Robert Smith has teamed up with rock band The Twilight Unhappy on the collaboration Ready For The Cellphone Name.
Robert Smith has been a longtime fan of The Twilight Unhappy
The Scottish duo – now comprising James Graham and Andy MacFarlane – have shared a stage with the Simply Like Heaven hitmakers previously, and Robert beforehand lined their observe There’s A Lady In The Nook in 2015.
The important new tune helped frontman James address the devastating lack of the “most essential individual” in his life.
He defined: “Ready For The Cellphone Name is about grief, love and psychological sickness.
“These items took over my life and I grew to become unwell. I misplaced the individual most essential to me in one of many cruellest methods. I’ve all the time used writing as a technique of processing and dealing with my feelings. My feelings grew to become an issue and I couldn’t management them, writing music with Andy… particularly the previous seven years had been each the escape and the chance to course of and try to make sense of life.
“We’ve all been ready on a telephone name that may change our lives in some unspecified time in the future. This sadly focuses on a telephone name that you just by no means wish to have.”
On how the goth rock icon got here to cowl their tune, guitarist Andy advised The Guardian on the time: “After we recorded [album] No person Needs to Be Right here and No person Needs to Go away, I despatched it to Robert to have a hear, and he stated it was ‘BEAUTIFUL’.
“We needed to do one thing particular for the It By no means Was the Identical single, because it was going to be the final launch from the album. I knew it was a reasonably far-fetched concept, however thought I would as effectively probability my arm and ask Robert if he’d be up for protecting one in all our songs to characteristic as a double A-side. I couldn’t consider it when he replied, saying he’d wish to cowl There’s a Lady within the Nook.”
He continued: “He despatched it over once we had been enjoying San Francisco in March, and we listened to it again and again within the van, driving out after the gig. Listening to somebody that we’ve all appeared as much as for thus lengthy sing and play one in all our songs is unquestionably one of the crucial surreal moments we’ve ever had.”
There’s each alternative that Robert might carry out the observe reside with The Twilight Unhappy, as they’re because of embark on a 2026 UK and European headline tour.
