Seated beside his guitar rig is Robert Smith, the group’s leader, explaining his reluctance in recent years to do an interview. “I don’t really want my head to be drawn back into this idea that I’m ‘Robert Smith of The Cure’...
Smith finds the latter by far the more appealing. “Some Cure albums are put together in a certain way,” he said. “They have an atmosphere. Other Cure albums ... are much more scattered. I prefer the ones that thematically progress.” The heavy records “have mor...
" The guitar solo in Bloodflowers. After I had done it in one take, I thought: This is what I have been wanting to create since I was very young. It was very personal, I have never played a guitar solo, that I was actually happy with. This and then coupled with the whole context...
" The guitar solo in Bloodflowers. After I had done it in one take, I thought: This is what I have been wanting to create since I was very young. It was very personal, I have never played a guitar solo, that I was actually happy with. This and then coupled with the whole context...
THE guitarist of choice for David Bowie and The Cure's RobertSmith, and often talked about as...Walters, Sarah
and smith's dreamy imagination of far-away places gets pleasantly touristic: plinking atmospherics on "kyoto song," super-speed spanish guitar on "the blood". it's a tight, terrific package, and more imaginative than albums this controlled usually get, but it's oddly removed fro...
Smith was joined by the current Cure lineup — Simon Gallup on bass, Reeves Gabrels on guitar, Jason Cooper on drums and Roger O’Donnell on keyboards — despite speculation that the Meltdown show might feature special guests, possibly even past bandmateslike the Reflections concerts a few yea...
Robert Smith, frontman of The Cure, is curating this year’s Meltdown. He waxes lyrical about the line-up, the make-up and why he’s never been a goth, actually.
There are, Robert Smith feels, two quite distinct and separate Robert Smiths. One is meticulous, fastidious even, firmly in control of everything he and The Cure do. The other is all over the place: a binger, a self-destructive follower of the path of excess. A man who, I ...
32. Simon Gallup (The Cure) Kevin Winter, Getty Images 32. Simon Gallup (The Cure) Bass is what propels just about everything in new wave/goth rock/post-punk and although Robert Smith reaps most of the accolades, it’s just impossible to imagine this band with anyone other than Simon ...