On September 11, 1996, Robert Smith and The Cure brought the Wild Mood Swings tour to the Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, playing a sprawling set to a devoted Capital Region crowd. The band was more than a decade into its run as goth-pop’s most enduring institution, mixing new material like “Mint Car” with deep-catalog staples from “Disintegration” and “The Head on the Door” — the songs that made them arena-level royalty in the first place. We’ve still got the ticket stub from this exact night in the archive, a small paper reminder of just how far The Cure’s cult had grown by 1996.
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