Robert Smith 'Songs Of A Lost World' Interview

The Cure frontman was interviewed by BBC6 Music's Matt Everitt recently

The Cure's Robert Smith was interviewed by Matt Everitt at Abbey Road recently, in link below. It's an absorbing and revealing insight into both how Smith thinks and works, over 45-plus years of fronting the band

Interesting that Robert now sees 2004's The Cure album, produced by Rick Rubin, as his least favourite, and that the band's legendarily long shows might have been prompted by feeling somewhat short-changed by Bowie's brevity at Earl's Court in the 70s. That said, when stuck Robert still asks himself: 'What would David do?'

He lost many people close to him in recent years, inspiring songs on the new album, and turned to painting following the death of his older brother Richard as a necessary means of expression

Smith fell out of love with football about ten years ago, no longer being particularly observant of Queen's Park Rangers, seemingly due to the mass commercialisation of the game; and gets passionately egalitarian on the subject of his battles with Ticketmaster's pricing policies

'Things seemed to get better and better in the post-war period until about 1975, but seem to have been going downhill since then. The moon landings happened in the middle of that, and I'm still looking at the stars', he said