The Cure are on their first North American tour since 2016 and while their setlists have been heavy on the hits, Robert Smith & co. have been slipping in some surprises along the way. This week - at the Hollywood Bowl - the band debuted a ’90s outtake called “Another Happy Birthday,” which has only existed in instrumental demo form before this.
In an old MTV News interview with Smith from 1997, he mentioned “Another Happy Birthday” and said it was “unlike anything the Cure have done before” and that “it’s not a verse-chorus-verse type of song, but more fluid.”