Single as a one-off collaboration, but five months later, this idea had escalated into a full-fledged side-project with the goal of producing an album. It was during a break between legs of this tour at the beginning of 1983 that Smith and Banshee bassist Steve Severin hatched the idea to write and record a Signing on for the second leg of the Kiss the Dreamhouse tour, Smith was able to retreat from the pressures of fronting his own band by embracing a supporting role for one of the few figures in post-punk who could outshine him at the time: Siouxsie Sioux. I got to the point where I could only see myself as someone who was in The Cure I stopped seeing me being myself actually!" In many ways, taking over lead guitar duties in The Banshees was an ideal remedy to Robert Smith's growing discontent with the direction of The Cure. We traveled all around the world and as soon as we got back there was another album that had to be recorded! During Pornography, I realized we had to break that cycle. There was never enough time to really be different from other bands. In interviews I was always talking about how The Cure were different from other bands we weren't though. I had to stop! Simon quit, and I got away. We even had rows back stage it was horrible really! We were all stuck in a crazed trip, and I really wanted to get away from all that! Especially Simon threw himself into it, and eventually I became some sort of father telling him not to, you know? I just wanted to stop. I was actually doing everything I swore once I wouldn't. During the Pornography tour I realized The Cure weren't any better than any other band on tour. Inevitably it meant the end of all my ideals. Concerts became nothing but an excuse to drink ourselves senseless. Robert Smith: "The Cure disintegrated in its entirety. Had held briefly in 1979) after the brilliant John McGeoch was The band's increasing drug abuse and in-fighting led bassist Simon Gallup to quit outright (although he would return 18 months later) and Robert Smith to jump ship temporarily in order to moonlight as a guitarist for Siouxsie and The Banshees (a job he The process of recording and touring for their fourth and darkest album, Pornography (1982), took a huge toll
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