The Cure At Royal Albert Hall For Teenage Cancer Trust

This last Friday and Saturday (March 28/29) saw The Cure play two nights of  identical 3-hour-plus sets at London's Royal Albert Hall in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. Included in the 45 songs were the rarely heard 'Harold And Joe',  and '2 Late' - the latter never having been played live before.



SETLIST
“Plainsong”
“Prayers For Rain”
“A Strange Day”
“A Night Like This”
“Stop Dead”
“Push”
“In Between Days”
“2 Late” (live debut)
“Jupiter Crash” (first time since 2004)
“The End Of The World”
“Lovesong”
“Mint Car”
“Friday I’m In Love”
“Doing The Unstuck”
“Trust”
“Pictures Of You”
“Lullaby”
“High”
“Harold And Joe” (first time since 1991)
“The Caterpillar”
“The Walk”
“Sleep When I’m Dead”
“Just Like Heaven”
“From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea”
“Want”
“The Hungry Ghost”
“Wrong Number”
“One Hundred Years”
“Disintegration”

Encore 1:
“If Only Tonight We Could Sleep”
“Shake Dog Shake”
“Fascination Street”
“Bananafishbones”
“Play For Today”
“A Forest”

Encore 2:
“Catch”
“The Lovecats”
“Hot Hot Hot!!!”
“Let’s Go To Bed”
“Freakshow” (first time since 2008)
“Close To Me”
“Why Can’t I Be You?”

Encore 3:
“Boys Don’t Cry”
“10:15 Saturday Night”
“Killing An Arab”



Speaking to XFM's John Kennedy about the proposed next Cure album -provisionally entitled '4:14 Scream'  and is expected later this year - Robert Smith said: "We’re in a weird kind of predicament. I’ve finished singing and mixing an album that was made by a band that no longer exists. So I’m trying to be convinced that I should release what is the second half of an album that
effectively came out in 2008. It’s a bit of a sore point, to be honest. It’s not really new, I just never sang it. I couldn’t be bothered. I didn’t think the words were good enough, but I’ve re-written it. We’re playing in May in America and then I don’t think we’ll play again until late September. So it’ll probably come out in that summer ’dead air’ period for albums."



Smith also revealed that the album was likely to be released thru Fiction, the label which first released the band from 1978 - 2000. 'It seems like a nice way of squaring the circle. It’s an album that is really different to anything else we’ve done. People who want to hear it will hear it and those that don’t, don’t. They’ll just keep dancing to 'Close To Me' and 'Love Cats'.