The Cure’s performance Thursday will be the 10th and final stop on the Canadian leg of the band’s 8424 Tour, a title that references the 40-year run by the group.
Tickets: Sold out
It was a solid performance, 11 songs deep and full of the trademark push-pull interplay between singer Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy. But the locale was off-brand for the band, given their mystical, almost noirish sensibilities — which have always been better-suited to indoor venues, preferably a smoke-filled roadhouse.
“We’re in a renaissance,” the 62-year-old Astbury said, during a recent interview with Italy’s Linea Rock radio station. “It’s like we set the clock. Nobody told us we could do that. That’s not in many bands’ playbooks.” The sheer originality of their sound has served them well over the course of their career. “There’s songs that resonate because of the essence of the song, and I feel that we play in the light and in the dark as a group,” Astbury said. “Sometimes we’re playing songs that are very popular, sometimes we’re playing songs that people don’t know. But the visceral component, the emotional component is the spirit that drives the band, the chemistry of these songs.
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