Robert Smith : The Love Cats #2
Robert Smith of The Cure on the set of the Love Cats video, Haverstock Hill, London 8.30.1983
The Love Cats video, directed by Tim Pope and filmed overnight at an old Victorian mansion in Haverstock Hill in August 1983, was my first time meeting The Cure, and I was admittedly half expecting to meet four dour and perhaps miserable black-clad musicians. Not so. The house itself was full of cats, and the boys in the band were as playful as the cute kitten that roamed the many rooms. During the whole night, whenever we weren’t filming, we all passed the time by doing passable impersonations of The Young Ones. I do wish there was some video!
When I randomly bumped into Lol Tolhurst nearly forty years later at a photo exhibit in Los Angeles, I reminded him of that night in Haverstock Hill, and he remembered sleepily walking to the shops in the morning, still dressed in the Sylvester the Cat costume. Not a single person, he said, batted an eyelid.
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