Robert Smith: Last News

The Cure‘s Robert Smith has left X (formerly Twitter) – see what he had to say in his parting message below.Last night (January 19), Smith took to X to share his final post on the social media platform after first joining it – back when it was known as Twitter – in 2009. He wrote, in his signature all-capitalised style: “19TH JANUARY 2025. TIME TO GO.

The Who’s Roger Daltrey has told a live audience that he has been informed that he is “going blind”.The rock legends were playing the first of two shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Thursday (March 27) for the Teenage Cancer Trust when the frontman opened up about his condition.“The problem with this job is that you go deaf,” he said from the stage. “And now I’ve been told that I am going blind.”Referencing the band’s 1969 rock opera title character, he added: “Thank God I’ve still got my voice.

visit here to get tickets.A post shared by Teenage Cancer Trust (@teenage_cancer)Reflecting on the announcement this morning (March 19), Jamie Johnson, Head of Music & Entertainment at Teenage Cancer Trust, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome Erased Tapes to the Saturday slot at the Royal Albert Hall. Their unique sound and artistry will create an unforgettable experience that music fans won’t want to miss.“You only get one chance at being young, and cancer threatens to turn lives upside down.

The Cure’s Robert Smith has been announced as the curator for the 2025 edition of the Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) gig series.The iconic frontman has been a long supporter of the charity series, which is held at Royal Albert Hall, having previously performed two classic shows in 2014 and in 2006. He was also heavily involved in the TCT’s UNSEEN campaign during lockdown – helping the charity raise funds for those struggling during that period.It won’t be his first time taking the reins a live music event either, as he has also curated the line-up for the 2018 edition of Meltdown Festival, which was held at the Southbank Centre and saw performances from Mogwai, The Psychedelic Furs, The Church and Nine Inch Nails.He will personally curate the concerts in 2026, following the series founder and The Who icon Roger Daltrey stepping back.

Neil Young has committed to avoiding ‘Platinum’ ticket sales for his future tours, after being inspired to do so by The Cure’s Robert Smith.The tickets in question are used by sales outlets such as Ticketmaster as an attempt to put off touts and scalpers from buying up premium tickets and selling them for high profits on the secondary market.Smith pointed out in an interview with The Times last year that he believed ‘Platinum’ tickets and the controversial dynamic pricing scheme were a “scam” that was “driven by greed”.“I thought, ‘We don’t need to make all this money’,” Smith said. “You don’t want to charge as much as the market will let you.

Lola Young has spoken to NME about her love of The Cure, and explained why she thinks ‘Messy’ went viral. Read the interview below, or watch the video above.The singer, songwriter and former NME Cover star spoke to us while on the BRITs 2025 red carpet, and discussed how ‘Messy’ became one of the biggest singles of the past 12 months.“I think it’s the idea that you don’t have to be this thing that stereotypers want women to be,” she began.

The Cure walked away from the BRIT Awards empty handed last night, with fans of the band saying they “should have won by miles”.Robert Smith and co received their first BRIT nominations in over three decades for Group of the Year, Best Alternative/Rock Act, and Album of the Year for ‘Songs of A Lost World‘ at this year’s ceremony. Last night (March 1), they were beaten for the prestigious Album of the Year award by Charli XCX, whose culture-defining ‘Brat‘ won out.Likewise, Best Alternative/Rock Act went to Sam Fender, and Group of the Year to Ezra Collective.

Little Simz has been announced as curating the 2025 edition of Meltdown at London’s Southbank Centre.The British artist is set to curate a boundary-breaking line-up for this year’s edition of the 11-day festival, and will be taking to the stage herself as one of the performers.Scheduled between Thursday June 12 and Sunday June 22, the event will include a number of live performances from artists hand-selected by Little Simz, as well as two weekends of free participatory programming featuring grassroots collectives and local organisations.The first wave of names set to take part in the 2025 edition of Meltdown Festival will be announced later this spring.“I’m super excited to be the 2025 Meltdown festival curator! My team and I are preparing 11 days of art, music, workshops and more,” Little Simz said in a new statement. “So many incredible artists have curated this festival so it’s a true honour to be a part of it.

Robert Smith has named two songs likely to feature on the next album from The Cure.The band have made it clear for a while now that they’ve been sitting on a wealth of new material since 2008’s 4:13 Dream‘. Back in 2020, for instance, Smith told NME that they were hard at work on “two new albums and an hour of noise”.While appearing as a guest on X-Posure with John Kennedy on Radio X, the ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ singer opened up further about the specific tracks that will appear on their next album, which will serve as a follow-up to their 2024 14th studio LP, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.“It has a couple of songs that we were playing live which didn’t make it onto ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ and it has some completely new stuff that no one’s ever heard,” he explained. “There’s three songs on it, which are slower than pretty much anything on this album.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Robert Smith can relate to Chappell Roan when it comes to setting boundaries with fans. Two months after The Cure released its latest album “Songs of a Lost World,” Smith was a guest on the BBC podcast “Sidetracked.” When asked about Roan drawing headlines as an artist not taking abuse from fans and the media, Smith talked about his experience as the lead singer of the prolific British rock band.

The Cure‘s Robert Smith has revealed that he does not “stream music on principle” – see what he had to say below.During a new interview on the Sidetracked podcast with Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw, in which he celebrated the release of the band’s latest LP, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, Smith touched on his listening habits, revealing that he isn’t a fan of streaming.While he doesn’t go into detail on why he doesn’t “stream music on principle and never will”, it’s likely akin to his longstanding issues with ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster.Instead, besides vinyl, Smith listens to music through a collection of “loads and loads” of iPods that he owns. He explained to Mac and Grimshaw: “I’ve got playlists, iPods.

The Cure‘s Robert Smith has discussed “obsessive fan behaviour” and Chappell Roan‘s sudden rise to fame in a new interview.The frontman commented on the impact of fame during a new interview on the Sidetracked podcast with Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw, in which he celebrated the release of the band’s latest LP, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.He began discussing his extensive music collection but added it would be “disingenuous” to pretend he’d engaged in this year’s pop phenomenons – Charli XCX‘s ‘Brat’ summer and Chappell Roan’s debut LP ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess‘.Smith said the records aren’t aimed at him, and that “It would be kind of a bit weird if I was like ‘yeah it’s my favourite thing’.” He then added: “I think what they do as artists is really fantastic but I think that probably it would be dishonest if I said it’s what I listen to at home.”However, he went on to say he’d been aware of Roan for a long time, as well as her very sudden ascent to fame in the year since the release of her 2023 debut album.Roan has been vocal about her experiences of fame this year, venting about the normalisation of extreme fan behaviour, including “stalking, talking shit online, [people who] won’t leave you alone [and] yelling at you in public”. She added: “I didn’t know it would feel this bad.”The former NME Cover star also compared fame to “an abusive ex-husband”.

Robert Smith has opened up about his relationship with The Cure‘s ‘4:13 Dream’, saying that he isn’t a fan of how it turned out.The frontman looked back at the 2008 record during a new interview with Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw, in which he celebrated the release of the band’s latest LP, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.Released last month, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ marked the long-awaited follow-up to ‘4:13 Dream’ and saw The Cure bag their first Number One album in the UK in 32 years.Reflecting on his relationship with ‘4:13 Dream’ nearly 16 years on, Smith revealed that the finished product didn’t match the initial vision he had, partly because he wanted it to be much longer.“If I’m really honest I was trying to make an album in 2008 which was a double album and it was really odd,” he began. “It had all kinds of stuff on it, instrumental stuff – and I was pressured into reducing it all down into a single album… I have never felt happy about it.

The Cure‘s Robert Smith has spoken out about his viral Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame interview revealing that he “felt bad” about it.Back in 2019, while making their way through the red carpet ahead of being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at the New York Ceremony, Smith and co went on to do some press about receiving the accolade, their lengthy career, and the progress on new music.For one of their first chats on the carpet, The Cure were met by an enthusiastic interviewer, who also admitted to being a huge fan. “Congratulations The Cure – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees 2019! Are you as excited as I am?!” she asked.Offering a typically-deadpan and blunt reply, Smith said: “By the sounds of it, no.” The clip of the interaction has since gone viral with fans of the ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ hitmakers calling it the moment “priceless”, “wonderfully British”, and “a hilarious joy”.Now, while appearing as a guest on Annie MacManus and Nick Grimshaw’s podcast Sidetracked with Annie and Nick on BBC Sounds, the frontman opened up about the moment.“I felt bad about that, actually…If I’m honest, I didn’t realise that I was being filmed.

Robert Smith has credited his late brother for encouraging him to pursue The Cure full-time, instead of enrolling in further education.The frontman recently appeared on Radio X for a track-by-track run-through of the band’s first album in 16 years ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, which was released on November 1.Smith penned the track ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’ about his brother’s death, and previously said that doing so had “helped [him] enormously”.Speaking to Radio X‘s John Kennedy about the song, the musician and vocalist – who formed The Cure in 1976 – explained: “My brother gave me the idea that I could do whatever I wanted.“It’s like, you know, my dad was also very supportive, but far more traditional. He wanted me to finish my education and then be in a band, if that’s what I still wanted to do.”Smith continued: “And I used to, you know, initially try to get him to see that that isn’t how the world works.

The Cure‘s Robert Smith has teased fans on when they can expect the band’s next album, featuring “the saddest song” of their recent batch.While appearing as a guest on X-Posure with John Kennedy on Radio X, the ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ singer opened up about when the legendary rockers would release their next album which will serve as a follow-up to their 14th studio LP, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’– their first since 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream‘.Smith revealed that he is “already finishing” the band’s next album and teased that it can potentially receive a release as early as next summer. Kennedy asked Smith about the ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ tracklist, questioning: “There’s only eight songs on the album, but you alluded to the fact that there are another 32 songs that you recorded in 2019, was it?”“Over the period prior to 2019 as well,” Smith responded, adding: “In 2019 we recorded 24 songs for what was going to be a double album, and those eight have come out.”After discussing the massive amount of tracks that have been created, Kennedy asked: “And so that means there’s a lot more to come.

The Cure’s Robert Smith has revealed how the decision to quit smoking was the “most important” decision he made to preserve his voice.The frontman opened up about the decision during a new interview with Radio X host John Kennedy recently, as part of a special track-by-track playback of the band’s new ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ album.At one point in the discussion, Smith spoke candidly about his views on mortality and the decisions he’s made to enable him to continue his time with The Cure. He explained that, while he began the band as a teenager in the ’70s, he didn’t take action to preserve his well-being and his voice until his 40s.“I’m fortunate to have the genes that I have, because I have really not paid great attention to longevity in my own personal life, up until the age of 50,” the musician, now aged 65, explained. “I was astonished that I got to 50 and then I started to think I’d probably like to get to 60.

The Cure’s Robert Smith has revealed that he has “written a really catchy pop song” that he could release as a Christmas single.The legendary frontman opened up about new material with Radio X host John Kennedy earlier this week as he took part in a special track-by-track playback of the ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ album.As he discussed the record’s content, song by song, Smith opened up about how he found inspiration for the tracklist. This included recalling the encouragement he had from his brother during the early days of his career, as well as his complex relationship with mortality.While he went on to reveal that, above all else, he wants to provoke an “emotional response” in his listeners, he did explain that he is sitting on some new material that has a much more upbeat feel.Smith described one currently unreleased track in particular as a “really catchy” pop song that could work as a festive release going forward.

Kate Bush has become the latest to sign a petition speaking out against artificial intelligence (AI) using artists’ work without their permission.The campaign emerged earlier this year and states that “the unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted”.It arose in light of ongoing legal issues between the creative world and tech firms over the use of their work to train AI models such as ChatGPT. Find the full statement here.Back in October, it gathered more momentum as both Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus signed the petition, alongside 11,500 others.

The Cure‘s Robert Smith has opened up on why the band’s latest album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ was nearly called ‘Live From The Moon’.The rock icon appeared as a special guest on Tim Burgess’ Tims Listening Party in which he ran through the band’s acclaimed 14th studio album. Towards the end of the chat, Smith revealed that the working title of the LP was ‘Live From The Moon’ and discussed the importance of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing impacted the album’s recording.“It was the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, which I was obsessed with as a kid.

Robert Smith has shared more details about a new Cure album which is set to be a “companion piece” to ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, as well as a third album that takes a different approach.The frontman spoke about new material from the band during an interview with Absolute Radio’s Danielle Perry, as part of a special version of Tim Burgess’ Listening Parties. It came following the release of the alt-rock icons long-awaited 14th album ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘ – their first since 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream‘ – on November 1.It’s been known for a while now that the band have been sitting on more new material since 2008. Back in 2020, for instance, Smith told NME that the band were hard at work on “two new albums and an hour of noise”.Now, Smith has shared an update on the new material, and said that one is complete and comes as somewhat of a sibling record to their recently shared LP.