New album out in may 2007

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Tof

The new album for MAY 2007 !!!

Info here

Smith seeks cure for writers' block
(Wednesday December 06, 2006 00:43 AM)

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Thirty years in the music business is no prevention for writers' block.

That is the problem facing The Cure frontman Robert Smith, who is struggling to come up with lyrics to some of the 33 new songs the band has recorded for its 14th studio album.

The record's release has already been pushed back to May and the group goes on tour in March, so the pressure is on for the 47-year-old, who does not want to his legacy to be an ageing band that gradually fades into the background.

"I want them (the words) to mean something, it's not enough that they rhyme," Smith told Reuters in a recent interview. "I find myself stopping short and thinking I've done this before, and better.

"I've given myself a deadline to finish the words before Christmas. If I don't I should be shot," he said.

Smith founded The Cure in 1976 and made an early splash with tight three-minute post-punk songs like "Boys Don't Cry".

Adding keyboards and layered guitars, he developed a taste for epic arrangements and took the band to the top of the charts in the 1980s with dark albums of melancholic grandeur like "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" and "Disintegration" that also contained snappy pop hits like "Just Like Heaven" and "Lovesong".

His confessional lyrics made it acceptable for male rock singers to express feelings of vulnerability, and opened the path to a plethora of "emo" bands like Thursday or minimalist 1980s revival bands like Interpol.

The new album is shaping up to be a mix of mournful songs alongside more energetic and upbeat cuts.

"I tend to favour this option, more in the style of the 'Kiss Me' album, with different things happening instead of being a mood piece," Smith said. "But the art of that is to get it to all hang together."

For the first time in more than two decades, the band has no keyboard player after Roger O'Donnell quit last year. Original Cure guitarist Porl Thompson -- married to Smith's younger sister -- has returned for a third stint in the band.

"There's no need for keyboards when you have Porl playing guitar," Smith said. "He can pretty much create any sound you want. He's brought back a sense of urgency and we've got a rock edge again."

Bassist Simon Gallup, in the band on-and-off since 1979, and Jason Cooper, on drums since 1995, round up the ensemble.

"Being a four-piece is getting back to a stripped-down stage look and sound," Smith said.

"The fact that we can turn out anywhere with very little equipment and play is the old idea of The Cure. It's less grand than things we've done in the past, but we're still planning to play for three hours."

DON'T CALL ME GOTH

Smith's dishevelled hair, thick eyeliner and smeared lipstick earned him a reputation as leader of the gloomy goth rock movement in the press, a type-casting he has long battled to little effect.

"It's so pitiful when 'goth' is still tagged onto the name The Cure," he said.

"We're not categorisable. I suppose we were post-punk when we came out, but in total it's impossible. How can you describe a band that put out an album like 'Pornography' and also 'Greatest Hits' where every single song was top 10 around the world? I just play Cure music, whatever that is."

The makeup is part of his performance ritual.

"Performing doesn't come that naturally to me even though I've done it for years," he said. "Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years people have worn makeup on stage."

Fans can get an early glimpse of the band's new look and sound on a DVD released this week. "Festival 2005" was recorded during nine shows in Europe last year and mixes professional camera work with amateur footage shot by fans.

"It was never planned," Smith said. "By the time we did the final show in Istanbul we had 13 cameras, but at the first show we only had one. It was directed by serendipity, and it was kind of thrown together."

The DVD features 30 songs, one for each of the years Smith has been performing with The Cure.

"I'm genuinely surprised at people's reaction when we play shows, it's hard to ignore it," he said. "It's gratifying to know that people still want The Cure to exist. We're an old band playing to a young audience."

As long as he can still command that audience and perform for three hours, Smith said he wouldn't retire.

"I'm aware that time is moving on," he said. "I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy."
Tof

[labyrinth]

here we are again,though i fear this "writer's block" .........
let's hope for the best...

i trust RS

:)

Descent

Thanks for the article Tof. ;)

33 songs.. eh.

Lady

[color=red][b]I BELONG TO THE CURE!♥[/b][/color]
[color=black]Lost forever in a happy crowd![/color]
[color=purple][i]I will kiss you forever on nights like this, I will kiss you, I will kiss you...and we shall be together...[/i][/color]
[color=green]CUREFANS.COM RULEZ!:D[/color]

_Perfect-Girl_

me pone nerviosa es 2007.....
pero confío en robert...
así q mucha fuerza no más!!
ansiosa de lo que viene!! :smth020

strange_day

Im glad Robert's being quite self critcal about his words, if hes stopping short and thinking about it, it can only be a good thing, because he wants to put out the best record he can. So hopefully the new album will be great  :D

[labyrinth]

this will album will surely ROCK! :)
think about this:
Porl is back (and he's the best guitarist The Cure, by far. Even Though Parry was not bad at all)
Robert seems to be more interested in his words
Simon is on Fire and his bass is incredibly STRONG!
Jason seems to be in form!

well....
let's hope for the best :)

Janko

Quote from: Tof on December 06, 2006, 16:41:47


"I find myself stopping short and thinking I've done this before, and better.





    I THINK THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NON MUSICAL THING ROBERT SAID IN LAST 16 YEARS!



    if he only belived his own words...



:twisted:




   
Fatter than Bob, balder than Porl, as sober as Simon, as amusing as Jason

[labyrinth]


monghi

WRITERS BLOCKAAAAAAAAAAAA

12/20/2006 6:13:05 AM - by CURE:ROBERT

AAAAAAAGH! THE ALBUM IS NOT DELAYED (OR EVEN "DELAYED AGAIN"? ****!) DUE TO ME HAVING THAT MOST MYSTERIOUS OF AILMENTS 'WRITERS BLOCK'...

IN THE COURSE OF THE REUTERS INTERVIEW I CONDUCTED RECENTLY I TALKED (IN PASSING) ABOUT THE OBVIOUS DIFFICULTIES OF REALIZING 33 NEW SETS OF LYRICS - EACH TIME I SET OUT ON AN ALBUM PROJECT MY STANDARDS, PARTICULARLY WITH REGARDS TO THE SONGWORDS, GO UP - I NEED TO BE HONEST AND PROUD, AS WELL AS (HOPEFULLY) ENTERTAINING ETC ETC ETC...

THESE OBSERVATIONS WERE THEN (PREDICTABLY) REDUCED TO THE OLD JOURNALISTIC CLICHE 'WRITERS BLOCK', DISSEMINATED, AND SEIZED ON BY THE LAZY AND THE BORED...

I LOVE THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF MAKING SONGS, AND THIS ALBUM IN PARTICULAR HAS BEEN A JOY - THE THRILL OF PLAYING IN A BAND THAT LOVES WHAT IT DOES IS SOMETHING I HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN - SO THE NOTION OF 'GETTING IT OUT ON TIME' - WHATEVER THAT ACTUALLY MEANS - IS NOT MY PRIORITY...

THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS, AND THE TRUE TEST OF ART IS TIME, AND...

WELL ENOUGH - YOU GET WHAT I MEAN I HOPE?!!

THE NEXT CURE ALBUM WILL BE f*cking AMAZING... BUT TO GET TO f*cking AMAZING SOMETIMES TAKES A LITTLE MORE TIME...

"TOMORROW MUST BE MORE" INDEED
RSX

PS
RE: CURE LIVE SHOWS...
AS EVER: WHEN WE HAVE AGREED TO PLAY ANYWHERE - ANYWHERE! - WE WILL POST IT HERE... SO IF IT ISNT HERE... ITS WISHFUL THINKING!
i never said i would stay to the end

wickedchild

Well, Robert, I don't care if you have done it before !!!!

I'd rather been listening to Disintegration part II than you trying to impress us and giving birth to some kind of monster like Wild Mood Swings (which contains some great songs  8))

intothetrees

WMS is not bad, simply different ...

About the new album, wait and see ... It's difficult to know how it will sound, but apparently no keyboards ...

Dillinger

i would really love it if they churned out a pop/rock album to the standard of the head on the door but, as much as i hate to say it, i think that theyre just too old to turn out a really great pop record like close to me or inbetween days. then again i thought cut here and just say yes were definetly good enough to break the charts even if they couldnt eventually.

Janko


I DONT BELIVE IT WILL BE OUT THIS YEAR


I THIK ROBERT SHOULD THINK A BIT ABOUT THE PLACE OF THE CURE IN TODAY'S MUSIC WORLD...
IF THEY WANT TO MAKE AN ALBUM FULL OF "US OR THEM" CRAP, I DONT THINK THAT'S TOO WISE!
BUT I SEE THEM PLAYING "SHIT" WITH KORN, SO...



Fatter than Bob, balder than Porl, as sober as Simon, as amusing as Jason

Janko

Quote from: farquad92 on January 02, 2007, 10:11:13
i would really love it if they churned out a pop/rock album to the standard of the head on the door but, as much as i hate to say it, i think that theyre just too old to turn out a really great pop record like close to me or inbetween days. then again i thought cut here and just say yes were definetly good enough to break the charts even if they couldnt eventually.


I THINK "CUT HERE" AND "SIGNAL TO NOISE"  SOUND IS THE SOUND THE BAND SHOULD TRY TO RECREATE AND DEVELOP!
I LOVED IT SO MUCH!
Fatter than Bob, balder than Porl, as sober as Simon, as amusing as Jason