The Cure, Live on BBC Radio 6 Music (2024)

This hour-long performance provides ample proof that even after five decades, The Cure are still an incredible live act.

Days before releasing last year’s Songs of a Lost World on November 1, The Cure ventured into the BBC studios to record an intimate live session that featured songs from their new album as well as several classics like “Plainsong,” “A Forest,” and best of all, “Last Dance” — one of my all-time favorite Cure songs. Here’s the full setlist:

  1. Plainsong
  2. Last Dance
  3. I Can Never Say Goodbye
  4. Burn
  5. And Nothing Is Forever
  6. At Night
  7. A Forest
  8. All I Ever Am
  9. Prayers For Rain
  10. Disintegration

The Cure’s albums have always been richly layered affairs, which would lead one to think that they’re primarily a studio band. But this hour-long performance provides ample proof that even after five decades, The Cure are still an incredible live act.

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