The Cure’s Robert Smith didn’t want to go the traditional route of getting a 9 to 5 job.
On 30 October, The Cure played a live set for Huw Stephens on 6 Music and another for Radio 2 in concert. The performances will be seen on November 2 and before that he spoke to Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2 about the band’s newly released album ‘Songs of a Lost World’ – their 14th album and is the first album in 16 years. After that, he shared that he joined the group to avoid the traditional working path.
“I perform live at night. I mean, the reason I joined the band was mainly so I didn’t have to get up for work, really,” Smith begins. NME.
“I never thought I could stand the boss and I never thought I could get anywhere on time in the morning… I couldn’t be at school. , my mother’s voice echoed up the stairs every day ‘You have five minutes to get to that bus!’ One day I don’t have to do this,” he added.
Smith shared that the winter months are especially difficult for him, especially January.
“It’s weird because everyone else wakes up, they’re all day people and to be honest, I go to bed at… I listen to the Breakfast Show and watch the sun come up, and then I go.” go to bed, I’m not joking, that’s really how I live. […] It got on my nerves around January, I started to get really miserable, oh if you think I’m miserable, my God! I don’t see daylight during January, so sometimes it makes me… I don’t know, I just like going out at night,” he shared.
“Songs of a Lost World” includes the previously released singles, “Alone” and “A Fragile Thing.” The album has been praised by critics and currently holds a score of 93/100 on Metacritic. All of the songs on it were written by Smith.
In a new interview, Smith shared that he enjoys singing more than writing music.
“For one thing, as I got older, I found it much more difficult to write words that I wanted to sing. I could write lyrics but I didn’t really feel like singing them,” he said. talk through MSN.
“So to get to the point where I thought singing these songs was worth it, it actually became really difficult. I have to admit,” he continued.
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