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The Cure are in RAK Studios, St John’s Wood, London, England, UK, Europe, working on their fourth album Pornography.Full article:
Robert Smith (The Cure) : It was like Groundhog Day. You knew what you were going to be doing, what drugs you were going to take, you knew how you were going to feel the following morning. It just became a sort of bizarre routine.
Phil Thornalley (sound engineer) : I don’t remember Pornography being a difficult session at all. I don’t really remember any big arguments.
Robert Smith : At the time, I lost every friend I had, everyone, without exception, because I was incredibly obnoxious, appalling, self-centred. I was obsessed by the idea of making a really great album. The tension in the studio was palpable, really. It was dismal. In a strange way, it was sort of fun to do because it was so bad.
My girlfriend Mary came and sat in a chair and stared at me when I was singing Siamese Twins, I think. It's strange, I find it very difficult to sing to people when they're very close. I've always found it much easier to sing in a theatre than in a club. So it was very weird to have Mary sitting there watching me.
Lol Tohurst (drums, The Cure) : Kim Wilde was in the next studio. She would come in at a normal time, about midday, leave at eight. We’d turn up at eight, and leave at midday, we’d meet her on the way out, looking fairly deranged, I would imagine.
We had an arrangement with the off-licence up the road, every night they would bring in supplies. We decided we weren’t going to throw anything out. We built this mountain of empties in the corner, a gigantic pile of debris in the corner. It just grew and grew. I’ve still got a photo of it.
100 Years is pure self-loathing and worthlessness, and contains probably the key line - the line that underpinned this period of writing : "it doesn't matter if we all die"... everything is empty. This song is despair.
Robert Smith (speaking in 2005) : It was an incredibly aggressive period for us, which got very manic towards the end. I suppose Pornography is kind of the culmination of that. But there was also so much fun and chaos I’d forgotten about. When the three of us [Smith, Simon Gallup and Lol Tolhurst] got on, we really did get along. We were playing together constantly for three years and really connected. But it just fell apart. And for a couple of months, it really did upset me. At the time, I thought it was the end of The Cure. I really couldn’t see how I’d ever set foot in a studio again and went into hiding for two months. But gradually, I began to see that I’d grown up.
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Phil Thornalley (sound engineer) : I don’t remember Pornography being a difficult session at all. I don’t really remember any big arguments.
Robert Smith : At the time, I lost every friend I had, everyone, without exception, because I was incredibly obnoxious, appalling, self-centred. I was obsessed by the idea of making a really great album. The tension in the studio was palpable, really. It was dismal. In a strange way, it was sort of fun to do because it was so bad.
My girlfriend Mary came and sat in a chair and stared at me when I was singing Siamese Twins, I think. It's strange, I find it very difficult to sing to people when they're very close. I've always found it much easier to sing in a theatre than in a club. So it was very weird to have Mary sitting there watching me.
Lol Tohurst (drums, The Cure) : Kim Wilde was in the next studio. She would come in at a normal time, about midday, leave at eight. We’d turn up at eight, and leave at midday, we’d meet her on the way out, looking fairly deranged, I would imagine.
We had an arrangement with the off-licence up the road, every night they would bring in supplies. We decided we weren’t going to throw anything out. We built this mountain of empties in the corner, a gigantic pile of debris in the corner. It just grew and grew. I’ve still got a photo of it.
100 Years is pure self-loathing and worthlessness, and contains probably the key line - the line that underpinned this period of writing : "it doesn't matter if we all die"... everything is empty. This song is despair.
Robert Smith (speaking in 2005) : It was an incredibly aggressive period for us, which got very manic towards the end. I suppose Pornography is kind of the culmination of that. But there was also so much fun and chaos I’d forgotten about. When the three of us [Smith, Simon Gallup and Lol Tolhurst] got on, we really did get along. We were playing together constantly for three years and really connected. But it just fell apart. And for a couple of months, it really did upset me. At the time, I thought it was the end of The Cure. I really couldn’t see how I’d ever set foot in a studio again and went into hiding for two months. But gradually, I began to see that I’d grown up.
(Source : not known)