Paul Weller has launched a scathing private assault on The Cure frontman Robert Smith, calling him a “fucking fat cunt”.
The former Jam singer made the foul-mouthed comment throughout a prolonged interview for subsequent month’s difficulty of Record Collector journal, which is a particular Paul Weller version (by way of Louder Sound).
At one level within the dialog, the interviewer famous how one of many tracks on Noel Gallagher‘s upcoming new album bears a resemblance to The Cure’s basic singe ‘A Forest’ (1980).
Weller, the author stated, then responded to this commentary with a mix of “incredulity and revulsion”.
“Really??!” the singer-songwriter continued. “I can’t fucking stand them. Fucking fat cunt, with his lipstick and all that bollocks. He is my age as well, isn’t he?”
Weller added: “He’s a fucking knob end. I don’t like him. There you go. There’s someone I would work with. I’d fucking slap him, or something.”
The motive behind the musician’s extreme dislike for Smith will not be clear, although Louder Sound notes how The Jam had inadvertently helped The Cure in the course of the recording of their debut album ‘Three Imaginary Boys’ (1979).
Back in 1985, Smith talked about Weller throughout an interview through which he stated that punk wasn’t a political motion: “It later became that, because people wanted it to be seen as a movement.”
He added that folks had been dissatisfied with listening to “bands like Yes and Genesis“, and instead “wanted to hear something they could dance to”.
“Even people who think they’re socially aware and lend their names to things, like Paul Weller and stuff… I mean it does no good at all, ultimately,” Smith defined. “Because you’d must be notably silly to consider somebody like Paul Weller.
“You’d have to be particularly stupid to believe someone like me.”
Both The Jam and The Cure had been found by the identical A&R scout, Chris Parry, who went on to signal The Jam to Polydor in 1977 and The Cure to his personal label, Fiction Records, in 1978.
Smith has not but responded to Weller’s feedback.
The Cure are at the moment out on a European headline tour, the place they’ve debuted a variety of latest tracks: ‘And Nothing Is Forever’, ‘Alone’, ‘Endsong’, ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’ and ‘A Fragile Thing’.
Speaking on the BandLab NME Awards 2022 in March, Robert Smith solely instructed NME that The Cure’s long-awaited 14th album – the follow-up to 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream’ – shall be referred to as ‘Songs Of A Lost World’. “It’s got artwork, it’s got a running order, it’s almost done!” he defined.
The Cure’s UK and Ireland tour is about to kick off in Dublin on December 1 – you’ll be able to see the total record of dates under, and discover any remaining tickets right here.
DECEMBER
01 – 3ARENA, Dublin, Ireland
02 – SSE, Belfast, Northern Ireland
04 – OVO HYDRO, Glasgow, Scotland
06 – FIRST DIRECT ARENA, Leeds, England
07 – UTILITA ARENA, Birmingham, England
08 – MOTORPOINT ARENA, Cardiff, Wales
11 – THE SSE ARENA, Wembley, London, England
12 – THE SSE ARENA, Wembley, London, England
13 – THE SSE ARENA, Wembley, London, England
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