Hong Kong Ham

Just got word that I’m interviewing Robert Smith of The Cure tomorrow morning, leaving me little time to prepare for what is a rather big story.

If you’re a Cure fan, I’d appreciate you sending in suggestions for questions I might ask. I have a few in mind, but it’s always good to go outside for these things. And I’m sure my wise readers will have some interesting things to say.

So far I’ve had two suggestions by email:

• What shampoo do you use?
• If you’re The Cure, what’s The Disease?

Update

Okay, so it looks like no-one’s going to chime in here. Just as well I’ve got an anonymous friend who sent in a bunch of worthy possibles, including the following:

• In recent years you have performed with artists as diverse as Placebo, Billy Corgan, Blink-182, Korn and Faithless. Who would you like to work with next? Someone with talent, perhaps?
• Two of your biggest hits in the US, ‘Lovesong’ and ‘Just Like Heaven’, were written about your wife, Mary — the latter a memory of visiting the ocean’s edge with her. Do you like spitroasting groupies?
• In recent years you have performed ‘Killing an Arab’ it as “Kissing an Arab”, as not all your fans realise it is based on Albert Camus’s story, The Stranger (and not racist). When can we expect to hear “Going down on an Arab”?
• I’ve read that your early work was influenced by The Beatles, Nick Drake, Jimi Hendrix, The Ink Spots and David Bowie - are you more attracted to aging ex-glam rockers or models with artificial limbs?
• I understand you are suffering from writer’s block — how is the new album going? Is it still in the style of kiss me, kiss me, kiss me. If so, how hard can the lyrics be? “Snog me, snog me, snog me” should get your rolling, surely?
• With your band name, do you ever turn up to an event, incorrectly assuming it’s for you? As an example, the Annual Pizza Party and Run for The Cure held by the University of New Brunswick.
• There is a story in my home country of New Zealand that the reason you are playing there for the first time in August is because of a 3,000-signature petition organised by some local goths, Alastair and Gordon. Is this true, and does this kind of thing happen to you much?