When Robert Smith tried to kiss Mark Hoppus
The singer and bassist of Blink-182 Mark Hoppus in his new Memoir entitled “Fahrenheit-182 “among other stories and anecdotes, he recalled the vault when the frontman of Cure Robert Smith He would have tried to kiss him.
In their homonymous album of 2003 (Read the review here) i Blink-182 they included the song “All of this”written and sung together with Robert Smith. The following year, it was December 2004, the leader of Care He joined the US band on the stage of the Wembley Arena in London to sing “All of this”. Afterwards a strange thing happened.
In his volume Hoppus told the moment when Smith would, according to him, tried to kiss him and how he never talked about it with the person concerned. The singer of
Blink-182
He explained that he had met Smith several times since then, but they never talked about that evening.
The US magazine US Weekly interviewed Hoppus asking him if he had warned
Robert Smith
Before including this story in his book, the 53 -year -old Californian musician replied: “No, I didn’t.
I would have had to call it or feel it or something like that, but I don’t know. How do you talk about that thing? ‘Hey, do you remember when you tried to pump with me?’ Because we never talked about it. I’ve seen it several times since then, and it was all fantastic and nobody talked about it. It was something to a party after the concert in a room full of people. Everyone drank, everyone had fun. My wife and I tell each other: ‘Ok, let’s get out. See you after ‘, then Robert tries to kiss me. In a room full of people, nobody notices it except our battery technician and my bass coach. He was my hero. I grew up listening to this boy’s music and changed my life forever. Then try to kiss me at a party and I think: ‘I should have done it too. Why not?’ It is a much better story than that he tried to kiss me and was embarrassing. It would have been nice to say, ‘Yes, I lessed with my hero’. “
To the question if this could return in the case of ‘never meet your heroes’, Hoppus replied: “No, at all. At all. I was not disappointed in the least. I was more amazed than the fact that no one else had seen it. To the point I was in bed, Skye had fallen asleep, I took the phone and I called my battery technician. He replied to the phone completely awake at 3:30 in the morning and I laughed at him. Seen, right? ‘ And he does: ‘Oh, yes, that adult who tried to pummer with you?
The journalist does not give up the grip and still asks
Mark Hoppus
If you ever wondered why
Robert Smith
he behaved that way. “I think that evening it was just a bit of turns, he felt impertinent and he was having fun. He was inspired. It was a really fun concert. For us he meant a lot that he was on stage with us, that he sang a song by our album. All these dreams that come true simultaneously, who blend in this show in London, and then everything ends in this strange situation and I am thinking about what the fucking of stuff?”