{"id":651934,"date":"2026-06-22T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651934\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:34:12","slug":"the-cure-brings-the-isle-of-wight-festival-2026-to-a-close-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651934\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cure brings the Isle of Wight Festival 2026 to a close in style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The rock band, formed in 1976, is still graced by the familiar beautiful vocals of singer-guitarist Robert Smith, clearly emotional at the end of more than two hours and signing off with &#8220;See you again&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Scroll through our photos above\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Emerging from post\u2011punk, The Cure became known for dark, atmospheric records and helped define gothic rock, before spending 50 years being highly influential and ground-breaking with their distinctive music.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their set was hit-laden, including Just Like Heaven, Lovesong, Friday I\u2019m in Love, and The Lovecats, finishing with Why Can&#8217;t I Be You.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/> (Image: Paul Blackley)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A highlight was A Forest with atmospheric green light show and irrestible beat.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Smith remains a thoroughly captivating frontman and has a line-up of brilliant musicians, making the show a feast for the senses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/> (Image: County Press)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Cure played Bestival before but never the Isle of Wight Festival, so fans had had a long wait to see them at Seaclose.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They were not left disappointed &#8211; it was a truly epic show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rock band, formed in 1976, is still graced by the familiar beautiful vocals of singer-guitarist Robert Smith,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}