{"id":2442338,"date":"2019-03-30T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=815601"},"modified":"2019-03-30T00:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T06:00:56","slug":"the-cures-robert-smith-on-rock-hall-induction-and-f-cking-great-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-cures-robert-smith-on-rock-hall-induction-and-f-cking-great-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cure\u2019s Robert Smith on Rock Hall Induction and \u2018F-cking Great\u2019 New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When the Cure<\/a>\u2019s Robert Smith took the stage during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> induction ceremony at Barclays Center on Friday, he kept things succinct. \u201cAs Trent [Reznor, who introduced the band] said, it\u2019s 40 years since our first album came out. It doesn\u2019t seem like that. And in that time, there\u2019s obviously been a lot of people who\u2019ve played a part in the Cure story, for better or worse. And I\u2019m not going to stand here and read off a load of names because that\u2019s\u2026 I shouldn\u2019t say too much, really, but that\u2019s quite tedious. And I\u2019m no good with stories. I\u2019m a very bad communicator.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was more forthcoming when Rolling Stone <\/em>caught up with him backstage. Smith discussed his initial reservations with the awards show, the upcoming 30th anniversary of his Disintegration <\/em>and a new Cure album that\u2019s currently in the works.<\/p>\n

How does it feel to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I should know by now have a glib answer to offer. Something I just said made me think about what I really think about it, which is that there are so many people who have done that I actually admire hugely and inspired me and the band that I think my reservations, such as they were, were kind of pretty immaterial, as it turns out.<\/span><\/p>\n

What were your reservations?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When we came to the building and we did the red carpet thing, my initial response, because I hadn\u2019t quite thought it through, I never like to plan too much what\u2019s gonna happen, I was a bit glib and said despite my best efforts at being alternative, we\u2019d been subsumed into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. There\u2019s an element of truth to that, but to fight against it would be slightly churlish. It doesn\u2019t change how we do, or how I think about, what we do.<\/span><\/p>\n

 Simon [Gallup] said we should do it because people will see us on stage, know who we are, and we\u2019ll play songs for them. That\u2019s kind of what the band does. He made the band come back down to earth and stop theorizing about what it really means and what it represents. We\u2019ll just play some songs to people. They\u2019ll either like us or they won\u2019t. Then we\u2019ll go and have a beer. He\u2019s a much more down to earth character than I. I think sometimes I worry too much.<\/span><\/p>\n

How\u2019s the next album going? A lot of people are excited about it. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s the anniversary of Disintegration<\/em>, I was thinking about how we did that, and how we turned that into something, and what my mindset was. A key part of it was everyone being away from home, being away from everything they loved, and being in one place at the same time. So for the first time in 20 years, we went into a studio \u2014 we actually went into the studio where they did \u201cBohemian Rhapsody,\u201d funnily enough. It\u2019s a great studio in the middle of nowhere. We just played music for three weeks. And it\u2019s great. I know everyone says that. But it really is fucking great.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s so dark. It\u2019s incredibly intense. And I\u2019ve waited ten years to do something that means something. It\u2019s going to work really well. I\u2019m not sure how much of it we\u2019ll play this summer at festivals. It\u2019s not really festival music. The songs are like ten minutes, 12 minutes long. We recorded 19 songs. So I have no idea what to do now. The others are saying, \u201ctriple album!\u201d I\u2019m saying, no let\u2019s not. I\u2019ll pick six or maybe eight songs and do like a single album. But I think i will delight our hardcore fans. And probably really, really infuriate everyone else. At my age, I\u2019m still doom and gloom.<\/span><\/p>\n

When do you want to put this out?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll finish it before we start in the summer, and it\u2019ll be mixed through the summer. And then so release date, I don\u2019t know, October? Halloween! Come on!<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you gonna do Disintegration<\/em> in the U.S.?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s inevitable, I think. When we did the last festival, I said, \u201cthis is it.\u201d But once we\u2019ve rehearsed it, I know it\u2019s going to be really good. We\u2019re holding home theaters in New York and Los Angeles. But I kind of feel like we should do it in a bigger venue. I\u2019d like to a big show with it, really. It\u2019s a bigger album. I think when we did the first three albums we did three nights at the Beacon in New York. It was much more punky. We were trying to recreate that vibe. But I think Disintegration<\/em> is just big. So we need to do somewhere that\u2019s just big. But probably about Christmas time we\u2019ll come back.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year is your 40th anniversary. What does that mean to you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It means I\u2019m fucking old!
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The Cure have become a legendary band. And you can do three nights at Madison Square Garden.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s because we haven\u2019t changed that much in a funny way. I know Radiohead talked about integrity and authenticity and stuff. It\u2019s kind of like an unspoken thing with us. We don\u2019t bang on about it. But that\u2019s why we retain so many fans, I think. That\u2019s why we retain so many fans, I think. Because they know we\u2019re not pretending what we do. It doesn\u2019t change the world but it\u2019s everything. Those five songs, I\u2019m just there<\/em>. It\u2019s good being in the band, in the Cure at the moment. It\u2019s such a wonderful thing to have this lineup, this band. And for me to be this age and still love it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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