The Cure Announce Festival Tour With Interpol, Rapture, Mogwai, & more

The Curiosa Festival 2004 will feature the Cure headlining a bill that also includes three bands plainly influenced by Robert Smith and company: Interpol, the Rapture and Mogwai.

A second stage will also be part of the traveling road show, with Muse, Thursday, Cursive, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Cooper Temple Clause, AFI and Head Automatica rotating as performers.

Dates for the Curiosa Festival 2004, according to a band spokesperson:

July 24th, 2004 - West Palm Beach, FL (Sound Advice Amphitheatre)
July 25th, 2004 - Tampa, FL (Tampa Bay Amphitheatre)
July 28th, 2004 - Nashville, TN (Starwood Amphitheatre)
July 29th, 2004 - Atlanta, GA (HiFi Buys Amphitheatre)
July 31st, 2004 - New York, NY (Jones Beach? Randalls Island?)
August 1st, 2004 - Camden, NJ (Tweeter Center at the Waterfront)
August 3rd, 2004 - Cincinnati, OH (Riverbend Music Center)
August 4th, 2004 - Cleveland, OH (Blossom Music Center)
August 7th, 2004 - Boston, MA (Tweeter Center)
August 11th, 2004 - Detroit, MI (DTE Energy Music Theatre)
August 12th, 2004 - Chicago, IL (Tweeter Center)
August 14th, 2004 - Dallas, TX (Smirnoff Music Centre)
August 15th, 2004 - Woodlands, TX (C.W. Mitchell Pavilion)
August 17th, 2004 - Denver, CO (Coors Amphitheatre)
August 18th, 2004 - Salt Lake City, UT (USANA Amphitheatre)
August 27, 2004 - Los Angeles, CA

Rumored:

August 6th, 2004 - Washington, D.C.
August 8th, 2004 - Toronto, Canada (Molson Amphitheatre)
August ?, 2004 - Irvine, CA (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater?)
August ?, 2004 - Irvine, CA (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater?)
August ?, 2004 - San Francisco/San Jose, CA
August ?, 2004 - Sacramento, CA (Sleep Train Amphitheatre?)
August 23rd or 24th, 2004 - Vancouver, WA (Clark County Amphitheater?)
August 25th, 2004 - San Diego, CA (Coors Amphitheatre?)
August 28th, 2004 - Phoenix, AZ (Cricket Pavilion?)
August ?, 2004 - Las Vegas, NV
August ? , 2004 - Holmdel, NJ (PNC Bank Arts Center?)