The Cure announced to headline EXIT Festival

After they sold out Hyde Park for 65,000 music fans this year, The Cure are set to perform one of the most anticipated tours of 2019.

They will be headlining some of the biggest European music festivals to celebrate 40 years of the band’s outstanding work. Leader of this iconic group, Robert Smith has personally picked the renowned EXIT Festival, voted twice as the Best Major European Festival in the last five years, as one of their dates, and The Cure’s first appearance in Serbia is scheduled for the festival’s opening on July 4t.

This already being a tour of a few carefully selected events, it’s expected that the tickets for their shows will be the most in-demand of 2019. Such was the case just recently in Ireland, where tickets for their Malahide Castle festival show were sold out in a matter of hours.

The Cure are the first act confirmed for EXIT festival, that will take place at the 18th century Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia from 4th to 7th July 2019.

Emerged from the massive student protest back in 2000, each year, EXIT showcases most diverse music program – from rock to punk, hip-hop, and best electronic music. The acclaimed Serbian festival boasts a very diverse lineup with 40+ stages and zones in moats, trenches and even tunnels, while it has been headlined so far by The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Guns’N’Roses, Sex Pistols, Grace Jones, David Guetta, Migos, Snoop Dogg, Arcade Fire, Fever Ray, Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Nina Kraviz and Paul Kalkbrenner, to name but a few.