With their double album on its third postponement, it's barely shocking that the band has pushed all their autumn dates back to April and May of 2008. They sent out a message explaining why they had to do this. It seems nothing is well in the Cure camp right now....
North American Fall 2007 Cure shows re-scheduled for Spring 2008
With all apologies for any inconvenience or disappointment it may cause, we have made a decision to move the September/October 2007 North American Cure shows to April/May 2008.
The schedule as it stands only gives us a couple of weeks to finish our new double album before we hit the road again, and we know this just isn’t enough time to complete the project to our total satisfaction.
Although this last month’s tour of Australasia showed that a great Cure show is not dependent on a new Cure album, it has to be remembered that we hadn’t played Australia for 7 years, New Zealand for 15 years, Japan for 23 years(!), and Singapore or Hong Kong ever before – so the absence of ‘new’ songs in the set was not really much of an issue.
However, we want to remodel/rework the live show for North America, change things around, incorporate new songs… and we need time and focus to do this.
So although we can agree it is a great shame to move these dates – believe us we have been looking forward to them more than anyone! – and know there will be a lot of disappointed people out there, we honestly feel that in the bigger picture we are making the right decision.
All tickets held for all 2007 North American Cure shows will be valid for the re-scheduled 2008 shows, and of course anyone who seeks a refund will be able to get one.
All validity/refund/rescheduling details will be announced as soon as we have them.
The Spring 2008 Cure shows will be even better than the Fall 2007 ones would have been!!!
See you all soon…
Love
Robert, Simon, Jason and Porl – The Cure 24/8/07
I... don't know what to think. Pretty much anyone I know would be perfectly happy with the songs as they are, and without tons of new material... but I guess they have to do what they have to do. I guess they forget about things like how the Galore greatest hits shows sold out in mere minutes -- and that people like me [who are insane] slept on the street and got into fights with scalpers wielding boxcutters and broken bottles to defend our spots and get our tickets. [True story.]
Anyway, here's hoping The Cure gets themselves sorted, because if history has taught me anything:
- Double albums are usually a bad idea, and
- Projects that take ridiculous amounts of time to complete tend to be extreme letdowns because they don't come from the heart after a certain point.
Still, I'm wishing for the best.
Here are the dates that are not happening:
