{"id":533411,"date":"2025-10-28T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/533411\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:27:14","slug":"just-mustard-on-how-mad-experience-of-touring-with-the-cure-inspired-their-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/533411\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Mustard on how “mad experience” of touring with The Cure inspired their new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just Mustard<\/a> have spoken to NME about how the \u201cmad experience\u201d of being handpicked to tour with The Cure<\/a> inspired their acclaimed new album, \u2018We Were Just Here<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n

The Irish noise-rock five-piece released their third LP on Friday (October 24), hailed by NME<\/a> as \u201ca blinding effort, full of feeling and perfect for goths twitching to lurk in the shadows of the dancefloor\u201d, likening it to \u201cMy Bloody Valentine<\/a> coming up on a pinger\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018We Were Just Here\u2019 also sets the band up for returning to join The Cure as special guests on a number of their huge UK and European outdoor shows<\/a> next summer, having previously been invited by Robert Smith<\/a> to support them in South America back in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever we played in those stadiums in South America with The Cure, that influenced the new album because they made us want to write more songs for people to dance and sing along to \u2013 to have a discernible melodic core,\u201d singer Katie Ball told NME. \u201cIt inspired us to want to play songs in those kinds of places, but I don\u2019t see us headlining stadiums any time soon!\u201d<\/p>\n

Guitarist David Noonan agreed: \u201cThe Cure\u2019s music is so melodic, where every element is a hook. We saw people even singing along to the guitar parts, the basslines, the drums.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Receiving many of Smith\u2019s legendary \u201cfunny as fuck\u201d emails sent in ALL CAPS, Ball said that the frontman was always \u201cquite hands-on and will help out in any way he can\u201d.<\/p>\n

Noonan continued: \u201cWhat\u2019s crazy and inspiring is just how much he\u2019s involved in the whole production. He runs the show and it\u2019s just out of love for The Cure. Everyone is coming from a good place. Also, for us to get to watch The Cure and watch Cure fans watch The Cure is just a mad experience. It can be overwhelming.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were watching them in Brazil and had to walk through a crowd of 60,000 fans to leave the stadium. To see all these people losing their minds will always stick with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new album follows on\u00a02018 debut \u2018Wednesday\u2019 and 2022\u2019s \u2018Heart Under<\/a>\u2019, with what the band described as a more \u201cupbeat and light\u201d sound and character.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom playing gigs, we wanted to play more upbeat music than was more danceable and more direct,\u201d Ball explained. \u201cAlso, I started to feel like I was a miserable person to be around. I wanted to shed the heavy feelings I was carrying and try to be a more positive person to be around.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Noonan revealed how the band were still far from being a happy-go-lucky pop outfit.<\/p>\n

\u201cSonically, we still have a lot of tension,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re playing with tension a lot, but on this album the tension is pulling in a different direction. Previously the light was getting sucked up by the darkness, but this time we\u2019re trying to go in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our touring has been quite atmosphere-heavy and internal. We wanted something that made us more excited and made us move.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

That \u201ctension\u201d came from the fact that the course of true joy never runs smooth. \u201cThe concept of trying to be happy means that there\u2019s something else there, you know?\u201d, as Ball it, while Noonan noted that \u201cthere\u2019s also the pitfall of trying to force happiness. You can chase happiness, but it won\u2019t always work out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elevating that, production comes from the Grammy-nominated David Wrench \u2013 famed for his work with fellow outsiders FKA Twigs<\/a>, The XX,<\/a> David Byrne<\/a> and Frank Ocean<\/a>. Noonan explained how Wrench \u201cadded real character\u201d through instrumentation alongside \u201chuge depth\u201d to the vocals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe melodies that were there were expanded in a 3D way and given more depth,\u201d he said. Ball added:\u00a0\u201cWith the demos, we were always thinking about the end song. It\u2019s just cool to hand a song over to someone else and just hear things done way better in a way you wouldn\u2019t have thought about.\u201d<\/p>\n

In keeping with their past work, \u2018We Were Just Here\u2019 boasts Just Mustard\u2019s chops as a guitar band making a noise that sounds quite distant from guitar music \u2013 although it\u2019s a much more prominent ingredient this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started the band by making music that we like with the instruments that knew how to play \u2013 and they weren\u2019t the same thing,\u201d said Noonan. \u201cWe wanted to make electronic music with guitars. With this album, you feel that we\u2019re letting the guitars through more.\u00a0 Texturally, we got more into the sound of screaming fuzz guitars. We just wanted to amplify that feeling of a rush, like a light moving really fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Just Mustard. CREDIT: Conor James<\/p>\n

In a four-star review of \u2018We Were Just Here<\/a>\u2018, NME concluded: \u201cAlbum number three from Just Mustard is a more three-dimensional, glorious noise \u2013 reaching for euphoria while capturing the rollercoaster of comedowns and the spaces in between; driving melody through the malaise on a psych-driven neon bullet train.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis time, there\u2019s light on the horizon, a once blackened sky now awash with bleach. It\u2019s a blinding effort, full of feeling and perfect for goths twitching to lurk in the shadows of the dancefloor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018We Were Just Here\u2019 is out now via Partisan. Just Mustard will be hitting the road in 2026.\u00a0Tickets are on sale now and you can find them here<\/a> (UK\/Ireland) and here<\/a> (US).<\/p>\n

Just Mustard will play:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

APRIL 2026
<\/strong>8 \u2013 Stockholm \u2013 SE, Debaser\u00a0<\/strong>
9 \u2013 Oslo, NO \u2013 John Dee\u00a0<\/strong>
11 \u2013 Copenhagen, DK \u2013 Loppen\u00a0<\/strong>
12 \u2013 Hamburg, DE \u2013 Nochtspeicher\u00a0<\/strong>
13 \u2013 Cologne, DE \u2013 Helios 37\u00a0<\/strong>
15 \u2013 Amsterdam, NL \u2013 Paradiso\u00a0<\/strong>
16 \u2013 Brussels, BE \u2013 Botanique\u00a0<\/strong>
17 \u2013 Paris, FR \u2013 Le Trabendo\u00a0<\/strong>
19 \u2013 Norwich, GB \u2013 The Waterfront\u00a0<\/strong>
20 \u2013 Birmingham, GB \u2013 The Castle & Falcon\u00a0<\/strong>
21 \u2013 Newcastle, GB \u2013 The Grove\u00a0<\/strong>
23 \u2013 Glasgow, GB \u2013 Glasgow School of Art\u00a0<\/strong>
24 \u2013 Leeds, GB \u2013 Brudenell Social Club\u00a0<\/strong>
25 \u2013 Manchester, GB \u2013 Gorilla\u00a0<\/strong>
27 \u2013 Bristol, GB \u2013 Thekla\u00a0<\/strong>
28 \u2013 Brighton, GB \u2013 CHALK\u00a0<\/strong>
29 \u2013 London, GB \u2013 Electric Brixton\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MAY 2026\u00a0<\/strong>
1 \u2013 Dublin, IE \u2013 3Olympia Theatre\u00a0<\/strong>
8 \u2013 Seattle, WA \u2013 Tractor Tavern\u00a0<\/strong>
9 \u2013 Vancouver, BC \u2013 Fox Cabaret\u00a0<\/strong>
10 \u2013 Portland, OR \u2013 Polaris Hall\u00a0<\/strong>
12 \u2013 San Francisco, CA \u2013 Cafe Du Nord\u00a0<\/strong>
14 \u2013 Santa Ana, CA \u2013 Constellation Room\u00a0<\/strong>
16 \u2013 West Hollywood, CA \u2013 Troubadour\u00a0<\/strong>
17 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ \u2013 Valley Bar \u2013 Music Hall\u00a0<\/strong>
19 \u2013 Denver, CO \u2013 Larimer Lounge\u00a0<\/strong>
21 \u2013 Chicago, IL \u2013 Empty Bottle\u00a0<\/strong>
23 \u2013 Toronto, ON \u2013 The Garrison\u00a0<\/strong>
24 \u2013 Montr\u00e9al, QC \u2013 Bar Le Ritz PDB\u00a0<\/strong>
26 \u2013 New York, NY \u2013 Bowery Ballroom\u00a0<\/strong>
29 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA \u2013 Johnny Brenda\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>
30 \u2013 Washington, DC \u2013 Songbyrd Music House\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

JUNE 2026\u00a0<\/strong>
26 \u2013 Marlay Park \u2013 Dublin, Ireland*\u00a0<\/strong>
28 \u2013 Belsonic \u2013 Belfast, Northern Ireland*\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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