This is The Cure - Festival Summer 2026, The Studio Versions (A Hervé Guilleminot Special Presentation)
THE CURE - FROM BEDROOMS TO STADIUMS
Few bands bring people together quite like The Cure. Their audiences span several generations: fans who discovered them in the early 1980s stand alongside younger listeners who have found the same comfort, excitement and sense of belonging in their songs. Music once played alone in teenage bedrooms now fills arenas, stadiums and festival fields. That journey makes The Cure one of the most remarkable bands to emerge from the closing decades of the twentieth century. Even in front of tens of thousands of people, their songs can still feel intensely personal.
One of their greatest strengths is their extraordinary range. The Cure move from the stark landscapes of cold wave and post-punk to bright pop melodies, restless psychedelia and long, slowly unfolding pieces with something of the scale of progressive rock. “A Forest”, “Just Like Heaven” and “Disintegration” express very different moods, yet all belong unmistakably to the same musical world. Their darkness has never excluded pleasure, humour or joy. They can make an audience dance, then draw it into a song about loneliness, love or loss, with equal conviction.
As one of the last great British new wave and post-punk bands still performing on this scale, The Cure carry an enormous history. Much of their enduring appeal comes from Robert Smith. Behind the wild hair and familiar make-up is a singer whose vulnerability, dry humour and independence have made him an unusually endearing public figure. His voice remains immediately recognisable, while the musicians around him give the songs their depth and physical force. Together, they have built a relationship with listeners that reaches far beyond fashion or nostalgia.
Their generosity is especially clear on stage. Full-length Cure concerts often exceed two and a half hours, allowing room for familiar favourites, less obvious songs and extended passages that need time to reveal their power. These performances offer more than a succession of hits: they invite the audience to inhabit the music. The same emotional openness helps explain why The Cure continue to inspire musicians, writers, filmmakers and countless listeners for whom their songs have become part of everyday life.
Trent Reznor expressed this connection memorably when he inducted the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. His deeply sincere tribute recalled discovering music that seemed to understand his own feelings and made him feel less alone. It captured something essential about The Cure: their ability to turn private uncertainty into a shared experience.
They also continue to create music worthy of that attachment. Songs of a Lost World demonstrated that their themes could grow older with them, giving grief and passing time a powerful musical form. Robert Smith has spoken of a possible ending around 2029, but their continuing commitment gives these later years a sense of purpose.
The triumphant summer of 2026 provides the starting point for this collection. Bringing together 50 studio recordings, this imagined complete concert brings together every song played across the tour, making it easier to hear which periods the band chose to favour. Alongside it, I have included the closing Paris-area performance from Rock en Seine on 30 August 2026 in FLAC audio and video. I was there... it felt like a genuine musical firework display, and a moving reminder that songs first loved in solitude can become an extraordinary collective celebration. (Hervé Guilleminot)
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This is The Cure - Festival Summer 2026, The Studio Versions (A Hervé Guilleminot Special Presentation) 50 tracks (320 Kbps) + Rock En Seine 30.08.2026 31 tracks (flac)
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The Cure - Rock En Seine 30.08.2026
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TRACK LIST
1 - Plainsong - 1989
2 - Alone - 2024
3 - Pictures of You - 1989
4 - High - 1992
5 - Lovesong - 1989
6 - Catch - 1987
7 - Burn - 1994
8 - 2 Late - 1989
9 - Fascination Street - 1989
10 - Never Enough - 1990
11 - alt.end - 2004
12 - A Fragile Thing - 2024
13 - Push - 1985
14 - In Between Days - 1985
15 - Just Like Heaven - 1987
16 - Treasure - 1996
17 - The Last Day of Summer - 2000
18 - Trust - 1992
19 - Three Imaginary Boys - 1979
20 - Charlotte Sometimes - 1981
21 - Want - 1996
22 - A Night Like This - 1985
23 - Secrets - 1980
24 - A Strange Day - 1982
25 - Cold - 1982
26 - Play for Today - 1980
27 - In Your House - 1980
28 - A Forest - 1980
29 - Shake Dog Shake - 1984
30 - Primary - 1981
31 - From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea - 1992
32 - One Hundred Years - 1982
33 - Endsong - 2024
34 - Prayers for Rain - 1989
35 - M - 1980
36 - It Can Never Be the Same - 2016
37 - Faith - 1981
38 - A Letter to Elise - 1992
39 - Disintegration - 1989
40 - Lullaby - 1989
41 - Hot Hot Hot!!! - 1987
42 - Wrong Number - 1997
43 - The Walk - 1983
44 - Mint Car - 1996
45 - The Lovecats - 1983
46 - Let's Go to Bed - 1983
47 - Friday I'm in Love - 1992
48 - Close to Me - 1985
49 - Why Can't I Be You? - 1987
50 - Boys Don't Cry - 1979
Total running time: 4 hours, 12 minutes.
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