The Treatment‘s Robert Smith has shared the band’s plans for a full world tour in 2025, doubtless 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 through 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 report additionally on the best way. Talking in regards to 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 street once more in 2025.
“We’ll begin up once more subsequent 12 months,” stated Smith. “Significantly, I’ve to complete the second album. We had been going to play festivals subsequent 12 months, however then I made a decision that we weren’t going to play something subsequent summer season. The following time we exit on stage can be autumn subsequent 12 months.
“However then we’ll in all probability be taking part in fairly usually by 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 received a 12 months 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 actually is it. If I make it that far, that’s it. In the mean time, I’d like us to incorporate taking part in concert events as a part of the general plan of what we’re going to do. I’ve cherished it; the final 10 years of taking part in 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 period, we’ve performed 130 or 150 completely different songs as a result of we’ve was a stay band that pulls on {the catalogue}. We will exit and play exhibits, and we will play two hours of 30 songs and utterly completely different songs every evening. 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 taking part in 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 Treatment In Orange stay movie). Smith and Pope have lengthy been engaged on a definitive documentary in regards to the band. Chatting with NME in 2019, Smith stated the challenge was nonetheless a piece in progress and wished to attend to “incorporate what we do subsequent into the story of The Treatment.”
“That can positively 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 will likely be accomplished actually fast. Primarily, it’s my perspective on every little thing 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 primarily 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. For those who’re within the band, it will likely be attention-grabbing. It’s a historic piece. It received’t be salacious in any method, however it will likely be revealing.”
Smith went on to check the movie that of The Beatles’ mammoth Peter Jackson-directed Get Again documentary, including: “I want it may 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 prefer to be within the band, and that is what it meant.”
On the subject material of the documentary, Smith instructed NME in 2019: There are such a lot of misconceptions in regards to the band. They’re misconceptions from my perspective, and I suppose that’s what I’m getting at. Once we do it, it will likely 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 information and figures, however every certainly one of us has utterly completely different reminiscences nearly what’s occurred this summer season alone. We had been speaking a couple of present from final week and every certainly one of us had a very 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 will likely 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 most recent feedback comes after Smith additionally just lately defined the lengthy look ahead to ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World‘ and meanings behind latest singles ‘Alone‘ and ‘A Fragile Factor‘, in addition to revealing how he supposed 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 overview of ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’, NME concluded: “Cruel? Sure, however there’s all the time 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 prompt 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 probably the most private album of Smith’s profession. Mortality could loom, however there’s color within the black and flowers on the grave.”
The Treatment launch ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ on November 1.
