The Treatment‘s Robert Smith has shared the band’s plans for a full world tour in 2025, probably stretching into their upcoming fiftieth anniversary as a band.
To mark the discharge of long-awaited 14th album ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World‘, the alt-rock icons are set to play two London reveals – one for BBC Radio 2 on October 30 and one other intimate album launch present at Troxy on November 1 – however don’t have any additional tour dates within the diary. Now, in a brand new and long-ranging interview filmed by the band for followers in dialog with Matt Everitt (shared by way of unlocking their ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ web site), Smith has shared when followers can see them on stage after that.
The identical interview noticed Smith reveal that The Treatment have one other new album that’s “nearly completed” – with a 3rd new file additionally on the best way. Talking concerning the band’s plans for a full world tour, the frontman stated he’d be aiming to finish one of many LPs earlier than hitting the highway once more in 2025.
“We’ll begin up once more subsequent yr,” stated Smith. “Severely, I’ve to complete the second album. We have been going to play festivals subsequent yr, however then I made a decision that we weren’t going to play something subsequent summer time. The following time we exit on stage shall be autumn subsequent yr.
“However then we’ll in all probability be enjoying fairly often by till the subsequent anniversary – the 2028 anniversary! It’s looming on the horizon. The 2018 one, I began to consider in late 2016, pondering, ‘I’ve acquired a yr and a half, it’s simple!’ And but I nonetheless didn’t handle to get there in time. Now, I’m beginning to assume, ‘2028, I have to get issues so as’; so [that’s] the documentary movie and issues like that.”
Smith continued: “I’m 70 in 2029, and that’s the fiftieth anniversary of the primary Treatment album. That’s it, that basically is it. If I make it that far, that’s it. In the interim, I’d like us to incorporate enjoying concert events as a part of the general plan of what we’re going to do. I’ve liked it; the final 10 years of enjoying reveals have been one of the best 10 years of being within the band. It pisses everywhere in the different 30 years! It’s been nice.
“Not having a brand new album for all that time frame, we’ve performed 130 or 150 completely different songs as a result of we’ve changed into a dwell band that pulls on {the catalogue}. We will exit and play reveals, and we are able to play two hours of 30 songs and utterly completely different songs every night time. There’s a freedom to that.”
The band celebrated the fortieth anniversaries of their formation and first albums all through 2018 and 2019 – together with enjoying to over 65,000 followers at Hyde Park earlier than their stately headline set at Glastonbury and a particular run at London’s Meltdown Competition, which Smith additionally curated.
The Hyde Park and Meltdown reveals have been captured and launched on the double DVD, THE CURE 40 LIVE – CURÆTION-25 + ANNIVERSARY – with the Hyde Park movie directed by long-time collaborator Tim Pope (who made 37 of their iconic music movies in addition to the now legendary The Treatment In Orange dwell movie). Smith and Pope have lengthy been engaged on a definitive documentary concerning the band. Talking to NME in 2019, Smith stated the undertaking was nonetheless a piece in progress and needed to attend to “incorporate what we do subsequent into the story of The Treatment.”
“That can undoubtedly occur; that’s an ongoing factor,” stated Smith within the new interview. “It’s the preliminary stuff; all of the digitising. As soon as we do it, it is going to be accomplished actually fast. Primarily, it’s my perspective on the whole lot that I’ve accomplished with the band. I’ve been hanging fireplace, actually. Whereas everybody else makes their model of occasions public, I’ve simply waited.
“If I do make it to the fiftieth anniversary, that would be the summing up of basically what I’ve accomplished with my life: issues I don’t usually discuss, footage, recordings and issues that wouldn’t usually see the sunshine of day. If you happen to’re within the band, it is going to be fascinating. It’s a historic piece. It gained’t be salacious in any manner, however it is going to be revealing.”
Smith went on to match the movie that of The Beatles’ mammoth Peter Jackson-directed Get Again documentary, including: “I want it might have been one other 10 hours lengthy!”
“The factor I’m doing with Tim is extra like that,” stated Smith. “It’s extra of an outline from me of what it was wish to be within the band, and that is what it meant.”
On the subject material of the documentary, Smith informed NME in 2019: There are such a lot of misconceptions concerning the band. They’re misconceptions from my perspective, and I suppose that’s what I’m getting at. After we do it, it is going to be The Treatment from my perspective. Will probably be what I feel the band has been, what we’ve accomplished, what my position has been in it, how I’ve accomplished it and why I’ve accomplished it.”
“There isn’t any such factor as a ‘definitive’ historical past of a band. There are details and figures, however every considered one of us has utterly completely different reminiscences nearly what’s occurred this summer time alone. We have been speaking a few present from final week and every considered one of us had a totally completely different model of occasions. None of them are invalid.
“Clearly to me, there’s just one true story and that’s mine however I’m taking it that it is going to be a perspective. However, I don’t wish to look again on one thing till I’ve completed doing it and I don’t fairly really feel prepared to try this but.”
The newest feedback comes after Smith additionally just lately defined the lengthy anticipate ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World‘ and meanings behind latest singles ‘Alone‘ and ‘A Fragile Factor‘, in addition to revealing how he meant for The Treatment to return to an finish at one level in 2018, and the way he thought dynamic ticket pricing was “a rip-off” and “pushed by greed“.
In a five-star evaluation of ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’, NME concluded: “Cruel? Sure, however there’s at all times sufficient coronary heart within the darkness and opulence within the sound to carry you and place these songs alongside The Treatment’s best. The frontman instructed that one other two data could also be arriving in some unspecified time in the future, however ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ feels enough sufficient for the wait we’ve endured, only for being arguably probably the most private album of Smith’s profession. Mortality might loom, however there’s color within the black and flowers on the grave.”
The Treatment launch ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ on November 1.
