Always active on social networks, robert smith wrote a tweet Wednesday night in which he reiterated his intention to play with The cure in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico.
The text reads: “2023 in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay… but closing contracts takes a little longer than I thought… I’ll provide more details when you exist… We are moving forward, X.”
Tour dates
For now, the confirmed shows are in cities across the United States, starting May 10 in New Orleans and ending July 1 in Miami.
Meanwhile they will play Houston, Dallas, Austin, Albuquerque, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Columbia, Atlanta and Tampa.
Also, during that time there will be recitals in Canada: Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.
It would be logical to assume that the band will take a short break and could hit the road in September.
The online controversy
Before the announcement of the band’s new tour, Spectacles of a lost world (Samples of a Lost World), which begins in May in the United States, Cure fans have flocked to Ticketmaster’s digital ticket booths and they were met with some unpleasant news.
One of these has to do with ticket prices, which for Robert Smith are fair, and the second, more serious, is related to the “burdens” that the ticketing company places on the pockets of the buyers.
These extra charges, which in Argentina are known as “service fees”, make it more expensive to access any show and in the case of The Cure have multiplied dramatically.
Robert Smith himself, and with Twitter as a weapon, did the job. On purpose. He made an announcement as an oversight of a tour of “Mexico and seven of the twelve sovereign states of South America.” This sparked the illusion of his Argentine fans.
Returning to the forefront, Smith specified that the price of the tickets is agreed with the artist (or rather, with his management), but that the issue of charges exceeds him and he can do nothing, since it is the power of the vending machine of tickets, Ticketmaster in this case.
And since he could do nothing, he vented his fury on Twitter, explaining that it hurt him to find out about the additional costs applied by Ticketmaster. In the company they claimed to have done it to avoid resale, but they only managed to increase the price of the ticket so much that the expenses exceeded its value.
Source: Clarin
