

August 3rd Cincinnati, OH

August 4th Cleveland, OH

August 7th Boston, MA

August 11th Detroit, MI

August 12th Chicago, IL

August 14th Dallas, TX

August 15th Houston, TX

August 17th Denver, CO

August 18th Salt Lake City, UT

August 27th Los Angeles, CA

WHY DON'T THEY EVER COME TO MPLS?

I guess it'll have to be Chicago.

Wanna meet me there?

this had better not be another joke....

I guess I'm going to Chicago two times this summer....

August 15th Houston, TX

WhooooHooooo!!!!!

the Dallas show is on a Saturday....

It may be worth the drive to get to Atlanta! Saw them on Leno and I thought the song(The End of the World) was really good. The middle section of the song was a bit chaotic, but Robert & co. pulled it together nicely. One comment, though.. I think Rob has seen his best days of haystack hair and smudged lipstick. Its verging on caricature. Ok im done.
[This message was edited Wed May 12 8:11:30 2004 by found1]

i thought they would come to mpls for sure

and of course my vacation falls august 18-25. dunno if i could work an out of town excursion.....although...i would defiantely conside trying to make it work. i want to see them sooo bad again. i havent seen them since the kiss me tour in 87!!!

CarrieMpls said:

whee!

endorphin74 said:

whee!

with my luck, tix have already gone on sale...i signed up for the cure mailing list to get the deal on good tickets, but i haven't gotten a thing from em yet. if i can get myself a tickie, i am SO there with you guys!

dude...i just looked at my shcedule.....and im actually off the 12 and 13 of august!
i bet i could swing it!!!!!

THANKYOU GANGSTA!!!!! What a summer this could be for concert going ~ Prince, Cure, maybe,possibly BJORK
who am I forgetting? I'd love to add Ani and Tori and another Bowie show would be awesome!!!!!

Anxiety said:

AWESOME!!!!

ps- I don't see tix on TicketBastard yet, so I don't think we've missed any on-sales!

I do hear the new album is their best since Disinigration.

2freaky4church1 said:

I'm liking the single so far

it's very odd, I turn on the "alternacrap station" here in town and hear Morrissey and The Cure...it's like a flashback

2freaky4church1 said:

i thought bloodflowers was awfully nice...if the new one is at least that good, i'll be happy.

violett said:

It'll be an org party at the Chicago Cure show!

CarrieMpls said:

WOO HOO!!!!

I'm definitely going to the NYC show!!!!

Wow! Morrissey headlining Lollapalooza and now The Cure headlining their own festival??!!!

This is gonna be the best year ever for concerts.

No WA State date WTF???

NWF said:

agreed

2freaky4church1 said:

umm since when did you care?