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The gig also saw guitarist and keyboardist Perry Bamonte rejoin the band

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The Cure debuted two new songs last night (October 6) as they kicked off their 2022 world tour with a gig in Riga, Latvia.

The iconic indie band performed at the Arena Riga in the city, sharing 25 songs across the evening with the audience.

Among them were two fresh, previously unheard cuts that could feature on their upcoming new album, Songs Of A Lost World . The gig began with one of them, “Alone,” which opened with an expansive soundscape of guitars, keys and drums, with frontman Robert Smith later singing on it: “ This is the end of every song that we sing. ”

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Later, at the end of the main set, The Cure shared another new song in “Endsong.” That track also took on a melancholy form, Smith singing about a life with “ no hopes, no dreams, no love – I don’t belong .”

The show also saw keyboardist and guitarist Perry Bamonte rejoin the band’s touring line-up 17 years after he last performed with them.

The tour will continue tomorrow night (October 8) in Helsinki, Finland, with the dates running until mid-December, when they will wrap up with three nights at London’s OVO Arena Wembley. The full schedule and tickets can be found on The Cure’s official website .

In November, the band will share a deluxe edition of their multi-platinum 1992 album, Wish , to mark its 30th anniversary. It was the band’s ninth studio album and, at the time, became the band’s best-selling album, reaching No.1 in the UK and Mo.2 in the US, where it was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Alternative Music Album category.

Last month (September 24), the band released “Miss Van Gogh (Instrumental Demo)” from the upcoming reissue, which is one of a raft of previously unreleased tracks that will feature on the new edition.

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The Cure’s Arena Riga setlist:

“Alone” “Pictures Of You” “Closedown” “A Night Like This” “Lovesong” “Trust” “Burn” “Fascination Street” “Push” “In Between Days” “Play For Today” “A Forest” “Want” “Shake Dog Shake” “39” “From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea” “Endsong” “Plainsong” “Disintegration” “Lullaby” “Close To Me” “The Walk” “Friday I’m In Love” “Just Like Heaven” “Boys Don’t Cry”

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First Direct Arena, Leeds A devoted multi-generational audience aren’t disappointed as Robert Smith and band double down on desolations old and new

S uccess wears an Eraserhead T-shirt and applies its makeup in the dark with a liberal hand. Many conventional metrics of accomplishment do not apply to the Cure, 44 years in the game and now at the tail-end of a 44-date European tour . Currently an independent unsigned band finalising the release of their 14th studio album, this is their first time in Leeds for a decade – or so reckons crimson-lipped, smudge-eyed singer Robert Smith , the man whose dreams, nightmares, hopelessly romantic nature and peculiarly perky take on nihilism power this British institution. Helipads, velvet ropes, Bond themes: none of these outward signs of validation hold sway in the Cure’s universe.

This is a band who seem to be having their cake and eating it with remarkably few concessions. The Cure have a finished product, their first album of new songs in 14 years to offer to a new label as-is – and a devoted multi-generational audience ready to buy it and fill arenas worldwide.

Has any musician ever felt more secure in their own art as Smith? Decades past any kind of performance anxiety, he chats amiably between his songs of deep alienation, looking exactly as he has always looked, the years adding only a faint air of Miss Havisham to his signature back-combed cobweb of hair. (Multi-instrumentalist Perry Bamonte , back in the fold again, also has an impressive salt-and-pepper candyfloss “do”.) Tonight, Smith has a cold, because someone sneezed on him in Glasgow, he says. But his instantly recognisable vocals remain strong, even under all the reverb.

Quiffed and stripped to a vest, Simon Gallup, the Cure’s other constant, still wears his bass round his ankles like Peter Hook. He climbs up on monitors, ends A Forest with a squall of noise and repeatedly offers his instrument up to the gods, the band member most responsible for showmanship.

You do wish some of this punk-era energy might rub off on the rest of the band. Smith and his revolving group of co-conspirators set up early in Leeds – 8.13 on a Tuesday night – to unfurl great swaths of their back catalogue. The set list is liberally peppered with new works destined for that forthcoming outing, Songs of a Lost World . It’s a “relentless” record Smith has been trailing since roughly 2018. There is one more in the can as well, he has said.

The pace is glacially unhurried, with most songs taking multiple bars of keyboard-and-guitar foreplay to get going. Since 2012, the Cure’s other guitarist has been Reeves Gabrels , for years a mainstay of David Bowie’s bands; sometimes, tonight, a total of three guitars (Smith, Gabrels and Bamonte) beefs out the band’s sound. Superfan Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai once told an interviewer that you needed “strong ankles” to last a Cure gig. But this is excellent fan servicing: long, mutable set lists, and tour T-shirts priced at £20.

The Cure’s regard for passing musical fashion – or what you might loosely call artistic progress – remains heroically scant too. At this juncture, no one is really expecting a Kid A -style swerve; Smith is not about to discover the harp. Rather, the six-piece double down on desolations old and new, with a pop greatest hits set in the second encore.

But first: the news that everything must die, and that we all die alone. “This is the end of every song that we sing,” Smith declares on Alone, the very first track, flagging themes of despair, constancy and isolation that will echo down the set list. A brand new song that ramps up Smith’s signature mournfulness with what sounds like a farewell to all life as we know it, Alone is accompanied by a visual of planet Earth gradually falling away into the distance.

Soon after, some signature guitar tones and organ-like chords signal a shift into a more familiar starry-eyed melancholy, and one of the Cure’s most enduring love songs, Pictures of You . The band’s fluctuating set list has room for all shades of darkness tonight, from the magisterial, lysergic disgust of Shake Dog Shake to The Last Day of Summer , in which everything appears to be terrible and getting worse – and that was back in nice, safe, normal 2000, circa the Bloodflowers LP.

One of the longstanding enigmas central to the Cure’s canon has long been how a man happily married to his childhood sweetheart for so many years could be so riven with romantic angst. (To which the answer is always: we pay these people to be creative.) One of the new tracks the Cure play tonight is And Nothing Is Forever , whose ambivalent title disguises another heartfelt devotional to – presumably – Smith’s beloved.

Lately, it really seems as though loss and finality have been squarely targeting this bard of bleakness. In recent years, Smith has been through many bereavements – both his parents, his elder brother (a key early influence on the younger Smith) and, during Covid, a brace of aunts and uncles .

I Can Never Say Goodbye is explicitly about Smith’s brother, and skewering lyrics such as “I can’t break this dreamer’s sleep however hard I try” leaves the listener in no doubt that Songs of a Lost World will pack a payload of hurt. All these leave-takings have prompted fresh reckonings with despair, from an artist who, over the years, has often wondered in interviews – and, more tangentially, in lyrics – whether he had anything left to say. He has.

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What is the cure's new album called.

In the summer of 2019, Robert Smith claimed that the new album was to be named "Live From The Moon", inspired by the 50th anniversary of the moon landings. However, at the Ivor Novelllo Awards cremony in May 2022 , Smith revealed that the title was now Songs Of A Lost World. The recent live dates have been similarly titled "Shows Of A Lost World".

Does The Cure's Songs Of A Lost World album have a release date?

In that same May 2022 interview, Robert Smith claimed that "We will be playing from October and the new album will be out before then."

However, the October shows came and went without any sign of the LP and it's since been replaced on the release schedules by a 3 0th anniversary deluxe edition of the classic 1992 album Wish , which will arrive on 25th November.

It's pretty safe to say that Songs Of A Lost World will not arrive in 2022 and is more likely to see a 2023 release date. Although with The Cure set to play the UK at the start of December, Robert Smith may still surprise us yet.

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What has Robert Smith said about Songs Of A Lost World?

In August 2019, Smith told the Los Angeles Times: “I keep going back over and redoing them, which is silly. At some point, I have to say that’s it."

He admitted the sound of the album had been affected by family bereavements: “It’s very much on the darker side of the spectrum. I lost my mother and my father and my brother recently, and obviously it had an effect on me.

“It’ll be worth the wait. I think it’s the best thing we’ve done, but then I would say that. A lot of the songs are difficult to sing, and that’s why it’s taken me a while."

In July 2020, keyboard player Roger O'Donnell told Classic Pop magazine : "Four years ago, I said to Robert, 'We have to make one more record. It has to be the most intense, saddest, most dramatic and most emotional record we've ever made, and then we can just walk away from it.' He agreed. Listening to the demos, it is that record. I think everybody will be happy with it.

"The problem is, when you've got a back catalogue like The Cure, it's a lot to live up to. Robert has said, 'If The Cure say any more, it had better be important and it had better be f***ing good'. It is, it's going to be an amazing record. I just suggest a little patience."

Speaking to The Sunday Times in June 2021 , Smith claimed that this may be the very last Cure album: “The new stuff is very emotional. It’s 10 years of life distilled into a couple of hours of intense stuff. I can’t think we’ll ever do anything else. I definitely can’t do this again.”

The same month, S mith also repeated the claim to Apple Music 1 that the band had recorded enough songs for two albums: "One of them’s very, very doom and gloom and the other one isn’t."

Are The Cure touring in 2022?

The Cure started a major European tour in October 2022, which continued through Spain, France, Germany and Belgium in November and comes to the UK and Ireland in December:

The Cure UK and Ireland Tour Dates 2022

• 1st December 2022: 3Arena, Dublin
• 2nd December 2022: SSE Arena, Belfast
• 4th December 2022: OVO Hydro Arena, Glasgow
• 6th December 2022: First Direct Arena, Leeds
• 7th December 2022: Utilita Arena, Birmingham
• 8th December 2022: Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff
• 11th December 2022: OVO Arena, Wembley
• 12th December 2022: OVO Arena, Wembley
• 13th December 2022: OVO Arena, Wembley

See www.thecure.com for full tour and ticket details

Have The Cure played any new songs from the album?

The autumn of 2022 saw The Cure head out on a European tour and the first show in Latvia on 6th October saw the debut of the new tracks Alone and Endsong .

The Cure - Alone (Live Concert Arena Riga 6.10.2022)

The Cure - Endsong (2022-10-06 Riga)

Four days later, in Stockholm, fans were treated to another new song, And Nothing Is Forever.

The Cure - And Nothing Is Forever (World Premiere) @ Avicii Arena Stockholm October 10 2022

On 20th October in Kraków, Poland, the band debuted I Can Never Say Goodbye at the start of the first encore. Smith explained that it was about his brother, Richard, who had died recently and, according to Robert, had lived in Poland for a number of years. It was Richard's participation in a local collective with the unlikely name of The Crawley Goat Band that really sparked Robert's interest in performing music.

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At a show in Milan on 4th November, there was the world premiere of A Fragile Thing .

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When did The Cure last release an album?

The last official Cure studio album was 4:13 Dream, issued in October 2008. It was the band's 13th LP (hence the name), meaning it will be a full 15 years between that release and Songs Of A Lost World.

The Cure's studio album discography to date has been:

• Three Imaginary Boys (11th May 1979)
• Seventeen Seconds (18th April 1980)
• Faith (18th April 1981)
• Pornography (4th May 1982)
• The Top (4th May 1984)
• The Head On The Door (30th August 1985)
• Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (26th May 1987)
• Disintegration (2nd May 1989)
• Wish (21st April 1992)
• Wild Mood Swings (6th May 1996)
• Bloodflowers (14th February 2000)
• The Cure (28th June 2004)
• 4:13 Dream (27th October 2008)

Are The Cure touring in 2023?

No tour dates for The Cure have been confirmed for 2023, but it is expected that they will perform in North America for the first time in four years and there may even be some festival appearances if their recent schedule is anything to go by - in the summer of 2019, The Cure played Glastonbury, Werchter, EXIT, Roskilde and even Fuji Rock in Japan.

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Robert Smith gives us the lowdown on 'Songs Of A Lost World', another album in the works, their upcoming tour, and his relationship with bassist Simon Gallup

The Cure have spoken to NME about progress on their long-awaited new album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, as well as what to expect from their upcoming tour.

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Having long teased  the band’s long-awaited “merciless” new record – after telling us that two new albums were on the way back at the last NME Awards back in 2020 – Smith revealed to NME earlier this year that one of them would be “real very soon ” and would be called ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.

Then today (Thursday May 19), after he and bandmate and songwriting partner Simon Gallup picked up the Icon Award at the Ivor Novellos , Smith again gave reassurance that the album was on the way and would be out before their upcoming winter tour.

“We will be releasing a new album,” Smith told NME . “I get fed up of saying this now! We will be playing from October and the new album will be out before then. We walked on [stage at the Ivors today] to a bit of new music, actually. Hopefully no one recorded it!”

At this point, Shakira interrupted the interview to shake hands with “her favourite band of all time”, before Gallup replied: “It is a surreal day”.

Back to ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, Smith then confirmed that “it’s almost finished”.

“Reeves [Gabrels] our guitar player has come over from America for the day just to finish a couple of solos, I’ve got to finish a couple of vocals,” he revealed. “Essentially it’s a 12 track album. It’s there, it’s kind of half-mixed and half-finished. It’s a weird thing. It’s kind of evolved over the last two years. It hasn’t always been a good thing to have been left alone with it. You pick at it, like picking at seams, and everything falls apart.

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Smith continued: “It’ll be worth the wait. I think it’s the best thing we’ve done, but then I would say that. I’m not doing an Oasis when I say that, ‘IT’S THE BEST FOOKIN’ ALBUM’. A lot of the songs are difficult to sing, and that’s why it’s taken me a while.”

Discussing the themes and character of the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s ‘ 4:13 Dream ‘, Smith said that the album “doesn’t have very much light on it” and that it sounds “more like ‘Disintegration’ than ‘Head On The Door’.”

“It’s pretty relentless, which will appeal to the hardcore of our audience, but I don’t think we’ll be getting any Number One singles off it or anything like that!” he laughed. “It’s been quite harrowing, like it has for everyone else.

“I’ve been more privileged than most, but lockdown and COVID has affected me in as much as I’ve lost an entire generation of aunts and uncles in under a year. It’s things like that which have informed the way I’ve been with the record.”

Smith added: “Essentially we recorded two albums in 2019. I’ve been trying to finish two at the same time, which is pretty much impossible. One is nearly ready to go.”

As for the mysterious second record that they’ve been working on, Smith said Cure fans would likely have to wait a little longer to hear that.

“While there are a handful of really good songs, I’ve kind of fallen out of love with others so we’re going to have to record another four or five perhaps,” he said. “If it gets finished, it’s very upbeat. It’s the flip-side to the first one.

“I can’t wait to sing it, actually. I feel quite distraught singing the same songs over and over again.”

Speaking of accepting their Ivor Icon Award with Gallup, with whom he has been part of The Cure’s line-up since 1978 and 1979 respectively, Smith explained what the prize meant and why they songwriting collaboration worked.

“It is a strange one. I was thinking about it when we were walking up to collect the award – it felt strange to be leaving the other three at the table,” he said. “We got an NME Award a couple of years back for Best Festival Headliner . That meant a lot because we don’t often get recognised for that side of what we do live, but this is completely different.

“For me, it’s really lovely that Simon is up there with me. It’s criminal really, because he’s been there all the time.”

As for how they work together when penning material, he said: “With Simon, we send demos back and forth. Because I write the words, I decide what songs are going to progress and which ones aren’t. Often it’s the case that with hindsight I pick the wrong songs.

“I’ve just finished doing the ‘Wish’ remaster, and there are so many of Simon’s demos that never got past the demo stage and remained instrumental – purely because I couldn’t think of any words for them. That’s really sad, because some of them were really great!

“They’re all coming out as instrumentals, and I think there are about 36 unreleased songs coming out on the package. That’s the same every time we do anything. There’s always loads of music, and a lot of it is Simon’s. I just run out of words!”

Fans will get the chance to hear new material live at The Cure’s upcoming 2022 UK and European tour. 

Asked if the gigs will be their legendary usual three hours plus in length, he replied: “Not if my band has anything to do with it! It will be slightly shorter than in the past, if I’m honest. It will be about two and a quarter hours, I think. That’s short!

“There will be a smattering of new stuff as we play through. Essentially the strength of the band live is the catalogue and the songs that we’ve got so it would be pretty dumb to play an hour of new music. Although some people would prefer us to do that!”

Smith added: “The size of the venues we’re playing, you need to engage everyone in the venue. You can’t just concentrate on the handful of people down the front. If it happens it’ll be great…that’s if Europe exists by the time we start…”

Last August,  Gallup announced that he had left The Cure . However, in October, he told a fan on social media that he was still a member of the band . The bassist appeared on stage with Smith at the Ivors tonight, although he did not make an acceptance speech.

Smith’s last public appearances were for the BandLab NME Awards 2022 – where he  picked up the Best Song In The UK Award for his Chvrches collaboration ‘How Not To Drown’ and after performed the track together live for the first time along with a cover of The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven ‘ – and then again for a repeat performance of the songs with Chvrches at their Brixton Academy headline gig a week later .

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The Cure Kick Off First North American Tour in 7 Years: Video + Setlist

The 29-song set included new material and the first performance of "A Thousand Hours" in 36 years

The Cure kicked off their first North American tour in seven years with a show at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on Wednesday.

The Robert Smith-led band delivered a 29-song setlist that included several new songs presumably taken from their long-teased new album, Songs of a Lost World , including “Alone,” “And Nothing Is Forever,” “A Fragile Thing,” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye.” During the encore The Cure dusted off “A Thousand Hours,” from Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss , and “Six Different Ways” from The Head on the Door (neither song had been played since 1987).

See the evening’s full 29-song setlist and fan-captured performance footage below.

The  North American leg of the “Songs of a Lost World Tour” runs through early July. The tour’s ticket on-sale has been quite the ordeal , but there are  limited quantities  still available via  Ticketmaster .

The Cure Setlist:

Alone Pictures of You A Night Like This Lovesong And Nothing Is Forever The Last Day of Summer A Fragile Thing Cold Burn Fascination Street Push Play for Today Shake Dog Shake From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea Endsong

Encore: I Can Never Say Goodbye Want A Thousand Hours (First time live since 1987) At Night A Forest

Encore #2: Lullaby Six Different Ways (first performance since 1987) The Walk Friday I’m in Love Doing the Unstuck Close to Me In Between Days Just Like Heaven Boys Don’t Cry

The Cure 2023 Tour Dates:

05/12 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center 05/13 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion 05/14 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center 05/16 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater 05/18 – Phoenix, AZ @ Desert Diamond Arena 05/20 – San Diego, CA @ NICU Amphitheatre 05/21 – San Diego, CA @ NICU Amphitheatre 05/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl 05/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl 05/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl 05/27 – San Francisco, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre 05/29 – San Francisco, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre 05/31 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center 06/01 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena 06/02 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena 06/04 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Vivint Smart Home Arena 06/06 – Denver, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre 06/08 – Minneapolis St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center 06/10 – Chicago, IL @ United Center 06/11 – Cleveland, OH @ Blossom Music Center 06/13 – Detroit, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre 06/14 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage 06/16 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre 06/17 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre 06/18 – Boston, MA @ Xfinity Center 06/20 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden 06/21 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden 06/22 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden 06/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center 06/25 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion 06/27 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena 06/28 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena 06/29 – Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena 07/01 – Miami, FL @ Miami-Dade Arena

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New 2022 European Tour announced

THE CURE HAVE JUST ANNOUNCED DETAILS OF A 44 DATE EUROPEAN TOUR TAKING IN 22 COUNTRIES AT THE END OF 2022 WITH THE TWILIGHT SAD SUPPORTING ON ALL DATES.

TICKETS FOR ALL SHOWS GO ON GENERAL SALE LATER THIS WEEK AND YOU CAN FIND TICKET DEAILS AT THECURE.COM/SHOWS/

THE FULL LIST OF TOUR DATES:

06 – RIGA Arena 08 – HELSINKI Hartwall Arena 10 – STOCKHOLM Avicii Arena 12 – OSLO Spektrum 13 – GOTHENBURG Scandinavium 14 – COPENHAGEN Royal Arena 16 – HAMBURG Barclays Arena 17 – LEIPZIG Quarterback Immobilien Arena 18 – BERLIN Mercedes Benz Arena 20 – KRAKOW Tauron Arena 21 – LODZ Atlas Arena 23 – VIENNA Marx Halle 24 – PRAGUE O2 Arena 26 – BUDAPEST Arena 27 – ZAGREB Arena 29 – MUNICH Olympiahalle 31 – BOLOGNA Unipol Arena

01 – FIRENZE Mandela Forum 03 – PADOVA Kioene Arena 04 – MILAN Forum 06 – GENEVA Arena 07 – LYON Halle Tony Garnier 08 – MONTPELLIER Sud De France Arena 10 – BARCELONA Palau Sant Jordi 11 – MADRID WiZink Center 13 – TOULOUSE Zenith 14 – BORDEAUX Arkea Arena 15 – NANTES Zenith 17 – FRANKFURT Festhalle 18 – STRASBOURG Zenith 19 – BASEL St Jakobshalle 21 – STUTTGART Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle 22 – KOLN Lanxess Arena 23 – ANTWERP Sportpaleis 25 – AMSTERDAM Ziggo Dome 27 – LIEVIN Stade 28 – PARIS Accor Arena

01 – DUBLIN 3Arena 02 – BELFAST SSE Arena 04 – GLASGOW OVO Hydro 06 – LEEDS First Direct Arena 07 – BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena 08 – CARDIFF Motorpoint Arena 11 – WEMBLEY OVO Arena 12 – WEMBLEY OVO Arena (Added due to demand) 13 – WEMBLEY OVO Arena (Added due to demand)

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Following their 2022 European concerts, The Cure are excited to announce the “Songs of a Lost World Tour” will be heading to North America in May, June and July, with The Twilight Sad opening at all shows. The 30-date run will stop at Pine Knob Music Theatre on Tuesday, June 13 at 7 p.m. Pine Knob Music Theatre is presented by Proud Partners United Wholesale Mortgage, Trinity Health and Ally.

To give fans the best chance to buy tickets at face value, the artist has requested tickets to this event be mobile only and restricted from transfer. If you purchase a ticket and can’t attend, you can list your ticket for sale at the price you paid on our Face Value Ticket Exchange . There will be no additional fees charged to Exchange users for buying or selling tickets on the Exchange.