S2E1: Curt Smith
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt return for Series 2 of Rockonteurs. Joining the podcast this week we speak to Curt Smith from Tears For Fears. The band return with their first new album in 18 years, The Tipping Point is out in Feb and we get the lowdown on the record and those huge decade defining albums of the 1980’s. After chatting to Roland last year on the show, this is a fascinating listen to hear the other side of the story from a band who have quite the story!
Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Gary. |
| 0:00.7 | Hey Guy, how are you? |
| 0:02.3 | I'm all right. |
| 0:03.2 | So this is our first time we got someone else from the same band? |
| 0:08.3 | It is, it is really, yeah, because we had Roland Oursable on a few months ago and we sort of dug deep into tears for fears |
| 0:15.0 | is passed from his point of view. |
| 0:18.0 | And Agius is quite an interesting band, isn't it really? |
| 0:21.0 | Because there's only two points of view. |
| 0:22.0 | And we're going to do the other one? |
| 0:24.4 | That's true. I mean yeah well that's interesting because I don't think bands necessarily |
| 0:28.7 | sort of have four or five different points if you do there. There's usually one or two actual points. |
| 0:33.2 | I know when I was just sort of tags along yeah whatever he said. |
| 0:36.8 | Exactly yeah. But also they've got a new album coming out in February I think it's |
| 0:41.6 | for I think it's February and he's actually made a couple of really nice albums on his own. |
| 0:44.8 | He has delved into a bit of acting. He's done a couple of TED Talks I saw. But you know, I think we're going to be talking a lot about this new project which, you know, we've heard, we've had the privilege of hearing and it sounds really good. |
| 0:58.1 | Yes, it does, yes. And also, but they, the fact that they are, that rarest of of thing a band who managed to sort of |
| 1:04.4 | resolve with a happy ending so yeah you know but they have their really difficult |
| 1:09.5 | times don't they and they do come back together. Fight, fight, fight, fight. |
| 1:14.0 | I remember Roland saying when we interviewed him |
| 1:17.0 | that the place they don't get on is on the road. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, a bit like you and me ready. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, exactly. |
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