The carelessness of the group would have made him leave?
Simon Gallup, bassist for The Cure, announced on Saturday that he had left the British rock band he joined in 1979.
“With a heavy heart that I am no longer a member of The Cure!
Good luck to them all, ”
the 61-year-old guitarist wrote laconically on his Facebook page.
In response to one of the thousands of heartbreaking comments, Simon Gallup nonetheless clarified, more mysteriously:
"I'm fine ... I was just fed up with being betrayed."
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His comrades, including singer and founder of The Cure Robert Smith, have yet to react to Simon Gallup's departure.
On Twitter, the current keyboardist of the group, Roger O'Donnell, Loironisé Sunday on the situation by evoking, in a tweet in the second degree, the possible return - bass in hand - of Lol Tolhurst, a former founding member of The Cure .
Drummer and keyboardist, the latter left the group in 1989 due to his alcohol problems.
The departure of Simon Gallup comes in full production of the new British album.
Constantly postponed for years, this will be the first since the release of
4:13 Dream
in 2008.
The future of the group in question
In 2019, Simon Gallup had failed the group twice, in Japan and then in the United States. Unable to perform on stage, he was replaced at short notice by his son, guitarist Eden Gallup. At the time, Robert Smith apologized for the absence of his bassist, citing
"a serious personal situation"
which must have recalled Simon Gallup to the United Kingdom. In an interview with the
Irish Times
in 2018
, Robert Smith also mentioned that, without their bassist, the band
"would not be called The Cure"
.
Simon Gallup, the second pillar of the group behind Robert Smith, had already slammed the door on training in 1982 following several conflicting accidents with the singer. This first interlude away from The Cure had lasted two years, before the bassist returned to the group. The two strong heads of The Cure had since reconciled. One of the leading figures of the post-punk and new wave movement in the 1980s, The Cure is today known for having helped popularize gothic rock - a term regularly rejected by the group - thanks to his compositions at the melancholy atmosphere and its tubes steeped in sadness. One of the best known,
Just Like Heaven
released in 1987, begins precisely with Simon Gallup's bass line.