The Cure, Robert Smith: read all about it
The New Zealand Herald published the Kiwified version of my Robert Smith story last Thursday, and nobody told me.
You can compare it to the version I wrote for the South China Morning Post to see what sneaky tricks I pulled to localise the content. Actually, though, I have easily enough material from the interview to write probably another two stories on Smith that would be completely fresh. But I don’t have that sort of time or energy just now. Instead, I’ll post the bulk of the interview transcript here very soon.
The Smith interview should be a rarity: he told me it was only the second interview he’d done this year, and that he told his label he wouldn’t be doing any interviews for this tour and album. He did, however, give at least one interview to Billboard, and another to Singapore’s Today newspaper. Those stories, as well as shamelessly republished versions of my stories, can be read at this Cure fansite (do a lot of scrolling).
1 comment July 25, 2007
