The Cure have announced that Simon Gallup’s son, Eden Gallup, will replace him on tour as he is “not well enough to play”.
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Robert Smith and company. are touring the UK and Europe and are currently playing three shows in Berlin. However, at the first concert in the city’s Wulheide on Friday (July 10), fans noticed Gallup’s absence, with his son Eden taking his place.
The band dedicated “Lullaby,” the first song of the encore, to their longtime bassist and later took to Instagram to explain his absence.
“Shortly before the first of our three shows yesterday in Berlin at Wulheide, Simon became ill,” Smith wrote. “His son Eden has stepped aside to save the show. Unfortunately Simon is still not well enough to play, so Eden will be filling the bass hole again tonight.”
“We hope you’ll join us in wishing Simon a speedy recovery – And thank you Eden! – Go ahead,” he concluded.
Last month, Robert Smith revealed that The Cure had completed work on a follow-up to 2024’s Songs For A Lost World, and were also working on another “pop” album. Smith recently teamed up with Olivia Rodrigo for the song “What’s Wrong with Me?” It comes after Smith said he “spent a couple of memorable nights in the studio” with Rodrigo earlier this year following his headline appearance at Glastonbury 2025.
“I can’t believe this song exists with the person it exists with,” Rodrigo said of the collaboration. “I’m just in seventh heaven (…) I feel like I’m going to cry. I can’t believe that this happened in the real world and not just a figment of my imagination.”
Smith also appears on The Rolling Stones’ upcoming album Foreign Tongues, playing guitar on “Divine Intervention” and providing synthesizer and backing vocals on “Never Wanna Lose You.”
In a five-star review of Songs of the Lost World NME concluded: “Merciless? Yes, but in the dark there’s always enough soul and richness of sound to keep you hooked and put these songs next to The Cure’s best.”
“The frontman has suggested that there might be two more records at some point, but ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ feels like enough of a wait for us to endure, simply because it’s perhaps the most personal album of Smith’s career. Mortality may loom, but there’s color in the black and the flowers on the grave.”