It was actually a very strange evening tonight 'cause... We played a concert in Paris two nights ago. It surpassed all our expectations 'cause normally Paris is like London, very cold, kind of 'prove it to us, prove you're good'. And it was really mental. As soon as we walked on, all the place was just like... 15,000 people just screaming. And we had a long night yesterday. The night after the Paris show. It's like 5 or 6 days into the tour. And we all went out together to talk about the rest of the tour. And it turned like an early morning kind of night. And all the flights were cancelled in Paris. We were supposed to fly at 2 o'clock this afternoon. So we actually had to leave at 8.30 or something this morning. We walked out of a bar onto the bus. So we had 8 hours in the bus today. We arrived in a very strange frame of mind so...

The atmosphere was good on stage, but it took like a long time particulary for me to communicate with the audience. I don't think it was easy at all. I really enjoyed it but I felt there was something missing. That's why I walked down the front which I don't normally do. I couldn't kind of feel right.

We played a lot of different songs tonight. The biggest difference between this tour and every other tour that we've ever done is that the atmosphere on stage is really really good. And it's not just me saying it's really good. The band really likes each other. And it shows. Every second nights, we introduce a new song... We played over a 100 different songs since we started touring this year. Which I don't think many bands do. Most groups can stick to the ones that work, the ones the audience is fond of. We probably did songs tonight the audience didn't want to hear. Like 5 or 6 songs, they're not familiar with. But I think that overall what we try to do is like a unique performance. So every concert is completely different. Tomorrow we're going to Italy. Treviso. It will be a completely different set of songs. It started off because I wanted to do different songs every night. Otherwise I feel really... The thing that was wrong with the Wish tour is that I got really bored at the end. I knew what songs were coming next.

We only played 9 songs from Wild Mood Swings. It's almost like the older songs that we're doing, that we haven't done before -we haven't done Cold or Like Cockatoos, songs like that for more than 10 years, so they're like new songs anyway. The older people in the audience kind of recognize them. It's also very weird, the make up of the audience on this tour. It's like a huge range. People that were outside when we did a signing in a record shop in Paris were really young, lots of 13, 14, 16, 17 years old, people you would imagine would go to that kind of things. But at the concert they're really old. And so is me. (laugh) I'm in my mid-thirties. But it's good it allows us to do a lot of different things. The others were really worried in America I was choosing to change the set so much so we couldn't actually get settled in making things work for a particulary type of person. There isn't a particular type of person that comes to a Cure concert in Europe. It's absolutely impossible to, you know... There's no such thing as a typical Cure fan. That's weird.

It's really difficult to be in a group that has gone on for so long without becoming established, you know, people know what to expect. And in some ways it would be really stupid to go on stage and not play Just Like Heaven 'cause what would be the point ? Cause a lot of people want to hear it. So there's that balance when people do come to see the Cure. It means something to them. Maybe it happened 5 years ago, 10 years ago. It doesn't bother me so much as it used to. I feel the group is like a very alive kind of group at the moment. When we're on stage, we can do anything. Whereas in the Wish tour I felt much more it was gonna end.

Since Roger came back in the group, he wants us to do the entire Disintegration album. I think we did about 7 songs from Disintegration. They are good. It's another thing, in America, we started with Want, its the first song on Wild Mood Swings. And somehow it was kind of obvious and Roger said 'when we get to Europe we do Plainsong' that we used to start with. Cause anyone there that remembers, 7 years ago, that we always did that. So people that do remember will probably think 'aahh' and for the people who have never heard it before, that's a new song so... When we were on the bus, we tried to learn all the songs, all Cure songs, 'cause I want to play at least 150 different songs this year. Everyone thinks I'm a bit mental. The lightning crew... they think... It's like : should it be yellow or red ?

In Paris we changed the set completely from the night before, in America we did like two nights in New York, we played 3 songs the same from the first night to the second night. And it was like the biggest thing in the reviews, the second night was like 'they didn't play any song the same'. But it's mainly because we've got songs to play. If we didn't , we couldn't. In the old days, we played the same songs every night. So it's not like I'm trying to prove something. But I want to play different every night 'cause it makes me think of different things, it makes me feel a different way. If I wasn't doing this I'd be at home. And it's nice being home. I've developped a life at home that's very enjoyable. So this has to be important. But it's not that important.

I've been asked twice in my life to write music for a film. But none of the cases was the right feel. I think that some point I'd like the Cure to do a film soundtrack. That'd be really good. But it's not easy. It's hard to decide to do it. You have to know the right kind of people and it has to be the right feel. There's no point in spending 6 months writing a film soundtrack for a shit film. The problem nowadays is that there's a lot of interest in groups like us, to put songs like our songs into a film 'cause it sells. It has nothing to do with the film, it's the only reason. We can of fell for it for Judge Dredd, we did a song called that and it's really stupid, one of my worst mistake. But The Crow, we did one for that, was different. I really liked that film. But I would like the group to do a whole soundtrack not just a song. But it's difficult to know the right people. It's difficult to get involved.

It's really important to me that I don't turn into someone who just does this. It would be so fucking boring if this was me. It'd be horrible. And I've seen so many people do it. That's why every time we did something, I want it to be different. Otherwise it's pointless. If I come off stage and go 'that's great, where we're going now, a club ?'. I come off stage and I'm completely exhausted, I'm shattered. I just want to go to bed.

I don't really like the idea of an anniversary year. It's like what you do when you're dead. I don't know... If the group gets to the end of this year and we all talk to each other and we like each other then we'll do another Cure album. Historically the group always breaks up at the end of a long tour. We all hate each other. I'm doing this for very selfish reasons, I'm really enjoying myself on this tour. More that I haven't on any other tour. And probably because I know this is gonna be the last time that we do it.

The difference between the Cure now and any other time is when I come off stage I want to be exhausted and I want people thinking that was a really really good concert. In the old days, I didn't care. If they went away thinking we were shit, it didn't bother me. And now it does. That's why we play Just Like Heaven, Deep Green Sea. Sometimes I don't feel like singing them. But at the same time I think if I sing this really well, if we play this really well, there are people in the audience who are going to go 'its the best I've seen', that's become important to me.

(thank you Marika)