The Remedy world tour for 2025, Tim Pope documentary and anniversary celebrations to comply with

The Remedy‘s Robert Smith has shared the band’s plans for a full world tour in 2025, seemingly 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 exhibits – one for BBC Radio 2 on October 30 and one other intimate album launch present at Troxy on November 1 – however haven’t 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 Lost World’ website), Smith has shared when followers can see them on stage after that.

The identical interview noticed Smith reveal that The Remedy have one other new album that’s “just about completed” – with a 3rd new report 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. “Critically, I’ve to complete the second album. We had been going to play festivals subsequent yr, however then I made a decision that we weren’t going to play something subsequent summer season. The subsequent time we exit on stage can be autumn subsequent yr.

“However then we’ll in all probability be enjoying fairly usually via till the following 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 suppose, ‘2028, I need 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 Remedy album. That’s it, that actually is it. If I make it that far, that’s it. At the moment, I’d like us to incorporate enjoying live shows as a part of the general plan of what we’re going to do. I’ve liked it; the final 10 years of enjoying exhibits have been the very 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 totally different songs as a result of we’ve changed into a stay band that attracts on {the catalogue}. We will exit and play exhibits, and we are able to play two hours of 30 songs and fully totally 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 exhibits had 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 Remedy In Orange stay movie). Smith and Pope have lengthy been engaged on a definitive documentary concerning the band. Chatting with NME in 2019, Smith stated the venture was nonetheless a piece in progress and wished to attend to “incorporate what we do subsequent into the story of The Remedy.”

“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, will probably be completed actually fast. Basically, it’s my perspective on every thing that I’ve completed with the band. I’ve been hanging hearth, 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 primarily what I’ve completed with my life: issues I don’t usually discuss, footage, recordings and issues that wouldn’t usually see the sunshine of day. Should you’re within the band, will probably be fascinating. It’s a historic piece. It gained’t be salacious in any means, however will probably 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. Once we do it, will probably be The Remedy from my perspective. It is going to be what I feel the band has been, what we’ve completed, what my function has been in it, how I’ve completed it and why I’ve completed it.”

“There isn’t any such factor as a ‘definitive’ historical past of a band. There are information and figures, however every one in every of us has fully totally different recollections nearly what’s occurred this summer season alone. We had been speaking a couple of present from final week and every one in every of us had a very totally 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 will probably be a perspective. However, I don’t need 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 lately defined the lengthy watch for ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World‘ and meanings behind latest singles ‘Alone‘ and ‘A Fragile Factor‘, in addition to revealing how he supposed for The Remedy to come back 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 evaluate 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 Remedy’s most interesting. The frontman recommended that one other two information could also be arriving sooner or later, however ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ feels enough sufficient for the wait we’ve endured, only for being arguably essentially the most private album of Smith’s profession. Mortality might loom, however there’s color within the black and flowers on the grave.”

The Remedy launch ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ on November 1.