British rock legends The Cure have today announced a massive headline show in Cardiff for Summer 2026.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees and double BRIT Award winners will play Blackweir Fields on Wednesday June 24.
The Cardiff date will be one of The Cure’s first UK shows since the release of their Number One album Songs of A Lost World.
They then play shows in Dublin, Belfast, Manchester and Edinburgh – alongside a headline set at the Isle of Wight Festival in Summer 2026.
The Cure will be joined at Blackweir by special guests The Twilight Sad and The Joy Formidable with both acts personally chosen by frontman Robert Smith.
Formed in Crawley, Sussex, The Cure played their first show in 1978 and have now performed around 1,800 concerts to date.
The band has released 14 studio albums – including such acclaimed works as Pornography, The Head on The Door, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Disintegration and Wish – along with more than 40 singles.
The 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have had 13 members in 47 years. The 2026 will feature five of them – Robert Smith (Voice & Guitars), Simon Gallup (Bass), Jason Cooper (Drums), Roger O’Donnell (Keyboards) and Reeves Gabrels (Guitars).
The Cure join a Blackweir line up which will already see a headlining show from US vocal powerhouse Teddy Swims, GRAMMY Award-winning rapper Pitbull and two headlining shows from Scottish superstar Lewis Capaldi.
Launched earlier this year, Blackweir is Cardiff’s new live music hotspot in a partnership between DEPOT Live (the live-events arm of Cardiff music venue, DEPOT) and UK promoters Cuffe and Taylor.
Nick Saunders, founder of DEPOT Live said: “This is a massive coup to bring the legends that are The Cure here to Blackweir. When we first announced we would be hosting shows here at this incredible location The Cure were top of many people’s wish lists, so we are absolutely delighted to be making a lot of people very happy with this announcement.
“The Cure are the soundtrack to so many people’s lives, they have been one of the world’s biggest bands for more than 40 years, so it does not get much bigger and better than to be welcoming them to Cardiff and Blackweir Fields next summer.”
