Frequency Festival, the yearly festival promoted by Skalar Entertainment GmbH, has come to an end for its 2012 edition. Headliners of the closing day, August 18, at the Space Stage, were The Cure.

The infamous alternative rock band from England entertained fans for about two and a half hours, covering its lenghty discography; the band performed some of its biggest hits, such as ‘Friday I’m In Love,’ and many of the tracks from in their 1992 album ‘Wish.’ A long set considering the average at this festival, where most of the bands played a set of something between one hour and one and a half.

Not enough for The Cure though, who wanted to play more. Frontman Robert Smith pointed out the lack of time more than once during the performance, excusing himself to the audience for not talking much in between of the songs, as there was too little time.

The Cure entered the stage in a cloud of smoke and blue lights. There were no elaborate choreography to accompany the show, only the talent of the musicians leading the night. The level of precision in execution during the performance was astonishing.  All the instruments were played in such a smooth and harmonic way that resulted in a hypnotic melody cuddled by Robert Smiths’ perfectly pitched voice.

All of the band’s components were able to express in style, their passion for both the music and the instruments. Furthermore the interactions between the band members, although never overemphasized, showed the pure pleasure they took in performing.

The crowd responded well; people from all around Europe and the rest of the world came solely for the enjoyment of The Cure’s performance. The attendees seemed completely ravished by the band’s performance, with front man Robert Smith at the center of the stage. Here is a performer with such charisma, so much persona, accompanied by his theatrical way of expressing the songs, that it gave an additional touch of greatness to an already beautiful performance. He mimed some of the song lyrics and created delicate movements along with the rhythm, all in a very humble way.

The evening ended in a very classy and captivating act which took the music to its highest point of realization. The Cure left the stage after something like two hours of show and then came back for an encore when called by the crowd. They played three more songs without consideration to the fact that the closing time of the festival had already passed. They concluded the night with a happy audience dancing and singing along to the notorious ‘Boys Don’t Cry,’ with an eager Robert Smith saying at the end “We would like to play more, but we can’t. Thank you very much.”

Image Courtesy of  The Cure

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Legendary English rock band The Cure will thrill fans this year by headlining a series of major European festivals during the summer. The band returned to the live performance scene last year with a series of “Reflections” concerts, where they performed a long set, going through the first three album of the band’s career.

At the end of the “Reflections” New York performance in November last year, frontman Robert Smith announced their plan of an upcoming tour for 2012.

The band kept the promise, and The Cure recently confirmed on their website a list of European festivals they will be performing at. The band’s announcements will coincide with the festivals’ sites. The dates are only an introduction to the band’s activity for this summer; at the bottom of the list, The Cure website page reads “LOTS MORE TO COME…”

The already confirmed festivals to be headlined by the band, as of January 24, are:

• Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, Holland – May 26
• Primavera Sound 2012, Barcelona, Spain – May 30-June 3
• Hultsfred Festival, Hultsfred, Sweden – June 14-16
• Hurricane Festival, Scheeßel, Germany – June 22-24
• Southside Festival, Tuttlingen, Germany – June 22-24
• Rock Werchter, Belgium - 28 June
• Les Eurockéennes, Malsaucy, France – June 29-July 1
• Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark – July 5-8
• Heineken Jammin’, Venice, Italy – July 7
• Rock in Roma, Rome, Italy – July 9
• Bilbao BBK Live, Bilbao, Spain – July 12-14
• Optimus Alive, Oeiras, Portugal – July 14

So far there is no confirmation for any festival in their motherland, England, as well as no mention of whether the band will come back to perform in the U.S. The band is currently working on a new album, although no indication of release date has been given.

Meanwhile, 2012 will most likely see the release of a deluxe re-issue of the album “Wish” to mark the twentieth anniversary of the record. Though no official statement about the re-release has been given, speculations are fueled by reading the band bio on the official website of The Cure where it states: “The Cure have been re-issuing re-mastered versions of their early albums since 2003, with 1992′s ‘Wish’ (the album that carries the single ‘Friday I’m In Love’) scheduled for the ‘deluxe re-release’ treatment in 2012.”

Furthermore, in celebration of Record Store Day next April, a 7-inch vinyl of “Friday I’m In Love,” the 20-year-old hit single, will be released in the UK to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The release of the single is part of the “Secret 7-inch” project; a project combining music and art. Seven bands and recording artists, including The Cure, will release one of their singles as a 7-inch vinyl and fans and creatives are invited to design sleeves for those singles.

The sleeves will be displayed at the Idea Generation Gallery in London next April, in an exhibition which will run for the entire week leading to Record Store Day on the 21st of said month. On this day, all the vinyls will be available for purchasing, with the buyers not having knowledge of which sleeve, nor which single, they will be buying.

Fans of The Cure have been invited by the band to submit their artworks for the project, and 45 winners will soon be selected.

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