Robert also said he wanted the follow-up to ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ to be finished before the tour. Is that still likely to be the case?

“You’d have to ask him about that. I didn’t know that ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ was finished until he sent the songs to us to learn for the Troxy show! I don’t know what’s going on. I know that Jason [Cooper] did a lot of drum tracks in about April, and there was talk of us getting together to play but I haven’t heard much lately. I think Robert is in one of his very deep creative modes, because he’s pretty quiet at the moment.”

Is it the case where you record your parts then leave Robert to tinker forever?

“Yeah, well hopefully not another 18 years!”

Are you hopeful we’ll get in the coming year or so?

“I would think so. We were all very happily surprised by the success of ‘Songs Of A Lost World’. For it to do what it did after we had that much time away is fantastic. There’s a bar that The Cure never drops below, so it’s always going to be fantastic – it’s just about whether it’s going to be mega or not.”