The Cure dedicated a song to sick bandmate Simon Gallup and performed a Faith track for the first time since 2023 at their show in Germany. The Robert Smith-fronted band is known for putting on legendary shows, with this 26-song setlist no exception to that rule. The Cure performed hits like Boys Don’t Cry, Disintegration, and Just Like Heaven at their show last night (July 10).
The band managed to perform 26 songs despite missing Simon Gallup, who was reportedly ill before the show. Eden Gallup filled in for The Cure’s long-serving bassist. Smith would also dedicate the first song of the encore, Lullaby, to the bassist who has been with the band since 1979. It is not yet known whether Simon Gallup will have recovered in time for the band’s performance tonight (July 11), their second of three at the Parkbühne Wuhlheide arena.
A full setlist for the band’s first show at the Parkbühne Wuhlheide can be found below.
- Plainsong
- Pictures of You
- High
- A Night Like This
- Lovesong
- Burn
- Fascination Street
- Never Enough
- alt.end
- Push
- Play for Today
- A Forest
- Primary
- Shake Dog Shake
- From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
- Prayers for Rain
- One Hundred Years
- Disintegration
- Lullaby
- The Walk
- Friday I’m in Love
- In Between Days
- Just Like Heaven
- Close to Me
- Why Can’t I Be You?
- Boys Don’t Cry
It marks the first time on the tour that The Cure has performed Primary, a track from Faith. The Cure has been performing massive, near 30-song sets across Europe this year. The band has featured a relatively different setlist from night to night, something Smith is keen to continue doing, per an interview he gave decades before this current tour.
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.”
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