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The process of recording and touring for their fourth and darkest album, Pornography (1982), took a huge tollon The Cure. 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 hehad held briefly in 1979) after the brilliant John McGeoch wasjettisoned due to severe alcohol abuse. Robert Smith: 'The Cure disintegrated in its entirety. Concerts became nothing but an excuse to drink ourselves senseless. Inevitably it meant the end of all my ideals.
During the Pornography tour I realized The Cure weren't any better than any other band on tour. I was actually doing everything I swore once I wouldn't. 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 had to stop! Simon quit, and I got away.
I didn't touch a guitar for 4 months. I had to become sane again.
In interviews I was always talking about how The Cure were different from other bands; we weren't though. There was never enough time to really be different from other bands. 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. 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. 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. 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 asingle 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. Smith & Severin decided to name their project The Glove, after a giant flying glove called the 'murder mitten,' which belonged to a corrupt policeman called the 'Blue Meany' in The Beatles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine.
However, just as the recording sessions began, things took a surreal turn when it was revealedthat Smith's recording contract with The Cure prevented him from singingon any non-Cure releases, so in a pinch, Jeanette Landray, the girlfriend ofBanshee drummer Budgie and a dancer on Top of the Pops who had no previous singingexperience, was recruited to provide the lion's share of the vocals. Steve Severin: 'Robert was prevented from singing on any of the Glove material by ChrisParry (Head of Fiction records) although we eventually struck a dealwere he could sing two tracks under the proviso that they weren’t to bereleased as singles. Therefore we had to audition for a singer.Neither of us wanted another male involved and after some abortedsessions I was pestered by Budgie’s then girlfriend, Landray into giving her a go. As she says herself she was in a strange positionbecause it was clearly our project.
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She did a good job under awkwardconditions, really.' Jeanette Landray on her experience in The Glove: 'Basically, because it was so clearly Robert and Steve's project I had a strange role, involved but not with any real say in the way things turned out, almost like a session musician really. I don't know what I'd actually expected but if I was offered something similar again I'd have a much clearer idea of the problems involved. I'm not bitter about it, but I have had to fight to get this far and it did get me some very useful exposure but I just underestimated how little expression I'd have in the promotion of the album. I still feel like a faceless voice to some extent.' By mostaccounts, the sessions were a hedonistic affair, with everyone involved ingesting copious amounts of LSD and speed, and watching film after film with the purpose of capturing 'after-images' in the music itself.
One of these films was Blue Sunshine, a 1978 cult film about a new form of LSD that causes baldness and homicidal behavior, whose title Smith and Severin would re-purpose for the title of their album. Not surprisingly, the sound of Blue Sunshine isa volatile cocktail of goth, neo-psychedelia, and eccentric pop, which Smith variously described at the time as 'cultivated madness' and 'a mental assault course.' And while it is certainly hard to deny that Smith's distinctive vocals are missed throughout most of the album, Landray does do a respectable job, though it'shard to overlook her similarity in tone to Siouxsie Sioux, a comparisonin which Landray comes up considerably short.
On 'Like an Animal,' oneof Landray's best performances, Steve Severin's bass takes the lead togreat effect, as cheesy keyboard washes and frenetic percussion keep thesong from moving too far into darker territory. Where Blue Sunshine getsreally interesting is on songs such as 'Orgy' with its Middle-Easternaesthetic and quirky twists and turns. It's all so vaguely Cure, butultimately unlike anything else in Smith's considerable discography or The Banshees' for that matter. Severin: 'The idea that The Glove could get away with anything vanished very quickly because it became a real responsibility to get it to sound not indulgent. I think what I wanted was for it to have more of a specific personality than, say, The Banshees or The Cure.
I mean, The Banshees have a set, almost concrete image that, no matter what we do, we're kind of stuck with on a very superficial daily paper 'ice-queen and doom and gloom' level.' PLEASE READ: the purpose of this website is simply to promote great music. As such, there is no copyrighted material contained herein, only links to external servers. Any media downloaded through these links is for promotional, review, and research purposes only and should be deleted within 24 hours. What this means is if you try something and you like it, then PURCHASE IT from the artist or an independent retailer.
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Legendary psychedelic drug-fueled collaboration between The Cure's Robert Smith and Siouxsie & the Banshees' Steven Severin, featuring gorgeous vocals from Jeanette Landray. Playful, eerie, sometimes ecstatic and always trippy, will not disappoint Cure, Siouxsie or post-punk/goth fans in general. Standout tracks include 'This Green City', which features a fabulously mesmorising guitar wail outro, the washed out druggy ambience and arythmic bass thudding of 'A Blues in Drag', and the Alice-esque 'Mr. Alphabet Says' (sung by Smith).Fantastic piece of the Cure/Siouxsie canon. Various CD reissues contain all kinds of demos and alternate versions, and the original LP is still fairly common it seems, going for a very reasonable price on here.