The Cure has delighted attendees in France with a 30-song setlist that featured Letter to Elise for the first time in a decade. The Robert Smith-fronted band performed two encores at the Festival de Nîmes event, with the second of the two featuring their Wish classic. Also included in the setlist were classics from Disintegration and Songs of a Lost World. The Cure is known for changing up their set massively from night to night, but the Festival de Nîmes performance featured a major overhaul.
Included in the set were hits like Boys Don’t Cry and Friday I’m in Love but also featured were deep cut tracks for the first time this year. The band’s 2024 album was released to rave reviews but had not featured in any of their 2026 tour dates until now.
A full setlist for The Cure’s performance at Festival de Nîmes last night (July 24) can be found below.
- Alone
- Pictures of You
- High
- Lovesong
- Catch
- Burn
- Fascination Street
- alt.end
- Push
- In Between Days
- Just Like Heaven
- Treasure
- Want
- A Night Like This
- Secrets
- Play for Today
- A Forest
- From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
- Endsong
- It Can Never Be the Same
- Faith
- A Letter to Elise
- Lullaby
- Hot Hot Hot!!!
- The Walk
- The Lovecats
- Friday I’m in Love
- Close to Me
- Why Can’t I Be You?
- Boys Don’t Cry
It Can Never Be the Same and Faith were featured for the first time this tour. The Cure will be wrapping up their performances over the next few years, with just two years to go before Smith “gets things in order” before the end of the band. He said in late 2024: “We were going to play festivals next year, but a couple weeks ago, I decided that we weren’t going to play anything next summer. The next time we go out on stage will be autumn next year.
“But then we’ll probably be playing quite regularly through until the next anniversary — the 2028 anniversary that’s just looming on the horizon. The 2018 one, I started to think about in late 2016, thinking, ‘I’ve got a year and a half, it’s easy!’ And I still didn’t manage to get there in time. Now, I’m starting to think, ‘2028, I must get things in order;’ so [that’s] the documentary film and various other things like that.
“I’m 70 in 2029, and that’s the 50th anniversary of the first Cure album [Three Imaginary Boys]. If I make it that far, that’s it. In the intervening time, I’d like to include playing concerts as part of the overall plan of what we’re going to do. I’ve loved it; the last 10 years of playing shows have been the best 10 years of being in the band. It pisses all over the other 30-odd years! It’s been great.”
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