What The Cure setlist featured during Rokslide Festival show with band playing hit track for first time since 2024

The Cure performed a staggering 27-song set as part of their headline spot at Rokslide Festival. Fans of the Robert Smith-fronted band noted a few small issues with the set, primarily that members of The Cure played the wrong intro to certain songs. It’s a minor problem for attendees of the festival who were treated to classics like Disintegration, The Last Days of Summer, and The Lovecats.

Smith has confirmed that The Cure will come to an end in 2029, but before then there is two albums worth of material to be released and, presumably, more shows in the future. The Cure will perform across Europe this year, including a performance in Wythenshawe Park in Manchester, England.

A full setlist for The Cure’s show at Rokslide Festival can be found below.

• Plainsong
• Pictures of You
• High
• A Night Like This
• Lovesong
• Burn
• Fascination Street
• Never Enough
• alt.end
• Push
• In Between Days
• Just Like Heaven
• The Last Days of Summer
• A Strange Day (first time since 2024)
• Play for Today
• A Forest
• From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
• Disintegration
• Lullaby
• Wrong Number
• The Walk
• The Lovecats
• Let’s Go to Bed
• Friday I’m in Love
• Close To Me
• Why Can’t I Be You?
• Boys Don’t Cry

Returning to the stage nearly two years after the release of Songs of a Lost World, Smith once broke down how the band chooses the songs they want to perform from night to night. No two shows are the same with the band digging deep into their discography and providing some all-time great performances, with plenty of deep cuts shared.

While a lot has changed for the band between 1996 and now, Smith went on record with how the band detailed their setlist from night to night in an interview given in 1996. The legendary songwriter behind Boys Don’t Cry and Disintegration shared that it was an active choice to make sure each setlist offered something different to attendees. But it all depends on how the band feel on the night, and how the audience receives the songs mid-show.

Smith told Damien Love in 1996: “It really depends upon what we feel and what an audience reacts to during a set, because we sometimes change it on stage – which is another good thing about us not relying on the computerised lighting: it’s kind of a hands-on affair, because every night’s different, and so the lighting bloke has to earn his money. So it’s everything.

“Two nights ago we played like ten or eleven songs from Wild Mood Swings out of the thirty; the following night we did at least five songs we’ve only done once or twice in the last fifteen years. Like, we did Funeral Party for the first time in about fifteen years, and the audience really reacted to it.

“So when we came back on for an encore, we threw in another couple of really old songs, we did Grinding Halt and Subway Song from the first album, which we haven’t done for…God knows. So it changes every night, which makes it exciting for us as well. It’s this old-fashioned idea that every night should be different.”