THE Cure are coming to Glasgow next August for their first Scottish gig in 27 years.

Melancholic superstar Robert Smith and his goth rock legends will play the city’s Bellahouston Park as part of DF Concert's Summer Sessions festival.

Tickets go on sale this Friday for the show on August 16, 2019 and they’ll likely go quickly – the band’s concert in Dublin sold out in less than two hours.

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Support comes from three of Smith’s favourite bands, the Twilight Sad, Mogwai, and the Joy Formidable.

The Cure’s last gig in Scotland was in 1992 when they played the Barrowlands, touring off the back of their tenth studio album Wish, which featured hit single Friday I'm in Love.

Last month the band, who celebrated their 40th anniversary this year, announced that they would be heading out on the road, “headlining around 20 festivals next summer — mostly in Europe.”

Smith also recently booked studio time for The Cure, hinting at a new album, their first since 2008's 4:13 dream.

“I’ve suddenly fallen in love with the idea of writing new songs,” Smith told BBC 6 Music in an interview back in April.

The Cure’s last new recording came in the form of a cover of The Beatles’ Hello Goodbye, which was released on a Paul McCartney tribute album in 2014.

Earlier this year, The Cure headlined London’s Meltdown Festival, which Smith himself curated, and a massive one-day event at London’s Hyde Park.

And fans are likely to get their money’s worth when they come to Bellahouston. The Cure are renowned for epic, multi-encore shows.

Six years ago, in Mexico City, as a 53rd-birthday treat, Smith tried to break Bruce Springsteen’s record of 4hr 6min, but miscalculated and fell three minutes short.

“I was a bit crushed,” he told The Guardian, “because we could have honestly kept going for another half an hour.”