September 1989 -
Cure News #8
Cure News Eight
September 1989
hello,
thank you for all your letters. i hope you all had a great summer.
the highlight of the summer for me was, without a doubt, "the prayer tour". i managed to make it to the lison show as well as the 3 nights at wembley. i still can't believe how brilliant the shows were;in particular the last night at wembley: possibly the best 3 1/2 hours of my life!! i'm sure if you were there you agree with me. at the moment the band are half-way through the american tour.
love janie
questions and answers curenews 7(8?)
(all answers by robert)
is "the prayer
tour" really going to be your last ever tour?
yes, but that doesn't mean we will never play another concert!
is it true that
you're contractually required by polygram to release one more album, which
you've already recorded?
we're not "contractually required" to do anything - if, however, we make another
record, polygram
have the first option to release it.
if this really
is the end of the cure, what do you plan to do with the rest of your life?
i don't know. i
don't plan.
what is the
real reason for you sacking lol? have you spoken to him since?
he lost touch with the rest of us; mentally, spiritually and socially. no, i
haven't spoke to him (i
hadn't spoke to him for several years anyway - that was part of the problem).
who has
replaced lol as a scapegoat?
no-one. we don't need one anymore.
you claim to
have done some really awful things to lol in the past, what was the worst?
left him unconscious drunk naked in a hotel lift!
was there a bad
atmosphere in the studio whilst recording "disintegration"?
no, it was brilliant.
were you
surprised with the chart success of 'lullaby" in europe and "fascination street"
in america?
yes!!!
do you
personally produce / approve 12" remixes of your singles?
yes, of course.
do you wish you
could revert to playing smaller venues, rather than the large stadiums of the
past few years?
no, although i
think the size of stadia
in america
is verging on the absurd.
where the
photos for the official 1989 calendar taken?
in devon,
in or around boris's
home.
what was your
best/worst gig on the european stretch of the "prayer tour", and why?
the best was the last night at
wembley because of the atmosphere
and playing so many old songs. it was nostalgic. the worst was reims
in france
because everyone was sick.
what did you
think of dinosaur jr's cover version of "just like heaven"?
it's brilliant.
do you ever
feel that everything you've ever done is completely irrelevant and meaningless?
often! but it's not only me.
what
is the most:
a) amazing
b) beautiful
c) sickening / horrifying
thing you've
ever experienced?
a) hallucinations
b) hallucinations
c) flying
what do you do
when you don't want to be where you are, but you can't leave?
this doesn't happen often. if it does i
close my eyes and think of the sea.
if you woke up
one day and suddenly realised you had lost your ability to write songs, what
would you do? (write a song about it!!!???)
ha ha! i
would never realise
suddenly. i
only write when i
think of something, so if i
never thought of anything, i
wouldn't write...i
would read?
what is the
worst psychological torture you can imagine suffering?
constantly waking up and then waking up...always in a dream, or would this be
any different?
relative to the
population at large, how do you rate your:
a) intelligence
b) physical attractiveness
c) personality
a) in the top
half
b) in the bottom half
c) in the top half (?) (this answer drops me into the bottom half!)
if you could
chose one album by another artist to do a cover version of, what would it be?
"five leaves left" by nick drake.
what are your favorite 5 albums and singles of all time?
albums
1) closer - joy division
2) five leaves left - nick drake
3) treasure - the cocteau
twins
4) astral weeks - van morrison
5) next - alex harvey
singles
1) life on mars - david
bowie
2) purple haze - jimi hendrix
3) running up that hill - kate
bush
4) out of touch - hall and oates
5) don't get me wrong - pretenders
... but these would all change by tomorrow...
what bothers
you in the world?
poverty and ignorance and greed.
are you ozone
friendly?
usually.
are you really
afraid of spiders?
only huge poisonous ones!!!
were you drunk
whilst performing "lullaby" on top of the pops?
yes!!!
what
did you do on your 30th birthday?
went to a christening, got hideously, gloriously drunk, and ran round crawley
with no shoes on all night, remembering...
how
many people really know you?...or even come close?
few...
would you be
prepared to spend a night alone in a remote house that is supposedly haunted?
yes.
how does it
feel to be in jason donovan's favorite band?
better than it feels to be jason donovan i
imagine!!!
inspirations -
"faith"
the holy hour: written
whilst sitting listening to mass in the catholic friary church in crawley on sunday
night, trying to make since of the communal response and faces.
primary: toying (?) with the idea that it may be better to die very young,
innocent and dreaming...or even to murder as a gift...
other voices: this one's a bit difficult...umm... blotting out the world
through the eating of forbidden fruit? deafened by lust?
all cats are
grey:
just a nightmare of being lost / trapped in caves - echoes of the grave and of
prison cells and again of growing old.
the funeral party: about the death of my grandparents, and ultimately, i
suppose, of the deathof my parents, and then me...
doubt: expressing the anger and frustration at the pointlessness of
everything (at the time?), trying to fight the waves of absurdity.
the drowning man: mourning fuchsia, a symbol, a girl, a character in "titus
groan" by mervyn peake:
mourning the death of innocence, the death of blind love...
faith: self explanatory, as optimistic as i
could get, it does, or should, offer a note of HOPE.
this is one of my favorite 3 cure albums. it was written at a time of ever deepening depression, and was intended to explore the whole notion of "faith": but it ended up as a testament of near complete disbelief, and led me on and down - enter "pornography"....