{"id":66109,"date":"2026-06-06T18:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/see-the-cure-unearth-deep-cuts-at-primavera-sound-headlining-set\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:33:42","slug":"see-the-cure-unearth-deep-cuts-at-primavera-sound-headlining-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/see-the-cure-unearth-deep-cuts-at-primavera-sound-headlining-set\/","title":{"rendered":"See the Cure Unearth Deep Cuts at Primavera Sound Headlining Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;2 Late,&#8221; &#8220;Wrong Number,&#8221; and &#8220;Mint Car&#8221; among the rarities at Robert Smith and company&#8217;s first concert since Nov. 2024<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-cure\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-cure\" data-tag=\"the-cure\">The Cure<\/a> played their first show in 18 months Friday at Barcelona\u2019s Primavera Sound, where the band performed a handful of deep cuts live for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDuring their massive 29-song headlining set, Robert Smith and company played their usual stable of hits and fan favorites before first deviating to give the \u201cLovesong\u201d B-side \u201c2 Late\u201d its first performance since 2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Cure 2 Late song Primavera Sound 5 juin 2026\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bOFIkc2YC2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Cure later unearthed \u201calt.end\u201d and <em>Wild Mood Swings<\/em>\u2019 \u201cMint Car\u201d live for the first time since 2018 and 2016, respectively. One more surprise arrived during the encore, where the band busted out \u201cWrong Number\u201d for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The cure - Wrong Numbers - Primavera sound barcelone 2026\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NNaMrcgXp4E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe band\u2019s Primavera Sound set was their first since a November 1, 2024 gig at London\u2019s Troxy, a gig that featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-entirety-livestreamed-concert-1235151435\/\">a full-album performance<\/a> of their then-new LP <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/the-cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-review-1235144609\/\">Songs of a Lost World<\/a><\/em>; perhaps to mark a movement toward their next era \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-cure-hint-new-album-in-the-works-1235448487\/\">and rumored new album<\/a> \u2014 the Cure\u2019s Primavera set only featured two songs from Songs of a Lost World, \u201cAlone\u201d and \u201cEnd Song.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Cure have booked a summer\u2019s worth of European concerts and festival gigs, including stops at Belgium\u2019s Rock Werchter, Denmark\u2019s Roskilde, the Netherlands\u2019 Pinkpop, and the U.K.\u2019s Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile the Cure have not yet announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-cure-hint-new-album-in-the-works-1235448487\/\">their rumored follow-up<\/a> to <em>Songs of a Lost World<\/em>, the band has been back in the news lately thanks to their influence on Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s upcoming LP, which includes a song name-checking the Cure (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/olivia-rodrigo-drop-dead-robert-smith-reaction-1235549486\/\">Drop Dead<\/a>\u201c) as well as a track appropriately titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/olivia-rodrigo-the-cure-song-video-1235566320\/\">The Cure<\/a>.\u201d (Rodrigo, who announced Saturday that she would perform a surprise set at Primavera Sound, did not take part in the Cure\u2019s set.)  Smith will also appear on the Rolling Stones\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/rolling-stones-album-conan-obrien-things-learned-1235558323\/\">upcoming album <em>Foreign Tongues<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-cure-deep-cuts-primavera-sound-1235573435\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;2 Late,&#8221; &#8220;Wrong Number,&#8221; and &#8220;Mint Car&#8221; among the rarities at Robert Smith and company&#8217;s first concert since Nov. 2024 The Cure played their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":66110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}