Shows of a Lost World

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Shows of a Lost World
Tour by the Cure
Shows of a Lost World tour promotional poster.jpg
Promotional poster for the initial North American concert dates
Location
Start date10 May 2023 (2023-05-10)
End date10 December 2023 (2023-12-10)
Legs2
No. of shows42
Supporting acts

Shows of a Lost World was a concert tour by British rock band the Cure. The North American leg of the tour sold over 547,000 tickets and grossed $37.5 million over 35 shows, making it the highest-grossing tour of the band's career to date. [1] The South American leg of the tour commenced in September 2023 and consists of three standalone concerts and four festival appearances. [2]

Contents

Background

In March 2023, the Cure announced a 30-date tour across the United States and Canada. The tour was called Shows of a Lost World and all shows would have the Twilight Sad performing as a supporting act. [3] On 5 April, the band's frontman Robert Smith announced that second concert dates had been added in San Diego, Montreal, and Atlanta and a new show had been added in Portland, bringing the scheduled number of concerts to 34. [4] On 27 April, a second show in San Francisco was announced, bringing the tour to 35 dates. [5]

On 21 June 2023, the band announced that it would be headlining four Primavera Sound festivals across South America and on 23 June it announced three standalone concerts with the Twilight Sad and Just Mustard performing as support acts. [6] [7]

Ticket sales

Tickets for the tour were sold through Ticketmaster. When registration for ticket sales opened on 10 March, the band announced that tickets would be non-transferrable and that the band would not be using dynamic pricing, a process where ticketsellers alter prices given high or low demand, nor selling platinum tickets in order to keep tickets affordable for fans and to reduce the ability of resellers to resell tickets. Ticketholders would only be able to resell the tickets for face value on a ticket exchange. [8] These choices led to tickets for the tour selling for an average of $68.57. [9] On 15 March, Robert Smith tweeted that dynamic pricing was a "greedy scam" that artists chose to participate in. When asked for comment by Rolling Stone , StubHub, the biggest ticket reselling platform in the US, criticised the restrictions on ticket transferability, StubHub claimed they hurt consumer choice and encouraged artists to keep tickets transferrable. [10] On 31 March, Smith said that 7,000 tickets that had been listed for resale on secondary markets had been identified and cancelled. [11]

Ticket sales opened on 15 March. Soon after ticket sales opened, some fans posted screenshots on social media showing that the additional fees added onto the ticket prices were high relative to the price of the ticket, sometimes exceeding the price of the ticket itself. On 16 March, Smith tweeted that he was sickened by how high the additional fees were and would be asking how they were justified. [10] The next day, Smith tweeted that after negotiations, Ticketmaster had agreed to refund a portion of the ticket fees as a gesture of goodwill. Buyers who had purchased the lowest-priced tickets would receive $10 and all other buyers would receive $5. He also said that tickets purchased after that day would incur lower fees. [12]

Set list

This set list is representative of the show on 10 May 2023, in New Orleans. [13] It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.

  1. "Alone"
  2. "Pictures of You"
  3. "A Night Like This"
  4. "Lovesong"
  5. "And Nothing Is Forever"
  6. "The Last Day of Summer"
  7. "A Fragile Thing"
  8. "Cold"
  9. "Burn"
  10. "Fascination Street"
  11. "Push"
  12. "Play for Today"
  13. "Shake Dog Shake"
  14. "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea"
  15. "Endsong"
    Encore
  16. "I Can Never Say Goodbye"
  17. "Want"
  18. "A Thousand Hours"
  19. "At Night"
  20. "A Forest"
    Encore 2
  21. "Lullaby"
  22. "Six Different Ways"
  23. "The Walk"
  24. "Friday I'm in Love"
  25. "Doing the Unstuck"
  26. "Close to Me"
  27. "In Between Days"
  28. "Just Like Heaven"
  29. "Boys Don't Cry"

Tour dates

North American Leg [14]
DateCityCountryVenueOpening actsAttendanceRevenue
10 May 2023 New Orleans United States Smoothie King Center The Twilight Sad ——
12 May 2023 Houston Toyota Center
13 May 2023 Dallas Dos Equis Pavilion
14 May 2023 Austin Moody Center
16 May 2023 Albuquerque Isleta Amphitheater
18 May 2023 Glendale [lower-alpha 1] Desert Diamond Arena
20 May 2023 Chula Vista [lower-alpha 2] North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
21 May 2023
23 May 2023 Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl
24 May 2025
25 May 2023
27 May 2023 Mountain View [lower-alpha 3] Shoreline Amphitheatre
29 May 2023
31 May 2023 Portland Moda Center
1 June 2023 Seattle Climate Pledge Arena
2 June 2023 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena
4 June 2023 Salt Lake City United States Vivint Smart Home Arena
6 June 2023 Greenwood Village [lower-alpha 4] Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
8 June 2023 St. Paul [lower-alpha 5] Xcel Energy Center
10 June 2023 Chicago United Center
11 June 2023 Cuyahoga Falls [lower-alpha 6] Blossom Music Center
13 June 2023 Clarkston [lower-alpha 7] Pine Knob Music Theatre
14 June 2023 Toronto Canada Budweiser Stage
16 June 2023 Montreal Bell Centre
17 June 2023
18 June 2023 Mansfield [lower-alpha 8] United States Xfinity Center
20 June 2023 New York City Madison Square Garden
21 June 2023
22 June 2023
24 June 2023 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center
25 June 2023 Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion
27 June 2023 Atlanta State Farm Arena
28 June 2023
29 June 2023 Tampa Amalie Arena
1 July 2023 Miami Kaseya Center
17 September 2023Chicago Douglass Park [lower-alpha 9] —
South American Leg [15]
DateCityCountryVenueOpening actsAttendanceRevenue
19 November 2023 Mexico City Mexico Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez [lower-alpha 10] ———
22 November 2023 Lima Peru Estadio Universidad San Marcos The Twilight Sad
Just Mustard
25 November 2023 Buenos Aires Argentina Sarmiento Park [lower-alpha 11] —
27 November 2023 Montevideo Uruguay Antel Arena Just Mustard
30 November 2023 Santiago Chile Estadio Monumental David Arellano Just Mustard
FrioLento
The Cruel Visions
3 December 2023 São Paulo Brazil Interlagos Circuit [lower-alpha 12] —
7 December 2023 Asunción Paraguay Parque Olímpico [lower-alpha 13] —
10 December 2023 Bogotá Colombia Movistar Arena [lower-alpha 14] —

Notes

  1. ↑ Promoted as Phoenix.
  2. ↑ Promoted as San Diego
  3. ↑ Promoted as San Francisco.
  4. ↑ Promoted as Denver.
  5. ↑ Promoted as Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
  6. ↑ Promoted as Cleveland.
  7. ↑ Promoted as Detroit.
  8. ↑ Promoted as Boston.
  9. ↑ This show was part of Riot Fest.
  10. ↑ This show was part of Corona Capital.
  11. ↑ This show was part of Primavera Sound.
  12. ↑ This show was part of Primavera Sound.
  13. ↑ This show was part of Primavera Sound.
  14. ↑ This show was part of Primavera Sound.

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