The Cure has performed a deep cut song for just the second time on their 2026 tour. The Robert Smith-fronted band is performing three shows at Festival de Nîmes in the south of France and kept two tour debut pieces in their show. The Cure will perform a third and final Festival de Nîmes show tonight (July 26) following their show last night (July 25).
Their setlist comprised 30 songs and was spread across their decades-spanning career. The Cure featured songs from Disintegration, Wish, and a title track which released in 1981. Faith, their third studio album, made an appearance in the show, while a song from Curætion‐25: From There to Here From Here to There (Live) also appeared. It marks just the second time this year that Faith and It Can Never Be the Same have been performed.
A full setlist for The Cure’s second Festival de Nîmes show can be found below.
- Alone
- Pictures of You
- High
- Lovesong
- Catch
- Burn
- Fascination Street
- Never Enough
- Push
- In Between Days
- Just Like Heaven
- The Last Day of Summer
- In Your House
- A Night Like This
- Play for Today
- A Forest
- Primary
- From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
- Endsong
- It Can Never Be the Same
- Faith
- A Letter to Elise
- Lullaby
- The Walk
- Mint Car
- The Lovecats
- Friday I’m in Love
- Close to Me
- Boys Don’t Cry
The Cure also added Letter to Elise to their setlist for the first time since 2016 during their first of three Festival de Nîmes performances. It remained in the setlist for the second of three performances, though there is no guarantee it appears tonight (July 26). The Cure is notorious for frequently changing their setlist, often on a whim and playing into the audience’s reaction to other songs.
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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