Cure Gig Stats
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Quantifying The Cure through an autistic lens since 2022
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Happy 49th Birthday to The Cure and its prototypes
🎉🎈🥂
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OTD 1976 band that would become The Cure played 1st proper gig
Malice had done a church floor acoustic set 2 days earlier but this one had stage amps & purportedly 300 ppl
Singer Martin Creasy so humiliated he left Crawley within weeks
Malice was no more but Rob Lol Porl Mike stayed for Easy Cure
Malice had done a church floor acoustic set 2 days earlier but this one had stage amps & purportedly 300 ppl
Singer Martin Creasy so humiliated he left Crawley within weeks
Malice was no more but Rob Lol Porl Mike stayed for Easy Cure
December 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Happy 49th Birthday to The Cure and its prototypes
🎉🎈🥂
🎉🎈🥂
OTD 1976 band that would become The Cure played 1st proper gig
Malice had done a church floor acoustic set 2 days earlier but this one had stage amps & purportedly 300 ppl
Singer Martin Creasy so humiliated he left Crawley within weeks
Malice was no more but Rob Lol Porl Mike stayed for Easy Cure
Malice had done a church floor acoustic set 2 days earlier but this one had stage amps & purportedly 300 ppl
Singer Martin Creasy so humiliated he left Crawley within weeks
Malice was no more but Rob Lol Porl Mike stayed for Easy Cure
December 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
OTD 1976 band that would become The Cure played 1st proper gig
Malice had done a church floor acoustic set 2 days earlier but this one had stage amps & purportedly 300 ppl
Singer Martin Creasy so humiliated he left Crawley within weeks
Malice was no more but Rob Lol Porl Mike stayed for Easy Cure
Malice had done a church floor acoustic set 2 days earlier but this one had stage amps & purportedly 300 ppl
Singer Martin Creasy so humiliated he left Crawley within weeks
Malice was no more but Rob Lol Porl Mike stayed for Easy Cure
OTD 1978 teenage Cure played Islington's Hope and Anchor giving first quality photos of band onstage
Debut Cure coverage in national music press in NME 3 days earlier (see below) prompted a full house of curious punters
Poor Rob had the flu and was doped up on Night Nurse and Carling Black Label
Debut Cure coverage in national music press in NME 3 days earlier (see below) prompted a full house of curious punters
Poor Rob had the flu and was doped up on Night Nurse and Carling Black Label
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
OTD 1978 teenage Cure played Islington's Hope and Anchor giving first quality photos of band onstage
Debut Cure coverage in national music press in NME 3 days earlier (see below) prompted a full house of curious punters
Poor Rob had the flu and was doped up on Night Nurse and Carling Black Label
Debut Cure coverage in national music press in NME 3 days earlier (see below) prompted a full house of curious punters
Poor Rob had the flu and was doped up on Night Nurse and Carling Black Label
4 pints milk bottle split in car boot on way home from Sainsbury's
Being a lesser Cure fan I've decided to listen to this song for the first time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bhb...
Being a lesser Cure fan I've decided to listen to this song for the first time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bhb...
Spilt Milk - The Cure
YouTube video by barty417
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December 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
4 pints milk bottle split in car boot on way home from Sainsbury's
Being a lesser Cure fan I've decided to listen to this song for the first time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bhb...
Being a lesser Cure fan I've decided to listen to this song for the first time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bhb...
If Cure don't play a gig in London in 2026 it will be the first time they will have played more than 3 UK gigs in a year without visiting London
Other years when Cure have gigged in UK but not London
1983 Bath, Bournemouth + Cornwall
1995 Glastonbury Fest
2012 Leeds/Reading
2019 Glasto + Glasgow
Other years when Cure have gigged in UK but not London
1983 Bath, Bournemouth + Cornwall
1995 Glastonbury Fest
2012 Leeds/Reading
2019 Glasto + Glasgow
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If Cure don't play a gig in London in 2026 it will be the first time they will have played more than 3 UK gigs in a year without visiting London
Other years when Cure have gigged in UK but not London
1983 Bath, Bournemouth + Cornwall
1995 Glastonbury Fest
2012 Leeds/Reading
2019 Glasto + Glasgow
Other years when Cure have gigged in UK but not London
1983 Bath, Bournemouth + Cornwall
1995 Glastonbury Fest
2012 Leeds/Reading
2019 Glasto + Glasgow
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8 of 14 Cure albums have been released in a Summer Olympic year
8 of the last 12 Olympic years have been marked by a new Cure album including both held in USA
The next Summer Olympics is to be held in USA
Just sayin'
(If not interested in sport substitute Olympic Year for Leap Year)
8 of the last 12 Olympic years have been marked by a new Cure album including both held in USA
The next Summer Olympics is to be held in USA
Just sayin'
(If not interested in sport substitute Olympic Year for Leap Year)
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Follow Cure Gig Stats for more overengineered infographics and trivial insights concerning Britain's most eccentric post-punk outfit of the last 47ys
8 of 14 Cure albums have been released in a Summer Olympic year
8 of the last 12 Olympic years have been marked by a new Cure album including both held in USA
The next Summer Olympics is to be held in USA
Just sayin'
(If not interested in sport substitute Olympic Year for Leap Year)
8 of the last 12 Olympic years have been marked by a new Cure album including both held in USA
The next Summer Olympics is to be held in USA
Just sayin'
(If not interested in sport substitute Olympic Year for Leap Year)
December 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
8 of 14 Cure albums have been released in a Summer Olympic year
8 of the last 12 Olympic years have been marked by a new Cure album including both held in USA
The next Summer Olympics is to be held in USA
Just sayin'
(If not interested in sport substitute Olympic Year for Leap Year)
8 of the last 12 Olympic years have been marked by a new Cure album including both held in USA
The next Summer Olympics is to be held in USA
Just sayin'
(If not interested in sport substitute Olympic Year for Leap Year)
Since 2000 Cure have been 59% more likely to play 10:15 when the gig is held on a Saturday
10:15 played 40% of Sat gigs vs 25% on other days of the week
Since Reeves joined the Sat uplift factor is more than double, albeit from smaller base: 21% Sat gigs vs 10% on other days of week
10:15 played 40% of Sat gigs vs 25% on other days of the week
Since Reeves joined the Sat uplift factor is more than double, albeit from smaller base: 21% Sat gigs vs 10% on other days of week
@curegigstats.bsky.social already posted the probability of them playing FIIL on a Saturday night
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Since 2000 Cure have been 59% more likely to play 10:15 when the gig is held on a Saturday
10:15 played 40% of Sat gigs vs 25% on other days of the week
Since Reeves joined the Sat uplift factor is more than double, albeit from smaller base: 21% Sat gigs vs 10% on other days of week
10:15 played 40% of Sat gigs vs 25% on other days of the week
Since Reeves joined the Sat uplift factor is more than double, albeit from smaller base: 21% Sat gigs vs 10% on other days of week
40ys ago Head Tour reached final destination en Paris where Glitter cover Do You Wanna Touch Me? was retired after plaguing 29 of final 35 shows that year
Those resenting predictability of modern sets will be horrified to learn of generic 1985 setlists, uniform gig-to-gig occasionally +/- 1or2 songs
Those resenting predictability of modern sets will be horrified to learn of generic 1985 setlists, uniform gig-to-gig occasionally +/- 1or2 songs
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
40ys ago Head Tour reached final destination en Paris where Glitter cover Do You Wanna Touch Me? was retired after plaguing 29 of final 35 shows that year
Those resenting predictability of modern sets will be horrified to learn of generic 1985 setlists, uniform gig-to-gig occasionally +/- 1or2 songs
Those resenting predictability of modern sets will be horrified to learn of generic 1985 setlists, uniform gig-to-gig occasionally +/- 1or2 songs
It's back by popular demand, new and improved
THE CURE TITLE-O-GRAM
THE CURE TITLE-O-GRAM
December 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It's back by popular demand, new and improved
THE CURE TITLE-O-GRAM
THE CURE TITLE-O-GRAM
Reposted by Cure Gig Stats
Cure famously played a Roman amphitheatre for 1986 concert film Cure in Orange but also played other venues of classical antiquity
Theatre Antique d'Orange 1986
Roman 1stC BC
Les Arènes d'Arles OTD 1989
Roman 90AD
Arènes de Fréjus 1986
Roman 1stC AD
Teatro antico di Taormina 2005 Greek
3rdC BC
Theatre Antique d'Orange 1986
Roman 1stC BC
Les Arènes d'Arles OTD 1989
Roman 90AD
Arènes de Fréjus 1986
Roman 1stC AD
Teatro antico di Taormina 2005 Greek
3rdC BC
June 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Cure famously played a Roman amphitheatre for 1986 concert film Cure in Orange but also played other venues of classical antiquity
Theatre Antique d'Orange 1986
Roman 1stC BC
Les Arènes d'Arles OTD 1989
Roman 90AD
Arènes de Fréjus 1986
Roman 1stC AD
Teatro antico di Taormina 2005 Greek
3rdC BC
Theatre Antique d'Orange 1986
Roman 1stC BC
Les Arènes d'Arles OTD 1989
Roman 90AD
Arènes de Fréjus 1986
Roman 1stC AD
Teatro antico di Taormina 2005 Greek
3rdC BC
Most Cure gigging years reached a final terminus in glamourous W London but not Swing Tour where subtopian Birmingham staged show #96 in '96
No setlist surprise or extended encore but emotional gig remembered for playing final outings of WMS relics
This Is A Lie/Bare/Trap/Gone/Strange Attraction
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No setlist surprise or extended encore but emotional gig remembered for playing final outings of WMS relics
This Is A Lie/Bare/Trap/Gone/Strange Attraction
👇
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Most Cure gigging years reached a final terminus in glamourous W London but not Swing Tour where subtopian Birmingham staged show #96 in '96
No setlist surprise or extended encore but emotional gig remembered for playing final outings of WMS relics
This Is A Lie/Bare/Trap/Gone/Strange Attraction
👇
No setlist surprise or extended encore but emotional gig remembered for playing final outings of WMS relics
This Is A Lie/Bare/Trap/Gone/Strange Attraction
👇
Open is the anatomical champion of Cure songs, referencing more body parts than any other
December 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Open is the anatomical champion of Cure songs, referencing more body parts than any other
Today we remember cultural misappropriation The 13th last played OTD 1996
Absurd Latin novelty number 13 a-waited 42 Swing Tour gigs before a-buzzing into sets, even then only bashfully repeated
5th & final concert 13th in Manchester👇 with unique prelude/epilogue in TSDWAY/Catch
But it feels good!
Absurd Latin novelty number 13 a-waited 42 Swing Tour gigs before a-buzzing into sets, even then only bashfully repeated
5th & final concert 13th in Manchester👇 with unique prelude/epilogue in TSDWAY/Catch
But it feels good!
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Today we remember cultural misappropriation The 13th last played OTD 1996
Absurd Latin novelty number 13 a-waited 42 Swing Tour gigs before a-buzzing into sets, even then only bashfully repeated
5th & final concert 13th in Manchester👇 with unique prelude/epilogue in TSDWAY/Catch
But it feels good!
Absurd Latin novelty number 13 a-waited 42 Swing Tour gigs before a-buzzing into sets, even then only bashfully repeated
5th & final concert 13th in Manchester👇 with unique prelude/epilogue in TSDWAY/Catch
But it feels good!
3ys ago Wembley
December 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
3ys ago Wembley
OTD 2008
Second transatlantic trip that year, 4-piece Rock Cure started packing up 4:13 by playing Real Snow White, Scream & Reasons Why for the last time
Hollywood's Troubadour should not be confused with same-named club in Port Talbot where Cure played in 1979 locked up in 1990s as time capsule👇
Second transatlantic trip that year, 4-piece Rock Cure started packing up 4:13 by playing Real Snow White, Scream & Reasons Why for the last time
Hollywood's Troubadour should not be confused with same-named club in Port Talbot where Cure played in 1979 locked up in 1990s as time capsule👇
December 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
OTD 2008
Second transatlantic trip that year, 4-piece Rock Cure started packing up 4:13 by playing Real Snow White, Scream & Reasons Why for the last time
Hollywood's Troubadour should not be confused with same-named club in Port Talbot where Cure played in 1979 locked up in 1990s as time capsule👇
Second transatlantic trip that year, 4-piece Rock Cure started packing up 4:13 by playing Real Snow White, Scream & Reasons Why for the last time
Hollywood's Troubadour should not be confused with same-named club in Port Talbot where Cure played in 1979 locked up in 1990s as time capsule👇
IGLOO UPDATE
Current hypothesis lunaphile Rob has one of these floating moon lights, at time of filming neither floating nor lit
Current hypothesis lunaphile Rob has one of these floating moon lights, at time of filming neither floating nor lit
December 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
IGLOO UPDATE
Current hypothesis lunaphile Rob has one of these floating moon lights, at time of filming neither floating nor lit
Current hypothesis lunaphile Rob has one of these floating moon lights, at time of filming neither floating nor lit
Today we remember Figurehead, last played OTD 2022 Wembley
One of Bob’s favs recurred on tours post-82 but never more than occasionally and low down in rotation rankings
Revived 2022 after 14ys in the cold
Reeves played 167 gigs before bagging Figurehead
Only the second UK Figgy of 21stC👇
One of Bob’s favs recurred on tours post-82 but never more than occasionally and low down in rotation rankings
Revived 2022 after 14ys in the cold
Reeves played 167 gigs before bagging Figurehead
Only the second UK Figgy of 21stC👇
December 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Today we remember Figurehead, last played OTD 2022 Wembley
One of Bob’s favs recurred on tours post-82 but never more than occasionally and low down in rotation rankings
Revived 2022 after 14ys in the cold
Reeves played 167 gigs before bagging Figurehead
Only the second UK Figgy of 21stC👇
One of Bob’s favs recurred on tours post-82 but never more than occasionally and low down in rotation rankings
Revived 2022 after 14ys in the cold
Reeves played 167 gigs before bagging Figurehead
Only the second UK Figgy of 21stC👇
Covid Christmas 5ys ago today Bob filmed a couple of solo sessions from his home studio, closest insight Cure fans have had to life chez les Smith
Not much to go on but I see chaotic tangles of leads, plush rug, curtains firmly drawn, barefoot Rob in stage dress, possible fossil/igloo on L?
Not much to go on but I see chaotic tangles of leads, plush rug, curtains firmly drawn, barefoot Rob in stage dress, possible fossil/igloo on L?
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Covid Christmas 5ys ago today Bob filmed a couple of solo sessions from his home studio, closest insight Cure fans have had to life chez les Smith
Not much to go on but I see chaotic tangles of leads, plush rug, curtains firmly drawn, barefoot Rob in stage dress, possible fossil/igloo on L?
Not much to go on but I see chaotic tangles of leads, plush rug, curtains firmly drawn, barefoot Rob in stage dress, possible fossil/igloo on L?
Sadly missed yesterday's nugget: 2y anniversary of highest altitude Cure gig
2,640 meters (8660 ft) asl in Bogota
World's 3rd highest altitude capital after La Paz & Quito
Pop 8.0m venue capacity 14k
Full Colombian Breakfast
Support from Slowdive
Vid👇 Mike Lord loving life/LatAm crowd participation
2,640 meters (8660 ft) asl in Bogota
World's 3rd highest altitude capital after La Paz & Quito
Pop 8.0m venue capacity 14k
Full Colombian Breakfast
Support from Slowdive
Vid👇 Mike Lord loving life/LatAm crowd participation
December 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Sadly missed yesterday's nugget: 2y anniversary of highest altitude Cure gig
2,640 meters (8660 ft) asl in Bogota
World's 3rd highest altitude capital after La Paz & Quito
Pop 8.0m venue capacity 14k
Full Colombian Breakfast
Support from Slowdive
Vid👇 Mike Lord loving life/LatAm crowd participation
2,640 meters (8660 ft) asl in Bogota
World's 3rd highest altitude capital after La Paz & Quito
Pop 8.0m venue capacity 14k
Full Colombian Breakfast
Support from Slowdive
Vid👇 Mike Lord loving life/LatAm crowd participation
Today we remember Faith, last played OTD 2022 Wembley
Epic miserablism par excellence is a Bob's fav
Faith played recurring bit part on all major tours, most inclusively 44% 1986-90 / 47% 2000
Rudely dumped post Reflections, F revived x11 in 2022 on back of fan campaign
youtu.be/B7Y1vmJrpes?...
Epic miserablism par excellence is a Bob's fav
Faith played recurring bit part on all major tours, most inclusively 44% 1986-90 / 47% 2000
Rudely dumped post Reflections, F revived x11 in 2022 on back of fan campaign
youtu.be/B7Y1vmJrpes?...
The Cure - Faith - OVO Arena Wembley, London, 11/12/22
YouTube video by Automorph
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December 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Today we remember Faith, last played OTD 2022 Wembley
Epic miserablism par excellence is a Bob's fav
Faith played recurring bit part on all major tours, most inclusively 44% 1986-90 / 47% 2000
Rudely dumped post Reflections, F revived x11 in 2022 on back of fan campaign
youtu.be/B7Y1vmJrpes?...
Epic miserablism par excellence is a Bob's fav
Faith played recurring bit part on all major tours, most inclusively 44% 1986-90 / 47% 2000
Rudely dumped post Reflections, F revived x11 in 2022 on back of fan campaign
youtu.be/B7Y1vmJrpes?...
In Your House and Watching Me Fall are the only two Cure songs to juxtapose two Cure song titles in the lyrics
December 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
In Your House and Watching Me Fall are the only two Cure songs to juxtapose two Cure song titles in the lyrics
RIP Ginger sorely missed
Alternative Cure Video #5
Birdmad Girl
#AltCureVid
Carla and her fav chicken Ginger
BMG was entirely abandoned after Top Tour and had a lukewarm revival of just 5 plays in 2013/4
Perry and Boris never played it
Birdmad Girl
#AltCureVid
Carla and her fav chicken Ginger
BMG was entirely abandoned after Top Tour and had a lukewarm revival of just 5 plays in 2013/4
Perry and Boris never played it
December 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
RIP Ginger sorely missed
OTD 1987 Cure closed 61-show 13-country Kissing Tour at Wembley with then-longest gig
Famously climaxed with one-off Slade cover, anniversary of which marks start of festive season for many Cure fans
Fast forward to end to hear Simon’s “It’s Christmas!”
726nd and final Lol gig until Reflections👇
Famously climaxed with one-off Slade cover, anniversary of which marks start of festive season for many Cure fans
Fast forward to end to hear Simon’s “It’s Christmas!”
726nd and final Lol gig until Reflections👇
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
OTD 1987 Cure closed 61-show 13-country Kissing Tour at Wembley with then-longest gig
Famously climaxed with one-off Slade cover, anniversary of which marks start of festive season for many Cure fans
Fast forward to end to hear Simon’s “It’s Christmas!”
726nd and final Lol gig until Reflections👇
Famously climaxed with one-off Slade cover, anniversary of which marks start of festive season for many Cure fans
Fast forward to end to hear Simon’s “It’s Christmas!”
726nd and final Lol gig until Reflections👇
86% of all Cure album tracks contain within the lyrics at least one of the following ten words:
Something
Everything
Nothing
Sometimes
Always
Never
Forever
Sleep
Night
Dream
Something
Everything
Nothing
Sometimes
Always
Never
Forever
Sleep
Night
Dream
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
86% of all Cure album tracks contain within the lyrics at least one of the following ten words:
Something
Everything
Nothing
Sometimes
Always
Never
Forever
Sleep
Night
Dream
Something
Everything
Nothing
Sometimes
Always
Never
Forever
Sleep
Night
Dream