The Treatment have introduced a large headline present in Cardiff for summer season 2026.
The live performance, at Blackweir Fields on Wednesday 24 June, will likely be one in all The Treatment’s first UK reveals for the reason that launch of their No.1 album Songs Of A Misplaced World. They are going to then play beforehand introduced reveals in Dublin, Belfast, Manchester and Edinburgh, alongside a headline set on the Isle of Wight Pageant in summer season 2026.
Particular visitors in Cardiff will likely be The Twilight Unhappy and The Pleasure Formidable, bands personally chosen by frontman Robert Smith.
The 2019 Rock & Roll Corridor of Famers have had 13 members over 47 years. The 2026 lineup will characteristic: Robert Smith (vocals & guitars), Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O’Donnell (keyboards), and Reeves Gabrels (guitars).
The band final performed the Welsh capital in December 2022, delighting followers at a sold-out Cardiff Worldwide Area throughout their mammoth 44-date Misplaced World European Tour. In its five-star evaluate, Basic Pop mentioned: “Each band and followers soak in every luxurious second of the night’s set, which encompasses each shade of The Treatment’s wealthy spectrum. ‘I hope my voice holds up,’ the singer modestly admits, ‘but when it doesn’t, I do know you’ll know all of the phrases’. Given the joyous rapture that greets the likes of Photos Of You, Lovesong, Lullaby, A Evening Like This, Push, Shut To Me and In Between Days, from two of the band’s most celebrated releases, 1989’s Disintegration and 1985’s The Head On The Door, one suspects he may very well be proper. Not that Smith want be involved, regardless of sickness or tour fatigue, his impassioned vocals nonetheless soar over these timeless melodies.
“It’s a night of contrasts which sees the glacial likes of A Forest and Play For As we speak from 1980’s spiky sophomore Seventeen Seconds completely complement the multi-tonal lushness of From The Edge Of The Deep Inexperienced Sea and Belief from 1992’s Want. Whereas favourites akin to Religion, A Unusual Day, The Final Day Of Summer time and a belting Burn, function highlights in an already epic setlist, The Treatment nonetheless have a ‘better of’ encore hidden up their collective sleeves. Having already handed the two-hour mark, they then unveil the likes of The Stroll, Friday I’m In Love, Simply Like Heaven and Boys Don’t Cry throughout a technicolour sign-off to at least one spectacular present. Let’s hope that we received’t have to attend too lengthy for extra…”
