S.Lo on May 4th, 2019

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The Cure have a West Coast festival in the works.

The band is fresh off its Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and the announcement that their May 30 show at the Sydney Opera House (the fifth of a series that celebrates last week’s 30th anniversary of “Disintegration”) will be simulcast. The Cure also have a new album in the works — one that keyboardist Roger O’Donnell calls “epic.”

In an interview Friday with Mark Goodman and Alan Light on the SiriusXM program Debatable, frontman Robert Smith said that a new L.A.-area festival would be announced soon, adding to a 2019 touring schedule that includes October’s Austin City Limits.

“We’ll be announcing another one later this month, which will be a really special one, actually, because we’re curating it,” Smith said. “So it’s going to be on the West Coast. There’s going to be about 10 other acts, all hand-picked. I just wanted to do something a bit like [the 40th-anniversary concert last summer at London’s Hyde Park, a movie of which will be released this year], something a bit celebratory.

“It isn’t going to be a ‘Disintegration’ show — it’s going to be just a celebratory show with a load of artists who all in their own right deserve to headline festivals,” he explained, adding that he doesn’t know yet whether it will be a one-day or weekend affair. “I think that curating the Meltdown Festival a couple of years ago in London has given me a taste of curation. I can’t wait for it to be announced, it’s such a great bill.”

Post-Punk.com has a wrap-up of all things Cure here.