Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys by Tolhurst Lol

Author:Tolhurst, Lol [Tolhurst, Lol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2016-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

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Porn

Things had changed in my head and heart now that my mother was gone. I was adrift. For a few months I didn’t do much but drink and feel sorry for myself.

Things had also begun to change in the band somewhat. Parry had not been a great fan of Faith , as it hadn’t spawned any major hits. ‘Primary’ was the only single from the album and it only got to 43 in the UK charts. We had spent the previous three years working non-stop. When we weren’t on the road, we were recording, and vice versa. One reason Faith took a while to make was we didn’t have enough time to write on the road and get the material prepared before we went into the studio. We were just go, go, go.

In the course of those three years of working and touring, my alcohol consumption steadily increased. Although I tried many different drugs, I was mostly a drinker. Parry decided that if we were going to fulfil his version of success for his label, he would have to get more deeply involved. He said that for our next record he didn’t really need to come to the recording sessions, as we were such a closed-up unit, which was true, but he wanted to make The Cure into a bigger concern.

Pornography was a very difficult record to make. I feel that it represents the highlight of our sound as a three-piece. It also represents a creative peak for everyone involved, especially Robert. We operated a pretty closed studio, with only ourselves, our producer Phil Thornalley, and Mike Nicoto, the assistant engineer, in the room, with occasional visits from Gary Biddles. One night Siouxsie was allowed to visit, but most of the time the three of us were wrapped up in the fury of what became Pornography . It’s a big, monolithic slab of sound. We had hoped to get Conny Plank, Kraftwerk’s producer, to help us record it. In fact, Robert and I had a meeting with him at Fiction’s offices one afternoon. He was a great, brooding German man all dressed in black leather. He regaled us with stories of his last recording sessions, ‘where the sound was like a wild animal’. We were quite impressed with what he said he could bring to our music. Unfortunately, he passed away before it could happen.

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We may not have generated as many hits as Parry would have liked, but the gigs were getting bigger and the audiences larger. Although we definitely grew at a slower pace than some of our peers, it was, I think, due in part to Robert’s steadfast but stubborn insistence on taking our time to make sure that what we did was the highest possible quality. I think time has proved him right on that score.

In many ways Pornography is my favourite Cure album. I love the great big sound of the drums and the huge slabs of music used to make the songs. It’s the pinnacle of the three-piece Cure sound, though we incorporated a variety of instruments.

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