Legendary 80s band announce their first new album in 16 years by putting up poster in local pub

A LEGENDARY 80s stone set person announced their archetypal medium successful 16 years - with a poster successful their section pub.

Fans were stunned to spot the low-key announcement placed successful a framework extracurricular The Railway Inn successful Crawley, West Sussex.

The venue was wherever The Cure played their archetypal gig successful 1978, earlier the radical went connected to merchantability much than 30 cardinal records.

And - 16 years aft their 13th medium 4:13 Dream - The Cure are backmost with Songs of a Lost Word.

The posted simply revealed the EPs sanction and merchandise date, which is November 1.

Crawley is wherever the set was formed much than 3 decades ago.

Founding members Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey and Lol Tolhurst met astatine Notre Dame mediate schoolhouse successful the West Sussex town.

Michael near the set successful 1979 and Lol followed a twelvemonth later.

The radical is presently made up of Robert, Simon Gallup, Roger O'Donnell, Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper and Reeves Gabrels.

Robert addressed the line-up changes during a TV interrogation successful 2002.

He said: "In my ain caput determination person been 5 bands called The Cure that I’m in… The Cure has been an antithetic band.

We volition ne'er shingle the goth tag - I inactive person to tract questions astir being the godfather of goth.

"We screen a breadth of worldly but we’re pigeonholed contempt that. I tin unrecorded with it due to the fact that I cognize that anyone who’s into the set knows there’s somewhat much to it than doom and gloom."

The Cure are known for hits including Lovesong and Lullaby.