Bob:
"Seeing all these new bands—I've listened to some of these bands and met so many of them that it's kind of inspired me to do something new," he said. "So, yes, we're going in about six weeks time to finish off what will be our first album in more than a decade. It's very exciting times for us all around."
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/robert-smith-confirms-that-a-new-album-from-the-cure-is-on-the-way/
:D :D
Wow, now that is unexpected news at this point in time! :1f62e:
Excellent, I'm really looking forward to 2019 now! :happy
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8490254/the-cure-robert-smith-new-album-is-coming
Its what you were waiting for Ulrich :lol:
Quote from: chemicaloverload on December 14, 2018, 11:54:34
Its what you were waiting for Ulrich :lol:
Yes, as they say "all good things come to those who wait". ;)
All the Cure album since 1987 have been sort of "milestones" in my life, so this should be another one, no matter how it turns out. Just trusting Robert's artistic instincts and his songwriting abilities... plus the musical ability of the band of course. :cool
Lots of news articles about this (of course):
https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-cure-new-album-exciting-update-robert-smith-2420672
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-cure-robert-smith-new-album-release-date-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2019-a8683246.html
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/12/the-cure-new-album-2019-tour-dates/
The audio interview with Bob if you missed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpK6plLyQUc
Thanks, I had missed it. The 30 second clip appeared elsewhere but hadn't heard the whole interview.
So the Hyde Park concert footage filmed by Tim Pope is being mixed, with a view to be released! That's news I didn't know :) There have been several concerts filmed over these last few years, and I'm glad one will be surfacing soon(ish).
👍
Quote from: word_on_a_wing on December 18, 2018, 12:53:22
So the Hyde Park concert footage filmed by Tim Pope is being mixed, with a view to be released! That's news I didn't know :) There have been several concerts filmed over these last few years, and I'm glad one will be surfacing soon(ish).
Together with the South America dvd and the Cure documentary for sure... or maybe not... ;)
An optimistic guess... I'm feeling the documentary & Hyde Park concert footage have a good chance at release. With both of these they were doing editing or mixing, which from my understanding is well into things.
I think with some of the others they were filmed, but didn't progress from there into doing anything with the footage towards release
...just my view, not sure if it's right though :)
More on the new album (missed this interview), and sad news in Robert's family (thanks
@chemicaloverload for the heads up):
QuoteIt's very much on the darker side of the spectrum. I lost my mother and my father and my brother recently, and obviously it had an effect on me. It's not relentlessly doom and gloom. It has soundscapes on it, like 'Disintegration', I suppose. I was trying to create a big palette, a big wash of sound."
QuoteThe working title was 'Live From the Moon', because I was enthralled by the 50th anniversary of the Apollo landing in the summer. We had a big moon hanging in the studio and lunar-related stuff lying around. I've always been a stargazer
More here: https://www.nme.com/news/music/robert-smith-the-cure-new-album-family-death-live-from-the-moon-2542696
Sorry to hear about Robert's loss. :1f62a:
Good that there's still talk about the new album, gives me hope it'll be out before Xmas 2020 (so I won't have to eat my old hat)...
Part 2 of another recent NME interview:
NME interview part 2 (https://www.nme.com/music-interviews/robert-smith-exclusive-i-dont-want-to-look-back-on-the-cure-until-ive-finished-2552474)
Quote from: Ulrich on October 03, 2019, 10:14:50Sorry to hear about Robert's loss. :1f62a:
Good that there's still talk about the new album, gives me hope it'll be out before Xmas 2020 (so I won't have to eat my old hat)...
I found a nice hat for you,
@Ulrich - but I don't think you will have to eat it! :)
(https://partycity.scene7.com/is/image/PartyCity/_sq_?$_500x500_$&$product=PartyCity/482444_full)
Isn't this exciting? And not just the hat, the forthcoming album too. ;) I know exactly what it feels like to sit on a piece of work and keep going over it with a fine-tooth comb incessantly before finally submitting it. And then the real joke is, at least for me, that after I've submitted it, I'll go back over it again, and find at least one thing I want to change, that I somehow didn't find before! :-D
The perils of creativity, and high standards. :happy
It's a pity there's no hiding-under-a-chair emoji here. Because I was going to say,
I hope the cover art on this one is nice!
Quote from: SueC on October 04, 2019, 04:56:28Isn't this exciting? And not just the hat, the forthcoming album too. ;)
Well at the sight of this hat, I'm not overly excited about eating it (hairs at the bottom etc.)... :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Quote from: SueC on October 04, 2019, 04:56:28I know exactly what it feels like to sit on a piece of work and keep going over it with a fine-tooth comb incessantly before finally submitting it. And then the real joke is, at least for me, that after I've submitted it, I'll go back over it again, and find at least one thing I want to change...
Well obviously Robert did/does the same thing with "4:13 Dream" and the "new" version of it still hasn't made it out yet...
Quote from: undefinedYou played the new songs 'It Can Never Be The Same' and 'Step Into The Light' at Meltdown. Will they be on your next album?
"No, there is a second album that accompanies the '4:13 Dream' album, which I was trying to get ready for the 10th anniversary last year, but I never managed it because things got in the way. But it's virtually done. It's another 13 songs that were left over from the sessions. That will come out, probably for its 13th anniversary, because that seems obvious. Those were two of the leftover songs. Although I do really like them and we did discuss re-recording them with this line-up, everyone agreed that we'd rather just do songs that we'd written with this line-up. They're both on the DVD, although I got one of the lines wrong in 'It Can Never Be The Same', which really pissed me off, but there we are."
Read more at https://www.nme.com/music-interviews/robert-smith-exclusive-i-dont-want-to-look-back-on-the-cure-until-ive-finished-2552474#kS18Ew3cvr4ctbuE.99
(P.S. Well I'd always said here in the forum: "plans can change" - now Robert's saying "things got in the way", which expresses the same, just in other words...)
Quote from: Ulrich on October 05, 2019, 13:10:53Well at the sight of this hat, I'm not overly excited about eating it (hairs at the bottom etc.)... :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Ulrich!!! That hat is much too nice to eat! And it's not old! What are you thinking? :1f62d:
Besides, you won't have to eat any hat I think. :smth023
QuoteWell obviously Robert did/does the same thing with "4:13 Dream" and the "new" version of it still hasn't made it out yet...
:rofl You have a point. I've got to say, I've never sat on something for years... and also, I've never been afraid I was going to run out of words either, so I always laugh when I hear those lines in
39, and think, "It's your Y-chromosome that's the trouble here, Mr Smith!" :angel
Quote from: SueC on October 05, 2019, 14:30:16Besides, you won't have to eat any hat I think. :smth023
Yeah, looks like the new album will be out one day (maybe even sooner than I think)! :happy
I just realised,
@Ulrich, that unlike me, you're a fan who has lived through that long dry road after the follow-up to
4:13 was promised. And you have my sincere sympathies. No wonder you're so careful not to get excited here. It's like
The Boy Who Cried Wolf...
I imagine I would feel the same if this current album that's being talked about ended up being dragged on and on for over ten years without actually being released... :1f62d: :1f62e: :1f630:
Quote from: SueC on October 06, 2019, 01:13:23I just realised, @Ulrich, that unlike me, you're a fan who has lived through that long dry road after the follow-up to 4:13 was promised. And you have my sincere sympathies. No wonder you're so careful not to get excited here.
Not really, I wasn't always waiting for a new album... and "4:13 Dream" was okay for a while, but the production was a bit weak (to my ears at least) and thus it hasn't aged too well... (Sure, I would buy the "ultimate" edition of 4:13 with the bonus songs, but not eagerly waiting for it...)
I was hoping for a new album around 2012, but the band only played a few shows and it was soon clear that nothing would come. Same in 2016 when they toured, with RS giving no interviews at all! (Well I did enjoy them playing the 2 "unreleased" songs, but I agree it's better to not re-record them with the current line-up.)
About a year ago, I did get excited about the album news, but (as usual) it takes a while. (That's okay, I hope it will be out early next year.)
Quote from: Ulrich on October 03, 2019, 10:14:50Sorry to hear about Robert's loss. :1f62a:
Not just his mother, his father and his brother.
There's also Porl/Pearl and his leaving for the USA, Andy Anderson passing away, Severin's operation...
And quite probably other stories that we don't know and are none of our business anyway.