Songs like How Beautiful You Are start with lines like 'You want to know why I hate you?' while Open has the Sylvia Plath-esque 'and the way the rain comes down hard/ that's the way I feel inside.' He claims he is not a morose person 'it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life'. 'It's very exciting times for us all around,' The Cure's lead singer said recently in an interview with SiriusXM.Ī new Cure release is, of course, yet another welcome excuse to have a peek inside Mr Smith's intriguing brain. Playing Dublin's Malahide Castle on June 8, they are about to release their first new studio album since 2008's 4:13 Dream. To their millions of devotees, The Cure - 'not so much a band as a sensibility', to quote writer Anwen Crawford - remain better than drinking. The actual sound of them live was just so overpowering, it was better than drinking.' I saw them probably 10 times in two years. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. 'In a one-month period in 1973 or 1974, I saw him,' Robert told Rolling Stone magazine in 2004, 'Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. Just as unlikely - or at least it would appear immediately unlikely from listening to his music - was that the very first concert Cure front man Robert Smith ever went to on his own was actually Rory Gallagher. He is transformed from a gargantuan moth into a Japanese monster to help Leonard Maltin and Sidney Poitier defeat Barbra Streisand. In February, 1998, the cartoon image of goth godhead Robert Smith appeared in US show South Park.

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