LOS ANGELES (Cure Fans Website) - 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).
Follow is an initial list of tour dates and cities for The Curiosa Festival 2004:
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
