Written By Kieran Bugg
English rock band The Cure have announced their first North American 30-date tour since 2016 which commences in May.
After seven years, The Cure will once again be making their way across North America with their upcoming tour.
“Shows of a Lost World” will see the group perform across both the USA and Canada. In addition, it’ll be a 30-date tour which will begin on May 10th in New Orleans, Los Angeles.
It will conclude on July 1st in Miami, Florida.
The Cure Announce Their First North American Tour Since 2016
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Moreover, during their last venture in North America back in 2016, the band played 33 shows in over 26 different cities. After seven years it was starting to feel like that they would never tour the northern states again.
Nonetheless, they just gave their American and Canadian fans a welcome surprise with this announcement. The band has not long finished their 2022 tour of Europe.
Furthermore, bandleader Robert Smith sent an email to fans promising that all ticket prices will be the same. There won’t be any platinum or dynamically priced tickets.
In this email, Smith wrote in all-caps:
“THE CURE HAVE AGREED ALL TICKET PRICES, AND APART FROM A FEW HOLLYWOOD BOWL CHARITY SEATS, THERE WILL BE NO ‘PLATINUM’ OR ‘DYNAMICALLY PRICED’ TICKETS ON THIS TOUR!”
As with most events, fans are going to be wary about ticket availability and price. Rest assured though, countermeasures have been put in place against scalpers.
Posting a statement on their official social media pages, the band said:
“We want the tour to be affordable for all fans and we have a very wide (and we think very fair) range of pricing at every show. Our ticketing partners have agreed to help us stop scalpers from getting in the way; to help minimise resale and keep prices at face value tickets for this tour will not be transferable. If something comes up that prevents a fan from being able to use a ticket they have purchased, they will be able to resell it on a face value ticket exchange. Unfortunately, despite our desire to protect our low ticket prices for fans, the states of NY, IL and CO make this very difficult – they actually have laws in place that protect scalpers! For shows in these states we urge fans to buy or sell tickets to one another on face value exchanges like twickets.live and cashortrade.org.”
The Cure Announce Their First North American Tour Since 2016
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So chances of bagging yourself a ticket is pretty high.