The day The Cure rolled over in a Lada Niva

Lovers of The treatment The minutes count until the British return to Chili . This Thursday, November 30, a 10-year wait ends at the Monumental stadium with the presentation of the tour Shows from a lost world.

The group led by Robert Smith is preceded by an applauded presentation in Buenos Aires, where they were one of the stars of the Primavera Sound Festival where they covered the biggest hits of their long history which made them one of the most important groups of recent decades.

But this story which crosses themes such as Boys don’t cry, near me, Friday I’m in love, between the days among other things, could have been interrupted due to a somewhat unknown situation, but which Smith himself recounted in interviews several years ago.

Toco appeared in the mid-80s, when the Gothic style of The treatment Carried by a punk essence, he confronts the colors and extravagance of pop.

During these years, The treatment It is already enjoying significant success. The tours multiplied and the money began to come in massively. It allowed them to have fun, something that when they were young in Crawley they only imagined.

Cars were no exception in a period of complete lack of control and excess from the group as they questioned their own existence. This is how some members purchased all-terrain vehicles, a characteristic that seemed transversal to the members of The treatment including Robert Smith.

But the charismatic leader of the group, who can be recognized by his messy hair and the white makeup on his face, was not attracted by the most ostentatious 4x4s of the time, such as Land Rovers, nor by Jeeps .

As he admitted in various interviews, he had a particular admiration for lada so in the mid 80s he decided to import a Niva of the year 81 a vehicle with which he experienced one of the greatest anguish, since he and some members of the group were almost killed in a road accident.

Own Black-smith He told a German media outlet what happened. In the note, the journalist asks him if anyone has ever locked him up, trying to delve deeper into the guitarist’s existentialism.

To this, the Briton replied: “I do it myself. But I don’t even need a lockable door. Sometimes I feel like I’m cooped up, even though I’m outside in the rain. Locked in my head, my life. I’m not religious, so I don’t find much meaning in life. But things haven’t seemed this bleak in a while. To be honest, sometimes I even enjoy my life. Maybe I’m a little more relaxed than I was three years ago. In Miraval, I stopped drinking immediately after wrecking my car. Simon and I were walking up a hill one afternoon in a lada with four-wheel drive. Suddenly the road disappeared and the car fell about a meter and rolled. . It was a miracle that nothing happened to us. And it cured me of red wine in an instant.

Regarding this same accident, in another interview, Smith commented the following when asked by the Londoner: Jonathan Krell on the car he was driving.

“I’ve been driving four-wheel drive cars since the 80s. The best car I ever owned was a Lada imported from Russia in 1981, which had two dials, both in Russian, and the hottest radiator in the world . I’m very attached to cars, and mine are full of trash and drawings because when I take my nephews out, they bring markers. And every now and then I go out driving at night, not like I should, I’m drunk and I drive through the countryside. I first did it when we were making the album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me in 1986 and we drove the Lada up the side of a hill with the whole band.

Fortunately, the night of drinking did not have serious consequences and the British managed to finish the album. From there, the story is associated with the music, one that thousands of fans will be able to enjoy again in Chile.