Just Like Heaven: Inside The Cure’s European tour
Gordon Masson speaks to the team that pulled off the band's biggest-ever outing on the continent while in the midst of a global pandemic
Feature By Gordon Masson | 12 December 2022
Having entertained millions of people on their 2019 festivals tour, a headline outing the following year was very much on the cards for The Cure, before the pandemic halted every act with such ambitions.
But determined to reconnect with fans following the enforced lay-off, the band are currently in the midst of their biggest-ever European tour.
With most dates already sold out weeks in advance, bar some last-minute production holds and restricted-view tickets, the tour is an unmitigated success. But the planning involved to get the band back out on the road has been gruelling, with agent Martin Hopewell confessing it has been the hardest tour he has worked on in his 50-year career.
“Robert Smith and I started talking about this tour not long after…
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